The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-06-10
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from Gov. WALKER's inaugural address:
to the people Of Kansas, in the Cleve,
land Herald The whole address has
not jet come to hand. The Herald has
taken this piece as the only point upor
which it can get any kind of a catch, any
where in the whole address, upon which
to build an argument, or try to manu-.
faeture a little political capital. Read
it and behold upon what a slender found
alton these political knaves, or, more
properly, scoundrels, attempt to build
mp their rotten cause. Walker says:
If that Legislature wal invalid, then
We are without law or order in Kansas,
without town, city or county ~organiza-
tion, all legal and judicial transactions
are void, all titles null, and anarchy
reigns thr oughout our borders.
Il is my duty, in seeing that all con-
stitutional laws are fairly executed, to
take care, as far as practicable. that this
election of Delegates to the Convention
shall be free from fraud and violence,
ard that they shall be protected in their
deliberations.
The people of Kansas then are invited
by the highest authority known to the
Constitution, to participate freely and
fairly 10 the election of the delegates to
frame a Constitution and State Govern
ment. The law has performed its en-
tire appropriate function when it extends
to the people the right of suffrage, but
it cannot compel the perform U of that
duty. Throughout u whole Union,
however, and wherever free government
prevails, those who abstain from the ex.
ercise of the right of suffrage, authorize
those who do vote to act for them iD
that contingency, and the absentees rAe
as much bound under the Law and the
Constitution, where there is no fraud or
violence, by the act of the majority of
those who do vote, as though all had
participated in the election. Otherwise,
as voting must be voluntary, self-gov-
erpment would be impracticable, and
monarchy or despotism would remain as
the only alternative.
Now, what is there wrong in this P
Every ~precaution, that could be en-
bodied in a law, has been taken to Sc
cure a fair expression of the popular
will in regard to this question of Slave
~ in the territory of Kansas. Provis-
ION was made for the registry of the
names of the voters. There is positive
proof that the abolitionists and Black
Republicans in Kansas have thrown
every obstacle in the way of having the
registry lists fairly completed, by hid
ing their cunning carcasses in hollow
logs and refusing to say that they are
bona fde residents of the territory, in
response to the questioned the officers
They are following out the advice of the
New York Tribune, and all the other
species of ringtailed and speckled ours
that bark opposition to the Democracy,
to refuse to vote at the coming election,
in order, if possible to give the pro-
Slavery men, the power and thus make
Kansas . Slave State. Bleeding
Kansas " is the last chip that floats up
On their tab of corrupt isms, and if this
Is sunk, spop goes the weasel" on all
their hopes of preferment and power
They are however expecting, in spite of
all their attempts to the contrary, that
Kansas will be a free State, and are at
tempting to prepare the way for this de-
movement by asserting that if such
should BIO the case, it will have been the
result Of their exertiona. Strange, isn't
it? Refusing to exercise the right Of
suffrage, which if it had been taken from
them, would have caused them to raise
. howl, more dismal than the last
groans of a thousand dying jack-asses,
and her if the pro-Slavery votes should
be over balanced by the Northern con-
servitive Democracy aacribiHg the re-
suit to their laborsl Leaders of a par
ty that would attempt to carry their
measures by such assertions as this,
must go upon the principle that a ma
jority of the people are dolts, and that
they can deceive them at pleasure.
But they say they are actuated by
sense of honor, and will not vote under
the so-called bogus laws. Strange
again All through the last campaign
they were Wanting their boosted love Of
freedom, generally, and of Kansas free
dom, particularly, declaring that this
vas the s-,Linzatuns of all their desires
the only boon they asked, and that they
would willingly sacrifice every thing fol-
the accomplishment of that end. And
10 I now, q little nicely arranged foolish
and still worse pretended point of honor
prevents these would be emblems o.
modern ~chivalry, from making a single
effert to effect the result which theJ
lyipply said was their only object. Lee
them rip. If they succeed long Will
such taimsy pretences, our confidence II
the intelligence and sound Judgment q
the American people, would certainly
be- deeply shaken. They won't succeed.