The Kanzas news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1857-1859, 1857-09-26
Gov. walkers Proclamation.


another Buncembe document He calls it
proclamation, but it is merely a piece of clap
trap. He was asked for bread and has
''giyen stone.'' Committees waited on
him to induce him to correct the wicked and
Illegal apportionment his negligence or his
partisan seryility has inflicted on US. He
refuses. Others, anxious to have at least
some show for the "fair election" he has
promised US, waited on him and urged him
TO have voting precincts opened at the many
points where the pro-slavery officials have
Intentionally omitted to open them. He
again refuses. He declares aOw in positive
terms that it is under Territorial law alone
that the election is to be held. Last June, at
Topeka, he assured the people of Kanzas in
the most solemn manner, on his honor as a
gentleman, that "In October next, not un-
der Territorial law, but under act of Con-
gress, you, the srhole people of Kanzas, viii
have the right TO elect delegate to Con-
gress and Territorial legislature" ''-Noa0''
he sings another tune. He says:
''Now, then, it is clear. first. that as re-
CARDS all elections but the first, the qualifi-
cations are not prescribed by the act of Con-
gress, and second, the qualifications with
the restrictions before mentioned for all sub
sequent elections, are to be designated ex-
elusiTely by the Territorial Legislature.
And again:
cit is certain then, that the question now
raised as regards the pretended right of per-
sons to vote who possess the requisite quail
ifcations, under the act of Congress, for
voting at the first election, but are excluded
by subsequent Territorial legislation now in
force, has no foundation whatever in law:
and such votes would be wholly illegal
Under these circumstances, trust that no
one viii attempt to vote who Is excluded by
the Territorial law, and that If such illegal
attempt is made, such a clear violation of
the act of Congress and of the laws of this
Territory will be arrested and prevented by
the judges of the elections"
Here he formally forbids the very parties
he assured solemnly in June, that they
would have ''fair election" Then he
Celebrates the idea. He said: al do not
mean those whose names are registered. 1
do not mean those who were here in March
last. do not mean those only who are
here now, but all who are bona tide citizens
at the time of the election, and voters by
act of Congress, may" DC. What are we
to think of man who viii falsify himself so
grossly. Positions of high official trust
must have become degraded when such
men can creep into them. But that is not
an end of his Inconsistency. Towards the
close of his proclamation and when he wants
to make a smoother show to the world, he
attempts to deceive the people here and else
where once more, thus:
1.-THE people of Kanzas have now. there
fore, an opportunity, in conformity with the
Constitution of the United States, the or
ganic act of Congress, and the laws of this
Territory, to decide, by the elective fran
chise, the choice of their delegate to Con-
gress, their Territorial Legislature, and all
their county officers"
With regard to the apportionment this
State paper is particularly odious. In the
meanest way he first tries to prove that he
was in no wise responsible for il, and then
he iustifes il in the most barefaced manner.
He says the bogus officers .'made it in good
faith Does he believe any such thing?
Does he expect that We win believe it? He
even attempts to deny in advance that Mis-
souri, win vote. and says he has authentic
intelligence from that State from reliable
resources" What are the reliable resour-
css of Border Rufiandom? He, OF Secre-
tsry Stanton gave certificates of election TO
some Missourians who sit in the Constitu-
tional Convention as regular Kanzas dele
gates. Why did he not have authentic
intelligence" from Missouri on that point?
After refusing to give us the slightest
aid in eitherof the ways he could have done
e. he has the impudence to make this APP
peal to Us:
"Is is hoped that the good citizens of
these counties viii vote TO the extent per-
united them by law. looking 70 an early Pc
Rod for the remedies for all these grieran-
ces and that We shall have no revolutionary
outbreak or violence at the election, which
would be fraught with incalculable evil and
attended with no possible good"
Who are the 'sgood citizens of these coun-
iies?''
It Is clear he does not mean the Free State
men, whom he calls .'insurrectionists"-
Bat Ne do not see how even the good peo-
pie" are 10 vote when he refuses them con-
venient places 10 vote At. And to ask US to
vote for the beggarly representation, that is
just no representation 81 al. and for which