The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-04-10

an election to be bed BY judges and clerks not
appointed In pursnaace Of any legal authority.
and not To be sworn by any person authorized
by law TO administer oeths and the returns TO !
BE- made, and result psociaimed and certificate |
granted, in mode and by persons not per-
mit,ed to perform these acts By any law, in or
out Of the Territory.
10 accepting the nomination. Governor Red |
er addressed the convention % follows; and
among other things, said =:
In giving him this nomination 10 this man- !
ner. they had strengthened his arms to do their
work. and In return, he would now pie]ge
to them o steady, untiinching, pertinancy Il
purpose. neyer-tiring industry, dogged per-
severance. and in all the abilities with which |
God had endowed him. TO the righing of
their wrongs, and the final triumph Of their
cause. He believed, from the circumstances
which had for the last eight months surrounded
him, and which had at the same time placed in
his possession many facts, and bound him. heart
and soul, 10 the opposed voters Of Kansas. that
b. could do much towards obtaining redress
Of their gievances.
He said that, day by day, crisis was CON-
ing upon us that, in aiter-times, this would be
to posterity turning point, marked period,
w are to rs the opening Of tic revolution, the
adoption OF the Declaration Of Independence,
and The err OF the alien and seditiou laws
that we should take each carefully, 80 that each
be q step Of progress, and so that no violence
be done to the tic which binds the American
PEOPLE together. lie alluded to the nnprrce
denied tyranny under which We are and have
been; aud said that, il any one supposed that
institutions were to be imposed BY force upon
free and enlightened people they never knew,
or had forgotten, the history of our fathers.-
American citizens bear in their breasts too
much of the spirit Of other and trying DAYS, and
have lived too long amid the blessings Of lib
erty, To submit 10 oppression from any quarter:
and the man who, having once been free, could
talney submit to tyranny, was fit to be a
slave.
He urged the iree-State men Of Kansas to
forget all minor issues, and pursue determined
" the one great object, never swerving, but
steadily pressing on, as did the wise men who
followed the star to the manger. looking back
only for fresh announcement He cOupselled
that peaceful rcsistence be made to the tyran-
meal and unjust laws of the spurious legislature;
that appeals 20 the courts. 10 The Balioftroxs,
and to Congress, be made for relief from this
oppressive load that violence should be depre-
Gated rs long as a single hone OF peaceable re.
dress remained but H. ut last, all these should
fail-if, in the proper tribunals, there is no
hone for our dearcst rights. outraged and pro.
aned-ir We are still SO suffer. that corrupt men
NAV reap bsryests watersd bv our tcars--tben
there is one more chance for Justice. God has
provided, in the eternal frame Of things, redress
Tor every wrong and there remains 10 rs still
the steady eve and the strong arm. and we
must copauer. or mingle the bodies Of the op.
pressors with those OF The oppressed upon the
soil which the Declaration OF fndepepdepce no
longer nrotect,. Bnt he was uot M ali apprc-
bensiye that sueb a crisis woud ever arrive
He believed tbst iustice might he found far
short of 40 dreadf,l an extremity and syen
should an appeal TO arms come, il was his opin.
ion that. If we are prepsred. that moment the
victory i won
In pursuance of the recommendation Of the
mass meeting held AT Lawrence on the I4th Of
August. and endorsed by the convention held
al The Big Springs on the 9Th AID 9th Of Sep
tember. a convention was held at Topeka on
the 18th and 2oth of September, AT which IL
was determined TO hold another convention at
the zane Mace. ON the fourth Tuesday Of o.
,ober for The purnose of forming n constitp.
lion and S,a,e gorernyan, and 10 liz .nJ
| sucb nroceoJings were boa ma were deemed mo-
ce,sary for giving tho notices CONDUCTING the
election Of jeleoaies making Inc re,urns and
assembling The Convention With regard IN
,ha rno,,ar;,v n ,heso nroceea;no ,nnr cor,
m;tt.,s see No nacess,v for fnrih.r cr;,icisn
than !. 10 no Gound IN Inc fact that II was the
movcmont Of a nol;,icsI Marty instead ~ tho
whole bclv of the neonlc ~ Kansas conducted
v;,hon, ,be Sanction If ,aw anil in dofance ~
the constituted authorities. for the ayowed pur.