The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-11-28

sons, to wit:
FL. L. Jones, w. Oakley, Dr. G. A. Cut
Ter, J. F. Hill, J. W. Farnsworth, S. w,
J. C. Miller, L. Farnsworth, and
w. W. Ross.
This Committee made the following
report, which was unanimously adopted:
Believing with our revolutionary faith
ers, that a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind require statement of the
causes for our political action, we adopt
the language of the immortal signers of
the Declaration of Independence, and as
sert that we hold these truths to be self
evident that all men are created Free and
Equal; that they are endowed by their Gre
otor with certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness; that to secure these
rights Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed; that whenever
any form of Government seems subver-
sive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to abolish it, and institute new
government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its power
in such form as shall seem to them most
likely to effect their safety and happiness.
When long series of abuses and usurpa-
tons pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces desire to reduce the people un-
der an absolute despotism, it is their right,
and their duty to throw off such Govern
ment and provide new guarantees for their
future security.
The history of the present Government
in Kansas is of repeated injuries and usur-
pations, all having its direct object the es-
Enlistment of complete Tyranny over
us-to prove this, we submit the follow
ing facts:
1t has refused its assent to a Constitu-
ton emanating from the people under
which laws wholesome and necessary for
the public good were enacted.
1t has forbidden our Legislature to pass
laws of immediate and pressing impor-
lance and has refused to cause other laws
to be passed for the accommodation of
large districts of our people, and likewise
demanded that the people of these dis
tricts should relinquish their right of rep
resentation in the Territorial Legislature,
"a right inestimable to them and formida-
Die to tyrants only"
1t has dissolved Legislature of the
people for opposing with manly frmness,
invasions on their rights.
1t has appointed and sustained among
us prohigate, corrupt and partizan Judges
who neither administer justice nor pro-
mote the public veal.
1t has kept among us, in times of peace,
standing armies without the consent of
the people.
1t has combined with others to subject
us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our wishes
and Constitution as well as the Constitu-
ton of the United States, giving its assent
to their acts of pretended Legislation.
1t has imposed taxes on us without our
consent, and has deprived us of fair and
impartial trial by jury.
1t has altered fundamentally the form
of government instituted by our Fathers
falsely interpreted their statutes and in
forced upon Us tyranny in contradiction
of the Nebraska BILL
It has suspended our own Legislature
and declared a spurious and foreign body
invested with full power to legislate for
us in all cases whatsoever.
1t has conspired with, and aided rob-
bers, asSassins and murderers to ravage
our farms, burn our towns and destroy the
lives of our citizens.
It is at this time sustaining among US
an army of hired mercenaries to complete
the works of death, desolation and tyran-
ny already begun with circumstances of
cruelty and perfdy scarcely paralleled
in the most barberous ages, and totally
unworthy Of civilized nations.
1t has protected and aided band of
ruffians and outlaws not elected 10y the
people to any Office, in the work of form
ing a Constitution for the Safe of Kan
sas, and taken the initiatory steps in the
formation of State Government in its
action, supplanting the Territorial Legis-
lature, elected by the people in October, at
the expense of every personal feeling for
the public good, relying as they did, upon
the Oft repeated promises of fair cleo
ton; and the privilege of voting upon said
Constitution, which privilege is now de-
MED aud no remedy allowed.
In every stage of these expressions we
have petitioned for redress in most hum
BILE terms; our repeated petitions have been
answered only by repeated injury. A
power whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define tyrant is un-
lit to exercise rule over free people.
We have not heen wanting in loyalty
to the National Government-we have
warned it from time to time of the at
tempts of its so-called Legislature to exer-
else an unwarrantable jurisdiction over
us, and we have submitted to its dictates
/ from time TO time, at the expense of every
personal feeling; we have reminded it OF
the circumstances of our emigration and
settlement here; we have appealed to its
native Justice and masnanimity, and
have coniured it by the common ties oil
our kindred to disavow these usurpations
which would materially interrupt om
friendly connexions and correspondence
but it has been alike deaf to Justice and
consanguinity; we must therefore acqui-
esce in the necessity which calls for the in
stitution of our State Government.
LIST. ResOiral, BY the citizens of Tope-
ka, in Mass Convention assembled, thai
our Delegates be requested to urge the
Delegate Convention at Lawrence, on the
End of December, to set forth the facts con.
tanned in the above, as the basis of then
action, and appealing to God and dis
eliminating world for the rectitude of theil
conduct, to firmly resolve upon the insti.
ution of our State Government under tht
Free Constitution.
End. Resoluei, That the minions o
the Slave power. in their pretended sub
mission of the Lecompton Constitution
by submitting to the vote of the people o
but one article, and that article entirel,
superfluous, leaving the instrument a
purely pro-slavery as the constitutions 0
Texas and Georgia, and beyond the reacl
of the people. published to the world 70
the thousandth time, that they are towards
tyrants and traitors to the liberties of tn
people, and Constitution of our country
As such we brand them, and declare tia
they have forfeited the respects of ever
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