The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-02-11
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

Tuesday, I'd inst, his Message on Kansas aiIuirs
1t is truly an able exposition of the reasonable
and annrchal proceedings Of the Aboltionists Of
that Territory, and we think must be generally
acceptable TO The South. The document 10 too
fore only give the following compendium. in
which we have endeavored TO give the true sub
stance Of the Message, as we are confident it
will be n matter Of great concern to our read
ers:
The President says great deusion seems to
pervado the public mind i'm relation to the con-
dition of parties in Kansas; that this arises
from the difficulty Of inducing the people TO real
ize the fact that any portion of them should DO
IN state of rebellion against the government
that when we speak Of the nffairs of Kansas, We
are apt to refer merely to the existence of two
excited political parties, just as would speak
Of such parties in the States. This says the
President, presents no adequate idea of the case
that the conte' ton is not between two political
parties, both acknowledging the lawful existence
Of the government but between those who are
loyal to this government and those who have
done all in their power to overthrow the Terri
tnrial government established by Congressional
had it not been protected by the United States
troops, they would long since have subvertcd it
that large portion Of the people Of Kansas
have been in n state Of rebellion against the gov
ernnieni, with a military leader nt their head Of
n most dangerous character; that they have con.
stantly renounced and defied the government to
which they owe allegiance, and have all the
I.o.,,
authority, and establish in its rtead the So called
Topeka constitution; that Gov. WALKER always
protested against the withdrawal of any portion
of the military force Of the United States from
the Territory, as the Governor deemed it abso-
lutely necessary for the execution of the laws
that the spirit Of dsoyalty ran go high among
these people, that an election which afforded
king Kansas n free State-as they desired il to
bc-could not he conducted without Lootlsl,ed
that even up to the present time they still nd
here to their revolutionary constitution, and that
the very first paragraph of the Message of Gov.
RopISs"S to the Topeka Legislature, contains an
open defiance Of the laws of the United States;
that this Topeka government is in direct oppt,s-
prescribe ed md recognized by Congrcss-as un-
lawful as II would be for portion Of the people
of any State of the Union 10 establisI, n sepa-
rate government, within its limits, for the pur-
pose of rcdressng any wrong, real or imaginary,
o' which they might complain against the legi-
mate State government and that such priuci-
pie, if carried into execution, would destroy all
lawful authority, and produce universal anarchy.
that had the whole Lecompton Constitution been
submitted to the people, the adherents of the To.
pcka organization would doubtless have voted
against it, because, if successful in defeating it,
they would thus have removed an obstacle out
of the way Of their own favorte measure that
as 1t was necessary 10 ascertain whether it was
the desire of the people of the Territory 10 be
relieved from their territorial dependence, and
cstablis, State government. the Territorial Leg.
islature, i'll 1855, passed law for taking the
sense of The people upon the expediency OF call
ing convention to form a State Constitutions"
nnd that the "sense of the people" " being taken.
they decided in favor Of Il convcntion-but ut
this election these disloyalsts did not vote, be-
cause they were then engaged ut Topeka, uih-
ont The shyhtcst pretcst Of iuwful duthortty IN
framng n constitution of their own; that in pur-
suance Of the decision of the people in favor of
a convention, the Territorial Legislature, on the
9th day of February, 1857, passed all Act for
the election of delegates, OH the third Monday
in June, 1857, 10 frame State Constitution
this was as just and fair law as was ever passed
by any legislative body, for similar purpose, and
to avoid all interference from neighboring States
or Territories, provision was made for the regis
try OF the qualified vOters-tiiose who had heen
in the Territory three months previous to the Sd
Monday in June, citizens of the United States
aud above 81 years Of nge-and in pursuance
thereof 025l were registered that Gov. WALKER,
in his inaugural address, on the 9th Of No,
last, urged upon all qualified citizens to vote at
the election, and warned them of the conseauen-
ces if they should not participate in the election;
that the qualified voters who suffered the elec-
ton to pass by default could never reasonably
complain; that i'll view of oil these facts, the
Lecoinpton Convention, according to every prin-
ciple OF constitutional law. was legally consitu-
ted and was invested with power to frame n
Constitution that the Kansas Convention, being
lawfully constituted. proceeded 10 frame con-
s.itution-bnt not thinking proper to submit the
whole matter 10 the people, submitted only the
question whether Kansas should be free or
slave State; tina; when he instructed Governor
WALKER in regard to submitting the constitution
to the people, he had no other object in view
but that all-abso:bing question of slavery that
Kansas now asks admission into the Union and
that he is decidedly in favor of admitting her,
and thus terminate the Kansas question; tla,
this would carry out the great principle of "non-
Intervention by Congress Of slavery in the States
or Territories;" that it would be wise to reflect
upon the benefits that would result from the i'm.
mediate admission of Kansas into tile Union, as
well as the disasters which may result from it's
rejection that if majority of her citizens de-
sire to abolish domestic slavery, there is no other
mode by which it can be effected so speedily as
by admission; but that it has been solemnly ad.
judged, by the highest authority known to our
lawa. that slavery now exists in Kansas by virtue