The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-30

vasions of hostile armies have ceased, and
infuriate partisans living in our midst,
have emphatically turned their swords
into ploughshares and their spears into
pruning hooks"
Pray, Mr.. Tindicator. from whence
came those banditti =" We have new.
er heard that you even charged that the
Free State men acted as such. Who
were they? Were they not Border Ruff
fans And who composed those hos
tile armies that invaded Kansas, and
to what were they g hostile 2" They
were certainly not hostile to slavery
No, sir; but they acre hostile to free
and fair expression of the citizens Of
Kansas at the ballot-box For with an
acknowledged Free State majority by all
parties. the pro.slavery party have always
elected their can lidates for office. Is
not Gov. Geary, then +" Black Repub-
lican ?"
But, once more, and I am done with
the address. During the late political
howl" as you are pleased to term such
things, the Republicans had all the
preachers, pulpit disgracers," we
think you called them on their side,
and they praised them because they were
doing, not only good, but God service
while on the other hand they were the
special objects of your most violent abuse.
Now, what does Gov. Geary say. Of the
prayers of the righteous 's Will you
make note of that 90
ITO the ladies Of the Territory, the
wives. mothers, sisters and daughters oil
the honest settlers, | am also under q
weight of obligation. Their pious pray
ers hare not been raised en- voias, nor their
numerous assurances of confidence in the
policy of my administration failed to ex-
ert a salutary influence.
"Their pious prayers !" Do you
suppose he had any reference to +" Border
Ruffians," when he wrote that? Do you
not, or is there not reason to believe, that
Border Rufians are +" little short in
that article ? Is not Gov. Geary Re
publican, for the preachers, and in favor
of prayer ?-almost Rev. Screecher?'
A few words yet regarding the argu-
ment in the Tindicator, from which we
have before quoted, about ss Free Kan
sas.' Below, citizens Of Wyandot coun
ty, find the declaration of the editor of the
pinhcotor, and see whether, if the con
vention now called to form Constitu-
ton for Kansas, should do So and Kan
sas be admitted there with, he will come
out mapfully, and say they have done
wrong. Read for yourselves, and mark
the language, and forget not the position
he has taken, for it is a broad one. and
he now stands fully committed. But to
the article:
But even suppose the Territorial leg
islature is in hot haste to call conven
ton to frame constitution, is the action
of that convention final, even suppose it
provides for slavery? By no nseans.-
The acts Of that Legislature, in calling a
convention are WITHOUT AUTHORITY, and
the acts Of the Convention will doubt
less be treated as was the TopekasaCon
vention and constitution, UTTERLY 6IsRE-
GARDEp BY CONGRESS.
The composition is bad, but the sub.
stance is there. The Republicans have
ever claimed that the Kansas Legisla-
ture was Bogus" and could pass no
valid law. This, Locofocoism has al
ways before denied. In what way that
legislature is, acting without authority,
any more now than in the many other
cases which the Findicator fully justi6es,
we should be pleased to have him ex-
plain. But, at all events, he Yields the
point the Republicans have ever claim
ed, that they are without legal authority!
Further, he says. Congress will utterly
disregard the acts of that Convention =
Mark that 1t is our opinion, that if the
Convention does form a Constitution and
Kansas asks for admission-slavery in it
or not-and Congress be thoroughly Lo-
cofoco, it will be admitted just as GER
talnly as that to .morrow's sun will rise,
for Old Buck says it "shall be admitted
with or without slavery, as the people OF
the Territory may determine"
We fear that the .Tindicator, in this
matter, has advanced conflicting opinions,
as it has recently done when it declared
that the present Legislature are doing
nothing" and then sets up how" "
about publishing ats lo,es, because the job
was not given to the lowest bidder, or at
least offered for bids The Legislature
doing nothing, eh and the job wanted
to publish its laws! How much would
it amount to?
If Congress does admit Kansas with
said Constitution, will you make any fuss
about that We will see.
SYCAMORE.
From Kansas.