Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-08-07
Kansas News.


ed the names of 1877 delegates entitled
to seats IN the Convention. But little
was done on the first day except 10 ap-
point business committees and listen TO
speeches from various gentlemen. On
the second day Gen. Lane formally de-
clined being candidate for Representa-
tive to Congress. He said he had deter
mined never again to leave Kansas until
her Missouri chains were broken and her
people free under their own government.
The committee on resolutions reported
a series, which, after few amendments,
were adopted, as follows:
Hhereas, At the first election of Ter
ritorial Legislature held in Kansas, the
government was wrested from the hands
of the people and an usurpation substl-
tuted in its place; and
Whereas, Said usurpation is still forced
upon the people of Kansas, and they are
thereby deprived of all the rights of
American citizens; therefore, be it re-
solved b, the Free State men in conven-
ton assembled:
1. That the Topeka Constitution and
the State government originated in a
public necessity, that subsequent events
have proved the wisdom and justice Of
that movement, and that present circum-
stances render it an imperative demand
of Justice, common sense and patriotism,
thatit be unswerYingly maintained and
supported;
2 That the Topeka Constitution is
the first and only choice of the Free
Stale men of Kansas-that we look to
our admission as a State under it as the
surtst and only method of regaining our
e lost rightr, and :that all our efforts as a
panty in whatever direction shall be sub,
serient to that end;
{. That Congress will consult the
/ wishes of a very large majority of thu
inhabitants of Kansas by Immediately
. admitting her as State under the Tope
ka Constitution;
4. That the Free State men of Kan
. sas now, as heretofore, utterly deny tn
validity of the Territorial Legislature
that they still recognise it as the creatur
of fraud and violence, and that they al
=. knowledge neither the validity nor ii
binding force of its enactments;
5. That the recent vote for delegate
to the Constitutional Convention h;
- demonstrated to the world that the pr
slavery faction 10 miserable minority
>, of the people of Kansas; that an attem
:, to frame Constitution by delegates tn
elected would be a gross outrage upc
- the people, and that the admission
/. Kansas under a constitution so frame
unless first submitted to a fair vote
;, bona fide residents, would be an act
al injustice and despotism so fragrant a
l. alarming as to justify her people in a l
IN sort to the EXTREMIST measures for t
ne protection of their rights;
no 5. That the Free State party of k
. sas is emphatically peace party; IL
to we deprecate agitation; that now as e1
ms we will seek to avoid all occasion of c
rst lision with the authorities of the Unit
1es States, and that all we ask is sim
md justice and the enjoyment of the rig
guaranteed to US as American citizens
oil the Constitution of our common COZ
try;
z. That we urge upon the Free ST
We men of Kansas the necessity of ii
e. ough organization for the August elect
and that as far as possible full vote
polled at that election;
en- 8. That we recommend to the G
lois ernor the propriety of submitting
ock Topeka Constitution to full vote of
of bona fde residents of Kansas at the .
red gust election;
one 8. That the Free State Central C,
eeP mittee is hereby instructed to have 20,
POOL copies of the State Constitution of K
ami sas printed in English and 5000 in
= man, for circulation throughout the
ear ritory, and that the Free State paper.
requested to publish it in their colu
Won at an early day.
eek, Whereas, Gov. Walker, in his spe
and at Topeka, as reported in the Ka
o to Statesman of June 9Th, holds the fol
100 ing language: ain October next, not
der the act of the late Territorial 1t
= of lature, but under the laws of Cong
cor you, the whole people Of Kansas, ha'
/: right to elect delegate to Congress
oney to elect Territorial Legislature" al
they Whereas, Gov. Walker has on van
mas occasions used similar language; an
| not Whereas, Under the above der
took "the whole people of Kansas" may
'owd ticipate in an election for Delegat