New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-22
70 do The work for which they selected you. The BIT


that could relieve you Of your responsibility. Every
step in that experience has shown the necessity for
ven 20 90 your work, and that you, with calnness,
wisdom and determination prepare those ouiwarks on
which the people may their constitutional rights,
As American citizens and keep the State Government
IN readiness for admission into the Union.
A. il become. my duty TO recommend such meas
uses as | may deem eIpeoent Tor your aclon ana 20
cen nj icste 70 you the CONDITION oi ahaifs IN the
State l hall tndeayor briefly 10 do so.
Stree cent my message 10 you, when you hrst con-
v.D.d in March 1850, many important and startling
events have marked ard disturbt tie current OF az
fairs The horrors of actual warfare have existed IN
our midst Towns and cities have been sacked ard
burned and our citizens have been brutaly mardeed
the highways and in their homes y hoS'lie enemy
on our Easter border has poured IN predatory Oad
after band, aud army after army, win the design Vi
harTassrg our citizens, and completing the suoJusa-
ton they had begun.
The Gene raj Government which still assumes the
power of protection Us, has basey used that pow
a. the screen under which il has rendered and ana
q mfort 70 our enemies and strengthened The han Is
of II ose foreign invaders wEO still pretend 10 hold the
poloa power of the people, that they usurped Nor
have Your abOrs or your persons been exempt Law
less arrests have been made of your members, aud
al.o Executive Officers By men who, although they
possessed some power and IN many instances, held
positions in connection with the Federal cOurts acted
with rregularlty and in defiance Of even the rules
which they professed 10 respect.
A large and necessary portion Of the abors OF your
codifying Committee was destroyed win much otner
",
v az ploged and partially burned, by mob brought
there by United States Marshal. When your bodies
met pursuant To adjournment, IN July last your as
seuby was nierfe ed with and broken up by large
force of United States troops IN battle array, who
drove YOU hence in gross violation OF those COnstu
iiona rights which their uty 10 have protected
When You again convened in. January last, at your
regular session. your proceedings were again inter-
feed with by Deputy Mar.hal and many Of your
members arrested. .
do not propose entering into minute detail Of all
the unhappy occurrences that have marked the past
Near-occurIeuccs which have stamped page Of In
fanny on the history of the country. Let refer you
20 the comprehensive address prepared by Committee
of the Convention that assembled III this place on the
10Th March last, for those particulars az enunlera-
ton of which would absorb too much OF your time.
Suffice il to say that owing TO these causes the State
Government is not yet fully organized and waits in
urgent necessity for the completion of your work.
The period for which you were elected Is drawing to
close No provision for taking the has been
made and no election law adopted. Without these
your function in the Government will expire and with
il the power Of reproducing II. cannot think that you
will in any contingency, incur the reproach oieaylng
helpless the people who trusted you, or compelling
them TO recur through original action to their primary
power for those needed steps which il your duty to
supply ~, ,o,c ,.
rated The outlines of the legislation ii would be lueum-
b. nj on you frame and adopt. Let me respectfully
refer YOU 10 that document for those details.
There is subject of great moment for our present
ard future prosperity. The public land in our midst
still belongs TO the General Government. To secure
these lands or all Of them that can be obtained, is a
matter to which we should devote no ordinary aten-
ton The policy hitherto adopted toward other new
States gives Just grounds 10 look a. Congress Tor
grant of all the public lands 10 our midst. To your
enterprise and endurance its value can be traced and
TO you it rightly belongs The sale OF much OF our
ost valuable lands for the behalf of Indians, gives
addition al claim the Government for the remainder.
Surely, the General Government will not seek to make
speculation the bones and snews of the struggling
h. 20 odd
eracy. Let US respectfully urge upon the assembled
wisdom of Congress claim for donations of these
lands and let press these claims before the Govern
ment has passed its title to all the valuable portions
into the hands of spectators No donation should by
its terms conflict with the claim Of squatter on the
soil.
The inanimate framework of a Territorial Govern
nent still exists in Kansas. While the popular branch
of Congress has accepted application for admis
sion into the UnOn the Senate has still withheld its
approval In this isolated condition our rights as
American citizens, under the Constitution ana our In,
herent rights man remain to US. Inc territorial
Governor recently sent among by the Federal Gov
eminent, in his inaugural, has truly said:
the Fso a, , mh which s ss sis eoa to
the Union Congress eannot compel the people o. Ter
,en Constitution framed by the people Congress; is
true for constitutional reasons refuse admission bet the
in ormins her contribution prescribe the which
he win the Union Tai; power Of the ReSR. Of Ter
spce especially in the States carved out of the public domain
are oee es by dsn tribe. Those land. are the prop
ey Of the Federal Government but their night Is exclusively
The doctrse here enunciated is only what has been
established by precedent, and reiterated time and
again. In it We have right to form State Constitu-
t0n and Of necessity the complete State organization
for which its specific terms must provide. As Con-
gress has neither the right to frame Constitution for
US For to change the same, 1t must be apparent TO
"a they have more power to destroy II when Gre
Gated" Governor Walker goes even farther than
this and further than have ever proposed going,
for lie says nat the State alone in forming her Con-
"stitution ca ppsscrbe the terms which she will
center the Unhn,' clearly implying that she may
enter the Union or not. Under these circumstances II
is clearly apparent that the Federal Government has
only sent Governor Walker territorial officer to
Kan a. because have hitherto failed, or been una
bic to complete the Organization We have begun. In
the absence Of the full and vital powers Of Govern
adopted by the people this is merely an eudeavor
to cary cut the implied projection.
What renders this more Unhappy, is the fact that
the Federal authorities have never yet been able TO al
ford u such protection and there Is no Territorial
law here recognized by the people as SUCH the e1ecu-
tive function is mockery. -
Your first consideration is the necessities Of the
people but beyond that it is your duty to act with
prcnpness so as TO relieve these Federal appontees
Of merely nominal duty, that must be embarrassing
and dres pecul 10 them, while tue unsettled state oil
affairs conveys impressive reproach OF those Ne
publican institutions which all our hopes as peo-
pie In the inauguralto which have referred,
there is a alton that our people iOrsahe tue
Government they have adopted, and under the man
agement Of usurpng pretended officials seek 10 90
over again what has been done.
We do not think that any serious or generally enter
tanned desire exists among our people to do 90 and,
while opinions from such source may be entitled TO
respect il il at least unfortunate that course of
action in relation TO the Constitution should be pointed
out in the official address of Federal appotee who,
in that very address urges the right OF the people and
their right alone to take steps for State government
II as clearly evident from that address Itself that
Gov Walker has not been sufficiently cOnversant with