The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-08-01
Terrible Rebellion!
F'NIGNTEIL INSTEEEfIIrN! :!
Gov. Walkers Proclamation -!
\.VI.D SI\TI.S TROOPS
VssE CABINET AZ WASHINGTON
ALARMED -:

IN" news from Kansas during the pass
week has been q: 4 startling and omnou>
character The citizens Of Lawrence have
been guilty Of the enormous crime of forming
City Charter and establishing police rc-ula
tons for ;hc protection Of their lives and prop
crtg ana for the abatement Of nui>,ncc>.
This exercise of the peoples rights i in di-
rect conflict with the well known policy OF the
general government relating to Kansas. The
right OF the people TO decide by popular vote
il y,gar,! 20 their form OF goscrnmcn: and
their municipal regulations viii hot DC tolcr-
atcI Accordingly. Coz. Walker. with char
actcriStic consistency, a. the guardian of the
interests of the slavocracv and the official
aycn, O: the general government. has issued
his Proclamation warming the citizens of Law
renee to dssist from their daring attempts to
regulate their own atiaits He declares their
proceedings in adopting City Charter as
insurrcctonayv. IL rcbeN'on 50 iUi}W-
tons and ncccssVHy inroIri"y such "~iW
consequences" he says, "has nerr brt"yc dis
grored any age on country" Ne warns the
people of Lawrence that they "slc;ad upon
The brink Of on awfW prccipirs that the,
"ca"noi carry Their rebdiious purposes MIo
effect witAoM coming nto oPca condirt wih
tie Troops and the Gornnn,.m attic TnifI
states that he has decmclH necessary to
oJ'et' on odr4uafe force Of the troops Of the
|ntt'd states to per.i'rm tie pain,M duty Of
uTe'fi"y their revolutionary proceedings;
and the latest news from Washington informs
rs that the President approves of Gov. Walk
cr's + exclamation and has authorized him to
dctain and all into service the whole force
intended for Titan. if necessary, to qucll the
Instruction in Kansas. Wrubi1c dirt~!! The
people of Lawrence ought to have known bet
ter than to assert that the, have any civil
rights in Kansas. They should have leaned
lesson from the history of the American
Revolution. 1t was for the exercise of lust
this kind of liberty by the people of the Amer
lean Colonies that the King of Great Britain
sent his armies to coclce them into obedience.
1t was for just this kind of assumption of the
rights of the people to regulate their own az
fairs, that the Governor appointed by the
Crown denounced them as rebels, and warned
them to desist from their " msmrectionary"
and revolutionary poceedings!"
The colonists undoubtedly supposed that
they had just cause of complaints, that their
inalienable rights had been invaded and tram
pied upon by British tyrants, that they were
subjected to unjust taxation and all the iniu-
rics set forth in their declaration OF indepcnd-
cnce; but history shows that their cruel op-
pressors were unmoved by their pacific en-
treaties, and added insults to injury when
they asserted their rights, calling them rebels
and threatening the vengeance of the British
lion to be hurled against them The spirit of
tyrants is ever the same, and the people of
Lawrence, whose wrongs are even greater
than were those Of the Colonists, have no
reason to expect that the Administration will
relax one iota of its oppression until they sur
render at discretion to tho Draconian laws of
the bogus legislature Fox.