The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-25

lion, and exacting from all your officers
the perilous and sacrilegious oath to sup
port the so-calIed State Legislature which
refused to grant you charter, proceeded
to create a local government of your own'
based only upon insurTection and revoiu-
ton. The very oath which you require
from all your officers TO support your so
called Topeka State Constitution, IS vlo-
lated il the very act Of putting IN opera
ton charter rejected even by them.
"a rebellion so iniquitons, and necessa-
rily involving such awful consequences,
has never before disgraced any age or
country.
aPermit me to call your attention, as
et;ll claiming to be citizens of the United
States, to the results Of your revolutionary
proceedings.
You are inaugurating rebellion; you
are disregarding the laws of Congress and
of the Territorial Government, and defy
ing their authority; you are conspiring to
overthrow the Government of the United
States in this Territory. Your purpose,
if carried into effect in the mode designa-
ted BY you, by putting your laws forcibly
into execution; would involve you in the
guilt and crime of treason.
"You stand now, fellow citizens, upon
the brink of an awful precipice, and it be-
comes my duty to warn you, ere you
take the fatal leap into the gulf below. If
your proceedings are not arrested, you
will necessarily destroy the peace of the
Territory, and involve it in all the horrors
of civil war. warn you, then, before 1t
is too late, to recede from the perilous po-
sition in which you now stand.
81 appeal once more to your reason and
patriotism. ask you in the name ofour
common country, in the name of the Con-
stitution aud of the Union, to desist from
this rebellion. / appeal once more to
your love of country, to your regard for its
peace, prosperity and reputation, to your
affection for your wives and children, and
to all those patriotic motives which ought
to influence American eitizens, 10 abandon
this contemplated revolution. If You
have wrongs, redress them through the
peaceful instrumentality of the ballot box
in the mode prescribed by the laws oi
your country.
''As all arguments heretofore so often
addressed by me to you have failed as
yet TO produce any effect upon You,
have deemed it necessary, for your OWE
safety and that of the Territory, and to
save you from the perilous consequences
of your own acts, under the authority
vested in me by the President of the
United States, to order an adequate force
of the troops of the United States into
your immediate vicinage, to perform the
painful duty of arresting your revolution
airy proceedings.
"Let me implore you not to compel me
to appeal to that military power which is
required in the last resort, to protect the
government of your country. You can
not carry your rebellious purposes into
effect without coming into unavoidable
and open conflict with the troops and
Government of the United States.
Let me adjure you, then, once more. to
abandon these proceedings before you in
volye yourself in the crime of treason,
and subject the people of the city OF
Lawrence to all the horrors and calamities
of insurrection and civil war. If you will
now desist from this projected revolution,
the past will be forgotten as far as practi-
cable; but if you persist in passing these
laws and carrying them into execution,
thus defying and superseding the govern.
ment of your country, the deplorable con-
sequences must be upon your heads and
those of your associates. 1t will be my
purpose, if you still persist, to spare all
bloodshed as far as practicable, and sub
ieet the leaders and projectors of this
revolutionary movement 10 the punish
ment prescribed by the law. l will ac-
company the troops to Lawrence with a
view to prevent, if possible, any conflict,
ard in the sincere hope that the revolu-
ti0Bary movement contemplated by you,
and now so nearly accomplished, will, ere
it Is too late, be abandoned.
eff you can be influenced by no other
motives, the evident fact that the power
of the government is adequate to prevent
the accomplishment of your purpose,
should induce you to desist from these
proceedings.
"That the same overriding Providence
who holds in his hands the destiny of our
beloved country NAV Eow incline your
hears to peace, and influence You to abal-
don this fatal enterprise, is the sincere
wish of your fellow citizen,
ar. j. WALKER,
"Gouern0r Of Kansas Territory"
We regret this act on the part of Gov
Walker, as its tendency is to inflame the
people at the time when all parties should
be laboring to perpetuate the era OF
peace. We have no sympathy with the
independent city organization, as We In
dicated in our last number, and greatly
regretted it, as We were apprehensive il
..caid L.ing upon ts just what is rap
idly approaching. While we take ex-
ceptioRs to that movement, we must also
take exceptions to Gov. Walker bringing
the military to Lawrence. If he had le-
gal processes to serve, they should have
been served by United States authori-
ties, and no man in Lawrence or out of il,
would have resisted it. Our people-alI
of them, the extremists included-know
too well that Uncle Sans authority is not
to be resisted with impunity.
Gov. Walker may send the troops here,
and may arrest those connected with the
organization of the City Government
This is all he can accomplish. There
will be no resistance; hence no boodshed.
Matters will move on quietly, and the ag-
itators on either side will not be able to
get up 2 serious collision.
We hope that Gov. Walker will not
allow bad connsels to govern him in this
crisis. He is surrounded by men who
desire to drive our people into extreme
measures; but We are conscious that the
Free State party is occupying high yen-
tage ground, and we shall not be driven
from it, by sustaining extreme measures
on the one hand, or resisting federal au-
thority on the other. The policy of our
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