Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-02-12

- is the toKn established Oy the AoVhtiV''
g Societies OF the East, and, while there
=" are respectable people there, it Is filled
" By considerable number of nercena-
d" ries, who are paid by Abolition Soci-
" cites to perpetuate and diffuse agitation
" throughout Kansas, and prevent peace
" full settlement of this question. Having
I" failed in inducing their own so-called
" Topeka State Legislature to organize
q" this instruction, Lawrence has COM
" menced it herself, and, if not arrested,
the rebellion will extend throughout
-" the Territory" And again: "In or
" der TO send this communication imme-
" diately by mail, / must close, assuring
I" you that the spirit of rebellion peIvades
a. the great mass of the Republican party
" of this Territory, instigated, as / enter
p" tain 70 Iouot they are, by Eastern So
" cieties, having in view results most dis
" astrous to the Government and the I'm
" ion; that the continued presence of
&" Gen. Harvey is indispensable, as was
" originally stipulated by me, with large
" body of dragons and several batteries"
On the goth of July, 1857, Gen. Lane,
under the authority Of the Topeka Con-
vention, undertook, as Gov. Walker in
forms US, ''to organize the whole Free
" State party into volunteers, and to take
" the names of all who refuse enrolment.
" The professed object was to protect the
"polls at the election, in August, of a
new insurgent Topeka State Legisla-
" lature. The object in taking the names
" of all those who refuse enrolment is to
force the Free State Conservatives into
" submission. This is proved by the recent
atrocities committed on such men by
"the Topekaites. The speedy location
" of large bodies of regular troops here,
with two batteries, is necessary. The
" Lawrence insurgents await the devel-
opponents of this new military organi-
"tion."
In the Governors dispatch of July "a,
he says that "Gen. Lane and his staff
everywhere deny the authority of the
" Territorial laws, and counsel a total
disregard of these enactments."
Without making further quotations of
similar character from other dispatches
of Gov. Walker, it appears, by reference
to Secretary Stanton's communication to
Gen. Cass on the 9th of December last
that ''the important step of calling the
" Legislature together was taken after ]
" (he) had become satisfied that the cleo
" ton ordered by the Convention on the
"2lst of December, could not be con.
" Quoted without collision and bloodshed.'
So intense was the disloyal feeling among
the enemies of the Government estab.
lished by Congress, that an election which
afforded them an opportunity, if in the
majority, of making Kansas a Free State
according to their own protested desire
could not be conducted without collision
and bloodshed. The truth is, that I'D to
the present moment the enemies of the
existing Government still adhere to their
Topeka revolutionary Constitution and
Government. The very first paragraph
of the Message of Gov. Robinson, dated
the 9TH of December, to the Topeka Leg.
islature, now assembled ct Lawrence con.
tains an open defiance of the laws and
and Constitution of the United States
The Governor says: "The Convention
(which framed the Topeka Constitution
originated with the people of the Kan
sas Territory. They have adopted anc
ratified the same twice by a direct vote
also indirectly through two elections foI
State officers and members of the Stat,
Legislature; yet it has pleased the Ad
ADMINISTRATION to regard the whole proceed
ding as revolutionary" This Topek:
Government, adhered to with such trea
enable pertinacity, is Government il
direct opposition to the existing Govern
ment prescribed and recognized by Con
gress.
1t is usurpation of the same character
as it would be for portion of the peopl,
of any State to undertake to establish ,
separate Government within its limits fo
the purpose of redressing any grievance
real or imaginary, of which they Nigh
complain against the legitimate Stat
Government. Such a principle, if car
ried into execution, would destroy al
lawful authority and produce universe
anarchy. From this statement of facts
the reason becomes palpable why the en-
enemies Of the Government authorize,
by Congress have refused to vote for tn
delegates TO the Kansas Constitutions
Convention, and also, afterward. on tn