Freeman's champion., 1857-08-20

nonentlty :oWhat power exists Tor en-
forcing this assertion Of authority [?
How readily might not any person
aggrieved or harmed by it bring his
case before the Federal Territorial
Judiciary, and there quash all pro-
coedings under the Lawrence charterl
The Federal bayonets should be in
voked, ii at all, by the Governor in
support of the action Of the Federal
Judges: there is in Kansas no neces-
sity, no reason, that he should antici-
pate the action Of the courts. The
man is evidently playing to the South
ern pit. l) .m1Hc
Mr.. Walker continually and artful-
ly mixes up and contoundS the bogus
Legislature of Kanzas with the Fed
eral authorities therein, Jumping them
under the common designation of
"the Territorial Government" The
people of Lawrence. and the Free
State men generally, are thus held up
to odium as denying the rightful au-
thority Of the Federal Executive,
when they have Striven throughout to
respect and obey the Federal power,
and to implore that it be not exerted
to sustain the Border Ruffian usurpa-
tion which has subjected them to in
dignity, alarm, Spoliation and murder.
But Mr.. Walker carries the principle
of "Love me, love my dog" to the
utmost, and will not let the people
obey and respect the Federal author
ity, unless they will bow down to the
Missouri-orginated, slavery-extend-
ing fraud which has rendered Kanzas
elections and Kanzas rule the scolf OF
the civilized world.
Mr.. Walker coolly says:
"If laws have been enacted by the
Territorial Legislature which are dis
approved OF by q majority OF the
people of the Territory, the mode in
which they could elect new Terri
torial Legislature and repeal those
laws was also designated"
But the fundamental objection is
not, as Mr.. Walker well knows, that
the Territorial Legislature enacted
bad, oppressive laws--as it unques-
tionably did-but that it was itself
the child of premedltated and over
whelming fraud, and had no rightful
authority to enact laws at all not
that the power it exercised was in
some cases abused, but that it was
never really conferred.
And if they could have waived this
objection, how were the aggrieved
people to "clect new Legislature %
An opportunity was to have been af-
forded them last October; but, when
the time came for the second Terrific
rial election, the Territory was under
the feet of invading bands from Mis-
souri, and other slave States, who had
just driven out or killed every known
Free State man in Leavenwortn, had
recently burned Lawrence and sacked
Osawatomie, and had so harried and
plundered the more scattered Free
State settlements that no real election
could be held. Some Of the settlers
were hiding from their spoilers; 9TH
ers had been driven out of the Terri
tory; all was confusion, anarchy and
civil broil. That was the only chance
yet offered to the Free State men to
redress the great wrong of the fraud
ulent election Of March 80, 1855; and
what sort of chance was that? q? And
what guarantee does or can Gov.
Walker give of a fairer or better in
October next? srU A.
Gov. Walker asserts that the Free
State Government of Kanzas has
been rejected by Congress!' Not
so. The House accepted the Topeka
Constitution, and voted to admit
Kanzas under it as q Free State
True, the Senate dissented; but this
did not constitute rejection by Con-
gress. And, at the last session, the
House passed by large majority a
fresh bill, wiping out the Border
Rufian Legislature and laws, and
ordering q new election to supersede
them. True, the Senate again failed
to concur; but are these facts com
patible with Gov. Walkers bold as
sertions +? "I ~ 'ta NV q
The people Of Lawrence and Of
Kanzas protest against the domino
tion Of a Legislative power which
they know to have had It's origin in q
dark conspiracy against their dearest
rights consummated through an armed
invasion Of their soil and d wholesale
corruption Of their ballot-boxes.- ~
They have ceased imploring the Fed
eral Government for protection
against the conspiring usurpers:--
They only ask it now to stand out Of
the way and let them protect them