Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-18
yvigE Kansas be Freeg

L Ills question Is asked Dg every pouy.-
There are many well meaning men who
think that because there is large majority
of Free State men,or as the Buchanan men
say, oboiitionists, In Kansas, that therefore
it will be a free State. Many also think
that the Free State men will do wrong IN
not voting at the coming Kansas election.
To all such. we refer the following plain
statement of the case, which We find in the
New York Tribune:
I. All the appointments recently made
for Kansas by the new President are Of
the most active, bitter inscriptions leaders
of the Pro-Slavery fsction-W hitfield, En-
ory. Woodson, Ransom, &c, While not
one man who was previously known as
sympathzing with the Free State move
nent in Kansas has ever been appointed
to any post whatever, by either Pierce or
Buchanan. the men who planned and con-
sumated the gigantic fraud and usurpation
of March 80, 1855, have been, and are the
dispensers of Federal patronage in Kansas,
and themselves the recipients of the most
desirable offices. Some of them have led
marauding bands of Missourians in their
repeated invaSions of Kansas; Federal Off
GERS are known as having themselves fired
at and killed unarmed Free State men, but
no one was removed or publicly rebuked by
bis Supporters for such slight nisdemeanors.
in short. no outrage committed On Free
State men in Kansas, by their antagonists
has been punished or rebuked by our Ma
tional rulers: and no merit or service on
the part of Free State man has sufficed
to obtain for him an appointment at their
hands.
If. While Gov. Geary is replaced in
Kansas by Walker(for the present, by +. T.
Stanton,) Chief Justice Lecompte, whom
Pierce made show of removing, is still
continued in office, and there is not even a
pretence that he or Cato is to be superse-
dded. Thus the Judiclary,th Land Offices,
the public Surveys, the Marshalship, and
every department Of administration or av-
enue to power in Kansas, are in the hands
of enemies of the Free State cause, and
nobody but the new Governor (who is not
going to Kansas at presently makes any
profession of impartiality.
III. Putting the Land Offices Of Kansas
into the hands of Whitfield, Woosdon, En-
ory, &c. is in effect, advertising all claim
ants of disputed or doubtful pre-empti ons
thercin-which includes about every body
now in the Territory-that, if they want
decisions in favor of their claims, they must
be on the Pro Slavery side. And the az
ga uoce voting prescribed BY the Territori-
al Legislature at it's late session precludes
all attempts at assembling. No man can
vote a Free State ticket and not be known
and marked as so doing
". The act under which the. People OF
Kansas are called to decide the question OF
Freedom or Slavery therein is the identical
measure vetoed by Gov Geary because OF
its manifest unhtness and unfairness, but
passed over his head by the bogus Leglsla-
ture.
V. This act allows no man to vote who
was not in Kansas on the 18th of March
at which date thousands were from Yves
tern Missouri grabbing Indian lands, stalk
inc out claims, &c, while the Free State
immigration for the season had barely com
menced. The time was carefully pitched
on as that which would give the largest
Pro Slavery, and smallest Free State vote
VI. The census is to be taken, the vo
ting lists first made up, then reserved, and
the districts laid off, and the votes canvass
ed entirely by the creatures of the bogus
Legislature-eyery one intensely Pro-Sla-
very The Free State men have no voice
in the premises from first to last, nor are
the Federal officers allowed any real pow
or in the premises. Gov. Walker and
Secretary Stanton are allowed to say,upon
the presentment Of the bogus Census aud
List of Voters, how m ny of the sixty dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention
must be apportioned to each Of the nineteen
Election Districts respectively but this is a
mere problem in the rule of Three, and al
lows no discretion whatever. Gov. Walk
Ell, Gov. Geary and Gov. Robinson, if sew
orally required to make this apportionment
must each figure out exactly the same re-
suit. Nor has Gov. Walker any power
whatever SO long as he recognizes and
upholds the authority of the bogus Terri
torial Legisl .ture, TO make this Constitu-
tional Elect On fair one.
In view of these facts-and we chal-
lenge contradiction on any point above
stated-is it not morally certain that the
Free State men, by voting at the bogus
Constitutional Election, would only stultl-
fy themselves and seal the inevitable tri-
nmph of their enemiess With no shadow
of voice in ordering this Election, fixing
the time, taking the census, apportionlng
the delegates, holding the polls or count
ing the votes, they are to be led like sheep
to the slaughter; and their only choice is
between giving their voluntary sanction to
the outrage, or stigmatizing and scouting
it from the start. Can single earnest be-
lever that Kansas should be Free hesitate
as to their proper causeg
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