The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-12-26

low US to publish it, though with extreme
reluctance on his part. We fee. confident
the Governor viii excuse the great liberty
we have taken with his correspondence.
when We assure him of its importance in
this particular crisis in our Territorial
affairs:
SPRINGDALE FARM, WEST. Co. PAP
December 9Th, 1857.
SAMUEL WALKER, Eso-Dear SRI
am very much indebted to you for your
valuable favor ofNoyember 10Th, which
have read with pleasure and appreciation.
The case of Kansas is one which truly pre-,
sents many important issues, all requiring
serious consideration. Many of our most
eminent citizens seem inclined to view
them with dismay; but under all the cir
cumstances, l am. almost relieved from
any doubt that all will end well, and /
have strong hope for the future prosper
ity of your beautiful Territory. When
our mutual friend told you that still
entertained strong feeling in favor of
the people of Kansas, l mean the real
bona .fde settlers, he never told greater
truth.
From the first time l set foot upon that
land and associated with its citizens, / felt
deep and involuntary conviction that it
would ere long be consecrated to freedom;
and that too upon the principles of the
Organic Act, in which cheerfully recog-
nize the principles of popular sovereignty,
the right of the people to elect their OWL
officers, and to manage their own affairs in
their own way. That this will yet be
most fully carried out even in Kansas, l
have the most abiding confidence. There
is, | assure you, but one feeling in the
North, without regard to party, on this
subject; and the same feeling prevails
among nearly all good men in the South.
1t does not now require any galvanism, or
electro magnetism to enable even those
who have heretofore been most obstinate
and determined not to see, to perceive the
whole truth. The scales have fallen from
their eyes, and without miracle 'see clear
~" For this change in public sentiment
a vote of thanks should be offered to the
LecomptOn, Calhoun Constitutional Con-
vention. This Convention, knowingly
representing only small minority, has
at length opened the eyes of the whole
nation, by resorting to the most contempt
ible tricks and nefarious devices to defy
and cheat the will and well ascertained
desires of a vast majority. The determin-
alton of those wicked and INSCRIPTIONS
men to force slavery into Kansas, by fair
means or foul, with or without the popu-
lar sanction, by every fraudulent device
and ehicanery thata uSurped, butitis hoped
temporary power, has placed within their
reach, have at length opened their nefari-
GUS schemes in full glare to the clear Wis
ion and understanding of the people, and
they, loathing, turn away from the dis
gushing sight, and with scarcely an ex-
ception, give it their bitterest execrations,
and manfully declare, before high Heav-
en-, that the majority principle shall rule
The people entertain correct views and
the leading papers of the Democratic par
ty are declaring IN tones Of thunder, that
that sacred and inestimable right shall
not be trampled on. The Democratic
party is in power; it stands pledged to ad-
NIT Kansas into the Union with such a
Constitution as majority of her citizens
shall adopt, but il must be one fairly
submitted and fairly adopted and ratified.
The representatives, therefore, of that
party dare not vote to admit Kansas with
Constitution which is known to be ad-
verse TO the wishes of a vast majority of
her citizens. The effort to force Con-
stitution distaSteful to the people, upon
them, must ever prove futile, and the
good citizens of the Republic would hurl
from power the party that would dare to
pcrpetrate so gross a violation upon the
doctrine of popular government. The test
agreed upon between the North and South
for the determination of slavery in the
Territories was the popular wN. The
time has, Therefore, come for the advocates
of slavery to yield, to give up the fight,
and peaeeably acquiesce in the well as
certained will of the majority.
In my veto message upon the bill au-
thorizing the Constitutional Convention,
| waived all the minor objections to it and
dwelt alone upon the fact that the bill
contained no clause authorizing and di-
recting the submission of the Constitu-
ton to the people for their ratification or
rejection. In a conference with the Com
mittees of the two houses, by whom the
bill had been reported, | proposed to sign
the bill, provided they would insert in it
section authorizing the submission of
the Constitution as above indicated. But
they distinctly informed me, that the bill
met the appreciation of their friends in the
South-that it was not their intention the
Constitution should ever be submitted to
the people, and that to all intents and pur-
poses it was like the laws of the Medes
and Persains, and could not he altered. Up
OH the vital principle of submission alone,
the bill was vetoed, and it now affords
me no ordinary pleasure to find that
l took the initiative step in this great
question which now agitates the entire
Nation, and that good and patriotic citi-
zens unanimously, everywhere, sustain
the principles laid down in that message.
Upon those principles, fairly carried out,
depend the liberty and independence Of
| Kansas.
In the bill above referred to there oc-
ours the following remarkable clause
1.-THE Delegates, shall pro-
coed to form Constitution and State
government" From this sentence the
power is obtained to depose Gov. Walker,
and appoint Calhoun in his stead, or, rath-
er, as regency to occupy the interregnum
between the deposition of Walker and
the election of some person to that Office
under the new Constitution. Itseems to
be according to law. and the laws are de-
clared 'valid and must be enforced"
As yet, there is no authoritative enun-
citation of the policy of the President
with regard to the adoption of the Con-
stitution, and the selection of the new
Governor, Calhoun, under it, But there
| is one fact fully ascertained, that nine-
tenths of the whole people of the Free
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