The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-04-10

neoeasry for the safety Of themselves and
families 70 adopt this courss. To 90 to the
polls and act As they believe right. would
only expose them to tho murderous violence
of Border Rufhans.
IL seems 10 rs monstrous wrong that
journals which pretend to some respoctability
Of character should persis. in representing
the course Of the National Executive toward
Kansas as evincing fairness, and the pro-
posed Constitutional Election in Kansas, un-
der the authority Of the Territorial Legisla-
turo, as afording the Free State men fair
chance, and one which they ought to i'm.
prove BY voting. Wo ask all who pursue
this course to explain or confront these un.
denisble facts:
l. AL the appointments recently made
for Kansas by the new President ara Of the
IN ,ss active, bitter, unscrupulous leaders Of
the Pro-Slavsry factiOn-Whitfeld, Emory,
Wooden, Ransom, &c. While not one
man who was previously known ~ symps-
thiIing with the Free-Stats movement In
Kansas has ever been appointed to any'post
whatever by either Pierce or Buchanan, the
men who planned and consummated the 81.
gantic fraud and usurpation Of March 80,
1855, have been and are tho dispensers Of
Federal patronage in Kansas, and themselves
the recipients Of the most desirable Offices.
Some of them have led marauding bands Of
Missourians in their repeated invasions Of
Kansas Federal officers are known a. hav-
ing themselves fired ut and killed unarmed
Free State men, but no one was ever remov-
ed or publicly rebukcd BY his superiors fol-
such slight misdemeanors. In short, no out
rage committed on Prostate men in Kan.
sas by their antagonists has been punished
or rebuked by our National rulers; and no
merit or service on the part Of Free State
man has suf6ced to obtain for him IN ap
pointment at their hands.
ii. While Gov. Geary is replaced in Kan
sas by Walker (for the present, by F. p,
Stanton), Chief Justice Lecompte, whom
Pierce made show Of removing, is still con
tinued in Office, and there is not even pre-
tense that he or Cato is to be superseded
Thus tho Judiciary, the Land Offices, the
Public Surveys, the Marshalship, and every
department of administration or avenue Il
power in Kansas, are in the hands Of enemie
Of the Free-State cause, and nobody but TIT
new Governor (who is not going to Kansas
at presently makes any professions of impair
TALLY.
III. Putting the Land Offices Of Kausa'
into tho hands Of Whitfield, Woodson, EN-
ory, &c., is in effect advertising all claimant
of disputed or doubtful precmptions therein
which includes about everybody now in
the Territory-that, if they want decisions
in favor Of their claims, they must be on tn
Prc-Slavery side And the rira roee voting
prescribedby the Territorial Legislature a
its late session prccludes oil attempts dis
sembling. No man can vote Free Stat
ticket and not be known and marked rs *
doing.
w. The act under which the People oil
Kansas are called to decide the question o.
Freedom or Slavery therein is the identical
measure vetoed by Gov. Gcary because Of it
manifest unftness and unfairness, but pass
ed over his head by the bogus Legislature
V. This act allows no man TO vote who
was not in Kansas on the 18th Of Marcia,
which date thousands were over from West
ern Missouri grabbing Indian lands, stalking
out claims, &c while the Free State immi
grafton for the season had barely commenc
ed. The time was carefully pitched on ai
that which would give the largest Pro-Slav'
cry and the smallest Free State vote.
vi. The census is to be taken, the voting
lists frs. made up, then revised, and the
districts laid of. and the votes canvassed en-,
tircly by the creatures Of the bogus Lcgisla-
ture-every ono intensely Pro Slavery. The
Free.State men have no voice in tho prem.
ises from first to last, nor are the Federal
officers allowed any real power in the prem.
ises. Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton
are allowed to say, upon the presentment Of
the bogus Census and List Of voters, how
many of the sixty delegates to the Constitu.
tional Convention must be apportioned Ia
each of the nineteen Election Districts re.
spectively but this is mere problem in
the Rule Of Three, and allows no discretion
whatever. Gov. Walker, Gov. Geary and
Gov. Robinson, ifseverally required to make
this apportionment, must each figure out e1'
actly the same result. Nor has Gov. Walk
or any power whatever, 30 long as he recog
nizcs and upholds the authority Of the bogus
Territorial Legislature, to make this Con
stitutional Election fair one.
In view ofthcse facts-and we challenge
contradiction on any point above stated-i'
it not morally certain that the Frse.Stats
men, by voting at the bogus constitutional
Election, would only stultily themselves and
seal the inevitable triumph Of their enemies
With no shadow Of a voice in ordering THU
Election, fixing the time, taking the census
apportioning tho delegates, holding the poll,
or counting the votes, they are to be led like
sheep to the slaughter; and their only
choice is between giving their voluntary
sanction to the Outrage, or stisnatirins and
scouting 1t from the start. Can single
earnest believer that Kansas should be Free,
hesitate as to their proper cause''
KANSAS AND Washington March,
%. Correspondents New York Herald y
At the meeting at the State Department
last night, at which Gen. Cas- was present,
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