The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-10-01
NEW SERIES-NO. 100.

~ Y WtkEt@~ anu VI tue tcTrNoViht A{U9Dr
turc should be faithfully executed.
but. say these reverend AMI pious 6ro.
brands. You should have prevented wslk
known Iroisct~i invasion Of the poitienl
rights Of Kansas you should have cXpeI-
led the invaders from the Territory you
should have recommended TO Congress nc
ccssa'y IN eSpSiicnt measures for the relief
Of the people oi Kansas. What . junlblc
Of ignorance and f.llscy. Who says that
amy invasion Of the p p)litical rights Of Kan.
sas has taken place since Mr.. Buchanan en-.
tered into Office Where and when. and
under what circumstances did the invasion
laE.a claca ..eyen tle .sbas,sses- -3,s,ssss
have said nothing about ltg lnvasions OF
such u character arr said 10 have taken
place undcr the administration of poor
Pierce but under what system Of law or
morals could MIR, buchanan bc held rc~pon.
sibe for tho errors Of his predecessor =, Aud
the job Of cNpelling invaders from the Ter
ritory WIN the two dozen pious clergy.
men Of Connecticut give us their plan Of ac-
complaining tha, job Were the troops of
the general government 10 be kept marching
through tho Territory nDd cspclling there
from such ciiIncns Of the United States as
Lane and his abolitonisis might dewignntc
ns " invaders - Truly, notable occupa.
,ion for federal troops, and onc which could
only have liad inception 10 the brains of such
men ns these pious blue noses And are
these men so stupid ms not TO be awars that
the last Congrcss terminated nj thu hour Of
Mr. Huchanans Inauguration. and that since
that lime there has been no Congress 10
whom h. could have recommended neces.
rary M Il cyplicnt measures for tho relief Of
the people of ansas, if indeed he thought
/, his duty to make such u recommendation 2
These are soac of the arguments which
VIZ iind in this ridiculous response 10 Mr..
l,nchanan's ht,cr. They ARE all Of the same
weak and absurd character, In fact. the
whole paper carries on IL hee liz own wfu-
ta,ion, and shows, better than any answer 10
II can, the folly and weakness oi the mon
who wrote and signed il. Mr.. Buchanan
will continue 10 merit aud receive the conf
dcncc OF ,hc pcopc. lie and Governor
Walker have stecrcd u just, fair and impair.
tial course in regard 10 Kansas. They
found the Territory organized under law
which declared that il was not its object q
lcei-lair slavery into or exclude IL from The
Territory, but 10 let the ISsople tbcrcoi shape
their own institutions III their own way
They have cndcayorcd faithfully TO give full
effect 10 that Republican principle. They
found IN existence II srt of cnactinen passed
by the Territorial legislature, and they
treated tbcm~-as II WAS their duty 10 treat
them NJ operative laws Congress had
not repealed OF declared them imperative, as
~ a. La. i,
the President Of the United States or Gov.
crnor Of the Territory had no discretion in
the premises And II the Constitutional
Convention which vas regularly ahd legnlly
orguniz~d under those laws, had gone ON and
iran"d a slave State constitution. and il that
constitution should afterwards bs rclrrfed
directly 10 Congress ami X kansas be admit.
tod ~ "a slave State under il, both Mr.. Bu-
cbnnan and Governor Walker would b. en-
tirely free from rcproach in the matter
They had but exercised their authority fair.
ly md i,nnsriisiy snd ~" are not r"apon,
sIbe for consequences The matter apper,
tanned Ia cobgrcss. not 10 the Executive.
But Of this there need be no npprehsn.
sion. The people Of X aDsas arc adverse 10
the ,dea Of having u slave State made Of 1t.
anil viii never give their consent ilpr,t0.
And II the constitution, when framed, be
30, zubnrilicd to them, but referred direct
to Congress, DOES any one believe that under
such circumstance Congress would dare 10
admit the %, " State into the mon The
idea IL prepxtcrons Kansas cannot come
IN a. u slave State and oil the fuss aDd
bother made about II by New England
aboit ioDisis and southern iifebfaDds are
ouly The clnpirap resources OF poitician..
Whea was there ever question argued
in C0n2rss or in the nation In which the
South wins exclusively on one side and the
North exclusively on the s'her, The Kan
N. Nebraska Biil---a measure framed svow.
eiiy ior The benefit Of the South could not
have passed without the strong support VI
Northern members Of Congress; and yet
many Southern men voted agunst H. Was
not tha, proof that exclusive sectional
lines cannot h. drawn IN this Republic. and
tina, reliance may always lie placed in the
good sense patriotism and conservatism OF
the inrn of ali sections Hut IL the balance
oi power delusioo b. still buggsd by the
s'on,h then the beat thing to be done il.
not 10 Try 10 c0rce people 10 establish
slavery against their own wishes but 10 cut
up Texas into two or m6rc slave States.
whenever lis population will admit Of that
Icing done, aud 10 be ready from time to
time to have n slave State admitted into
the Union ~ ciicD ~ u free State shall bc
admitted The god patriotic, conservative
~n Of thc North, will not object 10 that;
but they will ob)ec, 10 hll illegal aud fraudu.
lent attempts, 10 impos~ slavery on = peo-
pie who are ayersc to Il. The kausas
question, then. msy--in spite OF Northern
and Sou,hsfa fsnsticr-- safely left to the
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