The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-04-02
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MARCH Il lOOO.
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1t now become necessary to inquire
what has in fact taken place IF violence
has taken place as the natural aud per-
haps unavoidable consequence of the na-
ture of the experiment, bringing into
dangerous contact and collision in1am.
mable elements, it was the vice of a mis-.
taken law, and immediate measures
should be taken by Congress to correct
such law. If force and violence have
been substituted for peaceful measures
there, legal provisions should be made
and executed to correct all the wrongs
such violence has produced, and to pre-
vent their recurrence ana thus secure
fair fulilment of the experiment by
peaceful means as originally rrOfcssqd
and presented in tho law.
y succinct statement Of the course
and progress Of the material events in
Kansas. is this: After tho passage of
this law, establishing the Territory of
Kansas. large body Of settlers rapidly
entered into said Territory with view
fpermanont iuhabitancy therein. Most
of these were from the Free States Of the
Vest and North, who probably intended
by their votes and Influence. to establish
there Free State, ogreeably to the law
which invited them. Some part Of these
from the Northern States. had been en-.
couragcd and aided in this enterprise. By
the Emigrant Aid Society, formed in
Massachusetts,. which put forth some ex-
cr;ion in this laudablc object, by open
and public measures in providing facii-
ties for transportation to all peacoable
citizens who desired to become perma.
nont settlers in said Territory aud pro-
viiing therein hotels, mills. &c, for the
public accommodation of that Lew coun-
try.
The Governor of Kansas having, in
pursuance Of law, divided the Territory
into districts, aud procured o census
thereof, issued mis- proclamation for the
election ofa Legislative Assembly there
in, to take place on tie 30tb day Of
March, lcjj. and directed how the same
should be conducted and the returns
made to him. ugrceaLly to the law estab-
llshlng said Territory. On the day of
election, large bodies of armed men from
tAe State Of Missouri appeared at the
polls, in most Of the districts. and by
most violent and tumultuous carriage
and dencauor, oyerawed the dcfoucelcss
inhabitants. aud by their own votes, elect.
cd large majority Of the members oe
both houses Of said Assembly. GA the
returns Q. said elections being made to
the Governor, protests and objections
were made to Linn in relation to part Of
SAID districts, aud, as to them. lie set a.
side such, and such only. as. by the re.
turns appeared to he bad lu relation
10 others, covering majority Of the two
Houses, equally vicious iu fact. but ap.
larently good in formal returns. the in.
haOl'ants thereof borne down by said
violence, and intimidated, scattered and
discouraged, and laboring under appre.
Lcrsion8 oS personal Violence, rcfrained
and desistcd from presenting any protest
tolhc Governor In relation theretu.-and
lac, then uniformed in relation thereto.
Issued certificates to tue members, who
appeared by said formal returns tu have
been elected.
la relation to those districts which the
Governor 50 set atidc, orders were by
HIM Issued for new elections Ia oHe Of
these districts the same proceedings were
repeated by men from Missouri, aud in
others not, and certificates were issued
to the persons elected
This legislative assembly SO elected
assembled at Pawnec, on tie I'd day Of
july iejjtLat being the time and Place
for holding said meeting, as fixed hy the
Governor by authority Of law. On as.
semb!lng, the said houses proceeded to
set aside aud reject those members 20 c.
lected on said second election, except in |
the districts where the men from Mi. /
suuli had, at said election. chos-n the /
same persons they had elected at the said /
first clection,aud admitted all Of tue said /
tirst-elccted m,mbols.
\ Legislative Assembly, SO created
ty military force, 10y a foreign Invasion, .
in violation Of the organic law, was but
usurpaiiop. No act its own--uo act
OF neglect Of tho Governor, could legal
ize or sanctiiy it, It's own decisions as
to ITS own legality are, like its laws bat
the fruits of its own usurpation, which .
no Governor could legitimate
They passed an Act altering the place
OF the temporary scat Of Government to
the Shawnee Mission. on the border. and !
IN near proximity to Missouri. This /
Act the Governor regarded as a violation /
Of the orsauic law establishing the Ter
rtory which fixed the temporary seat Of /
Government aud prohibited the Legisla-
tive Assembly from doing anything in
consistent with said Act. lie therefore.
and for that cause, vetoed said bill, but
said Assembly rcpassed the same by two.
third majority, Notwithstanding said We
to. and removed to said Shawnee Mis- /
sion. They then proceeded to pass laws,
and the Governor, in writing, declined |
further to recognize them as alegitimate
assembly sitting at that place They
continued passing laws there from the
10th day of July to the 3lst day of Au.
gust, 1855.
On the 18th day Of August last the
Governor of said Territory vas dismiss.
ed from Office and the duties deyolycd
upon the Secretary of the Territory; and
and how manv of tho laws nnssnI with |