The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
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Our neighbors 81 the Pioneer have been in
q fit of the fidgets " alb ut Kansas for the
past few days. Yesterday morning they
grayelv arrived at the conclusion that if Kan
sas became Slave State. it would be owing
to the action Of the Free State party! The
present aspect of affairs in that quarter is
certainly not calculated to quiet the nerves
of democrats - in this region of country,
just at this time; and we are not surprised
at the alarm of the Pioneer. 1t fears some
thing may happen before the June election
in Minnesota which might fully prove the
truth of Northern belief at this time, that the
disgrace of Geary and the appointment of
noted Pro-Slavery intriguer from the South,
in his stead, is only another step on the part
of the Oligarchs to enslave Kansas.
An attempt by the doughfaced enemies of
Freedom In the North is now being made to
produce the impression that the odious Pro-
Slavery laws of Kansas were repealed at last
winters session of the Kansas Legislature.
The Pioneer puts forth this impression in its
article of yesterday. But the New York
Tribune of the 9th instant places clincher
upon all such falsehoods. No better author
ity could be had than the following, which
we copy from the Tribune of that date.
The Free State settlers of Kansas are now
blessed with more counselors than Job had,
(his wife included) who arc urging them to
surrender their State organization, admit the
legitimacy and validity of the bogus Legisla-
ture and its enactments, and vote at the Con-
stitutional Election thereby appointed for
next June. Some of those who give this
counsel have hitherto lent timid and vaci-
ating support to the Free State cause, but
the untiring majority have been its unspar-
ing, untiring, though deceitful antagonists
They favored the cause of free labor in Kan
sas in such manner as kept unbroken their
political fraternity with Atchison, Stringfel-
low, Whitfield and Sheriff Jones. They said
they desired that Kansas should become
Free State, but they acted precisely as they
would have done had they desired the exact
opposite. They upheld the Nebraska Bill
with its repeal of the Missouri Restriction ::
they derided the Emigrant Aid Society and
every other systematic effort to secure n Free
State preponderance in Kansas; they have
traduced the Free State party and upheld
Border Ruffians in their repeated invasions
of the Territory, whether to carry its cleo
tons by fraud, or burn its hotels and print
ing Offices; throughout, in fact, they have
given the Pro-Slavery party the fullest and
most INSCRIPTIONS support, and accorded to
the other side the benefit only of their gift
of prophecy, as evinced in their repeated and
confident assertions that Kansas would, in
spite of the outrages and frauds of their po-
litical allies in Western Missouri and along
both sides of the border, become Free
State. Senator Toombs, and many others
like him, are accustomed to make just such
predictions-with what purpose, who can be
so blind as not to see That these should
now counsel the Free State men to walk in
to the Undated Election trap recently set
for them by The bogus Legislature, is very
natural but that some journals family and
titfuliy protesting sympathy with the Free
State cause should do likewise, is something
to be deplored.
That the Legislature VIGOROUSLY, undeni-
ably elected by conspiracy and invasion in
1856, has not intended to provide for a fair
and honest election in 1857 is too plain a
piopoSiIlou 10 Ut d'Sutu lie Careful Qe-
privation of the Governor Gas Geary then
filled the office) Of all the substantive power
over that election-the denial to the Free
State men of any voice whatever i'm the Sc
lection of judges, clerks, &C., for holding the
p III and canvassing the votes, concur with
the appointment of none but Pro-Slaverv
men to taxi the census and make out the Of
fetal list of voters, is pointing to a forecone
conclusion. "Crowns got by blood must be
by blood maintained - and they who did
not scruple to seize the government by fraud
will not hesitate to preserve it by like means
The following extract from recent letter to
the Chicago Press, dated at Lecompton, on
the 25th ult., confirms our own and the
Missouri Democrats correspondents state
ments:
As the law of Bogus Legislature for taking tn
census allows sher and their deputies four dollars pc
day Tor their trouble there large number OF them
work. Ihey do not take much trouble with tnE censu
operation getting all the information that they wan
from their ProSlavery friends, and setting down on
such as they want They refuse to insert any Of tn
names OF the Free State emgrants who have come Il
this spring. even OF those who arrived early The
call them transient The County Courts instruct then
TO take no names unless the party has been residen
previous to the 18th instant. While Is the rule the
observe towards the Free State men, then are Duffn1
thousands Of names the list acho hare Nerer hired I;
Kansas, and acho merer aoiU. The names Of all tn
members of the Shawnee Association some thirty.fr
hundred, the list of voters It is the same else
where 1t is that all suspicious and fear
about the law confirmed The law itself even viii
be grossly violated whenever it suits"
He who pretends to believe that this Cen.
sus, List of Voters, and Constitutional Con.
vention, will not work out the end designed
ny their prO-Slayery contriyers must will