Washington telegraph., 1856-02-27

'-AcSeiouS duu Tue TtturnS tnereOI 10 declare
the number of the members of the council
and house of representatives for each eouu-
ty or district u declare what persons might
appear to be duly elected and to appoint
the time and place of the first meeting of
the Legislative assembly. In substance, the
same duties were devolved on the Governor
/. of Nebraska.
While. by this act. the principle of con-
stitution for each of the Territories was
one and the same, and the details of organ
ganic Legislation regarding both were as
nearly as could be identical, and the Terri
tory of Nebraska was TRANQUILITY and sue
cessfully organized in the due course of law.
and its first legislative assembly met on the
10th of January. 1855. the organization
of Kansas was long delayed. and has been
attended with serious difficulties and en-
barrassments. partly the consequence of
local mal-administration. and partly of the un-
justi6able Interference of the inhabitants of
some of the States foreign by residence, in
terests and rights to the Territory
The Governor of the Territory of Kan
sas, commissioned, as before stated, on the
29th of June. 1854, did not reach the de-
signated seat of his government until the
7th of the ensuing October; and even then
failed to make the first step in its legal or
izatOu-that of ordering the census or
enumeration Of its Inhabitants. until so late
a day that the election of the members of
the legislative assembly did not take place
until the Both of March, 1856, nor its meet
ing until the I'd of July. 1855. So that,
for month after the Territory was consti-
tuted by the act Of Congress. and the Off
GERS to be appointed by the Federal Execu-
tive had been commissioned, it was without
complete government, without any legisla-
tive authority. without any local law, and of
course without the ordinary guarantees of
public order
In other respects. the Governor, instead
of exercising constant vigilance and putting
forth all his energies to prevent or counter
act the tendencies to illegality, which are
prone to exist in all imperfectly organized
add newl y associated communities. allowed
i,ls attention tn be diverted from official OBJ
iiga;ien BY other objects. and himself set an
example of the violation of law in the per-
fOrnance of acts which rendered it nv duty.
in the sequel. to remove him from the Of
fee of chief executive magistrate of the ter
rItory.
Before the requisite preparation was ac-
complished for the election of a Territorial
Legislature. an election of delegate to Con-
gress had been held in the Territory on the
29th day of November, 1854, and the dele
gate took his seat in the House Of Represen-
tatives without challenge. If arrangements
had been perfected by the Governor so that
the election for members of the Legislative
assembly might be held in the several pre-
cincts at the same time as for delegate to
Congress. any question appertaining to the
qualification of the persons voting, as the
people of the Territory. would have passed
necessarily and at once under the supervis-
ion of Congress. as the judge of the validi-
ty Of the return of the delegate, and would
have been determined before conflicting pas
sions had become infamed by time, and be-
fore opportunity could have been afforded
for Systematic interference of the people of
individual States
This Interference, in so far as concerns
its primary causes and its immediate COM
meDcemenr, was one of the incidents of that
rernicions agitation ON the subject of the
condition of the colored persons held to SER
vice in some of the States, which has so long
disturbed the repose of our country, and ex-
cited individuals, otherwise patriotic and
law-abiding to toll with mis-directed zeal in
the attempt to propagate their social tbeo-
ries by the perversion and abuse of the pow
ers of Congress The persons and parties
whom the tenor of the act to organize the
Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, thwart-
ed in the endeavor to impose. through the
agency of Congress. their particular views
of social organization on the people of the
future new States, now perceiving that the
policy of leaving the inhabitants of each
State to Judge for themselves in this respect
was ineradically routed in the convictions of
the people of the Union. then had recourse.
in the pursuit of their general object to the
extraordinary measure of propagandist CO.
lonizatio of the Territory of Kansas. to
prevent the free and natural action of its in-
habitants in its internal organization. and
thus to anticipate or to force the deter
mination of that question in this inchoate
State.
With such views, associations were Or
ganized In some States, aud their purposes
were explained through the press in Ian
guage extremely irritating and offensive to
those of whom the coionists we're to become
the neighbors. Those designs and acts had
the necessary consequences to awaken emo
tions of intense indignation in States near
to the Territory of Kansas. and especially
in the adjoining State of Missouri. whose do
nestle peace was thus the most directly en-
dangered; but they are far from justifying
the illegal and reprehensible countermoye-
| ments which ensued
Under these irauspicious circumstances,
the primary elections for members of the
legislative assembly were held in most. il
not all, Of the precincts at the time and the
places. and by the persons designated and