New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-22

l. gi-laure which refused to grant you charter pro-
ceeted 10 create q local government Of your own,
based only upon Instruction ana revolution. The
very cath which you require from all your officers to
support your so-called Topeka State Constitution is
violated in the act Of putting into operation
charter re jected even by them
rebellion 80 ini9uious and necessarily Involving
such aw full consequences, has never before Taced
any age or country.
Permit me to call your attention. still claiming to
be citizens Of the United States TO the results OF
your rev dictionary proceedings You are inaugural
rg rebellion and revelation; You are disregardiDg tue
laws Of Congress and Of the Territorial Government
ard defyine their authority; you are conspinrg to
overthrow The Government of tie United States in
this Territory.
Your purpose. IL carried into effect in the mode des
gnafed by you By putting your lsws forcby into ex
ecutior would involve you IN the guilt aud crime OF
treason. You stand, now, fellow citizens, upon the
brii Of an awful precipce and il becomes my duty
TO warn YOU ere you take tho fatal leap into the gulf
below II your proceedings are not arrested, you will
necessarily destroy the peace of this Territory, aud
involve il in all the horrors Of civil wer 1 warn you
then before it i too late to recede from the perllous
poeition in which you now stand
l appeal once more TO your reason and patriotism
ask you in the name OF our common country, 10 the
name of the Constitution, and CT the Union to dess
from this rebellion. appeal once more to love II
country your regard for is Qe0cs posDArity and
reputation, TO your affection for YOU lrt child
rem, and TO all those patriotic mo. " ought TO
Influence American Citizens, TO absu-n this &C ltem-
III
through the peaceful nstrumentaty Of the baOt-box,
in the mode prescribed by the laws of your country.
As all Arguments, heretofore often addressed by
ne TO you, have failed ss yet to produce any effect
upon YOU have deemed il necessary for your safety
and Il at Of the Territory, and to save You from tue
peroUs Of your own rets, under the au
ihority vested in me by the President Of the United
States to order an adequate force of the troops OF the
ULted States into your nmediate viciuage, topcrfrm
the painful duty of arrestng your revolutionary pro
ceedpgs. Let me inplore you not to compel me to
appeal 10 thai military power which is required in the
last sot to protect the Government OF your country
Yor caInot carry your rebellious purposes into effect
without coming in undy oidabe and open conflict with
the troops and Government Of the United States.
Let adjure you then, once more to abandon these
proceedings before YOU involve yourselves in the crime
OF on and subject the people Of the City of law
renee to all the horrors and cslamites OF nsurechon
ard civil war.
Ifyou will now desst from the projected resolution,
The past will be forgotten far practicable; but II
YOU persist in passing these laws and carr ing them in
10 execution thus defying and supcrsednghe Govern
mept of your country, the deplorable consequences
must be upon your be ads and those of your associates
l. will be my purpose, if YOU sill persist to spare
all bloodshed IS far as practicable, and subject the
leaders AID projectors Of this revolutionary movement
10 the punishment prescribed by law. l will accom-
paIy the troops TO lawrence with view to prevent
fpossible any conflict and in the sincere hope that
the revolutionary movement contemplated by you,
and low 30 nesry accomplished will ere it is too late
be abandoned by YOU
II you can be influenced by no other motives, the
evident fact that the power of the Government IL ade
ouae to prevent the accomplishment Of your purpose
should induce you to desist from these proceedings
That the same overruling Providence who holds IN
His hands the destiny Of our beloved country may
row incline your heats 10 peace and influence you to
abandon this fatal enterprise, is the sincere wish OF
'''' R. J. WALKER, Governor Of Kama. Teui,ory.