The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-15

recognizing this spurious Missozri Legislature AZ
the lawful government of Kansas, we are brought
within short range OF the first, most conspicuous
and most criminal Kansas traitor and it is no less
a parsonage than Franklin Pierce, President OF
the United States Here was his first overt act
of inGdelity to his constitutional oath ito see the
law''-the Kansas organic Alphabetically exc
cuted.n Apprised Of this ruthless armed inva-
sion Of spurious voters from Missouri, and OF the
mockery, insult and contempt which they had
thrown upon the bona fae settlers Of Kansas, and
their rights under the law and the constitution it
was the first duty Of the President to rcrudiate
that bogus Missouri Legislature, and to lay the
facts before Congress But the party necessities
of Mr.. Pierce were more imperative thar his oath;
ana So in adopting that Missouri-Kansas Legis-
lature, be became traitor, in the vain delusion
of thus securing, through Southern niger driving
sympathy the Cincinnati democratic nomina-
ton
The tree is known by its fruit" The bloody
laws passed by the Missouri border ruffian
Legislature of Kansas are on par with the instru-
ments employed to elect that Legislature. They
are unconstitutional, illegal, atrocious, savage
and Infamous and we use but the words of Gen.
Cass Mr.. Douglas Mr.. Weller and other demo
cratic Senators, in so declaring them, while they
still sustain the traitorous administration, and
the demoralized and utterly rotten and abandoned
democratic party that would enforce the bloody
code, even to the slaughter Of every free white
settler in Kansas
These democratic Senators, who are now cleo
tioneering through the country for Mr.. Buchanan
as the anointed legatee of Mr.. Pierce and his po-
Icy Of rufian sovereignty, denounce the treason,
yet supper. the traitors. Illustrious democratic
Senators, and artful dodgers! No one cares
whether they are willing to repeal this or that
section Of the laws of Kansas; no one thanks
them for saying in the Senate that the Missouri
Kansas ball and chain were cruelties, Or that it
was very wrong to chain aud imprisOn man
because he had opinions Of his own on slavery;
or that it was unjust to reject man as a juror
because he had said he was opposed to slavery;
or that it is very unpleasant to be obliged to
hang man because he had whispered that If he
were slave he would run away. Nc one--we re-
peat it-cares whether these humane Senators
uttered these very liberal opinions, or voted for
them in one bill, designed to upset another,
which went further, and cut off all these OPP
pressivc enactments at q blow, by compelling
the President to sheath the sword. This is not
the point. If they had been in earnest in their
not have confined their action to the repeal OF
sections or parts OF the Missouri-Kansas Terrific
rial laws they would have gone manfrly in for
the repeal Of the whole. They knew that the
whole code was Illegally adopted-the whole cleo
ton which gave vitality to it was Fraud they
knew that its test oa.hs its jury qualifications
its suppression of the freedom of speech and OF
the press, and its violation of the rights of con-
science, were unconstitutional and illegal, without
their tardy admission Of the fact 1t was there
fore, a brazen mockery political fraud, and an
insult to the people of this country, to propose
repeal merely of certain sections OF code, which
partial repeal carried with it confirmation. an
affrmance. and an Endorsement of that illegal
legislation ITSELF
The Kansas traitors, the border ruffian Legis-
lature of Kansas and their infamous laws, with all
their atrocities, the administration at Washington
sphods at the point of the bayonet and the rotten
snd demoralized nigger-driving democratic party
which upholds the administration is pledged to
its policy. In every way, and at every point, the
free State settlers Of Kansas are the aggricved
and outraged party. The constitution and the
Kansas- Nebraska bill are on their side. They are
not traitors in resisting the bloody code or Kan
sas as the offspring Of unlawful authority. They
are clearly right in this assistance. They are
simply standing upon their lawful and constitu-
tional rights as American citizens, in common
Territory OF the Union and every man of them
who has suffered, in person or property, from the
bloody rufiaa policy Of the administration, in
Kansas, has rghtful claim upon the government
for indemnity.
On the other hand, the first proceeding at the
re-assembling Of Congress should be a resolution
in the House Of Representatives, for the impeach-
meni Of the President Of the United States as a
traitor--false 10 his cath to support the consttu
ton, and false 10 his sworn duty OF seeing the
Il" laws faithfully executed The rest, we pre-.
sumo, will be attended TO by the American peo
pie in November for the whole dcmoralizcd
party, and their policy and their can
didate are involved in this Kansas treason