The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
Governor cbase,s Letter.


dom. over the signature of IS, p. Chase"
The Herald man glews with ecstatie JOY on
finding that ..our policy" is indorsed by
ssthe abIest lawyer in the Mississippi valley"
We cheerfully concede to the able and dis
tinguished author of that letter every good
and noble quality ascribed to him by his
most ardent admirers, but we presume no
one viii claim iinfalEibilty for even SO great
statesman as Gov. Chase is admitted to
be by all. His .eeounsels should be well
considered at this time,'' but if the policy
indicated by him (it is his only by adoption
Brown. briggs. Wood d Co. claim the
originality will not not bear the test of a
rational investigation " it should not be
Needed"
If the Leeompton bill passes, the Gov
ernor of Ohio thinks the plan recommended
by Brown, of the Herald. is the true one,
and advises its adoption by the people of
Kanzas. Here is the plan:
s.Let the Free State Legislators and State
officers actually elected, together with any
Slave State members actually elected, meet
and organize. The fact of election, after
the examination by the commissioners ap-
pointed by the late Territorial Legislature,
cannot be matters of doubt, suppose. in
the case of any member. Once
in the Union, by vote of Congress, with
State Government organized in all its
branches-Legislative Executive and Judi
cial-will Calhoun dare to give certificates
to defeated candidates Hardly. Will the
defeated candidates dare to accept such GER
tifcates, and attempt to organize General
Assembly or take possession of the State
offices? That is still less likely. Will Mr..
Buchanan, in the event of such an attempt
ed organization, venture to give Federal
support to the pretended officers and Legis-
lature? That is least likely of ALL
To one not fully initiated into the myste-
ries of ''our plan,'' the above language is
rather unintelligible without some further
explanation. Will some one tell US when
the necessity is for Calhoun to issue certif-
Gates to defeated Tor elected) candidates
after ga. State government has been organ
lied in all its branches-Legislative Exc
cutive and judicial ?'' AS an outsider, we
have been led to suppose that Calhoun would
issue certificates to the candidates elected
before legal estate government can be or
ganized in all its branches under the Le-
compton Constitution. We are neither a
prophet nor the son of a prophet but we
will venture to predict that the government
which shall be organized by virtue of Cal
houn's certificates, will be the only govern
ment that will be recognized by the Federal
authorities. Mr.. Buchanan dares do any
thing to consummate his scheme to estab-
lish permanently the Calhoun government.
All attempts to organize State government
under any Constitution, in opposition to or
outside of Calhoun's certificates, will be
pronounced illegal and revolutionary by the
powers that be. A narrow look at the two
first sentences of the above extract from
Gov. Chase's letter, justifes the inference,
in our opinion, that the real design of ''our
policy" is to organize a State government
under tie Leconsptons Constitution on the 6a-
SIS Of the report Of the Investigating commits
sioners, and Independent Of Cdlhoun's GER
tjfcates. To such policy we enter our
solemn protest. In the name of God, we
ask, what can the people of Kanzas hope to
gain from such policy that may not be
achieved by organizing and putting in act
i've operation State government under the
new Constitution now being framed at
Leavenworth, in the event the Lecompton
bill passes Nothing, absolutely nothing,
except the loss of all the principle and NOR
al power of our position. Legally. Browns
policy can certainly claim no pre-eminence
above the movement in which the people
are now engaged, Either movement would
be treated as illegal and revolutionary by the
| Federal administration. If we adopt Browns
plan, the contest viii be simply for the
Offices under a Constitution which sis
equalled in moral depravity by no similar
production in the world - our people all
hate and loathe it, and have repeatedly de-
clared, in the most solemn manner, that
they viii never live or even organize under
it. Under the peoples plan, the contest
will be for principle, honor, truth, justice,
and Offices, under good Free State Gonsti-
tuition, which viii not require the manipu-
lations of a new Convention to remodel
and adapt it to the wants and wishes of the
people of Kanzas.
Much dissatisfaction is expressed in Ark :
ansas and Texas on account of the with
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