Freeman's champion., 1858-01-28
State General Hospital.
Militia.
Finance md TaYation

Counties, City and Town Officers.
Commissioners to arrange Rules OF
Practice in Courts OF Record.
Bureau of Statistics and cncour-
agement of Agriculture.
To secure the separate property and
custody of the children to the wife.
Banks and Banking.
Whether you shall legislate upon
any or all OF these subjects at the pres
ent time, is for you to decide. While
we remain under Territorial Legisla-
ton, we must submit to have our laws
adjudicated and executed by appoint
ees Of the President, some OF whom
have been the oppressors of the peo-
pie, while others are evidently gross
ly ignorant of our past history and
present condition. Should the Ter
ritorial Legislature remove all OBJ
structions to your progress, SO that no
collision of jurisdiction should occur,
it would doubtless become your duty
to provide, at an early day, wise and
wholesome laws for the use OF the
people.
The following attempt to pervert
the history of Kanzas in the Message
of Acting Territorial Governor Den
yer, of the 4th inst, is worthy Of no.
tice. He says
"ThO affairs of Kanzas have for
long time attracted much Of the at
tention of oil portions of the Ameri-
can Union; and it is sincerely to be
hoped that the troubles which have
heretofore existed among the people
of this Territory, are about 10 be ad-
justed. After the long continued dis
turbances, this will be most graft
flying result, and will give o new i'm
petus to the prosperity and settlement
of the country. Settled as this ter
ritory has been, by people from every
portion of the older states, many OF
whom entertained extreme views on
tho question of domestic slavery, it
could hardly be expected that coils
ions would not occur, and yet spirit
of tolerance, such as has character
lied the people of our sister territory,
Nebraska, which was organized under
the same law, and where slavery ex-
lists to almost, if not quite, as great
an extent, as it does here, might have
prevented it. There, all questions Of
public policy have been determined
by resort to the ballot box, and all
parties have yielded ready acquieS-
ceuce to such decisions Coercive
measures have never been resorted to
there and whenever frauds have been
attempted at the elections, applica-
ton has been made to the proper tri-
bunals for correction, and in no in
stance, as far as my information ex'
tends, without finding redress On
these subjects the conduct Of the peo'
pie Of Nebraska Territory is worthy
{ Of all commentator, and sincerely
) hope that the great mass OF the peo'
pie of this territory will follow theil
example"
, It is true that the affairs OF Kanzas
have attracted much of the attention
| of the American people, and for the
D very good reason that the sovereignty
of whole people was being crushed
y out by the Federal power. In the re-
suit Of this contest Of the peopl,
' against usurpation, every state in thu
1 Union was directly interested, for i
, popular sovereignty in Kanzas coulc
/ be destroyed by the administration, 50
might it be in the states, and our once
r proud Republic give place to des
q potism.
= Gov. Denver thinks that spirit o
a tolerance such as characterized tn
n people OF Nebraska, would have pre-
vented the unfortunate collisions il
r Kanzas. II is difficult to conceive
0 how the people of Kansas could hav
been more "tolerant" than they hav
been from the commencement Of thei
' history. Did they not tolerate" tn
q invasion Of the 30th March, 1855
and SEQ their ballot boxes wreste,
d from them by q foreign army? and
foreign government placed over then
without resistance I? Did they not SO
the administration at Washington on
dorss this usurpation and remove Gov
!. Reeder, because he would not enforc
II upon the people? Did they no
/. tolerate" the invasion of the autum
of 1855 when an army Of 1900 stron
was brought against the people b.
J. Federal authority without scause o
n provocationY Did they not "toler
ate" the raid upon Lawrence in May
n 1856, led on by y u. S. Marshal p
X and did they NOT see hotel, printin
Ie presses, and private property de
stroyed, and whole city sacked by
If U. b. mob with sufficient "toler
ntion 2n Have not our citizens eub