Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-07-30

costly disputes, ana all Will suffer from
this insurrection. except the lawyers who
have stimulated this movement A gov
eminent founded upon insurrection and
usurpation will be substituted for that es-
tablished by the authority of Congress,
and civil war will be renewed throughout
our limits. If your authority to act in
this matter for the city of Lawrence is
permitted, a similar authority must be &C.
knowledged to every other town. city or
county, result in inevitable and most disas-
trous conflict and if successful, the Terri
torial government be overthrown in detail,
as is your present purpose.
You were distinctly informed in my in
aagural address of May last, that the valid
ity of the Territorial laws was acknowl.
edged by the Government of the United
States, and tha, they must and would be
carried into force under my oath of Office,
and the instructions of the President of
the United States. The same INFORMATION
was repeated in various addresses made by
me throughout the Territory. At the
same time every assurance was given you
that the rights Of the people of this Terri
tory under the organic act to establish their
own State government and frame their own
social institutions, would be acknowledged
and protected.
If laws have been enacted by the Terri
torial Legislature which are disproved of
by majority of the people of the Terri
tory, the mode by which they could ena ct
new Territorial Legislatu and repeal
those laws, was also designated If there
are any grieva 'ces Of which you have any
just right 10 complain, the lawful, peaceful
mrnner in which you could remove them.
in subordination to the government of your
country. was also pointed out.
You have, however, chosen 10 disregard
the laws of Congress and the Territorial
government crea ed by it. and whilst pro-
Tossing TO acknowledge a State govern
men, rejected by Congress, and which can
therefore not exist but only by successful
rebellion, and exacting from all your off,
GERS the perilous and sacrilegious oath to
support the so called State Constitution;
yet you have even fin defiance of the So
called State Legislature which refused to
grant you a chastas. proceeded to create a
local government Of your own, based only
upon insurrection and. revolution. The
very oath which you require from all your
officers to support your Topeka Constitu.
lion. is violated in the very act of putting
in operation charter rejected even by
them.
A rebellion 80 iniquitous and necessa.
rily involving such awful consequences
} has never before disgraced any age Oh
) country.
Permit me to call your attention as still
claiming TO be citizens of the United States
to the results Of your revolutionary pro
eeedinys. You are inauguraIing rebellion
and re, olution; you are disregarding the
laws of Congress and of the Territorial
government. and defying their authority y
you are conspiIing 10 overthrow the gov,
l ernment of the United States in this Terri
: tory.
Your purpose. if carried into effect ii
: the mode designated by you. by putting
your laws forcibly into execution, woIlc
involve you in the guilt and crime of treas
on. You stand now. fellow citizens, OF
the brink of an awful precipice, and it be
; comes my duty to warn you ere you take
the fatal leap into the gulf below. If youl
D proceedings are not arrested you will ne
, cessarily destroy the peace of this Terrific
ry and involve it in all the horrors of civi
war. warn you. then. before it is to,
? late, to recede from the perilous position il
1 which you now stand.
. l appeal onco more to your reason ani
t patriotism. ask you in the name of oul
common country. in the name of the Con
9 s,itution and the Union. 70 desist from thi:
rebellion. | appeal once more to your
love OF country, TO your regard for liz
peace. prosperity and reputation, to YOU
r Affections for your wives and children. anc
r to all those patriotic motives which ough
: to influence American citizens. to abandon
8 this contemplated revolution. Ifyou have
: wrongs. redress them through the peace
J., ful ins,rumen;aii,y of the ballot.box. il
e the mode prescribed by the laws of you
country.
As all arguments heretofore addressed
! by me to you have failed as yet to produc'
any effect upon you, have deemed it ne
: cessary for your safety and that of th'
: Territory. and to save you from the per
9 ious consequences Of your own acts, un
i der the authority vested in me by the Pres
a .t.J Ckoko.