Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-10-02
THE TROOPS.

fully competent to the task, will, at the
request of citizens of both parties, be
stationed at the points where violence
has been threatened, or anticipated, not
for the purpose of overawing the people,
or of interfering in any way with the
elections, or influencing them in any re-
spect whatever, but, by their presence
guarding the polls against any attempt at
instruction or violence, from the mere
knowledge of the fact that it can and will
be suppressed, but, if necessary, also, to
protect and secure by lawful means all
the just rights of the citizen in exercis-
ing the elective franchise under the de-
cision of the proper authorities, and to
act as posse comitatuS for the arrest of
offenders.
THE LAWRENCE INSTRUCTION.
l should have greatly preferred, as ex-
pressed in my letter of acceptance of
Governor of this territory, never to have
been required to have called the troops
even as precautionary measure. As it
is, not drop of blood has been shed,
and insurrection has been suppressed,
until it recently appeared in compul-
sorry tax law by the issurgent government
at Lawrence, and in confagration dwell
ings and expulsion Of peaceable citizens
in its vicinage, after it was known the
troops were ordered to Utah, and when it
was falsely supposed that they would not
be replaced by others. Indeed, if the
revolutionary government of Lawrence
had not been encountered by the imme-
date movement of troops there, it is now
clear that similar insurrectionary local
governments, based on my presumed &C
quiesence, would have been organized
throughout Kansas in open defiance Of
the laws of Congress and of this terrific
ry, and rendered peaceful settlement
impossible.
1t will be remembered that in open
defiance of the laws of Congress and of
this territory, and of the refusal of the
so-called Topeka State Legislature to
grant them charter, they nevertheless
organized a city government clothed
with all the usual powers-legislative,
executive, and Judicial. 1t will be re-
collected, also, that after my proclama-
ton of the 10Th July last. and the stimuli
taneous movements of the troops there,
as precautionary measure to maintain
the authority Of the government, and ar
rest the spread of this instruction
throughout the territory, they then pro-
fessed, through their organs, that what
they had called government, and to
which they had given all the powers OF
a government, was a mere voluntary as
ISOLATION for the removal of nuisances
from the streets, &c. But now, when il
was enormously believed by them that
the troops would all be removed to Utah
, and not replaced by others, they have
thrown off the mask, and carried Out
; their original discretionary purpose
: by passing compulsory tax law, both
5 poll and property tax, requiring its as.
: sessment and collection by the seizure
and sale of property, and exacting by
} their charter from executive officers
!, who are to carry out these acts, an oatl
to perform all these duties, the violation
: of which oath, if these duties are no
e performed, would be perjury.
: AT the same time they seemed to hav,
: believed that this precautionary move
d ment of mine and proclamation wer,
e disapproVed by the President of tn,
: United States, whereas they were boil
most cordially sustained by him in tn,
: dispatch to me from the Secretary q
d State of the 18th of July last, as also il
VI the published letter of President Buch
n anan to Professor Silliman and Others
1t of the 18th of August last. An over
: whelming majority of the press, an,
:, people of the United States, have con
e demned this insurgent movement tn
example has not been adopted by an,
% other locality in Kansas, contrary to tn
i, expectations of its authors. It failed +
N receive any sanction from the genera
IS territorial convention of their own part
'e of the 26th ult., and now stands withoU
IN a precedent in our country-a solitar
1t monument of revolutionary violence an
$ incipient treason. So soon as the ovei
l. act now threatened is consummated, TIL
in rebellion viii be suppressed by the Law
Or full use, if necessary, of all the trooF