Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-11-06
Daylight in Kansas !
Walker does Right!

Walker does Right!
Gov Walker and Sec. Stsnton's Official
proclamation to the People Of Kansas,
setting forth their reasons for rejecting the
impudeutly fraudulent return from Oxford,
johnson Co., is given at length. We
think no one will deny the force Of the
reasons. They remind us of the case Of
the Irishman who was called before
Court to explain bis fathers disobedience
to summons. lie commeseed BY stating
that bis fathe. had fourteen excellent res-
sons for disobeying the summons-as fol-
lows: "I. He was dead, and could MT
come" Here the Judge stopped him
with an intimation that the other thirteen
might be withheld.
There can be no doubt in any fair mind
that Walker has done exactly right in re.
jecting this bogus return Of rotes merer cast,
not crcn traudulently; yet what q comment
is this act on the past history Of Kansas T!
For more than tro years her people hare
been kept under the heel Of their bitter eae-
mies-have had their houses sacked, their
stock and crops stolen, and been themselves
hunted, MANNED and slaughtered, on pre-.
.texts- of Legality in the rule imposed on
them BY Border Rufian invasion and
fraud but no President, Congress, Gov
ernor, or Judge could be induced to inter-
ferc on their behalf-all talked justice and
selfgovernment, yet upheld fraud and
usurpation. At length, affairs have reached
a pass when, as Governor Walker afirms,
it is impossible to secure submission to
the new frauds found necessary to uphold
the Border Rufian ascendancy-in his
own words:
q" In view Of the condition Of affairs in Kan
sas for several years past, Of the efforts SO
long made TO put in operation here revolu-
tionary Government, and Of the fact that this
effort was suspended under the belief that the
political difficulties of this Territory might at
length be fairly adjusted at the polls if that
adjustment should now be defeated and the
people deprived of their righ,ful power under
the laws of Congress, by fictitious returns of
votes never given, it is our solemn conviction
that the pacifcation Of Kansas, through the
exercise of the elective franchise. would be-
come imprac,cable, and that CIVIL WAR
WOULD IMMEDIATELY BE RECON-
MENCED IN THIS extending,
we fear, to adjacent States and subjec,ng the
Government Of the Union to imminent peril"
That is the naked, perpendicular truth,
Governor if you never told it before. If
you had undertaken to bolster up this
abominable fraud, and impose another year
Of Pro-Slavery rule on the freemen of
Kansas on the strength of it, you would
have brought the whole question at once
to the arbitration of cold steel. The Peo-
pie of Kansas had fully resolved to try
this one more peaceful struggle for their
rights, and, this failing, they had resolved
to resume them BY the strong arm and you
did we'll to recoil before them for they
had friends outside of Kansas who would
aethssy saassslAggJ Jssaasa JhaEs JhE ,fhldf -adVe6!
In view of this fact, you find it easy
enough to override the explicit require.
mcnts Of both the organic Act" and the
bogus Territorial law" and give tho
certificates to the candidates whom you
knew to have been really elected, and not
to those whom the returns showed to have
received the highest number of votes re.
spectively.
The bogus Constitutional Convention is
now sitting at Lecompton, but We trust
the fapgs Of that viper are drawn. 1t
may make Slave Constitution; it may
refuse to submit it; but there will be
Free State delegate in Congress to expose
and oppose the iniquity; and no House Of
Representatives will venture to cram it
down the throats Of protesting people
There are yet obstacles to be overcome
BUT KANSAS MUST AND SHALL
BE FREE!-New York Tribune.
Gov Walker having thrown out the frau.
dulcnt returns from johnson Co., the
Slave Power has turned to an older friend
for aid and comfort. Judge Cato had is
sued writ, commanding the Governor
and Secretary to give certificates to the
members elect" or show cause why they
will not or can not do SO. The Sheriff,
under whom he had been deputy having
been superseded, and his successor sworn
in, or the previous day, Gov. Walker
therefore politely laughed in the messeu-
gers face. The law of " honor" has also
been invoked. Ex-Sheriff Jones has chal.
lengcd Sec. Stanton. These items of news
come to US through Pro- Slavery journal,
The 81. Louis Republican.
The Wolf. disappointed, howls! |
A Mass Meeting of the ".National De-
mocrocy" was held at Lecompton, wherein