New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-28
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yiously in Office did not serve them in all things
And thus even Lawrence, the Free State strong
hold, where the people are AntSlavery by at least
Eve to one. was returned as electing a full Pro-
Slavery ticket by large majority. Gov. Reeder
Get this election aside and ordered another at
which Free-State Delegates were chosen without
opposition; but these were refused the seats by the
Border Rufian mob claiming to be the first Terri
torial Legislature Of Kansas, who gave their seats
to the Missourians in every instance. This left but
one Free-Sate man in the Legislature and he soon
resigned, finding that he could do no good there,
and not relishing the company in which he found
himself.
IL. This Missouri mob impudenty styling inself
Legislature of Kansas, proceeded to remove from
Pawnee City, where the Governor had convened it,
TO Shawnee Mission, on the border Of Missouri,
overriding the Governors veto, though the Ne
brsska act expressly gives the Governor the power
to fix the place of meeting of said Legislature"
This change the Legislature had no right to make,
even if it had had right to pass any acts at ALL
and ii stamped all subsequent acts OF that Leg
islatnre with its own invalidity.
IL. This Legislature, or mob, proceeded to es.
tablish Slavery in Kansas, so far as it had power
30 do so; and to render any kind of Anti-Savery
speech or writing crime; while melting slaves to
resist theirmasters made punishable with death.
1t is not possible TO make any kind of effective
sistance to Slavery in Kansas without Drawing the
penalties of this act. This Missouri mob proceed
ed to appoint county officers for Kansas-s0me Of
them still resident MissOuriansfOr sir gears ahead,
aud then adjourned These Slave Laws, and the
officers appointed to uphold and enforce Them have
been taken under President Piercesspecial protec-
tion; he denounces the penalties oftreason against
all who effectively resist them; he threatens to use
the army and call out the Missouri militia to
to "crush out" any opposition which they may
provoke; and he calls upon COngresstO clOthe him
with fresh power for that purpose.
13. The actual settlers of Kansas refused to be
thus enslaved by foreign and fraudulently imposed
rule; declared the laws thus fOisted upon them
invalid; refused to cOuntenance the farce of re-
electng Whitfield to Congress by voting side by
side with the Border Ruffans who were certain to
come over again to return him; but appointed a
separate day for their election, chose Governor
Reeder their Delegate, naugurated movement for
O State Convention; elected and held it; formed
good Free Constitution; ratified it; and now de-
mand of Congress that Gov. Reeder be received as
their Delegate and their State soon admitted under
her Free Constitution.
"a. This the President condemns as anarchical
and even reasonable. He is Jealous for legality
and formality now he was not in the case of the
Dorr Revolution in Rhode Island. I, who depre
cate Dorrism, insist that there was never true
Legislative organization of Kansas under the Ne
braska act; that such organization was defeated
solely by the Border Ruffans, their usurpations
and their frauds; and that the People of Kansas
were thus driven by their regard for sefpreserva-
tion, to initiate internal organization as they
best could. This they have done; and it becomes
every devotee of Liberty and Justice to stand by
them until their wrongs shall have been redressed
and their rights firmly secured.
- Such are the fundamental facts in the case.
Compare them with the legal subtleties, the gross
peryerslons, the denuncatOns and the menaces,
embodied in the Presidents Message. Mark how
he balances the fact that Massachusetts, sent bona
fde settlers to Kansas to make her in time Free
State against the Missourians' sending tmther
armed thousands to vote at each election and force
Slavery upon most reluctant, struggling people,
BY usurpation, fraud and crime. Consider the re-
nested murders of inoffensive Free-State citizens
of Kansas by the Border Ruffians; remember the
siege of Lawrence, and forget not that the man
who should have prevented most of these fragrant
wrongs and would not lift finger to that end, Is
Franklin Pierce of New. Hampshire, now playing
a desperate game for denomination as President BY
the Cincinnati Convention. His scheme evidently
is to secure the South at any price and trust to the
South to control the Convention. Hence the new
Message. H. u