Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-11


of July Is, he informs the Secretary of
State that ''the movement in Lawrence
was the beginning of plan, originating
! in that city, to organize an insurrection
throughout the Territory, and especial
ly in all the towns, cities and counties
where the Republican party have ma
ljority. Lawrence is the hot-bed Of all
Abolition movements in this Territory
1t is the town established by the Aboli-
ton Societies of the East, and while
there are respectable number of peo-
pie there, it is filled by considerable
number of mercenaries, who are paid by
Ithe Abolition Societies to perpetuate
and diffuse agitation throughout Kan
sas, and prevent the peaceful settlement
of this question. Having failed in in
ducing their own so-called Topeka State
Legislature to organize this insurrec-
ton, Lawrence has commenced it her
self; and if not arrested, rebellion will
extend throughout the Territory And
again SIN order to send this commu-
nication Immediately by mail, must
close, assuring you that the spirit of re-
bellion peryades the great mass of the
Republican party in this Territory, in
stigated, as 1 entertain no doubt they
are, by Eastern Societies, having in view
results most disastrous to the Govern
ment and the Union; and that the con-
tinued presence of General Harvey is
indispensable, as was originally stipu-
lated by me, with large body of dra-
goons and several batteries"
On the Goth of July, 1857, General
Lane, under the authority of the Tope-
ka Convention, undertook, as Governor
Walker says, "to organize the whole
free State party into volunteers, and to
take the names of all who refused en-
rollment. The proposed object was to
protect the polls at the election in Au-
gust of new insurgent Topeka Legis-
lature. The object in taking the names
of all who refused enrolment is to ter
rify the Free State Conservatives into
submission. This is proved by the re-
-cent atrocities committed on such men
by the .Topekaites. The speedy loca-
ton of large bodies of regular troops
here, with two batteries, is necessary.
The Lawrence insurgents await the de-
velopments of this new military organi-
zation." ......
In the Governors dispatch of July
27, he says: s'Lane and his staff every
where deny the authority of the Terri
torial laws, and counsel a total disre-
gard of these enactments."
Without making further quotations
of similar character from other dis
patches of Govern or Walker, it appears,
munication to General Cass, on the 9th
of December last that the important step
of calling the Legislature together was
taken after Governor Walker had be-
come satisfied that the election ordered
by the convention on the 21st inst.
could not be conducted without collision
and bloodshed So intense was the dis
loyal feeling among the enemies of the
government established by Congress
that an election which afforded them op-
portunities, in the majority, of making
Kansas free State, according to their
own professed desire could not be conduc
ted without collision and bloodshed The
truth is that until the present moment
the enemies of the existing government
still adhere to their Topeka revolution
ary constitution government. The very
first paragraph of the message of Gov
ernor Robinson, dated the 7th of De.
cember, to the Topeka Legislature, now
assembled at Lawrence, contains an
open defiance of the laws and Constitu
ton of the United States. The Gov.
ernor says: The convention which
framed the Topeka Constitution origin
ated with the people of Kansas Terri.
tory. They have adopted and ratified
the same twice by direct vote; also in
directly through two elections for State
officers and members of the State Legis
lature: yet it has pleased the Admins
tration to regard the whole proceeding
as revolutionary" This Topeka govern
ment, adhered to with such reasonable
pertinacity, is government in direct op
position to the existing government
prescribed and recognized by Congress
1t is usurpation of the same character
as It would be for portion of the peo
pie of any State to undertake to estab
5 lish seperate government within its
limits for the purpose of redressing an,
: grievance, real or imaginary, which the.
= might complain against the legitimat
State government. Such a principle
t carried into execution, would destro
= all lawful authority and produce univer
1 sal anarchy. From this statement O
: facts the reason becomes palpable VIII
l the enemies of the government author
: lied by Congress have refused to vot
t for the delegates to the Kansas Consti
/ tutional Convention, and also, afterwar
: on the question of slavery, submitted b
, it to the people. 1t is because the.
a have ever refused to sanction or recog
: nize any other Constitution than tina
f framed at Topeka. Had the whole LIE
= compton Constitution been submitte
j to the people, the adherents of this or
j ganization would doubtless have vote
= against it, because if successful, the.
: would thus have removed the obstacl
4 out of the way of their own revolution
o ary constitution; they would have don
: this, not upon the consideration of tn
$ merits of the whole or part of the Lecomp
: ton Constitution, but simply becaus
n they have ever resisted the authority {
: the government authorized by Cons res
n from which it cmanated. Such bein
= the unfortunate condition of affairs i