Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-06-11

ravages of weevil or the rust should inter
vene.- Cleveland Leader.
Gov. Walkers Inaugural. to tn,
People of Kansas.
Gov. Walkers address on assuming tn
reins of government in Kansas, has reache,
US, and it requires sharper optics than our
10 see anything in it to encourage the Ere
State cause We yet believe that Kansas
will come in as a Slave State, and we be
lieye Walker has been sent there to play tn,
last and decisive card in this nefarious game
Gov. Geary was sent out elect Buchanan
and those who sent him there accomplish
ed that object by binding the eyes Of The
Free State men of the North. and making
them believe that the incoming Admins
tration would favor Free Kansas. When
Geary had done his work, he was summari-
ly sacrificed on account of the very line OF
conduct he was instructed to pursue; and
Walker, who birth, education and %inclina-
ton, is partial to slavery, was placed in his
stead. Walker recognizes in behalf ct the
Administration all the bogus enactments.
He says:
"Under our practice, the preliminary act
Of framing a State Constitution, is uni
formly performed through the instrumental
ity of a convention of delegates chosen by
the people themselves. That convention
is now about to be elected by you under
the call of the Territorial Legislature, Gre
ated and still recognized by the authority
Of Congress, and clothed by it, in the com
prehensive language of the organic law,
with full power to make such an enact
ment. The Territorial Legislature. then,
in assembling this convention, were fully
sustained by the act of Congress, and the
authority of the convention is distinctly re-
cognised in my instructions from the Pres
ident of the United States"
Now see how he petitfogs the case, and
claims that all who abstain from voting, in
fact acknowledge and recognize as binding
the acts of those who do vote. By argu-
ment he proves that every Free State man
in Kansas in fact s~actions the bogus laws
and consents to their enactments. He SAYS:
"If that Legislature was invalid, then
we are without law or order in Kansas,
without town, city or county organization,
all legal and judicial transactions are void,
all titles null, and anarchy reigns through
out our border.
SIT is my duty, in seeing that all con-
stitutional laws arc fairly executed, to take
care, as far as practicable, that this election
Delegates to the Convention shall be
free from fraud and violence, and that they
shall be protected in their deliberations.
"The people of Kansas then are invited
oy The highest authority known to the Con-
't%itution, to participate freely and fairly in
he election of the delegates to frame a
Constitution and State Government. The
aw has performed its entire appropriate
when it extends to the people the
light of suffrage, but it cannot compel the
performance of that duty. Throughout
'ur whole Union, however, and wherever
rec government prevails, those who abstain
the exercise of the right of suffrage,
authorize those who do vote to act for them
n that contingency and the absentees are
IS much bound under the law and the Con-
where there is no f.aund or vio-
enee, by the acts of the majority of those
who do vote, as though all had participa-
in the election. Otherwise, as voting
voluntary selfgovernment would be
mpracticable, and monarchy or despotism
would remain as the only alternative"
Such reasoning as this of course can
every man in Kansas responsible for
any constitution which the proposed Con-
9ention may adopt, and this argument will
carried on to the floor of Congress, and
here urged as a reason why a slavery con-
;~titution for Kansas made by that Pro-SIa-
7ery Constitution, shall be treated as the
,oiee of the people of Kansas.
But Gov. Walker vel travels beyond
he bounds of Kansas, and tells her citi-
ems that she must form such a constitution
IS the Missouri Slavery propagandists will
He says:
81 trust it by no means follows that Kan
should become a State controlled by
he treason and fanaticism of abolition.
She has, in any event, certain constitutional
luties to perform to her sister States, and
specially to her immediate neighbor-the
laveholding State of Missouri.
Through the great State, by rivers and
ailroads, must flow, to the great extent,
trade and intercourse, our imports and
Our entire eastern front is upon
er border. From Missouri come a number
f her citizens; eve the farms of the two
are cut by the line of State bounda-
y, part in Kansas, part in Missouri; her
athens meet us in daily intercourse, and
Kansas should become hostile to Mis-
'ouri' an asylum for her fugitive slaves, or
Propagandist of treason, would be alike
nexpedlent and unjust, and fatal to the
of the American Union. Tn
any event, then, l trust the Constitution
of Kansas will contain such clauses as will
forever secure to the State of Missouri the
performance of all constitutional
guarantees, not only by Federal but by
State authority, and the supremacy within
our limits, of the authority of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and all Con.
stitutional questions be firmly established"
There a now be no dispute as TO the
position held by the present Administra-
lion upon the subject. II is, that the bo-
gus laws are valid, that the election under
the infamous census law, which has virtual
d~isfranchised every Free State man in
The Territory, is binding as we'll upon those
who do not vote as upon those who do, and
that the constitution formed by such con-
Vention will express the wishes of the peo-
Die Of Kansas CeueIand Herald.