True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-02-10
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We shall not publish it in full for two
reasons: A full synopsis has appeared in
our columns, and the facts and arguments
presented have been repeatedly before
our readers, in Kansas letters, and in the
speeches Of Congressman. 1t is precise
ly such piece Of special pleading as, in
wrongcase. we should expects it is in
gehious in Misrepresentation, and petsis-
tent in assertions which have repeatedly
been exploded, and which every candid
mindknows 10 be untrue.-PM. Disp.
The Tribune thus alludes TO ii:
Beginning with the deliberate, intention
al fraud OF suppressipg the whole domes-
tic history of Kansas prior to the assem-
bling ofthe Topeka Convention, it leaves
those who rely upon il in utter darkness
and confusion as to the very pivot Of all
this Kansas controversy. The rational,
but ill-informed reader Of this Message,
seeing so much said in it of rebellion, re-
volutlonary government, resistance 10 the
laws, &c., must inevitably ask, !" Why
was their Topeka organization effected !
Why did the people Of Kansas refuse 10
vote al certain TERRITORIAL Elections ?"-
Our readers will readily answer" Be-
cause the Territorial Government was
usurped by invading violence and fraud
at the FIRST Legislative election in March,
1856; and because the government, thus
usurped. become a plant instrument Of
opposition, iniquity, and wholesale fraud,
such as slaves only could be expected 10
endure" The government thus seized
and perverted was necessarily repudiated
and de6ed by the great mass of the Peo-
pie of Kansas, whose Right Of Suffrage
Is crippled by the unconstitutional Test
Oalhs and by Election Laws framed 10
facilitate and give impunity to frauds.
The Topeka Convention, Constitution
and Government were simply solemn
appeal 10 Congress by the great mass of
the people of Kansas from the slavehold-
ing conspiracy, invasion and fraud, where.
byi,heir most precious rights had been
wrested from and turned against them. -
The President'knows these facts, yet he
willully suFpresses and ignores them, pro-
ceeding in their absence 10 heap accusa-
ton after accusation, wrong after wrong,
on the Free Stale men Of Kansas, whose
whole history he distorts, and whose ev.
cry motive he misstates anil calumniates.
m6stawickedly. Its lsbored citation Of
Gov. 4 Walkers dispatches, written ere
Walker bad sickened Of being slavery's
jackal--ils toilsome sophistry, designed
10 prove the fraudulent rule Of small mi.
norily. upheld by batteries and dragons,
is Popular SovereIgnty-its preposterous
assumption. that the admission OF Kansas
asaStave State will suppress agitation
andlOcalIze the Slavery issue-its attempts
10 show that fastening the Lecomptou
Constitution on an indignant, outraged
people, is the shortest way TO enable
them to rid themselves Of its yoke--in
short, every feature Of this message
stamps it an elaboration Of imposture and
iniqnity.
5I'he Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. a
neutral or rather independen, paper,
speaks as follows of the message: a1aa,
The message accompanying the LIE.
compton Constitution, has no more merit,
dignity, nor sonndness, than leader in
the he'Washington Union, The New Orleans
Delta, orrany other psper rabidly in fa-
ver Of the extension Of slavery. With
the utmost effrontsry he declares a large
majority Olsibe people Of Kansas to be
traitors and rebels, simply because they
insistupO their right to vote upon the
Constitution under which they are to live.
In the coolest manner imaginable, he
picks out extracts from Gov. Walkers
and Secretary Siaunton's dispatches, dis.
approving Of the Topeka Constitution ;
but he carefully avoids quoting any Of
thdnumetous passages in the same doc
uments disappearing Of the Lecompton
Constitution. With an audncity tha,
would be ludicrous, but for the evil
involved 10 the issue, he declares that the
only way iolsetlle the slavery question is
io-admil Kansas as a slave State. With
afblindnaEs that must be wiIluI, the Pres
ilent refuses allusion to the outrageous
ftautBytc Wholesale colonization Of voters
froin9 Missouri q and the other nefarious
psaelIces, uoIoriously pursued by the pro-
slaGefy men, utleyery step taken towards
the enmplftioR 6f the Iieeomplon plot.---
VIII sgcOmblaeehcy gthai il positively
mstSeddsnl nlle says lbct Nienlte instruc.
tedaGSyesnor WalRerlih favor ofsdbmi..
ting theeenstii0tioil toflliel people, ,s'fh lie
had noolject IN view except die all ab.
ss'tdngqdtsioh Of Slaveryw $50 9'il'l a"'
oiTAefsiIissBhe ethiug demonstrated by
N.yloiIid DESC 1gd 20 Won