The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-02-06

IN The performance OF acts which rendered
1t my duty. in the sequel, to remove him
iom the Office Of chief executive magistrate
Of the Territory.
Before the reqniSi,e preparation was ac-
compIished for election of a Territorial lie.
gislature an election OF Delegate to Congress
had been held in the Territory on the 29,h
day OF November. 1854. and the Delegate
took his seat in the House of Representa-
tiyes without challenge. Ii arrangements
had been perfected by the Governor so that
The election for members of the Legislative
Assembly might be Eeld in the several pre-.
cincts at the same time as for Delegate to
Congress, any question appertainiDg to the
quailhcatlon OF the persons voting as people
OF the Territory would have passed necessa-
rily and at once under the supervision of
Congress, as judge OF the validity of the re-
turn OF the Delegate, and would haze been
determined before the conflicting passions
had become intiamed by time and befoie
opportunity could have been afforded fer
systematic interference of The people OF in
diYidual States.
This Interference, in so far as concerns lis
primary causes and It's immediate commence
ment was ,ne of the incidents Of that PERM
cious agitation on the subj cf tie condition
OF coIored persons held 10 service In some
of the Stetes which has so long distul bed
the repose of our country, and excited ind.
vlduals, otherwise patriotic and law abiding
to toll with misdirtcted zeal in the attempt
to propagate their social theori by the per
vision and abuse of the powers OF Congress.
The persons and parties whom the tenor
of the act TO organize the Territories of Ne
braSka and Kansas thwarted in the endeav-
or to impose, through the agency OF Con.
gress, their particular views of social organ.
ization on the people CT the future new
States, now preceiving that policy OF leaving
! the inhabitants of each State to Judge
or themselves in this respect was ineradi-
cably roott in the convictions of the pco-
pie of the Union then had r, course, in the
pursuit Of their general object, 10 the exGa-
ordinary measure Of propagandst coIoniza.
ton of the Territory OF X nsas, 10 preven
the free and natural action Of its mi abb.
tants in its internal organization, and thus
TO anticipate or force The de ermination ,f
that question in This inchoate State
With such views associations were or
ganized in some Of the States, and their
purposes were proclaimed through the press
in language eXtremely irritating and otftn
sive to those Of whom the colonists were 10
become the neighbors. Those designs nd
acts had the necessary consequence to a.
Waken emotions Of intense Indignation in
States near to the Territory OF Kansas, and
especially in the adjoining S,ateof Missouri
whose domestic peace was thus the most di-
recty endangered but they are far from
justifying the illegal and reprehensible
counter movements which ensued.
Under :hese nausP;cious circumstances
the primary elections for members of the
Legislative Assembly were held in most, if
not all of the precincts at the time and pa-
ces and by the persons designated and ap-
pointed by the Governor according to law.
Angry accusations that illegal votes had
been polled abouDGed on all sides, and i'm
putatlons were made both OF fraud and VIZ
olence. But the Governor, in the exercise
of the power and the discharge of the duty
conferred and imposed by law on him alone,
officially received and considered the re.
turns; declared large majority OF
the members of the Conncii and the
and the House of Representatives duly cleo
ted; withheld certificates from others be-
cause of alleged liegality Of votes; appoint
ed new election to supply the place of
the persons not certified and with Ills own
official autllenticaIcn, a complete legality
was given to the first Legislative Assem-
bly, Of the Territory.
! Those decisions of the returning officers
and of Governor are final, except that.
by the parliamentary usage Of the country
applied to the orgrnic law, it may be con.
ceded that each House of the Assembly
must have been competent to determine,
in the last resort, the qualifications and the
election Of It's members, The subject was,
! by its nature, one appertaining exclusively
to the jurisdiction of the local authorities of
the Territory. Whatever irregularities
may have occurred in the elections, it
seems too late now TO raise that question
At all events it is a question as 10 Which,
neither now nor at any previous time, has
the least possible legal authority been pos
sessed by the President of the U. States
For all present purposes the legislative body,
thus constituted and elected, was the legiti-
mate assembly oftbe Territory.
Accordingly, the Governor, by procIama-
tiln, convened the Assembly thus elected
to meet at place called Pawnee City The
two Houses met, and were duly organized
IN the ordinary parliamentary form; each
sent 10 and received from the Governor the
official communication usual on such occa-
sions; an elaborate message opening the
session was. communicated by the Govern.
or; and the General business of legislation
was entered upon by the Legislative assem-
| bly, ,5s
But, after few days, the Assembly re.
solved to adjourn TO another place in the
Territory. A law was accordingly passed,
against the consentot the Governor, but in
j due form otherwise, to remove the seat. ol
government temporarily to the "Shawnee
manual-labor school" (or mission, and
thther the Assembly proceeded. After
this, receiving a bill for The establishment
Of 4 ferry al the town Of Kicapoo, the GOV.
ernor refused to sign it, and by special
message, assigned his reason Of refusal, not
anything objectional in The bin ITSELF noi
4 any pretence Of the ihegality or incompe,
tency Of che assembly as such, bur only Ib,
fact that the Assembly had by its act unns,
ferreG tue seat of government temporarily
from Pawnee City to Shawnee Mission
For the same reason be continued to refuse
4 to sign other bills, until. in the course of |
1 few days, he, by official message, commp
nicated to the Assembly the fact that h,