Litchfield enquirer., 1856-02-28
Ihe Lifcafisn Enquirer.
LITcHFIELD. Thnrsday Morning. Feb. 2s. 1858.
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 Gov. Shannon has left Washington. where he has been in consultation with the President, with full power to < enforce the laws" He is to travel night and day in order to reaci. Lecsmpion, the centre Of the present difficulties. There he is to locate his office. The Governor has beea ins,fuc-s ted to act with the utmost caution, hut to l put down at all haza:dss any attempt at ia- surreciion, which we understand to be any opposition to the laws enacted by the Legislature of which SiringfrIlow was speaker in September last We fear ths instructions of the government bode no good tothe practically disfranchised citizens of that territory and that Kansas is indeed destined 10 be lhe Therniopylea O. Ffredom oa which the Leonidas army may after all be offered up gory sacrifice to the god of human slavery. How it is possible for man to be so deceived as to believe the ac- ton of Legislature binding which derived it's vitality-if it ever had any--from the residents of another state, it is difficult to conceive The President in his last Kan sas proclamation recognizes the fact that outsiders hare had hand in the existing trouble, for he stJtes as reason for its ,tsu th,s internal discord exists, and that the rights of the citizens of Kansas are to be protected. But the starting point is wrong and the further you go on wroug track the further l yon recede from the right. Butehering /, every free state man in Kansas would not make the action of a bogus Legislature valid. The Legislature whose enactmenls the President has pledged the whole power Of the government to enforce was not born of the people oi Kansas Territory. The freeinen Of that couniry--many of them are from among Us here in New England; |; they are men of common sense men who have clear views ofright; men who believe ] in the ruling of the majority; men, too. l who are not to be intimidated hy threats nor frightened by rifles; and though as lia- bie to err as all men are, nevertheless in 1 this instance are positive il'a. their rights as bona fide settlers and residents have been violated and they .fearlessly assume the re- sponsibili,y of maintaining them. itis true | the invaders were their own countrymen, bu. does that render the violation done less aagran,s Does i. not rather ad 10 iits in- fanny. Why did not the U. S government sustain Santa Annals onslaught on Tsxasl
 He was no more a foreigner in Texas, than the Missourians were in Kansas. The
 former was repuised, the latter sustained. l Why less energy to sussain inviolase ths rights of . state than those of a aheigl,boring territory Have no, the people of Kansas protested agains, this recognition Of a bogus
 Legislature, and wha, segard has been paid to their prayess Is t right, is i, just, that our neighbors, men whom we know to be honest and true, should be thus Iudeiy jos,led aside to make room for an institn- lion which carries the mark of tn, beast in it's forehead, Every section of the West ern couatry is fully alive to the importance of the struggle. and in Wisconsin, Iowa. Minnesota and the entire West, but one feeling predominates we must sustain the settlers of Kansas" Blood will run. but we ara strong in the belief that righ, will triumph. ten Quilman has declared that he will never repor, a bill fvr sending troops to kansas tokill Americans on either side. Regiments are forming, munitions of war are being collected, forts are guarded, and every thing put in readiness [, I. instan, service by the free state m.n. The troops Ut Forts Lesvenworlh and Riley are placed at Shannon's disposal, numbering some i,200, to be used at his discretion, to en- force the laws. The Topeka He, a'd ap- pesls 10 the friends Kansas North and Eas, to be in readiness fur active service at a moments warning. God defend the right
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