Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-12-31

Nebraska bin should be faithfully executed, which
bill, ia my Judgment rs heretofore stated required
that the Constitution should be submitted to the
vote of the people, and was therefore only per-
/ forming q solemn dutv when, as Governor Of the
Territory 10 whose peop'e nv FIRST Obligations we're
due, endcavorcd to secure them these results The
idea entertained by some thai should see the Fed
ecll Constitution and the Kansas Nebraska bill,
! overthrow AMI disregarded, and that playing the
part oil mute III 2 pantonnle OF run should ac-
9uesce BIZ my silence IN such result, especially
where such acquicsceace inyc'rei es an immediate
consequence disastrous and sansuinlry civil war
seems to me most preposerou7. Not drop OF
blood has been shed by the Federal tr0ODs in Kansas
during my administration hut instruction and CT vii
war, extending, fear throughout the country, were
alone prevented by the course pursued by me On
those occasions, and the whole people abandoning
revolutionary violence, were induced by me 20 go
for the FIST time into general and peaceful election
These important results constitute sufficient con-
ISOLATION Tor all the unjust ssauits made upon me on
this subject. do not understand that these assaults
have ever received the slightest countenanca from
the President. On the contrary, his Message clear
~ indicates an approval Of nv course up to the
present most unfortunate difference about the so.
ca He'd Leconp;on Constitution.
Inasmuch, however, as this difference is upon
vital question, involving practical results and new
instructions Ii IS certainly much more respectful to
the President on my part, to resign the Office of
Governor, md give him an opportunity Of filling il.
as is his right under the Constitution, with enc who
concurs with him in his present opinions rather tn m
20 to Kansas and force him to remove me nv disc.
bedience to his instructions. This latter course in
M Judgment, would be incompatible with proper
respect for the Chief Magistrate 0fthe Union. ncon-
sisten with the rules o. moral rectitude or nroprie
ty, and could be adopted with other view than to
force the President 10 remove ne from Office
Such course, it is alleged, would present me to
the public political martyr in the defense ofthc
great principle o! sclig0vemment; but 70 so to
kansss with any such purpose, or with certain
knowledge chat such result must follow, would be
alike Un ust and improper Nv only alternative.
then. is that ola respectful resignation in the how,
that Kansas and our beloved country may be shield
ed from that civil war with which | fear both are
threatened by any attempt to force the so-called
Lecompton Constitution upon the people of Kansas.
state q; act, based on q long md intimate GsS0cq
foa with tie pe2Y'' IF Kansas, that IA ocerErieling
majority 81 thai re2Bie are opD0ssd 10 tiat Instrument
and ma letters sae that BIT one om Of Tie frcnty OF
lie press Of KaaSas sasaias il. Some oppose it be
cause so many counties were DISTINGUISHED and uu-
IL the Convention; some, who nre OPP
posed to paper money, because it authorizes a bank
Of enormous capital Tor KlnSas, nearly unlimited in
lis Issues; and IN The denomination OF It's notes rom
one dollar Up and down; some because Of what they
consdera Know Nothing clause, nv requiring that
the Governor shall have been twenty wears d cit.
zen OF the United states; some because the elective
franchise IS not free, rs they cannot vote against
the Con; iutioH bat only on he single Issue. beth
q any more Saves may be imported. and then only
upon that issue by waiting for the Constitution .
which they arc opposed, ana they regard this as bu
a m9cIery Of the elective franchise, and pcriious
sporting with the sacredrchs Of the people. Some
oppose because the Constitution distinctly recoS-
Mics AMI adopts tie Oxford fraud in apportionng /
legislative rlcIa)e 5 for Johnson County upon the /
and fictitious returns 50 illseIv called
from that Freeing, wiEcl recognition Of thar fraud
n the Constitution i abh0gFCnt 10 the moral sense
3: tho people Otasrs oppose it because, although /
n other cases the r,c.ldent's Of Conventions have
been authorized to Issue wits of election 10 thc reg
ar TERRITORIAL ~ Stete officers, with the usual I
Iufccs, and wijh thc established rTcciEc;s, aad on
le af ucltlOn oil tie returns. n tbs clse unTrccc-
MED and vce-re-al powers are given . TIC Pesi-
lent OF the Convention to maze the Precincts; the
iu1 -. ard 10 decide finally upon tho returns
rom he gran, q esc y-.;- ual 3nl ca2rflJus pow
re- and from other reason connected with the re-
urn7 OF Oxford aul M:Gec, m Overwhelming
n}.0r.ty 81 hms1s have no faith IN the validity OF
hs-e resl.Ts, AMI therefore VIII not voc. Iniec1,
.i5cuisa It as ne mas ourselves under the in.lu
.uce o; the Present excitement, the tlc,s Wl dem
ns'rlte that auy atelap by Congress - force This
Constitution rpJn the people @, Kansas, VII b. an
fort - si'i i,utc the will OF 4 snail minority for
u
iausas, that it viii no. settle the Kansas question
i !o;allze the ;ssrc-Ti IT WILL FEAR RI At
rETDED BY CIVIL WAR, EXTENDING PERHAPS THROUGH.
