Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-07-18
Kansas Commission.

Kansas Commission.
The labors of the Kansas Commission
are ended. They have returned to
Washington and made their report,
lengthy one, a synopsis of which is Civ
en- Mt the close of this article. Their
report goes to prove beyond question
that all the acts which have been charged |
upon tue Missourians, or laid at the door
OF the administration, are true; and even
more than they were accused of has been
brought to light. 1t gives complete
history of the wrongs, the invasions, the
robberics and the murders, which have
time without number been perpetrated
upon the free settlers of Kansas, by
shareholders living without the territory.
These things are now given TO the pub
lie as facts, and well authenticated by men
who have no interest in being party to a
wrong, be it on either side. Hitherto
obey have gone forth as newspaper para
graphs, mere assertions, manufactured
for the purpose of getting up an undue
sympathy for the inhabitants of that ter
ritory. At least such are the charges
which have been made and thousand
times repeated by the opponents of free
institutions. But now we have authority
for our assertions-an authority that the
horeIor ,.pfIi.,,,'' t,,-~s-s $50 'S
dispute. That authority is the Kansas
Investigating Committee.
.--.-.s..s, ,.5savrfsfreu me facts that these
wrongs have been committed-that free
settlers have been driven out of the ter.
ritory; that those who have been permit
ted TO remain have been driven from the
polls and the ballot boxes appropriated
to the use of an armed mob from a neigh
boring state; that the present territorial
legislature is illegal and her pretende,
laws consequently null and void; that tn
election under which Whitfield claim
his scat in Congress was illegal, as ais
was Reeder's; and that the Topeka Con
s,ltution was adopted by a majority c
the actual residents of Kansas-havin
established all these things, the reade
will ask, what will the opponents {
freedom in Kansas attempt next?" w
answer. They now seek different wa
to iasten slavery upon her; butt is non
tile less dangerous. 1t is this: Juda
Douglas has introduced bill in the Ser
ate which proposes to quiet the disturb
ances that have arisen, by annulling I'll
laws OF the territorial legislature-whic
are OF themselves a nullity, because hi
legislature is illegal-and giving II
President power toappoint five Commi
sioners, who shall take a census of Il
territory and apportion the delegate
said delegates are to frame Constitutio
to be voted for or against at a gener
election, which takes place on the day
,he presidential election. And 10 cUI
stitutc voter, onc must have been re
ident Of the territory three months pr
yious TO the day On election. This h
is called the Kansas Pacifcation Bill.
We now ask, was there ever a mo
ingenious and rascally attempt than IL
to iaslen slavery upon people? Is
not cunning trick;
This bill has passed the Senate, Al
upon the face Of it looks fair as need
But our readers will bear in mind that
large number Of the free state men ha
been driven from the territory by G
Summers command, who is acting und
direction of the President; the Chica
company and other bodies of ernigral
have been robbed and compelled to tn
back home, which leaves the slave ST,
party IN the ascendant in Kansas. and
tree state people are to be kept out, t
majority OF actual residents now the
being pro-slayery, win choose a pro-sIa1
ry constitution and be admitted as a sla
state. This would be the effect of Dor
las new bill.
= Then, again, the President is TO ;
point the Commissioners, and all ha
seen enough Of his acts to be assured Il