The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-02-06
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kansas Laws.
Governor Gearv's recommendation TO the
Legislature of Kansas, urging the repeal OF
the various unconstitutional and Infamous en-
actments Of their ssBogus" code, has been
treated with marked contempt by that body.
Instead Of repeating the Questionable laws
passed BY the Missouri Mission Legislature,
the present Legislature, composed Of men Of
the same class the last, are proceeding to
carry out the infamous scheme Of fraud,
usurpation and tyranny inuagurated by their
predecessors.
In view of this state Of facts, il becomes
the duty of Congress to protect the people
Of Kansas in their rights and liberties. To
this end the committee on territories in the
House Of Representatives have made re-
port to that body, submitting a law for the
repeal of the Bogus laws of Kansas and the
election OF members of the General Assem-
bly, Of the territory in accordance with the
provisions Of the organic act.
The committee report that the people
Of the territory have been deprived OF
their liberty and reduced to a state of vas
salage by power foreign to their soil that
this was accomplished by the systematic in
vason Of the Territory and the armed pos
session Of the polls, by means OF force and
fraud, securing the election Of n Legislature
for the sole objec, Of carrying into effect the
well digested plans Of the people OF Western
Missouri. The committee details at some
leuuth the proceedings OF that Legislature
for the establishment and perpesuation Of
the power of the IMissourians by the aid Of
an insignificant minority Of the people OF
Kansas, in the enactment of test laws to ex-
clude the opponents Of slavery from the ex.
ercise Of the right Of suffrage or the priyi-
lege of holding Office, aud in the election Of
all Sheriffs and other officers by the Legisla-
ture itself to hold their places till another
Legislature should meet to re-elect them.
The object they had in view was to per-
petuate their power tina, they might perpetu-
ate slavery. And with such laws and with
the judges Of election OF their faction and
the officers md judges Of the territory, zeal
of their own choosing and their own senti-
ments for any infraction Of these laws, the
vast ma ority Of the people are reduced to
condition of sassalage Mt the mercy Of their
oppressors.
Al! the officers Of the territory, from the
territorial Judges and marshal down TO the
Judges Of election and constables, are accom-
pl.ees of the members Of the General Assem-
bly, in the preparation Of this infamous
scheme Of usurpation for the purpose Of
foisting the institution of slavery upon the
people Of Kansas against their will. This
system of usurpation is tolerated by the tx
ccu.ive Of the nation in his recognition Of
the validity of thsA laws and his instrue-
,ions to his appoufscs to use the military
force of tie government TO secnre their exc
ton. The only remedy for this state OF af-
fairs in the opinion Of the committee, is TO
restore the liberties Of the people aud assert
the honor and faith Of the government by
wiping out the usurping Legislature their Of
fcers and laws, and providing that free and
fair elections shall be held by the people.
bin TO that effect has been proposed by
the committee. We shall now see whether
the Locofocos are in earnest in their profess
sions If regard for freedom and the rights
Of the people in Kansas, or whether they are
the shameless accomplices Of the slavery
propagandists in the perpetaation of the op.
pressioa and tyranny established over that
people by the Border Eulhaus.
eT- Preston King, the most distinguished
democratic Republican Of the State Of New
York, has been elected to the Senate Of the
United States for the term Of six years from
the ith Of March next.
Mr.. King was the leader Of that large sec
ton Of the Democratic party Of New York
which led of in the formation Of the Repub.
lJsan tpar,y, ana swept the state so tri.