The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-10

States the legal authorities Of the oountyobeyng their
orders Around him Col Sumner and the forces Of the
United States These FAcTs and upon this basis,
starting point beg 10 call attention Of good etEenof
all who mean to support the andto the siguih
canoe OF the shooting Of Sheriff Jones.
Now the vital point Of the whole difficulty lies ia this
that portion Of the people Of Kansas refuse TO acknowledge
Jones sheriff. and 10 this stand they sustained BY p0r
ton Of the opposition press by all the black republican press
by presses that affect 10 support the constitution
For months have this officer continually alluded
s SHAM sheriff. and it Il said by Boston press that he
had authority Ia Kansas than he
had to process in Suffolk COUNT, and because be
appreciated Nv de territorial gistatme. We have called at
tntion to this fact This Sheriff Jones regarded rep
resentng the territorial legislature which held by the OPP
position TO be spurious legislature and the Big Springs
convention resolved that each and every citizen bad fall lib
erty defy and resist its commands If he chose do IT,
IL resolved the time try peaceabe remedies
and il these failed TO proceed 10 The bloody issue. We
have got to the stage OF bloody issue Higher
in Kansas as here in Batcheder has
produced its legitimate fruit. Here the results OF the
anarchca doctrines so long preached by reeso politicians
and fanatic parsons.
The fatal error Is in the course taken by our higher
law politicians, and in all such resolves and speeches
and tend foment sediton transfer
that obedience which h due to the regular officers the
United States to rival body created outside Of this regular
constituted authority. We might ll side Of paper
with such pestlenti matter Ten years ago free sim
dictated the passage of sedous resolution in the Massa
chusetts legislature the annexation OF Texas the effect
that obedience would be due such
and forty years ago. when Louisiana admitted this same
Massachusetts, actually instructed its delegation In Congress
to endeayor TO put her OF the Union ground that
obedience due to the aa Of admission The sedous
spirit broke out in its most violent shape when the ue
tvesave law passed when Cities and towns aud eau
resolved TO nufy it. II then held that any ind
vidua had right to resist this law just the Big Springs
convention held that citizen has right the ter
rioria law The thing has 10 head in Kansas
il to head here Boston the President of the
q ha
he in the Of Burns There other course Let
this higher succeed and the natural necessary re-
suit will be complete stop to the functions Of
Internal violence will have destroyed fair fabric Of ber
". The life of poiity will have departed.
"There ia escaping this conclusion In vain do the
black republican presses dseaim the responsibility Of the
shooting Of Sheriff Jones in vain do they attempt
this BURDEN in vain will they try to escape the odum in
vain do they exclam that assassination the entertain
men they invite. The of their apology IT, that when
they said that each individual nigh. resist the law they
not mean that each might commit murder their namma
Appeals not made to put bullets through officials
but into the ballot they forsooth only cry out
Justify mad dog against Tray, and il the neghbors
with stones and clubs and kill Tray is Of their hunt
This sort of apology will not go down with sensible
1t is mockey Of Justification to put forth for violent
nammatory doctrines and Misrepresentation and ha
angues which tend unsets society from its foundations
and which may home TO the of every man. woman
and child in the community doctrines which repu
dated condemned by patriot and statesman whose
opinion is worth regarding from the days of Washington
down to the present day and which isepiay and directly
tend to hetsrrfc brak Of ANARCHY. And those who daily
justify these doctrines and utter these appeals
avoid the responsibility for the bloody work they lead
than the incendiary who applies torch end
avoid the responsibility for the necessary result of the
explosion at the other end.
"Tho great and vital wrong is in jus,fying joroe
TO the territorial 9ovesnasn 1t is all idle, FALSE delue
and downright cheat to draw distinction between
roriat government and the United States authoriss THEy
IpEsTIcAL. The Kansas resist the terrific
rial government without resisting the general government
This the voice of hoe experience We again call to
mind the decided of President jackson in the
Mchgan of the whole action of the Supreme Court OF
the opinions of Attorneys General of tho United States All
the pontthat until Congress aboshes super
sedes territorial government it is in FORCE
Let every good citizen who stand tho side
the constitution and the laws resolve rebuke these
archica doctrines"