Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-18

not 1erritoflai Legislature until tnat
elected last Oct.)-nor Congressional
Delegate (until Mr.. Parrot)-nor the
Convention which has assumed to form a
Constitution, were elected by the bona Jiae
residents of Kansas, but by citizens of
Missouri and other Slave States, in for
ciblc and unlawful manner. You would
have US forget that GALL JUST POWER Is
DERIVED FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOV
ERNED:" consequently, that all those
Legislatures and Delegates and this Con
vention are totally fraudulent and fcti-
tious and their acts not binding in law or
equity. The truth respecting the former
Of the alleged "elections" is abundanty
established by the 1900 pages of evidence
published by Congress, and you nor your
party can over blot out the dark record,
nor obliterate its memory from the minds
and hearts Of the lovers of fair play and
common honesty. Sir, you we'll know
that the "hostile array" was simply the
real people of Kansas on the one side,
and the alien border rufians and hired
mercenarjes of Slavery on the other, the
latter actuated by the one object of impo-
sing slavery upon free soil, and thus far
backed up and sustained by every depart
ment Of the general government. These
men, thus engaged in an unlawful and
wicked object, and boastiug of the rapine
and murder which have followed their
track, are not only unpunished by you,
but are sustained and promoted to Office.
All this you think it unnecessary" to
state You never appointed Free State
man to Office in Kansas you express not
the least sympathy for her sufferings: your
condemnations rest wholly upon the peo-
pie, and not upon the invaders: cold, cal
culatiug, prejudiced, one-sided, you no.
where breathe q syllable of wish that
Kansas should be free ee!-"Buchanan and
Free Kansas" indeed!!
"On the 10Th of February previous, tie
territorial Legislature had passed law
providing for the election of delegates on
the third Monday of June to convention
to meet on the first Monday of September,
for the purpose of framing constitution
preparatory to admission into the Union.
This law was in the main fair and just
and it is to be regretted that all the quail.
fed electors had not registered themselves
and roted under its provisions.
There was no fair election provided, for
the power was all on one side-all lodged
in the hands Of the Rufians, whereas, in
justice, each party should be represented
on election boards. In previous elections,
as was clearly shown, the ballot boxes had
been invaded by lawless voters, and even
fair registering would have been no seed
rity (under the same of6cers) against
repetition of the violence enacted. And
as to the "registering," in many counties,
no registrars appeared or were known; in
others the registrars refused to enrol Free
State men; the lists were sometimes not
put up at all sometimes not in season to
be examined in short, the whole machi-
merry was in the hands of the Rufians, who
openly boasted that they ,rould not enrol
enough Free State men to defeat them at
the ballot-box-and they did not enrol one
half of them 1t is false and insulting,
then, to assert that the Free State men
could but would not vote! 1t was like
one of Napoleon's objections" in France
"A cheat and fraud
"At the time Of the election for dele
gates, an extensive organization existed in
the Territory, whose aro,ced object was, if
need be,to pat do,1n the lau.fuf government
by force, and to establish government of
their own under the SO called Topeka con-
stitution. The persons attached to this
revolutionary organization abstaincd from
taking any part in the election" )"
The people who approve the Topeka Con-
stitution, it will be admitted by all candid
men, are the large majority of the Terri
tory. They never "avowed the opJect OF
putting down lawful government" but
they would have driven from power the
unlawful usurpers, had not Pierce and Bu-
cbanan interposed the federal bayonets to
keep down true popular sovereignty and
keep up foreign despotism. The Topeka
Constitution never contemplated resistance
to u s. authority, and the Free State
men, discriminating between the legal al
though oppressive U. 8. government, and
the Ruffian usurpation, have from the first
to the last been loyal to the former, and
spurned and disowned the latter. Bucha-
nan himself, with all his studied, artful,
lawyer.likc pleas, does rot assert that the
Lecompton Constitution represents the
majority. The Slavery propagandisss have
the POWER, and intend to use it, regardless
of the majority's wishes. BY the forms
of law, they intend to cheat the people out
of its substance.
land here, at last, We are to find what
"squatter soureignty" in Kansas really
means, as interpreted by Democratic prac-