Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
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tions. He has accepted. Buchanan has begun
his administration with more abject servility,
more trucking sycophancy, than even Frank
Pierce did. Instead of sustaining Geary like q
man, removing the villain Lecompte, and swing
ing the ponderous power of the Federal arm over
the heads of the hordes of ruf6ans who are exas-
perating nation of Free Thinkers to the last
point of endurance, he gets down on his knees
before the Black Moloch, and begs the Mississippi
slavs-driver to save him and his party, to appoint
his own Secretary, and be his own omnipotent
adviser. And he does it. %.
The Pioneer believes, how easy is, to believe
what one wishes to,) that there will be the fairest
kind of fair play in Kansas, and that every actual
citizen will be the owner Of vote, and the privi-
lege of casting it without question. 1t says furth-
err getting reckless in trying to make black white:
GAIL the acts of the present administration re-
veal design to abide by and enforce the princi-
ples of the Kansas Nebraska act in their letter
and spirit, and that the influence and power of
the general government will be exerted to the ut
most in securing full and fair expression of the
wishes of the whole people at the ballot box,
whenever the question OF framing State Con-
stitution is brought up for decision"
Kansas before this late date, to know that its
"Democratic Legislature from Missouri, has
not made amy provision for the submission of the
new Constitution to the people for their ratifca-
tion or rejection, after it shall have been adopted
by the Convention soon to be elected. This omis-
sion is of course, unprecedented and outrageous,
but the Pioneer will no doubt contrast it with
some of the more helish crimes in Kansas, to
prove it quite respectable. The Pioneer believes
everybody will have chance TO vote there just
as it has believed - that justice would be done,
prior to all the past elections which finally prov
ed ga disgrace to any civilized age,'') and finds
ground for its new faith in the following convic-
tion of duty, from Buchanan's inaugural
cit is the imperative and indispensable duty
of the Government of the United States TO secure
to every resident inhabitant the free and inde-
pendent expression of his opinion by his vote.
This sacred right of each individual must be pre-
served.'' +.
Very fine Beautiful language-excellent phi
losophy! But who does not remember the admi-
rable rhetoric, and sublime promises of "poor
PIERCE" which made the Pioneer chuckle all over
and rub its hands together in extacy the ho-
neyed promises which honest men rolled under
their tongues till they were sck-the brave assu-
RANGES which rose, like pillars of light, through
the clouds of his earlier administration, and be-
trayed our hopes, by dissolving into thin air as
we looked at them!
But let us take Buchanan's s fair words as they
are, and measure the probability of their fulfil
ment by the cotemporaneous and subsequent acts
IF tho IN, oy,1 tl>osv
Congressional allies. We would here present the
reasons for our conviction that fraud is being,
and will continue to be used in Kansas, in the
shape of the following undeniable facts, con-
densed from the New York and Chicago papers,
to the earnest consideration of which, we respect
fully invite the public, and the seven gentlemen
of the Pioneer.
l. All the appointments recently made for Kan
sas by the new President are of the most active,
bitter, unscrupulous leaders of the Pro Slavery
factiOn-Whtfeld, Emory, WoodsOn, Ransom,
&c. While not one man who previously
known as sympathizing with the Free-State move
ment in Kansas, has ever been appointed to any
post whatever, by either Pierce or Buchanan, the
men who planned and consummated the gigantic
fraud and usurpation of March 80, 1855, have
been and are the dispensers of Federal patronage
in Kansas, and themselves the recipients of the
most desirable Offices. Some of them have led
marauding bands of MissOurans in their repeat
ed invasions of Kansas; Federal officers are
known as having themselves fired at and killed
unarmed Free-St men, but no one was ever re-
moved or publicly rebuked by his superiors for
such slight misdemeanors.
These Border Ruffans now hold all the promi-
nent Offices of Kansas, ready to ply all their un-
scrupulous power to crush out the spirit of Free
dom.
ii. While Gov. Geary is replaced in Kansas by
Walker, for the present by f. P. Stanton), Chief
Justice Lecompte, whom Pierce made show of
removing is still continued in Office, and there is
not even pretense that he is to be superseded.
Thus the Judiciary, the Land Offices, the Public
Surveys, the Marshalshp, and every department
of administration or avenue to power in Kansas,
are in the hands of enemies of the Free-Sta
cause, and nobody but the new Governor (who is
not going to Kansas at presently makes any pro-
fessions of impartiality.
Ill. The Land Offices of Kansas are in the
hands of Woodson, Emory and other Border
Rufians, thereby advertising to all who hold dis
puted claims, (Which includes almost everybody
now in Kansas) that to have their claims respect.
ed they must be ''right on the goose question:"
". The act under which the people of Kansas
are called to decide the question of Freedom or
Slavery therein is the identical act vetoed by
Gov. Geary because of its manifest unftness and
unfairness, but passed over his head by the bogus
Legislature.
V. This act allows no man to vote who was
not in Kansas on the 18th of March, at which date
thousands were over from Western Missouri,
grabbing Indian Lands, &C., while tie Free State
immigration for the season had barely commenc-
ed. The time was carefully pitched on as that
which would give the largest Pro- Slavery and the
smallest Free State vote.
W. The census is to be taken, the voting lists
first made up, then revised, and the districts laid
off, and the votes canvassed entirely by the crea
lures of the bogus Legislature-every one in
tensely Pro. Slavery. The Free-State men have
no voice in the premises from first to last, are
the Federal officers allowed any real power in the
premises. Even Governor Walker has no power,
as long as he recognizes and upholds the authori-
ty Of this bogus Legislature, to make this con-
stitutional election fair one. correspondent
of the Chicago Press says ''they do not take
much trouble with the census operation, getting
all the information they want from their pro.sla-
very friends, and setting down only such names
as they like. They refuse TO insert the names OF
any Of the Free State emigrants tcho haze come
in this spring, euen Of those tcho hare arrived
early. They call them s'transient." The coun-
ty courts instruct them to take no names unless
the party has been resident previous to the 18th
ult. While this is the rule they observe towards
Free State men, they are putting thousands o.
names Of pro-sldrery men on the list, tcho haze