The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-04-29


ans voted in Kansas, it would be expected
that the ballots deposited would exceed the
number Of electors. Just SO 1t was. We
I have seen that il was so asserted. The TX
ecutive Journal, recently obtained, proves
/ that in four districts, where the results We're
/ not contested. 2 1864 votes were cast on the
/ Both of March, although only 800 voters
were there. as ascertained by the census
1 Again: The Legislature chosen on the Both
Of March, 1855, withdrew from the interior
Of the Territory to place inconvenient to
its citizens, and on the border of Missouri.
There that Legislature enacted laws to this
effect, viz forbidding the speaking, writing,
printing, or publishing of anything, in any
form. calculated 10 disafiect slaves, or in
duce them to escape, under pain of not less
than five years Imprisonment with hard labor;
and forbidding free persons from maintain
ing, by speech, writing, or printing, or pub
fishing, that slaves cannot lawfully be held
in the Territory, under pain of Imprisonment
and hard labor two years.
The Legislature further enacted, that no
person "conscentiously opposed to holding
Slaves" or entertaining doubts of the legal
existence of Slavery in Kansas, shall sit as a
juror in the trial of any cause founded on
n breach Of the laws which have described.
4 ICY IuFtncT pTONIuCus luut All omScIs dnu
ATTORNEYS should be sworn, not only to sup
port the Constitution of the United States
but also to support and sustain the organic
lac Of the Territory, and the Fugitive
Siare Law and that any persons Offering to
vote shall be presumed to be entitled to vote
until the contrary is shown; and if any one,
when required, shall refuse to take mn oath
TO sustain the Fugitive Slave Law, he shall not
be permitted to vote. Although they passed
law that none but an inhabitant who had
paid tax should vote, yet they made no
time of residence necessary, and provided
for the immediate payment of poll tax so
virtually declaring that on the eve of an
election the people of q neighboring State
can come in. in unlimited numbers, and, by
taking up a residence Of day or an hour,
pay poll tax, and thus become legal voters,
and then, after voting, return TO their own
State. They thus, in practical effect, pro-
vided for the people of Missouri to control
future elections at their pleasure, and per-
mitted such only of the real inhabitants of
| the Territory to vote as are friendly to the
holding Of slaves.
| They permitted no election of any of the
officers of the Territory to be made by the
! people thereof, but created the Offices, and
| filled them, or appointed officers to fill them,
for long periods. They provided that the
next annual election should be held in Octo-
Der, 1856, and the Assembly should meet in
January, 1857; so that none of these laws
| could be changed until the lower House might
be changed, in 1856; but the Council, which
is elected for two years, could not be changed
so as to allow change of the laws or Off
GERS until the session of 1858, however much
the inhabitants of the Territory might desire
= Ia low = En
that old political maxim of the English
ton. that Parliament called by conquer
or is itself conquered and enslaved Who
but foreigners, usnrpers, aud tyrants, could
have made for The people of kansas-s peo-
pie ''perfectly free'--Sach laws these
ANTAGONISTS will describe the intrument, and
even the force of the blow, If only you show
them the wounds
srNNISG rP.
Behold the proofs on Which the allegations
of invasion. usurpation, apd tyrranv, made
bv the new State OF Kansas, rest. Thcvnre,
first. the President own virtual admission,
by defences indirect, irrelevant, l.l-tempered,
s0phistical. and eyasiye second m absolute
agreement, concurrence and harmony he
tween the statements Of the conflicting par
ties who were engaged in the transactions IN
volved; third, the consequences Of those
transactions exactly such az must follow, if
the accusations be true. and such as could
not result if they be false. A few words,
however, must be added, TO bring more dis
| tnctly into view the Presidents completely
| in these transactions, and TO establish his
responsibility therefor. The President open
| ly lent his official influence and patronage to
the slaveholders Of Missouri, to effect the
abrogation Of the prohibition OF Slavery in
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1920. He knew their purposes in regard to
the elections in Kansas. He never interfered
to prevent, to defeat, or to hinder them. lie
employed his official patronage to aid them.
He now defends and protects the usurpation
and tyranny, established by the invaders in
Kansas, with all the influence of his exalted
station, and even with the military power of
the Republic and he argues the duty OF the
people there to submit to the forcible estab-
lishment of Slavery, in violation Of the ma
tional pledge, which he coneurred in giving,
that they should be left perfectly free TO re-
ject and exclude that Justly obnoxious sys-
TEN. 1t thus appears that the President of
the L. s. holds the people OF Kansas pros
trate and enslaved at his feet.
AN IMPEACHMENT.
To complete the painful account of this
great crime, ii is necessary now to add that
there has not been one day or night since the
Government of Kansas was constituted and
confded to the President of the United
States, in which either the properties, or the
liberties, or even the lives, Of its citizens
nave been secure against the violence and
vengeance of the extreme foreign faction
which he upholds and protects. AT this day
Kansas is becoming, more distinctly than
before, the scene of conflict of irreconcila-
bic opinions, to be determined by brute force
J No immigrant goes there unarmed, no citi-
zen dwells there in safety unarmed; armed
masses Of men are proceeding into the Terri
tory, from various parts of the Uuited States
to complete the work Of invasion and tyranny
which he has thus begun, under cIrcumstan-
ces of fraud and perhdy unworthy Of Tho