The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-06-11
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Shall the Territorial Government
in Kansas be Upheld, or Put
down by FOPeei-The Facts i'm the
Case.

\ Ease.
but the fact is, the difficulties in Kansas have
been owing to the opponents of the Nebraska
Bill, who have resorted to force and violence TO
prevent the execution Of Legislative enactments.
the legality ofwhich they should have tested be-
fore the proper tribunal, in peaceable manner.
II they regarded them as not beinga fair express
sion ofthe popular will"- Gin. E,q.
The fact is-and the evidence before the Con-
gressional Committee proves that beyond con-
tingency-that these Legislative enactments,'
wcEe a most enormous, palpable fraud, made for
the very purpose of tying the hands of the people
and preventing the possibility of testing THAR
legality. No man can read the enactments of
Kansas without seeing that they were what we
have characterized them--a crime against Lib
erty But what is the 'proper tribunal to test
these Legislative enactments?" Is it Judge
Lecompte--the jeffrey of Kansas? Is it Jones
and his mob? Is it StringfelIow and Atcbison
Where Is there a court which can test these
laws of Kansas, and in what way do YOU pro-
pose to bring up the case?-Gas.o
ut will be seen that the once staid and copser-
vatiye Cincinnati Gazette has become the open
apologist ofmob law and anarchy in Kansas
1t Justifies resistance to the laws Of the Terri
tory, passed pursuant to an act of Congress, and
which are consequently as binding and as legal
as those ofthe State of Ohio. They have never
been able to set aside by any judicial expression
or repealed in any shape whatever Such being
the case what right has any man or number Of
men to set up their own individual opinions Of
legality against the regular formal expression Of
the popular will. No one not in favor of anar-
chy and general disregard Of law, can sustain
the action ofthe Topeka and Lawrence insur.
gents.
'As to the legal enactments in Kansas while
we do not hesitate to say chat many of them are
extremely harsh and repugnant to our notions,
yet they are of q character with those that exist
In some States the Union, and must be rot
rid OF in some other way than by aboody and
iorclble resistance. That way which the Ga
aette calls upon us to indicate, may be through
the instrumcntality of the Courts, or, If not in
that manner, by waiting until the next election.
and then choosing legislature in favor Of thcir
repeal. Under the American constitutional
system, resistance to the constituted authorities
is never justifable but always extremely rep.
rehensible
| "Ihe Gazette can only sustain its mob friends
IN the extraordinary assumptions that all the
acts OF the Legislature were illcgal--That all
the courts in the Territory were corrupt and
prejudiced-the judges Of which were ready to
commit perjury and that the oppression was o
such a kind as to render it impossible to endure
1t until another election was held 1t must 90
to this remarkable length to find palliation for
the law volaters at Lawrence. The legal tri-
bunals in Kansas are composed Of high minded.
learned and honorable men, and the Gazette
has no authority whatever to cast opprobriun
upon their character orimpartality.% The com
parison of Lccompte with Jeffrey is all for
"Buncombe" and is beneath contempt, as is
also his allusion to Sheriff Jones. The time
once was when the Cincinnati Gazette would
have Indignantly frowned upon those whe ar
rayed themselves against law and order npon
the untenable pretexts Of the Lane and Reeder
faction in Kansas; but under its present aus
pices, it is mad zeal to carry out its political
purposes, it gives to anarchy and lawless rebel
lion its support and encourages even civil war
and bloodshed in the land.
'We wonder that its present editors are not
afraid of being visited by the frowning shades OF
those old propretors who gave it all the pres
tige and reputation it ever enjoyed.
AS to the Legislature of Kansas being chosen
by illegal votes from Missouri, and as to the
evidence adduced before the Congressional In
vestigatmg Committee, the Gazette, as usual,
misstatcs the fscts, like nearly all the Black
Republican press. ANY number of alsehoods
has been told about that election.
"The following abstract of the testimony taken
before the Congressional Committee in relation
to that contest will be read with interest, and
with surprise by honest Black Republicans. -
We copy it from the Kansas correspondent of
the st, Louis Republican, an Old Line Whig
sheet, but which has not apostatized from its
old party like its colleague of the Cincinnati
Gazette. The Republican correspondent says
Of the testimony
First, then, it is shown in the testimony Of
Charles Robinson, Erastus D.. Ladd, Wat.
Ramsey, G. NJ Babcock, and others on the part
Of A. II. Reeder and the Free State party, that
at the election on the Both of March, 1856, for
the members Of the Territorial Legislature
"many strangers, not residents Of the Territory
as believed appeared at some Of the prccints in
some of the election districts and demanded the
right to vote, and some of them did vote. The
witnesses testify that these men canc from
towar,i the State of Missouri, on the day precc-
ding the election, and on the day after the cleo
ton returned in the sainc direction; that they
came in groups or companies, in wagons car
riages and on horseback and returned in the
same way; that they were generally armed,
some with shot guns ind rifles and others with
Bowie knives and pistols; the witnesses had
lCOnNcTSatiOIls WIN SO!te "a bHesG ouIHbcIo, Ill
some ofthom said they came from Missouri, but
the witnesses did not lnoO Of their own knowl-
edge whore these strangers resided; they did
not know the names ofany ofthem, except in q
few instances.
"Thc amount Of their knowledge is, that these
people were strangers TO them; that they did
not telie0ethey were residents Of the Territory;