The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04

siio iIic>'f'5c VI tHcH oofeffiOf mas appear
ed, shown any sufficient reasons for keep
| ing itul.
I The grounds for my faith are the fol-
/ lowing. They are commended to the ear
nest and careful consideration of every
| Free State man.
LIST. Kansas can never, by any move
ment of the present Topeka partv. be adj
mltted into the Union as a free State
Congress rejected the application for adj
mission when their Constitution repre-
! sented majority of the people of the
Territory, and it will not be likely to
! reverse this determination when that
Constitution is presented with the endorse
ment of only 1.-THE of the actual resi-
dents of the Territory.
I'd. The constitutional rights of the
people of Kansas, which the Topeka
Governor says must be indicated and
preserved, refers only to the 1,700-who
voted for the Topeka Constitution. We
are not aware that our censtitutionalrights
have been taken from us. Although the
bogus Legislature adopted an act for tax
| ing the census, which was in its provi-
sions, especially the manner in which it
was TO be carried into effect, most patent
swlndie, It has not amounted, in our Opin-
Ion, to depriving citizens of their constitu-
tlonal rights and privileges. The immu-
mites Of American citizens are the right
to liberty, life, and the pursuit of happi-
ness. WheR these are taken away, then
there exists just cause for reyolution-not
before. When there are no means of
throwing the yoke of oppression OF, ex-
cept by taking up of arms, then it becomes
a lustitiable act If the constitutional
rights of the people of Kansas are to-day
dlsregarded, the federal government is
the oppressor. Missouri is no longer in
the contest, and war must be waeed
against that power which holds them in
bondage. Now the simple question is,
| whether there has been such an invasion
OF poPalarrights by the government, rs to
| afford any just reason for reUOiution. Our
opinion Is given above Would it
not be best to allow every man to decide
for himself upon this point, or.does the
Governor, elected by LOO men, assume
to tell the people of to-day that they are
slaves to the general government and
should join his party to keep up a govern
ment, which, whatever NAV have been its
original virtues, is now in manifest oppo-
sition TO federal authority? The Cover
nor can speak only for those he represents,
and when he saws that the rights of the
! people must he protected, he can only
mean those who gave him their support;
and we cannot see in what manner these
rights are thus to be secured. Where is
his power, or the power of the Legislature,
/ to afford protection to persons or property?
| The whole assumed authority of that gov
! eminent, at this time, is mockery. IL
it had power to enforce its laws whenever
enacted, it would be, Notwithstanding its
| pretensions to support freedom, an usurp-
! atisn as gross as was that af the Missouri
ans,of the Territorial government.
/ So long as the ballot box is left us, there
is no grounds for revolution. We have
| faith that the Constitution which is to
be framed in September will he submitted
to fair vote of all the actual settlers OF
the Territory. If so, cannot the pending
political questions be peacefully and
speedily settled9 There is to be an cleo
ton in October next, under the organic
law, for Territorial Legislature. May
not, then, tho usurpation be broken, and
the last vestige of border rllffianism bt
I destroyed in the government? We pro-
pose TO wait until .'our constitutional
rights are taken from u.s. before setting
| up or aiding in establishing government
hostile to the government of the Fedora
j Union.
ssk L. 4f,oA To-
i peka party persistently adhere to: 1t j:
not to organize State government, to be
prepared for emergencies, to use in a cast
that is further usurpation, but to set up al
active, authoritative government. assurs
ing to control the public interests of tbs
country, and to be set in motion as soOl
! as possible Had it not been far the con
servatism and sober sense of the Senate
: in the recent session of the Legislature,
code of laws would have been adopted
, and the government "set In notion
Now to do anything of this kind, ant
make 1t successful, two very importan
things are eSsential-frst, that it is not il
i direct opposition to the federal govern
ment; second, that majority of the PEG
pie support it. Without either of theS
elements, such movement Is certain t
} be defeated. IF We mistake not, both Q
, these elements are wanting in the Topek
organization.
18th. The recent election for delegate
has proven the weakness of the pro-slave
: ~ party. 1t is shown by the returns thu
II it is entirely powerless. What need, theI
> is there of satting up government that
certain to result in defeat. and perhaps dis
grace, when by simply exercising the priv
q ilege of voting, all that honest Free Stat
: men are striving for may be gained.
:, 1t is to be regretted that a divisio
: should exist in the Free State RANKS nov
when harmony and union are so necessar!
. But if all the Free State men in this Tel
: ritery who do not sustain this Yepek
= movement are read out of the party, {
, refused fellowship with il, we epine tn:
4 the leaders will find their party yer
n small, and growing all the time beautiful
e / ~ less. FREE STATE.
ftT There was another meeting of tt
"Topeka Legislature last week, at TOPS
' kawhieh gave rise to another assortment
it spicy and spunky speeches. the passage
few patriotic resolutions, and another a
iournmeat. There was also Goayel
9 ton of the people'' at the same time al
J place, of which three days previous n
ltl tice was given, and at which some five
c six hundred persons were present. n
have seen neither the claws, enacted,
the resolutions passed, and are thereto
s. unable to give even their substance. u
lei dare say, however, they are O. K.-Sq,sa
II ter SorsFeiga.
u The Era.
er The Geary City Era appears to US to
$. on the right traek--a Free State pap
teI and laboriug to make Kansas Free Sta
ie by developing the resources of the Ter
5. tory and encouraging emigration Il b
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