Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-02-02

az could be identical, and while the Terri
tory OF Nebraska was TRANQUILITY and sue
cessfully organized in the due course o
law, and its first Legislative Assembly me
on the 10th Of January, 1855, the organi
cation Of Kansas was long delayed, and ha
been attended with serious difficulties ant
embArrassments, partly the consequence o
local INSTRUMENTATION, and partly Of tn,
unJustiiiable interference Of the inhsbl.ant
OF some Of the States, foreign by residehe'
interests, mud rights to the Territory.
The Gover,.or Of the Territory of Kan.
vas. commissioned. as before stated, on tn.
29ih Of June. 1854. did not reach the de
signaed seat OF his gov-rnm. nj until the
7lh of the ensuing October; and even theT
failed to make the first step in IFS legal or
ganization-tbat of ordering TIE census OIL
en,lmrration of its inhabitants-Dntilst
late dav that the election Of the member
Of the Legislative Assembly did not tax.
place until the Goth Of March, 1855 Dol
its meeting until the second OF July, 1855
so that, for year after the Territory wa
constituted - the act of Congress, aud the
Officers TO be appointed by the Federal
Executive had been commissioned. II was
without complete government, without
any legislative authority. without local
law, and, Of course without the ordinary
guarantees o peace and public order.
In other respects the Governor, instead
Of exercising constant vigilance aud putt
ting forth all his energies to prevent OF
coun,eract the tendencies TO Illegally
which are prone TO exist in all impeTfectIy
organized aud newly associated commune
ties, allowed his attention to be diverted
from official obligation by other objects
and himself set an example Of the violation
Of law in the performance o! acts whIca
rendered II my duty, in the SEQUEL, to re-
move him from the office Of chief execu.
tive magistrate Of the Territory.
Before the requisite preparation was ac-
cosnpsished for the election OF q Territori-
al Legislature, an election oil Delegates to
Congress had been held IN the Territory
on the 29;h day OF November 1854, and
the Delegate took hisseat in the House o
Representatives without challenge. 1t ar
engagements had been perfected BY tho
Governor so that tue election for members
of the legislative Assembly might be held
III the several precincts at the same time as
for Delegate to Congress, any question ap-
pertaining TO the qualification Of the pei.
SONS voting as people Of the Territory
would have passed necessarily aud at once
under the supervision Of Congress, as tht
Judge OF the validity OF The return OF the
Delegate. aid would have been determined
before conflicting passions had become in
famed by lime and before opportunity
could have been afforded for systeu attic III.
reference ipeople ofindividual States.
This interference, in SO iaI as oncerns
its primary causes and It's immediate COM
mencemtnt, was one Of the incidents o.
that perncious agitation on the subject OF
The condition OF the coloIed persons held
to service in some OF the States which has
SO long disturbed the rerose of our cOun-
try, aud excited individuals, otherwise pat
rIotIc and law abiding, to toll with misdi-
rected zeal in the attempt to propagate
their social theories by the perverson and
abuse OF the powers Of Congress.
The persons and parties whom the
tenor OF the act to organize the Territorie.
of Nebraska ard Kansas IN varied IN the
endravor to impose, through the agency oil
Congress, their particular views OF social
organization on the peoI lie Of the future
new States, now perceiving that the phil.
cy OF leavng the inhabitants Of each State
to judge for themselves in this respect was
inerddieably rooted in the convictions oil
the people of the Union. then had recourse
IN tbs pursuit OF their general object to
the extraordinary measure OF ptopagandisl
colonization OF the Territory Of Kansas, tc
prevent the free and natural action Of il
inhabitants in its internal organization
and thus to anticipate or 10 loSce the de-
termination OF that question in this incho
ate State. -aF rN
Nth such views associations were Or
sanizrd III >ome Of The States, and then
purposes We're proclaimed through the
press III language extremely irritating and
offensive to tdose Of whom the colonist>
were 10 become the neighbors. Those DE-.
signs aud acts had the necessary c0bse.
qurnee to awaken emotions Of intense in.
uiguation in States uear to the Territory
OF Kansas, and especially in the adjoining
State Of Missouri, whose do'Irs,i peace
was thus the most directly endangered; bu
they are far from justify ing the illegal and
rcprrhensibie coun,er-novemepts which
en>ued.
Under these inausplcious circumstances
the PRIMARY elections for members OF ths
Legislative Assembly were held IN mos,
II not all, of the precincts at the time anc
the places aud BY the peIsons designated
and appointed by the Gove;aos according
10 law.
Angry accusations that illegal votes haG
been poiied abounded on ali sides, and i'm
putat ons wete made both Of fraud aud VIC
lcnce. But the Governor, in the exercise
of tue power and the discharge Of the duty
conferred and imposed BY law on hin
alone, officially resolved and considered
the re'uras; declared large majority OF tn.
members OF The Council and The House 0
Representatives "du.y elecied;' withheld
'eiuiita,es from Diners because Of allrget
Iliegallly OF votes appointed sew elec
tloh TO supply the place OF persons not Ger.
llhed; and thus at length, in all the 10 I IN.
Of statute, and with his own official au-
ihen'ieation, complete Legality was gwen
TO The first Legislative Assembly OF tue
Territory. Vz55-ss. 4......
Those decisions OF the returning office
and OF the Goyeinor al. final. except tina,
b. the parliamentary. usase oi the count,
applied TO the organic law. it may be con.
L -ded that each House of the ass,mbl,