Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-07-01

anto an open and avoweu resistance 70 law, IN
.hich they will fail as they ought to. The Alb
clifton press at once howl for more aid for
Kansas. There lew. think, 50 deludsd
As 10 respond to that cali '-D-1aocrat Hay 2olt
1t is undoubtedly true that an excited state
Of feeling exists in the Territory and that on
both sides outrages have been committed. Bat
all this has been but the natural result Of out
aide influence in the affairs of Kansas. The all
oltlonists Of the GreelevSeward school
naezeccd by organizing eTnlgraht aid societies,
whose ostenslble purpose was 10 make Kansas a
free State 1t was a reasonable consequence
that the South, peculiarly sensitive III this mat
ter, should reitera;e IN kind, and thus by out
side influence have the settlers Ct Kan Sas been
pushed - the verge OF civil war. Demo rat,
June llM
1t certainly affords no pleasure to find
fault with the Democrat the course it's editor
chooses TO pursue in relation TO the affairs in
Kansas; but the injustice done to the northern
e,nigrants to that Territory, in his editorials and
extracts from week 70 week. of which the above
quotations are specimens, forbid that we should
remain silent. Ii appears to Us that the trials
and nistortupes Of the Free State men IN Il 4
Territory, heaped upon them by their armed en-
eInies, are quite sufficient, without being SIAN
,tered, msrep presented, and abused by Their
northern brethren, from whom they have a right
10 expect better things. The insinuation Of the
Dsoaocrat thai the Free Sta.e men have resist
ed, or offered to resist any constitutional law,
whether intentional or not We do not saw Is u
eaiuInny unworthy place in the columns of
any paper whose editor lays claim to far deal
Ing. We defy the editor OF the Democrat to
Iaen Of Kansas have resisted or offered to re-
rist. any law, or any authority that Las been
attempted 70 be exercised over them, under any
provision Of the constitution OF the United
states, or by any legally constituted officer
y hen, where have they resisted any law that
the editor OF the DanocrGt would s,oop - low
"a TO acknowledge himself subject to, We're he q
citizen of kansas Even tbe bogus laws Of the
bogls lcgi slature have not been resisted except
II words, and in THIS country, words do moi
EtItuie rebellion. The legislature that passed
these laws, has been pronounced by al sensible
men, a, 4 sham concern, and deIi Led by >clsi-
bic men Of all parties and yet liz doiugs have
not been resisted. The convention at Topeka
which adopted the constitution eNciLGiu. sia-
very. was no revolutionary oo.y, for ne cynsti-
tuition then framed on y TO take effect on
the admission of Kansas Is a State, which could
not be done except with the consent oi Congress
The Free State Legislature could not be consid-
cred revolutionary, for none Of lis enaCtuerts
to take effect until Congress should sane
ton them by recognizing and admitting the
State. The very legislature that passed the
lee state laws, as they are termed. before adj
Iournlng expressly declaring that their enact
ments should hove effect until the territory
,.-as oil, a.
been attempted to De enforced If sheriff Jones
was unable, in the capacity Of an officer OF The
bogus Legislature, to serve the writs placed IN
his hands against free state men, ii was because
the persons against whom they were directed. +
kept ott of his reach, and not because his au-
thority was resist ed The difficulties in Kansas
have had their origin in private a-gJcssions, in
stigated by personal and party auimosi Y, and
not from . resistance 10 law. Against such az
sressioR the people Of Kansas have had 10 con-
iead with uc legal authority lutorposed to pre-
teet them. Self-deienee has been right that
IL some instances has been exercised and for
this they are accused of treason For this, many
If them have lost their lives. Fvr this. private
properly has been destroyed, buildings burned,
printing presses demolished, aud iIeemen de-
p'i''o U 'EeiF AoeFsy Without process Oh law
oeli-deteuce IS the only desperate extreme 10
winch the free state asita'ors have Iesored,"
which cur nelshboE says has caiumulated MO
an open and ayowed resistance 10 law" What
rsht had Judge Lecompte. of Kansas to order
the burning u the Free State Hotel, ana the
destruction 4 The two printing ,tlces uctwilb-
standing : packed Grand Jury Of Border Ruff
ians pronounced them as uuisances? Where
did Ae Obtain as authority 10 curtail the free
Com OF tAe press, even though they lad used
so;ue severe language aSalns. tie administration
ana Us Tools, the Border BGiiisus? Would the
editor OF the Democrat quietly stand by ana see
h's press broken III pieces aud thrown INTO the
street aad his types hurled into n river. even
though Sheriff STERLING should appear with
writ from Judge MtLLEK's Court. ordering is
had offended his heuog III ,ome Of his editorials