Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-12-25
Who fillsi!lcs the Record, the Pres
idesat or Gov. Walker.

uUSsal OF SsOS. "u.tker!
In the Kansas part Of his M~ea-n, the
President, to h'lstcr mp a weak argument and
prove the fairness of his Border Rulfan
friends, says
On the 10Th Of Fehruary previous tie ter
ritoriil Legislature had pass VI I law prlyisl-
ing for the election Of delegates On the third
Monday in june to . convention to rfaat ~,
the first Monday in September. for the pur-
pose of frlmihg constitution preparatory t.
admission into the Union THIS lsir aeaS IN
the man far and Jna. and II IS to b. fyqrsited
that all thc qIdi fed clecfors had not reu<tsrfd
Themselves and roted mtder rs pr5rfNaa<.
The author of the message might hase
thought he was giving information of the
state of the Union when he ponnel the above
paragraph; and he might have thought h.
was giving fair and impartial account Of
the unfortunate Transact VI called an Il ,ti5n.
which took place in june last; hu, the facts
a. they have come to the public thr1ugh 9th
er and ls- partzsn channels, praye eoaelu-
sivcly that he was slightly mistaken TIia a.
which has given to the matt N saaf puritan
President. as Picrc, and Bacl.an4n, anl sci
unrelisbla inc,sSIge1 rs have onanitad from
their pens, has furnished the means ard tie
agency u to~t the truth Of the stat s,ncu.s put
forth in their state papers. The tel ,rraphie
accounts, and the more elaborate onss i the
many Able correspondents of the leading pa
Pcrs, who have all the tim3 boon On tha
ground. have put tn reading public in rp--
session of all the fic,-. and furnished it with
all the means Of judging IF the truth Or f,l-
sity of any statement that comes thr onsh tn
rsrtizan charmed Of Prasil initial " sag.
Ry the mss of t-~siim,Ir tn; plhlisis1.
Mr.. buchanan m;cht b, proved either viii
fully blind or grossly unfair. bat " ara not
left to pzr.sc such an opinion Of Mr. Bachan-
ans veracity or G.irn sss by this testimony
only, We have nov .diai. t. what seemed
complete and Overwhelming when standing
alpn,, that of Blchanan's own appointed
Gavcrnor-Robert j. Walker His record Is
full complete and sally dlmasins u the Pres
ident. His record Of that clpter in Kansas
history s,lstans al that the Republicans AMI
Free State men have said 4b14. it-that il w.
unfair, Illegal, and a hsllsa PLAZA - cheat the
real settlers Of the rcrrit1ry aut Of their Just
ri ;hrs. lie meets tic Presidents as. rtion
of it's fairness by an account Of tla plans
perfected and successfully carried out by the
Border Rutfians to dcfraud honest citizens.
that must make his cheeks t. tingle with
shnmo for his misrepre-entati ,ns. Sub Joined,
VIC give 80 much Of GOV. Walkers letter Of
resignation assour limits will permit. In
the light Of sae, scorchiag facts, haw IN
worthy and eontempsiblc does the para graph
We have above quoted from the messassH, ap-
pear -
IA AL free governments. stated by Mr.
.Iefiars,n, depend upon ''the consent Of the
governed, how can it be known whether the
people would assent 10 their Constitution
unlcss it he submitted 10 their vote for rati-
xcation or rejection? But if acquiesceneC
can be presumed in any case, surely it can
not he in that of Kansas, when So many OF
the Delegates violated their pledges to submit
the Constitution itself to IL vote of the per
pie, where the delegates who signed the Con-
sttution represented scarcely one-tcnth Of
the people. and whore nsirly onc-half Of the
- Territory was disfranchised, and that by
M fault Of theirs, and did not and could not
give single vote at the election of delegates
- the convention. ~
| have heretofore discussed the subject
mainly On the question that Conventions are
not sovereign, and cannot rightfully make a
State Constitution without its submission 4
vote of the people for ratification or rejec-
tpn. Yet, surely, those who differ from me
AIst conesie, especially under the Kansas
Nebraska act, it is only such Conventions
EN- ~ calls sovereign as have boon truly
sastod by the people AMI represent their will.
On reference, however, - my address If tn
10th Of S'ptanber last, on the qualification
question, q copy of which WAS Immediately
cs~nsinittei to yoI, for the information OF
10 Presislnt and Clhinet, il is evident that
she Leocnpton Convention was not such a
hosly. T.s Convention had With, not tachnl-
al. dafcss ia the very substance of its or
snnixatism undr the rcrritoriai law, which
c,ulJ only b. cursi, in M Judgment. as set
frth in my Inaugural and other address,
hv suhsnissian of the Constitution 10 tue rat
ifeatiun Of the peoplo.
On Inference q the Telit1rti law. aiaer
xhish TIC Convention was ar-emessa' 10