White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-05
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER s. 1857.
ResoIsed, Thattbe late frsuds in the election

ResOl5eS, Thaetbe late frauds in the election
at Oxford, Kickapoo, and other places, for tn,
purpose Of overcoming the potency of a sover
eign people at the ballotb0x5 are unparalleled
in enormity and impotence, and that all wh(
are implicated in them deserve the lasting exc
Grafton Of every friend Of our common country
Rss0lUsd, That we recommend the appoint
ment Of 3 committee 10 Investigate and expose
the recent frauds upon the elective iraDehfse
and to provide for the summary punishment o.
all who are implicated therein.
Gen. Lane resumed; rejoice at your recep
ton Of these resolutions, and rejoice at tn,
project now afforded Of speedy political Olsen
thrAlment. Bat4 am aOt jrb:iaat. The BATH,
Of Freedom in and for Kansas is Aot yet ended
We must keep our lns formed, and be ready
for instantaneous action. Before We are fairly
out of the woods we may yet have to lOpp Of
some Of the branches which intercept our prog.
ress. Look at the returns which have Just ar.
rived from MCGEE County; fpelts hundred and
tceHty-sir UOtes ia district lchere there are not
a hundred settLsrs-kOio many rOtes then, tciH Ar
apdhOs eOuhfry return? Members of the Free
State military defensive organization! en-.
treat you to preserve that organization intact,
and TO guard it with as jealous watchfulness as
you would guard the apple Of your eye. The
ballOt-bot is second in purity only to the altar
of God. Its pollution is the pollution of the
Government-the poisoning of the sacred springs
from which We draw the waters of our natural
life; it is crime so stupendous that lawmakers
grow dizzy when they contemplate 1t; and I
tell you that nothing but the visitation of the
burning wrath of the sovereign people thus out
ragged can adequately punish the guilty. Be
Watchful, therefore, and prayerful. I hope that
when we meet again the last clouds will have
drifted from our horizon; but lest they should
nOt-lest a recurrence to those first principles
of our manhood should again be necessitated,
l would entreat you to be vigilant and unweary-
ing as Fate.
Gen. Mclean, of LecomptOn, then rose and
said that although be did not expect to convince
such an assemblage Of the superior excellence
of Democracy, he would say this: that the Con-
vention which Gen. Lane and the meeting had
stigmatized as bogus, should-desplte all de-
nunciations or repudiations-be protected du-
ring its legitimate session, and that if necessary
he would die fighting in its defence, though forty
thousand bayonets were bristling at his breast
His remarks, which were principally ejaculatory
and in reply to interogatories, were chiefly dis
tinguished for their lack of brains, and plethora
Of braggadocia and blAckguardism.
Mr.. Stewart, a member Of the Constitutional
Convention, then came forward to correct Che
said) remark which had been made, to the eff
feet that he was citizen Of Missouri. He said
he emigrated to Kansas three years ago-had
voted in no other place during the period-his
property was in Kansas, and he himself was a
bona ,fde citizen in every respect under law.
He was followed by Colonel Samuel Young.
another PrO-Slavery man, who made speech
which he intended should be conciliatory; and
in which he desired the Free State party to set
tie the Ve1atious questions Of the time-espe-
cially the frsuds, the elective franchise-before
the proper tribunals, and in the legal way.
Gen. Lane replied. He had noticed that those
men whose professions Of honesty were bolster
Gus, we're usually the greatest rogues; and he
thought the principle had been aptIy illustrated
by the speakers on the opposite side. He no.
ticed the taunts which had been flung at the
people of Kansas, that they had acknowledged
the validity of the bogus laws by voting under
their provisions; and proved that not Free
State man in the Territory consented to partic-
ipate in the election until Gov. Walker pledged
his solemn honor that "not uRder territorial
laws, but under an act of Congress " the WHOLE
people should have free and fair vote; I'M
shredded the fimsy sophisms of Col. Young, by
reminding him that the people of Kansas had
been shut out from all peaceable measures for
the redress of grievances-elicited from Mr..
Stewart an admission that his family had resided
in Missouri for year past, and that he was
therefore = citizen Of and amenable to the laws
ofthat State-reiterated his counsel to the Free
State party-repeated his sdvics to the bogus
Constitutional Convention, and concluded amid
leafening cheers.
The resolutions we're then adopted by accls-
nation, and the meeting thereupon adjourned.
PHILLIP c. SCHUYLER, President
RICHARD RrALg, o. E. LEARNED, Secretaries.