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


gress of TITO, impeach Ia the words Of that
immortal text--the President Of United
States
ssIIe has refused to pass laws for the ae-
commodation of the people, unless they
would relinquish the right Of representation
in their Legislature, right inestimable 10
them, and formidable to tyrants only:
Gle has called together Legislative bodies
at place unusual, uncomfortable and dis
tant from the depository of their pub
lie records, for the sole purpose of fla
tiguing them into compliance with his meas
ures
lie has prevented Legislative Houses
from being elected, for no other cause than
his conviction that they would oppose with
manly frmness his invasion of the rights of
the people
ssIIe has refused for long time after
spurious Legislative Houses were imposed
by himself, by usurpation, on the people Of
Kansas, to cause others to be elected, where
by the legislative powers, incapable of ami
hilation, have returned to the people at
large, for their exercise, the State remaining
in the meantime exposed TO all the dan
ger OF invasion from without, and civil war
within:
"He has created q multitude Of new
Offices, and sent hither swarms of officers,
to harrass our people, and eat out their cub
stance:
SHE has kept among US, 10 times of
peace, standing armies, to compel our
submission to foreign Legislature and has
affected to render the military independent OF
and superior to the civil power:
SHE has combined with others to subject
us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu-
ton, and unacknowledged by our laws, Civ
ing his assent to their acts of pretended leg
islation
"For protecting the invaders Of Kansas
from punishment for any murders which
they shall commit on the inhabitants of this
Territory:
"For abolishing the free system Of Amer
lean law in this Territory, establishing there
in an arbitrary government 80 as TO render 1t
at once an example and fit instrument for in
Producing the same absolute rule into other
Territories
''For taking away our charter, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and alter
ing fundamentally the powers of our Gov
ernment:
"For suspending our own Legislature,
and declaring an usurping Legislature, con
stituted by himself, invested with power to
legisiate for as in all cases whatsoever
THE CONVICTION.
What is wanting here to fill up the COM
plement of a high Judicial process Is it an
accuser? The youngest born Of the Repub-
lie is before ysu, imploring you to rescue
her from immoation on the altar Of public
faction. Is it q crime? Bethink yourselves
what it is that has been subverted. 1t is the
whole of complete aud rounded of Re-
publican Government of Territory indeed,
by name, but, in substance, Il Civil State.
Consider the effect. The people Of Kansas
rere perfectly free" They now are free
only to submit and obey. Consider whose
system that Republican Government was,
and the Power that established it. 1t was
one OF the Constitution of the United States,
established by an act Of the Congress of the
nited States. Consider what a tyranny it
~ that has been built on that atrocious usur-
patton. Ii is not discriminating tvrBnnv,
that selects aud Furnishes one, or a few, or
even many, but ii DISTINGUISHES all, and re-
duces every citizen to abiect Slavery. Ex-
amino the code created by the Legislature
All the statues Of the State of Missouri are
enacted in gross, without alteration or
amendment, for the Government of
kansas; and then. at the end, the hasty
planatory act, that wherever the word
sStateo occurs. IL means 1fTerritorv.D And
what u code One that stiles not, indeed.
the fruits of the womb, but the equally i'm
portant elements of State, the fruits--the
immortal fruits of the mind code that
puts n peril all rights and liberties whatso-
ever, by denying TO men the right to know,
to utter, and to argue, freely, according to
tuh IN al of
all other rights and liberties. Is an often
der wanting? He stands before you, in
many respects the most eminent man in all
the world--the President Of the United
States--the constitutional and chosen de-
fender and protector Of the people who have
been subjugated and ensaved. Is there any
thing of dignity or authority wanting in this
tribunalp Where elsewhere shall be found
one more august than the Senate Of the Unit
cd States? Ii is the ancient, constant. and
undoubted right and usage of Parliaments
lit is the chief purpose Of their being--to
question and complain of all persons, Of
what degree soeyer, found grievous to the
Commonwealth, in abusing the power and
trust committed to them by the People.
Does this tribunal need motive? We have
that, too, in painful reality. These usurpa-
tons and expressions have hitherto rested
with the President Of the United States, and
those whom he has abetted IL they shall
be left unredressed, they shall henceforth be-
come, by adoption, our own.
The conviction of the offending President
is complete, and now he sinks out of view.
His punishment rests with the People Of the
United States, whose trust he has betrayed.
His conviction was only incidental to the
business which is the order of the day. The
order of the day is the redress Of the wrongs
Of Kansas.
THE REMEDY.
How like unto each other are the parallels
of tyranny and revolution in all countries
and all times Kansas is to-day in the very
act of revolution against the tyranny of the
President of the United States, identical in
all its prominent features with that tyranny
Of the King Of England which gave birth to