Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-05-02

dress them on the state OF affairs ln3
Kansas, Col; Lane writes is follows.
This letter will be especially interest |
ing to those who only four years ago
aided in giving the Col. near 1000
majority in this district and who. two
years ago. endorsed his acts--even
his vote for the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, the folly OF which he
now fully realizes. It can not be that
The blindness Of party win cause hon.
est rcn TO regard these facts with dis
favor because the leaders Of party are
intent on driving them to support such
measure.
WAsmNeToN Corr, April19, 1855.
GESrLEmEs; Your kind letter Of
the l4th inst. inviting me to revisit
Indiana and address the people on the
subject Of Kanses. has been received,
and I assure you that it viii afford me
great pleasure 10 comply with your re-
quest. -
Indiana has large interest in Kan
sas, having furnished more of our pop
Iulatien than any State. Missouri. per-
hnps. excepted. Her declaration in
favor of the admission of Kansas with
her present Constitution will be hailed
with delight by thf. norton ofour cit
liens, and regarded as an assurance.
by them that all is well, and that they
are not forgotten in their distant prai-
ric homes. That such a declaration
win be made / will not permit myself
to doubt s
The prayer Of the people Of Michi
gan, Texas and California for admiss
sion into the Union fond a most cor.
dial response in the hearts Of the peo-
pie oflndiana. In each OF these ca
ses the Government proposed to be
superseded was satisfactory to the pco-
pie. Michigan had her Territorial
Government, with her laws framed by
legislators of her own selection. Texas
had an independent Government form
ed, all the officers elected BY them
selves California had a military Gov
eminent with an honest and capable
han, General Riley, at its head; with
Mexican laws which had stood the test
Of tirne, continued in force under the
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo; yet the
people of Indiana with great unanlm-
/ sy decided to admit them and there
by extend over them the protecting
arm of the General Government. How
much stronger is the case of Kansas?
| Thee we have a Territorial Govern
mcnt which is bat a synonyme for I'M
becility. without power except to TO-
ment discord, and ha. dly worthy tobe
dignifed by the cont npt of honest
men. The laws were framed and
adopted by a legislature the members
of which. with but one exception.
were elected by the people OF. Mis-
sour, who entered Kansas in armed
organized b .rds furnished with artille-
ny, anu who ieturr % to their homes
Immediately after accomplishing their
villanous purpose-meny of the mem
bers citizens of Missouri, never to this
/ day havina residen in Kansas
The laws, so fralteti and adopted BY
these invaders, having no other object
in view than to expel from the Terri.
tory the people who were in favor Of
Free State gov rnment, or to reduce
them to state o SYNONYMOUS vassal-
age to the people of Missouri, are now
sought to be enc ceu. Unde~ these
circumstances. which are without a
parallel upon the pages Of history, the
people of Kansas. with unexampled
unanimity, proceeded to establish .
State Government. They prepared
and ratified. a Constitution, republican
in its form, fully con,iAensurate with
the requirements Of the progress Of the
century, and resembling IN many o
its features the Constitution of The
. State OF indiana, and with that Goa
siitution in one hand, and With tht
other pointing to the chains which The
citizens of Missouri have forged fol
them, they are before Congressprefe
: ring their hubble petition for admis
sion as one of the Cor feGeracy. They
have evidenced the ability to. establish
maintain aud deferd their Government
BY granting their prayer, Congress
will secure to the people Of the Unior
r freedom from further agitation of al
! exciting question, and to the people o
Kansas protection and happiness; By
refusing, they subject themselves {,
l The imputation that the "true inten
E and meening" Of the Kansas-Nebras
/ ka act was that the people Of Kansas
shoald have the right to mold thei
own Institutions, provided they wouls
I establish Slavery tneie, and not other
/ wise. The people Of Indiana, eve
loyal to the Union and faithful to tb'
Constitution, always patriotic and be
neyolent, will upon this question
/, which involves them all, rise superio
I to mere party consideration, AID a
one man win demand the admission o
Kansas into the Union as one Of th'
free and sovereign States.
: | will be with you at Franklin OF
b Saturday, the 26th of the presen
# month, and viii address as many Q
o your fellow-ctizens as can make
!, convenient to meet me, at any hou
which viii be deemed most suitable.
will thank you specially to inyit
$ my old companions in arms, which vii
: include all Indiana's volunteers.
r. was associated with the chiyalric bu
! disappointed First Regiment amid til
pestiierious marshes OF the Rio Grande
/ with the noble butunfortunate Seconl
It at Buena Vista; saw them when the,
moted forward TO that exposed posi-
ton which they 50 unhinchingly main
= tanned amid front and flank FIRE c
y small arms from more than ten time
n their own force. at the same time ex
" posed to an eniiladipg fire Of grape an
' canister from four pieces OF artillery
until every third man had faller, Kill
ed or wounded, and the order I