The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-06-03
Kansas rs She Is.


To any one not conversant with the details
of Kansas politics, The present position Of that
territory may very easily be misunderstood.-
There is the Topeka government, the Leaven.
worth government and the Lecompton govern
ment. as they are respectively designated from
| the title of the different constitutions under
which the organizations were effected, yet
notwithstanding the machinery of st tie has
been so frequently constructed, the promethi-
an fire s wanting TO give actuallty to the
moulded elements.
! BY common consent the old Topeka organi-
za'ion has been wihirawn from the arena Of
contest. Once the ward and watchword, the
ra'ving call and battle cry of the freemen Of
Kansas. it now sleeps the sleep of the brave,
and lives in the hearts and memories of those
who riskei everything in its behalf.
The Leavenworth government was origina-
ted with a view of establishing a new organi-
cation that might be free from the preindices
which existed against the very word s'Tope-
ka." With il the people Of Kansas were de-
termned on meeting the Lecompton issue ir
,
was forced upon them. But as the Lecomp-
ton swindle is 10 be submitted to a popular
vote, the people of Kansas, ever ready to sac
rifce 10 the public veal, have resolved on
keeping all governments in obeyance till they
have planted the last nail in the coffin of the
Lecompton villainy. To the English bill are all
eyes turned, and for the election under it. all
men prepare. Talk not Of lands nor of gold
to those who have been nurtnred in the west
ern cradle Of liberty. They know well the
tyranny to which territory may be subjected,
but they will endure any official rule rather
than basely succumb to fiat which involves
q sacrifice of honor, principle and manhood -
In the voluminous folds of The English bill the
Lecompton vilainy may be deftly hid, but
the very children Of Kansas unmasli the hyp-
ocritical enactment, and expose the evil that,
If not eradcated, will blight the hopes of a
young and lustrous commonwealth. The peo-
pie Of Kansas are unit, we might almost say,
in their opposition to the Lecompton consti-
tuition. They know that, as territory, they
must and will be under the rule of debased Of
III id'S, VI d SoiIupt luulCidiNs dhu pelHdpS lcel
the tread of troops about their very hearth
stones; yet this they will endure rather than
submit to the terms of the English bill, and
for that justice which is their due. and that vim
dication which is their right, they will appe al
to the Justice and honor of an American Con-
gress that shall spring fresh from the womb of
the people Of the United States. High among
the names of revolutionary patriots stands that
of him, who when approached by the emissa-
ries Of corrupt crown with honeyed words
and FURNISHED gold, gave back the reply, Isl
am poor indeed, but, poor as am, the king of
England has not wealth enough to make me
hetray my country" So speaks Kansas
Her people are poor and weak. but tyranny |
has not wealth nor power enough to make !
them abate iot or yield an iota of what they |
believe to be right. In their opposition to the
English bride, they are firm as the enduring
rock. They will bury it deep in the grave of |
oblivion, and with caImness and resolution
look for the reward that must at last repay so |
much perseverance, and such unwavering in.
No. Democrat.