Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-31

IlctS, WHere bnofe WYE no Contests anu no COii-
,iaints filed with the Governor, elected large
majority of both branches of the Legislature
@ wit, ten of the thirteen councilmen and sew
,nteen of the twenty-six representatives OF
which, by the organic law Of the Territory, the
Leg stature was composed, and a majority OF
whom were to constitute legal quorum for
the transaction of legislative business. Hence
it is entirely immaterial, SO far as the legality
Of the Legislature is involved, whether the con
tested cases in the other seven districts were de-
cided right or wrong. In either event there
was legal quorum of each branch Of the Leg
islature duly and fairly elected-a sufficient
number under the organic law of the Territory,
to constitute The two houses lawful legislative
competent to pass laws binding on
the inhabitants OF the Territory, and to impart
vitality and validity to their legislative acts
The majority of the Committee are of the
opinion that the government should use with
firm hand and steady nerve whatever force may
be necessary to maintain the supremacy of the
laws against all organized resistance, from
whatever quarter it may come"
Referring to the bogus laws, Douglas says
"Should the whole framework of society be
destroyed and blotted out merely because it may
contain small portion of material which is
not entirely sound and acceptable Marriages
have been solemnized, children have been born,
deaths have occurred, estates have been distrib
uted, contracts have been made, and rights have
accrued under the system oil laws which the
Kansas Legislature have enacted, which it is
not competent for Congress to dIvest and annul.
Are you prepared to disturb and destroy all the
social, domestic, and pecuniary relations and
interests Of the whole people of Kansas merely
because you do not like two acts of their Legis-
lature, which have remained a dead letter upon
the statute.book, If, indeed, they bear the con-
struction which you seek to place upon them in
order 10 render them odious For what pnr-
pose, and to what end, are all these calamities
to be inflicted upon the people Of Kansas! Is
it necessary that the whole body of white peo-
pie shall suffer in order that the interests OF
the negro may be advanced How do you ex
pect to promote the interests of the negro by
annulling the whole system of laws enacted by
the Legislature of the Territory"
Still, the Editor Of the Patriot "never has
said a word ia support of the bogus government
of Kansas But let US see what he has said,
directly in support of those laws May 80,
1885, the following appears as editorial in the
Patriot
" The territorial government Of Kansasis an
institution of the General Government EsTAB
LsHED IN LEGAL FORM, precisely as all other ter
ritorial governments have been established. IL
is The legal government Of Kansas. THERE is
NO OTHER AND CAN BE NO OTHER GOVERNMENT
THERE, WHILE A TERRITORY. Can any man be
fool enough to say resistance to the United
States and that if resistance be carried to alb
solute rebellion and the shedding of blood such
resistance is not outright Treason No man
can escape the conclusion.
The opposition of the Reedertes is predicated
upon their denial that Mr.. Shannons govern
ment is legitimate. And let good
citizens consider the attitude in which Abolition
agtators seek to place them, in this Kansas af
fair. 1t is one of violent antagonism to United
States authority they seek to make you the
supporters of bald treason! Pause and reflect.
If Gov. SnANNoN's GOVERNMENT is
RESISTED, TREASON IS CoNsUMATED, AND WHO
SHALL SAY THE TRAITORS SHOULD NOT BE HUNG >
In its issue of July 18th, only meek ago, it
favors the South as follows:
"That the actual residents in Kansas have
suffered great abuse, we do not doubt and that
The abuses have come as much. and eDen more,
from The Ab>hhon,sts Of The North than from
The Pro- S'aucry men Of The South, as equally
clear"
Does the above need any comments of ours +?
IF so, we say that to US it looks like Black De-
mocracy boiled down, pro slavery baseness, and
very much in support of the Kansas outrages.
I'd. We challenge the editor Of the Patriot
not to fight duel-but to show u single para
graph condemning those laws, in his paper be
tween January l, 1856, and July Is, 1885,
Sd. The Republicans are opposing--not the
repeal Of these lawsuit the passage of the
Douglas bill and have passed bill in the
House, and sent il to the Senate, which body
has refused it passage, repeating those laws,
and, further, declaring Kansas free State and
admitting it into the Union. All this the office
holding editor of the Patriot cannot see, will
not see, and will not let his readers know !; but,
instead, is heaping up faleehood upon false
hood, in the face md eyes of the truth.
| A question VIC wish to ask is, what right has
Congress to repeal the laws Of Kansas, or to
legislate for that territory in any manner when
the Kausas-Nebraska bill expressly declares
that Congress has no power over that territory {!
To finish, we give resolution adopted at
Cincinnati, upon which the editor now stands
Read what it says about Territorial laws;
Resolved, That claiming fellowship with, and
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the
preservation of the Union under the Consttu-
ton as the paramount issue and repudiatins
all sectional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the
States and incite to treason and armed resistance
to law in the Territories and whose avowed
purpose if contaminated must end in civil war
and disunion, the American Democracy recog-
nize and adopt the principles contained in the
organic laws establishing the territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska as embodying the only sound
and safe solution of the " Slavery question "
upon which the great national idea Of the peo-
pie of this whole country can repose in its de-
termined conservatism of the Union-NoN-IN
TERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE
AND TERRITORY OR IN TIE DISTRICT OF CoLUM-
BIA.