Freeman's champion., 1857-06-25
The Topeka Constitution.

HOllOTFs w bOlu6 OI UllO II rec - tate lead
ers, are endeayoring to show up the.
fallacy of the Topeka movement, and
occupy nearly three columns of the
Herald with display of figures, false
assertions and singular arguments to
prove that the course the Free State
party deem proper to pursue is a
wrong one. They consider the Free
State men are acting the part Of fa-
natics and fools by clinging to the
honorable and manly position which
has reaped for them the plaudits of the
whole civilized world; and after sat
isfying themselves that they have
clearly demonstrated to the conviction
of everybody that the Topeka gov
ernment is sham affair and only
kept alive for the aggrandizement of
a few selfish office aspirants, they pro-
ceed to show that the Topeka consti-
tuition is not sanctioned by the ma
jority of the people. They also reit-
crate the old stereotyped cry of the
Democratic press, and join in the
lugubrous howl of "treason!' "trea-
son?' and profess to believe that the
virgin soil of Kanzas will once more
drink the blood Of slaughtered mar
tyrs heroes, innocent victims, ruff
ans, abolitionists, thieves, robbers,
assassins, murderers; that fire, water,
murder, blood and thunder will ANAL
gamate in one internal chaos, if Tie
people Of Kanzas endeavor to carry
out the policy of thsTopeka conven-
tions.
= The assertion that the Topeka Con-
stitution is not sanctioned ''by the
majority of the people of Kanzas is
erroneouS-egregiously stupidity er-
roneous. One Of the writer's, sne,r
ingly speaking of the "Topeka Gov
ernor," "propounds the most gagging
quere, "When did this (the Topeka)
government receive the appointmet;
of the people for their respective off
cial trusts ?" We will tell you, sir:
On the 10TH Of March last, at Topeka,
when delegates elected by Tie people
of every district in the Territory as
sembled, and who were nearly unan-
imous in their approval of the Tope-
lla Constitution; and by the urgent
request Of that Convention, Cover
nor Robinson, whom it was supposed
had dohed the gubernatorial robes,
but on investigation was found had
not, consented to still remain Gov,
ernor. Could more accurate orex.
plicit expression Of the people be OBJ
tanned than through convention
composed OF representatives from
every portion Of the Territory, who
were sent by the people to reflect thei
their will? The argument the
writer in question employs to prove
this assertion is that not "tithe O.
the Free State immigrants who have
come to the Territory this spring arr
supporters OF the Topeka organiza
ton" What ground he can hav,
for originating such an argument il
more than we can possibly conceive
1t is universally conceded that nine
teen-twcntieths Of the immigration
into the Territory this season ar,
from the Free States. Only three o
those States - Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Indiana, gave their vot'
last fall for Buchanan. In the othe
States the Democratic party wer'
routed with Waterloo defeats. TIL,
Republican party, conspicuou
plank in the platform of which ap
proved of the Topeka Constitution
swept everything. The majority 0
the votes approving of the Free Stat
Constitution was overwhelming
Can it be then that the immigration
into the Territory this season j
composed Of those only who vote
for Buchanan--who disapproved 0
this Constitution 4? A ludicrou
idea What party, we ask, sympa
thized nrnved lahored and devote,