Jul THE U,11N, THUS BRINGING THIS QUESTION BACK
.GAIy uFov Congress, AND BEFORE THE PEOPLE ~
Is MOST DANGEROUS AND ALAENiNG ASPECT.
the President takes different view of the sub
&C in his Mess igc, and from the events occurring
IA Aansls, as well a here. il il evident that the
question is passing fom theories into practice, and
Of 4 Ill od
. carry ont new instructions differing vital 4
question from those received az the date Of my APP
continent. Such instructions | could not execute
with ms views OF the Federal Consti-
at.onant Of the KinsIs and Nebraska bill, Or with
ny pledges to the people Of Kansas. Under these
rcumsnces altern ttive IS lett but TO resign the
'fice of Governor Of the Territory OF Kansas. No
)HE CAN MORE DEEPLY REGRET THAN MYSELF THIS
ECEss.rY, rCT IT ARISES FROM 80 CHANGE or OPINION
~ NY FART OK THE CONTRARY, ] SHOULD MOST
HEERFCLLY HAVE RETURNED To Kansas TO CARRY
Ut ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS, AID THUS PRESERVE
NE PEACE or THE TERRTo2Y, ADD FINALLY sETILE
he KANSAS QUESTION Rr RFDrEMING NJ PLEDGES
o TIE PEOPLE. 1t is no: my intention ut this time
o discuss the peculiar circumstance and unexpect
d events when have modified the opinions OF the {
resident upon point so vitll MS the submission OF
he Constitution for ratification or rejection by The
ote Of the peorle-much less do de ire any con
roversy with the President on this subject. Yet
however widely 10y views may differ from these en-
ertained by hm on this bjcct-views which
ave held all my life, and which, as involving fun
amental principles OF public liberty ana OF the
Constitution, arc Interchangeable. Yet as regards
ii those grea, measures which trust will consti-
ute the policy ot his administration in other res
ec-s, ii Will give NE pleasure, private citizen,
q Weld my cordial support. have slid that the
avery question, as prlc,ictl issue hld disappear
d from Kansas long before my arrival there, and
DO question Of selfgovernment had been sGbstitl-
ed in Ks place. On some future oeclsion | shall
Ssip1te the delusiOn which has prevailed upon this
Ibect. and show that after three years experiment,
shen arrived in Kansas, there were less thln
lree hundred slaves there, and the number con
anti, diminslIing-that, Is proved by those dis
ngushed Southern statesmen, John c. Calhoun
nj Jefferson Davis, the winter cimlte even of
EASTERN Kansas is colder than that OF New England,
al thatthc Pro-Slavery Territorial Convention OF
kansas consolidated with the Pro-Slavery Terrific.
ial Legislature on the ith OF January, 1851 near
y five months before my arrival there, did aban.
on the slavery issue beclusc as set forth BIZ one of
her number, the pro SLAYER party was in small
al admitted minority, ard cooperation OF the free
,tatc Democrats was invited IS the only hope OF
uccess, not to make Kansas Slave State, which
'ls conceded to be impossible, but TO mike it
Conservative Democratic free Safe. Eyca rs late
5 the 81 y; Juv, 1891, when the Democratic Ter
itorlal Convent assembled Il LecOmptou, in con-
cQuence Q! the laws Of tho ciiElte and the well
n0wn VIII Of tho people, none contea1ed that |
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