Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-03
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The Presidents Message on Kanzas
Affairs.
MAsH1NaroN. Feb. .. 1858

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the Constitution framed by that body, with
the expression of the hope that would sub
NIT the same to the consideration of Congress,
with the view of the admission of Kanzas into
the Union as an independent State.
In compliance with this request, herewith
transmit to Congress, for its action, the Con-
stitution Of Kanzas, with the ordinance re-
speeding the public lands, as well as the letter
from Mr.. Calhoun, dated Lecompton, the 18th
ult., by which they were accompanied, hav-
ing received but single copy of the Consiitu-
ton and ordinances, l send this to the Sem
ate.
A great delusion seems to pervade the pub
lie mind in relation to the parties in Kanzas.
This arises from the difficulty of inducing
the American people to realize the fact that
any portion of them should be in a state of
rebellion against the government under which
they live. When we speak of the affairs of
Kanzas, we are apt to refer to the existence of
two violent political parties in that territory,
divided by the question of slavery, just as we
speak of Utah, and such parties i'll the State.
This presents no adequate idea of the state of
the case. The dividing line there is not be-
tween two political parties. both acknowledge
ing the lawful existence of the government,
but betw cen those who are loyal to the gov
eminent, and those who are endeavoring to
destroy its existence by force and usurpation
between those who are sustaining and those
who have done all in their power to over
throw the territorial government established
by Congress- This government would long
since have been subverted, had it not been
protected from assaults by troops of the Uni
ted States.
Such has been the condition of affairs since
my investigation. Ever since that period,
large portion of the people Of Kansas have
been in state Of rebellion against the gov
eminent, with military leader at their head
of a most turbulent and dangerous character.
They have never acknowledged, but have
constantly denounced and deied the govern
ment to which they swore allegiance, and
have been all this time in state of rebellion
against its authority. They have all the time
been endeaVoring 10 subvert it and establish
revolutionary government under the So
called Topeka constitution in it's stead. Even
at this very moment the Topeka Legislature
are in session. Whoever has read the cores
pondence of Gov. Walker, which the state
department recently communicated to the
Senate, will be convinced that this picture is
not overdrawn. He always protested against
the Withdrawal of any portion of the military
force of the United States from the territory,
deeming its presence absolutely necessary for
the preservation of the regular government
and the execution of the laws.
In his very first dispatch to the Secretary of
State, dated June 2, 1857 he says, ga most
alarming movement proceeds from the assem-
bling Of the SO called Topeka Legislature,
with view to the enactment of an entire
code Of laws, Of course it will be my en-
deavor to prevent such a result, as it will lead
to an inevitable and disastrous collision, and
in fact renew civil war in Kanzas." This
tod nv he of
Walker. Bat soon he had to send TO General
Harvey to request him to furnish regiment
of dragons to proceed TO the city of Law
renee, and this for the reason that he had re-
ceived authentic intelligence verified by his
own actual observation, that dangerous re-
bellion had occurred, involving open defiance
of the laws, and the establishment of an in
surgent government in that CITY,
In the Governors dispatch of July 10, he
informed the Secretary of State that the
movement in Lawrence was the beginning of
plan of organization in that city, to organ
Use a rebellion throughout the Territory, and
especially in all the towns and cities where
the Republican party had majority. Law
renee is the hot-bed of all abolition move,
ments in this Territory. 1t is the ceutre es.
tablished by the abolition societies of the
East, and while there are respectable num-
Der of people there, it is filed by a eonsidera-
BILE number of merchants, who are paid by the
abolition societies to perpetuate and ditfuse
agitation throughout Kanzas, and prevent the
peaceable settlement of this question. Hav-
ing failed in inducing their own so-callcd To-
peka State Legislature to organize this insur-
rection, Lawrence has commenced it herself
and if not arrested, rebellion wsll extend
throughout the Territory; and again, in order
to send this communication Immediately by
mail, must close by apprizing you that the
spirit of rebellion peryades the great mass of
the Republican party of this Territory, insti-
gated, as 1 entertain no doubt they are, by
Eastern societies, having in view results most
disastrous to the government of the Union,
and that the continued presence of General
Harvey is indispensable, as was originally
stipulated by me. with a large body of dra-
goons and several batteries.
On July 20, 1857, General Lane, under the
authority of the Topeka Constitution, under
took, as General Walker says, to organize the
whole Free State party into volunteers, and
to take the names of all who refused enrol
ment. The proposed object was to protect
the polls at the election, in August of a new
insurgent Topeka Legislature. The object in
taking the names of all who refuse enrolment,
is to terriiy the Free State conservatives into
submission. This is proved by the recent
atrocities cammitted on such men by the To-
peka Legislature. The speedy location of
large bodies of regular troops here. with two
batteries is necessary. The Lawrence insur-
gents await the development of this new mil.
itary organization.
In the Governors dispatch of the 9th, he
says that his staff deny everywhere the au-
thority of the territorial laws, and counsel a
total disregard of those enactments. With.
out making any further quotations of a SINH
lar character, from other dispatches OF Gen.
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 Gen. Walker had become satisfied that
the election ordered by the convention of the
2lst, would not be conducted with out con-
fusion and bloodshed So intense was this
disloyal feeling among the enemies of the gov
eminent established by Congress, that an cleo
ton which afforded opportunities to the major
of making Kanzas free State, according to
their own desire, could not be conducted
without collision and boodshed. The truth
is, that, till the present moment, the enemies
Of the existing government still adhere to the
Topeka revolutionary government The very
first paragraph of the message Of Gov. Robin
son, made Dec. 7th, to the Topeka Legislature
now assembled at Lawrence, contained an
open defiance of the laws aud constitution of
the United States. The Governor says the
convention which framed the Topeka consti.
tuition originated with the people of Kanzas
territory. They have adopted and ratified the
survey twice by a direct vote also indirectly
through the election If State officers and mem