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

elty that subsequent events have proved the wis.
dom and justice Of that movement, and that
present circumstances rendel it an imperative de.
lnand of Justice, common sense and patriotism,
that it be unswervingly maintained and surppr-
ted
2. That the Topeka Constitution is the first
and only choice Of the Free State men of Kan
sas-that we look to our admission as a state
under it as the surest and only method of re-
gaining our lost rights and that all our Efforts
as party in whatever direction shall be sub.
servient to that end
3. That Congress will consult the wishes of
very large majority Of the inhabitants Of Kan
sas by Immediately admitting her as State IN.
der the Topeka Constitution
3, That the Free State men of Kansas now.
as heretofore, utterly deny the validity of the
Territorial Legislature that they still recognize
il as the creature Of fraud and violence and that
they acknowledge neither the validity nor the
binding force OF lis enactments.
5 That the recent vote for delegates to the
Constitutions Convention has demonstrated to
The world that proslavery faction is miserable
minority of the people OF Kansas that an at
tempt to frame Ii constitution by delegates thus
elected would be gross outrage upon the peo-
pie, and that the admission of Kansas under
fair vote of bona hde residents would be an
act of injustice and despotism so aagEnt and
alarming as to justify her peopleina resort to-,
the EXTREMIST measures for the protection o
their aigllts;
g. That the Free State party Of Kansas is
emrhatically peace party that we deprecate
agitation that now as ever we will seek 10 =
/ taoid Ill occasion Of collision with The aatfori-
| Res Of the fitted 8tatess and tiAtAll we .asl :.
is simple justice and the enjoymeAt Of the rights
GUARANTEED to us as American citizens by tho
constitution Of our common country;
7. That we urge upon the Free State men Of
Kansas the necessity of thorough orgaization
for the August election, and that AS far as pos
sibe full votebe polled at that election;
s. That we recommend to the governor the
propriety Of submitting the Topeka Constitu-
ton to full vote of all bona fde residents of
Kansas at the August election;
That the Free State central committee is
hereby instructed to have 20 900 copies of tho
State consultation of Kansas printed in English
and 5000 in German, for circulation throughout
the territory, and that the Free State papers be
requested to publish it in their columns at an
early day.
Whereas, Gov Walk rim i spe, Oh at Topeka,
as reported in the Kansas Statesman of June g.
olds the following language ; " In October
next, not under the act of the late Territorial
Legislature, but under the laws of Congress,
you, the whole people of Kansas, have right
to elect delegate to Congress and to elect q
Territorial Legislature, ard
, Whcreqs, Under the above decision the whole
people OF Kansas may participate in an cleo
ton for Delegate for Congress and for members
Of the Territorial Legislature without recog-
n nizing the validity ofa bogus Legislature i'm
, posed upon lhem by fraud and by force, there
q fore resolved
10. That we recommend 10 the people of
Kansas that they assemble in mass convention
s at Grasshopper Falls on the last Wednesday in
August to take such action lis may be necessary
with regard to that election.
d IL, Finally; that standing upon the the eter-
It nal principles Of justice and truth, contending
b. only for what is right, We, here, to-day, renew
n our lcalty to the great cause in which we are
o engaged and pledge to each our firm, united
h aud perseverng efforts for the final triumph Of
It Freedom in Kansas.
!. Judge Conway, from the committee on BUSH
J. ness, reported the following, which wasadopted:
/ Whreas, We have reliable information that
preparations are making in some parts of the
v State of Missouri to CONTROL the result of the
coming elections in Kansas therefore, be it
-RaSainea.- Ihat-- .Lames. * Lane -.
u pointed By this convention and authorized to
d organize the people in the several districts 10
Is protect tho ballot-boxes at the approaching
1t election in Kansas.
h On a second ballot Mr.. P. G. SCHUYLER was
C nominated for Secretary of State The follow
;, ing nominations were made by acclamatioa !:
e DR.. G. A. Cutler, State Auditor Messrs Nj.
d F. Conway and S. N. Latta, Judges of the Su-
preme Court: E. NJ. Thurston Reporter of
IS the Supreme Court; A. G. Patrick, Clerk of
the Supreme Court.
ii On the ballot for a candidate for Representa-
tive to Congress, Marcus j. Parrot had eighty
d three votes. and Henry j. Adams eighty Mr.
RS Parrot was declared the nominee, and the nom
3 nation confirmed by accamation
After some other unimportant business the
convention djourned,
le We find the following information concern =
e ing Mr.. Parrot in the New York Evening
se Post:
es Marcus J. Parrot, lately nominated BY the
Free State men of Kansas as delegate to Con-
a. gress is lawyer resident in Leavenworth City,
and has been the counsel of the Free State p6ris-
v oners in the recent State trials in that Terrific
I'd Harvard University in 1872, and after leaving
in that institution, opened law Office in Dayton,
s. Ohio, where he had previously resided. lie
y, represented Montgomery county in the House
to Of Representatives of that State soon after
v wards, having beer elected as a Democrat
~ lie emigrated to Kansas as an advocate of the
v present Administration, and there, under the
e. Influence OF its successive outrages, became its
to opp nent. We are assured that he is gentle
man of superior talents and popular qualities. -
st On the 10Th inst Gov. Robinson issued a
OF proclamation calling upon the qualified voters
OF Kansas to meet at their several precincts on
of the first Monday in August next, at O'Clock
err A. NJ, and cast their votes for the following
is State officers
IA Two Judges of Supreme Court, Secretary of
State, Auditor, Reporter of Supreme Court,
to Clerk Of Supreme Court; also for Representa-
Or tive to Congress, and for members of State
mr. Legislature.
OF DE .e--