St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-03-04


dictation of accepting laws proposed
by an illegal body; of accepting off
GERS nominated by those without the
power to nominate / claim for Their
all the rights of American citi
zens, which include the right botl
to make their laws and elect thei,
rulers.
That it was the original design o
the Southern Democracy, to organic
a slave State in the Territory of Kar
sas is clear to my mind, from tn,
facts to which l shall now allude
The first is the organization of two
Territorial Governments by the same
act of Congress, and that in the alb
sence Of q population requiring it
For it was stated, only a few day.
since, by the honorable Senator from
Illinois, in his great speech on thi.
subject, that at the time of the passage
of this bill there were no: one hundred
American citizens within the limits O
both the Territories of Nebraska ant
Kansas. Then inquire, whence tn,
necessity for organization of two Ter
ritorial Governments in one district O
country by the same act of Congress
This never had happened previously
in the legislative history of this
country. No Senator can point me to
precedent. These two Governments
within the same Territory were organ
lied at time when, in the opinion of
the honorable Senator from Texas,
(Mr. Houston, and the honorable
Senator from Tennessee, (Mr. Bell, }
there was no necessity for one, with
enormous additional expense of about
one hundred thousand dollars annual
ly. These Territories are not separa-
ted from each other by a range of
mountains, not by an impossible
desert, not by morass, not by lake
or by river, not even by range of
hills. The line between these two
Territories was first drawn by your
astronomer on the heavens, by the
position of the stars, and dropped
down on the bosom of that beautiful
prairie country Why was this? Can
it be explained on any other hypothc-
sis than a design to favor the organ
lzation of a Government adapted to
the wishes of the people of one part of
this contederacy? This inference is
strengthened by the position of that
lIne, south Of the projection of the
northern line of the State Of Missouri,
rendering it improbable, as it was
then believed, that emigrants would
find their way south of that line. This
inference is strengthened also by
the tone of the Southern press and
Southern statesmen.
The expectations of the Demo
cractic party in the passage of this
bill were that, following the natural
laws of emigration, the people of the
free States would flow down from
New England, New York, and the
Northwestern States, and settle in
Nebraska, but that emigration from
Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Missouri, would flow through the lat
ter State, and up the Missouri river,
and occupy the Territory of Kansas,
and thus control it's political institu-
tions. This explains the anomalous
organization of two Territorial Gov
erements, with their peculiar bound.
aries, at the same time, in advance of
a population requiring it. This also
explains the subsequent acts of the
President of the United States, and
the inaction Of Congress, when the
Territory was invaded and overpower-
ed by armed bands of men from the
Southern States This explains the
persistence of the President and his
supporters in maintaining in power
these usurpers-the sanction and en-
forcement of its pretended laws, and
the arrest and punishment of many of
its best and most patriotic citizens,
under acharge Of constructive treason
This explains the appointment to
office of the worst men that ever dis
graced it's soil and the removal from
office of its Governors, whenever they
manifested disposition to show the
Free State men even-handed Justice.
Thus, the first Governor, and the
second Governor, and the third Gov
ernor, and the fourth Governor, fell by
the Executive guillotine. AS soon as
it was understood that Governor
Walker, whose official conduct has
been criticised here and in the Execu-
tive mansion, had pledged himself to
the people Of that Territory that they
should be permitted to enjoy the ma
ked right of objecting to Constitu-
ton framed by body Of men whom
he has declared to have been illegally
chosen, in violation Of every principle
Of justice-for promising to exert the
utmost of his induenc to secure them
at least hearing at the polls, he was
denounced by the Democracy Of no
less than two of the Southern States
of this Union. When it was known
that he had rejected a copy of a Gin.
cinnati Directory, returned as poll.
book from one of the precincts OF
Johnson county, it was we'll under
stood that his doom was scaled; be
cause the rejection of that pretended
return gave the Free State men a ma
jority of the members of the Legisla
ture. Can any one account for the
mysterious removal of Secretary Stan
| ton on any other ground? Senators
here will not require me to state the
reasons assigned on this floor for thai
removal? Removed for what? What
has he done? Does the country al
large know why he was removed
There was a reason; and it is knowl
to Senator's here, and none others.
Whenever the officials of that Terri
tory have been disposed to show even
handed justice to the Free State men
it has uniformly occasioned thei
official death, without one solitary ex
ception. This can be accounted fol
only by the admission that it was the
original design and intention to organ
ize slave State in that Territory
to secure II through what is denOml-