The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-05-08
From the Daily Pennsylvania.
The Kansas Ease Stated.

The Kansas Ease Stated.
/ il We had not been accustomed to very odd
ideas in politics, we eontrss We should be not a
/ little, bnt great deal astoniShrd at the course
Of The New York Ttitune, and fra other pa
/ Pers OF the Republican stamp, upon the ques
/ ton whether the people Of Kansas ought to vote
at the coming rIrcton.
/ We will just state the CASE. There are in
Kansas what is called the Free State party, and
Slave State party. We choose thus TO dpsig-
nate them in order to make ourselves undrr-
stood. Well, the Free State party, acting with
out any color OF law, organized a year or two
/ ago, with view Of framing State constitution.
/ 1t IS only necessary 10 say they elected, ia
their way, delegates 10 constitutional convrn-
/ tion, and that convention delIbera;td subse-
+ qupnty and framed State constitution. 1t
was submitted by the Free State nrn aad adop-
/ ted by them, th+ whole numbrr voting for il
/ being something over thousand persons
Meanwhile Congress had organized what IS call
ed Territorial government in Kansas not
disSimllar 10 the Territorial Governments organ
lzed IN Michigan, Wisconsin and Arkansas 10
/ their respective periods OF puPllagr 4 L'giS-
laiure under such Congressional organization
was elected aud Judiciary estadIlshrd a
! q.
public lands Snrveyrd, an Indian Department
established. What we mean, in short, is this:
/ That a complete Territorial Government vas
1 put into operation.
/ Now make these points:
/ /. The Government established by Congress,
under which the people We're called upon 10 e
tect their own Legislature and to make their
own laws, " as, and IS the only legal govern
mrnt in Kansas. Ii has all the legal sanctions
aad 1t has equally all the moral sanctions Of an
4 American Territorial Government Congress
assumed only TO take such measures, under the
Constitution, as would indicate It's general iu-
rsdlction and right of federal control: leaving
10 the people all special legislative powrr-al
such faculties ofgovernment as are enjoyed by
the States. This principle is so lns, so obv auS,
50 Sei-rvIdently in harmony with our federal
system, that we cannot comprehend how it
has ever been opposed. But II has been oppo-
sed, and this brings Us 10 the next proposition:
:. A class OF fanatics, as we have noticed a.
hove, took It into their beads that they would
set up an independent government IN Kansas
and 50 they established the Topeka Constitution
which received The sanction, as have said,
Of something over thousand men. The move
fnent, 10 say the last was in utter coutrayru-
'ioii - dl' AoNtIhii'fhR feIFIIfo % ~ cu' hrSl
point. lis legality is claimed, we believe, on
tAr ground taat the people nave an independent
doa a0so'a'" fl9tt 10 90 Whal 'hry PifaSe' ana
that, OF course, thr-ipdrral authorities have no
''7"is - al ln's f'sHi nus a"S'iuttiS dS-T''-
ed, II strikes rs, carfI-S with 1t something more
than sanction Of the Topeka Constitution; it
',,aNFS Nd's"s az 'nuFnt I "a''oa"s' IKE
nirA,eo' a''" u'aFs % i'sf Il an ''e properly ~
'''' - 'o"'Se ,''T ASST '''''' q soeri
''-"' . an ''o'' d iFNoi"'''''- o"' ie'' -
toL'' % oT >u.e' DFoduSe l'T government fs'ao-
"'''' '"' 0i''Na '''"''o'l' '"S nF''t
-""T "TS o''n mere "S" >tdPT' eN'S'F"C'' ahu
~ AFe"'''" - "d'"7i i'S "'ou'iF"d"%' VINO
5'S d'"o. '"e Country 'oa"7u Win t''iSS "ot
"'''S '.' - '..5 'ea>' S'''','''' " t,o'T
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= '0' san ,''|" - M"''S"S' ''''' 'D' a." 'D'''S'
man III l"e "oIT o"'""' VINO d"acheS tl' iaas'
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l''ha o"te' nor a"o L1Sis'a'ofr tle SH'ailrS' d
,.'o""' q aN'''o'' J. l"uTT"' "'''Sr 'no'N Iuhc-
''""a''rS' '"ou2" de''h9 'F'dS9haoiy' nave orth
a. almost ai ''l'Ss traitors 10 me iac'
''''t ,''.'o"1 "'S '"T" su'ie'F"' eiFu'' 70
,"1''' ~ ~ "S'""'y l" i,Slio''h oNe'' do'S %
"edS'', 'i"'l'S u """,. :. " more deu'ale 10
j's''' '"I' e'''o''O' ".'"'' '"F SF"F'd' u"0-
IlnT9 % "o'''} u Sl'TFco' if '"rF nave oohe
'N'' T'sV ','aH Sl'sdN' anu 'ha' very aoSuF0'y
anu ioo''s'''l
D. D'a'''l'9 'ne regularity o. me topeka
movement ~ '"e organization "l a 9ia't GOV
ef"i''S"'-a concession ,na' can NaF"Iy oe
"'-'' !" ~ '"S S""I " ''e "'="",e", -'id' 'id'
l'"'SsU'h7 1' oFs', dnu '''S d'' must pidhll Sr"'
was '''7't snap J4oSMs4f, "hlcn y, Is unworthy
OF 'hr 'raS' hol'cT or cfrd'' he 'dea OF