The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-07-31

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nances and the execution thereof, Under
an authority having in itself no legal
existence, and established in direct de-
fiance Of the Government of the United
States. -.... s..r .o-a
From all these facts. it is obvious if
you are permitted to proceed, and es-
pecially if your example should be fol-
lowed as urged by you in other places,
that for all practical purposes in many
important particulars, the Territorial
government will be overthrown. The
charters granted by that government for
similar purposes will be dis-regarded,
and the justices of the peace and other
officers acting under their authority,
VII be brought necessarily into conflict
and collision with the so-callcd officers
claiming to act under different author
ity. a1as @Et -~.a4r5 fe@a.asaaf sassrs p
The Territory will thus be involved
in inextricable confusion and litigation !;
the value of your property be greatly
deprecated; your titles, transfers, trans
actions, and contracts will be subjected
to endless and costly disputes and all
will suffer from this insurrection, except
the lawyers who have stimulated this
movement. A government founded on
insurrection and usurpation will be sub
stituted for that established by the au-
thority Of Congress, and civil war will
be renewed throughout our limits. If
your authority to act in this manner for
the city of Lawrence is permitted, a
similar authority must be acknowledged
in every other town, city or county, re-
suit in inevitable and most disastrous
conflict; and if successful, the Terrific
rial government be overthrown in detail,
as is your present purpose.
You were distinctly informed in my
inaugural address of May last, that the
validity of the Territorial laws was ac-
knowledged by the government of the
!. United States, and that they must and
would be carried into execution under
my oath Of Office and the instructions
of the President of the United States.
The same information was repeated in
various addresses made by me through
out the Territory. AT the same time,
every assurance was given you that the
rights of the people of this Territory,
under the right to establish their own
State government and frame their own
forms prescribed by the government of
your country, social institutions woald
be acknowledged and protected.
If laws have been enacted by the
Territorial Legislatures, which are dis
proved of by a majority of the people
of the Territory, the mode in which they
could elect new Territorial Legislature
and repeal those laws, was also designa-
ted. If there are any grievances of
(which YOU have any just right to com,
plain. the lawful, peaceful manner in
which you could remove them, in subor-
dination to the government of your
country was also pointed out.
| You have, however, chosen to dis
regard tho law of Congress and of the
Territorial government created by it,
and whilst protesting to acknowledge a
State government rejected by Congress,
and which can therefore not exist only
by successful rebellion, and exactins
from all your officers the pcrilous and
sacrilegious oath to support the social
ed State Constitution yet you have
even in defiance Of the so-called State
Legislature which refused to grant you
a charter, proceeded to create local
} government of your own, based only
upon insurrection and revolution. I'll.
very oath which you require from al
your officers to support your so-called
Topeka State Constitution, is violated il
the very act of putting in operation ;
) charter rejected even by them.
! A rebellion so iniquitous and nccessa
, rily involving such awful consequences
has never before disgraced any age OF
: country. --~=aa ssa----.
, Permit me to call your attention a.
still claiming to be citizens of the U
States, to the results of your revolution
airy proceedings. You are inauguratin!
t rebellion and revolution you are dis
regarding the laws of Congress and 0
! the Territorial Government, and defyin!
their authority you are conspiring t
, overthrow the Government of the U. S
in this Territory. .eagazaa@
g Your purpose, if carried into eifec
r in the mode Designated by you, by put
e ting your laws forcibly into execution
l would involve you in the guilt and crim
L of treason. You stand now, fellow citi
t zens, upon the brink of an awful preci
pice, and it becomes my duty to war;
!, you ere you take the fatal leap into tn
|, gulf below. If your proceed dings ar
r not arrested you will necessarily destro,
!, the peace of this Territory and involv
t it in all the horrors of civil war. war;
y you, then, before it is too late, to reced
+ from the perilous position i'll which yo1
J, now stand.
It lappeal l once more to your reason AM
patriotism. | ask you in the name 0
! our common country, in the name 0
: the Constitution and of the Union, t
j, desist from this rebellion. | appea
n once more to your love of country, t
It your regard for its peace, prosperity an
d reputation, to Your affection for you
) wives and children, and to all thos
!, patriotic motives which ought to inilu
l. ence American citizens, to abandon thi
h contemplated revolution. If you hav
d wrongs redress them through the peace
: full ins.rumentality of the ballot box, j
6 the mode prescribed by the laws Of you
II country. @
,e AS all arguments heretofore SO ofte
addressed by me to you, have failed q
II yet to produce any effect upon you,
: have deemed it necessary for your safety
/, and that of the Territory, and to say