Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-30

ing from all your officers the perilous and
sacriligious oath to support the so-called State
constitution; yet you have even IN defiance
of the so-calIed Legislature which refused to
grant you charter, proceeded to create To-
cal government Of your own, based only upon
instruction and revolution. The very oath
which you require from all your officers to
support your so-caIled Topeka State Consti-
tuition, is violated in the very act of putting
in operation a charter rejected even by
Them
A rebellion so iniquitous and necessarily
involving such awful consequences, has never
before disgraced any age or country.
! Permit me to call your attention as still
claiming to be citizens of the United States
to the results of your revolutionary proceed
ings You are inaugurating rebellion and
revolution; you are disregarding the laws of
Congress and Of the Territorial Government,
and defying their authority; you are con-
spring to overthrow the government of the
United States in this Territory.
Your purpose, if carried into effect in the
mode designated by you, by putting your laws
forcibly into execution, would involve you in
the guilt and crime of treason. You stand
now, fellow citizens, upon the brink of an
awful precipice, and it becomes my duty to
warn you ere you take the fatal leap into
the gulf below. IF your proceedings are not
arrested you will necessarily destroy the
peace of tbs territory and 4jnyolye it in all
the horrortof civil Var warn you, then,
before it is too late, to recede from the peril
Gus position in which you now stand
appeal once more to your reason and
patriotism. | ask you in the name of our
common country, in the name of the Consti-
tuition, and Of the Union, to desist from this
rebellion. appeal once more to your love
of country, to your regard for its peace, pros
perity and reputation, to your affection for
your wives and children, and to all those pat
riotic motives which ought to influence Amer
lean citizens, to abandon this contemplated
revolution. IF you have wrongs, redress
them through the peaceful instrumentality Of
the ballot box in the mode prescribed by the
laws of your country.
As all arguments heretofore so often ad-
dressed by me TO you, have failed as yet to
produce any effect upon you, | have deemed
it necessary for your safety and that OF the
Territory, and to save you from the perilous
consequences Of your own acts, under the au-
thority vested in me by the President of the
United States into your immediate vicinage
to perform the painful duty of awesting your
revolutionary proceedings. Let me imploro
you not to compel me to appeal to that mill
tary power which is required in the last re-
sort, to protect the government Of your coun
try. You cannot carry your rebelious pur
poses into effect without coming into unavod
S able and open conflict with the troops anc
government of the United States.
: Let me adjuro you then, once more tt
= abandon these proceedings, before you involve
yourselves in the crime OF treason, and sub
e ect the people of the city OF Lawrence to al
!, the horrors and calamities of Instruction ant
, civil war.
: IF you will now desist from the projected
i revolution, the past will be forgotten as ia
: as practicable but if you persist in passing
these laws and carrying them into execution
n thus defying and superceding the government
d of your country, the deporable consequence
must be upon your heads and those Of you
! lefsoeptes., 1T. will be w3 purpose. il. yo
Still persist, to spare all blbodshed as far a
G practicable, and subject the leaders and pro
= prietors of this revolutionary movement t
IS the punishment prescribed by law l will ac
company the troops to Lawrence with vie,
: to prevent, if possible, any conflict, and in tn
: sincere hope that the revolutionary movement
e contemplated by you, and now so nearly az
o complished, will, ere it is too late, be abar
r, doned by you.
d If you can be influenced by no other nc
!, tives, the evident fact that the power of tn
J. government is adequate to prevent the az
Il compllshment Of your purpose, should Undue
l. you to desist from these proceedings.
: That the same overriding Providence VIII
=, ,s holds in his hands the destiny of our believe
- country, may now incline your hearts
= peace, and influence you to abandon this fat;
~ enterprise, is the sincere wish Of your felo
= citizen. r. WALKER,
- Governor of Kansas Territory.
On the 18th inst, the election of delegates
u the State Convention at Topeka, took place /
II Lawrence. OF this election the correspondent
y Of the New York Tribune remarks
p. " 1t was the most exciting election | cvt
- witnessed, About $50 votes were polled b,
there were two tickets. One represented ful
u the sentiments of the friends of he Free Sta
le movemen,-the other was mixture of vario,
g elements, among which were the opposition
S. the Topeka constitution, or any governmel
o. under it-national Democracy, whisky and roy
1t dyism. The regular ticket was elected by abo,
forty majorty-not "a very credible omen,
acknowledge for our town. Walker is playin
u IL desperate game with our men, to distract
lie and win at last for the Democracy A gret
l; struggle is at hand--danger is upon us
l., On the 18th inst, the first board of munic
r. pal officers was elected at Lawrence, as follows
u For Mayor. james BLOOD for Aldcrme,
d. William Hntclrins n, VIM A Phillips, Geors
h. Lnrd, P. Il Brooks, b. W Woodward, Gar
s., jenkins. G, w. Hutchinson for Marshal {
y " Eldridge Tor Assessors, I. Sampssa, ,
"a Boyer, l. l.. Whitney; for Justice of Peac
10 Edw. Clark for Treasurer Columbus Hornsh,
~ "There was bnt lite opposition to the ticke
y and that was confined to four persons So nov
IL in few days We will be enjoying, to practic'
us extent, all the benefits derived from popuh
" municipal government The popular will ca
is do anything 1t can enforce system of ord
nances created by the sovereign people, and
can prevent the enforcement Of laws not base
u on this great substratum of government, eve
ne when the aid OF the militia of powerful nj
he ton is given to maintain it. We will now sho
at the world whether We are capable of self 90
u ernment in Lawrence. Gov. Walker and SCI
&c. Stanton were in town lo-day, and one Of the
,s made the remark that they should have to loo
after these assumptions Of power shortly :
US Well, we shall let them look, of course, ar
H. then they can 90 into half the townships
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