Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-12
NUMBER 45

surgenf government in that city.
} In the Governors dispatch of July 18Th
: he informs the Secretary of State thut---
This movement ut lawrence was the be-
ginning of plan, originating in that city, /,
organize insurreetion throughout the Terri
tory, and especially in all towns, cities ans
1 coun'ies where the republican party have d
maJority. Lawrence is the hot bed of al
abolition movements in this Territory j
is the town established by the abolition SO
cieties OF the East, and, whilst there are re-
spectacle people there, it is filled by con
siderable number of mercenaries. who art
paid by the abolition societies To perpetuate
and ditfuse agiiaiion throughout Kansas, ano
prevent peaceful settlement OF this qucs
ton. Having faIled in inducing their own
so-called Topeka Stale Legislature to organ
ize this insurrection, Lawrence has com
menced It herself; and if not arrested, the
rebellion will exteDd throughout the Terri
tory.
And again:
In order to send this communication i'm.
mediaiely by mail, tn ust close by assuring
you that the spirit of rebellion pervades the
great mass of the Republican purity of this
they are, by eastern Societies. having in
view results most disastrous TO the govern
nent and to the Union and that the con.
tinued presence of General Harvey here is
indispensable, soriginally stipulated by me
with large body of Dragons and several
batteries.
On The goth of Jolly, 1857, General Lane
under the authority of the Topeka Conyen-
tion undertook, as Gov. Walker informs
US:
To organize the whole se-called free
State purity into volunteers, and to take the
names of all who refuse enrolment The
professed object is to protect the polls al
The election i'll August of new insurgcu,
Topeka Stute Legislature.
The object OF takiug the names of all
who refuse enrolment is to terrify the tree
State conservatives into submisslrn This
is provoked by recent atrocities committed
on such men by Topekaites. The speedy
location Of large bodies of regular troops
here with two batteries is necessary. The
Lawrence insurgents await the development
of this new military organization &c.
In the Governors disputch Of July 81 he
says:
Lame and his staff everywhere deny the
authority of the Territorial laws, and coun-
sci total disregard of these enactments."
Without making further quotations o
similar character from other dispatahes o.
Governor Walker, it appears by reference tc
DIR. Stanton's communication to General
Cass, on the 9Th of December last, that "tht
important step of calling the Legislature to
geiher was taken after Chez had become
satisfied that the election ordered by the
Convention OH the 2lsL instant could not be
conducted without collision and bloodshed
So intense was the disloyal feeling among
the enmiss OF the government established by
Congress, that an election which afforded
them an opportunity. IN the minority, of ma
king Kansas free State, according to thei
own professed desire, could not be conducted
without collision and bloodshed, The tru,f
is, that up till the present moment the enc
mics oflhe existing government still adhere tt
THUR Topeka revolutionary Constitution ant
government. The very first paragraph o
) the message Of Governor X ,binson, date,
on the 7th of December, to the Topeki
Legislature now assembled at lawrence
contained an open defiance of thethe Con
sfltution and laws of the United States. Th
Governor says:
The Convention which framed the Con
stitution at Topeka, originated with the peo
pie of Kansas Territory. They have adop
ted and ratified the same twice by direc
vote; also indirectly through two elections o
State officers and members of the Stat
Legislature; yet it has pleased the admins
tn ard ,l,f,ta
volutonary.
This Topeka government adhered to will
such reasonable pertinaci'y, is govern
meut in direct opposition to the existin,
government prescribed and recognized b.
Congress.
1t is a usur rpatinn of the same charac,e
as it would be tor portion ot the people o
any State to undertake to establish a sepa
rate government within its limits for tn
purpose OF redressing any grievance, real o
imaginary, ot which they might com plain
against the legitimate State government,
Such principle if carried into execution
would destroy all lawful authority and pro
duce universal anarchy. From this state
, ment oil facts the reason becomes palpabl
why the enemies of the government author
lied by Congress, have refused TO vote fu
delegates to The Kansas constitutional con
vention, ana also, afterwards, ON the ques
ton of slavery, submitted by it to the pee
pie. II is because they have ever refuse
to sanction recognize any other constitu
tion than that framed ut Topeka. Had th
whole L,compton constitution been sub
mitted to the people, the adhercnts of thi
organization would doubtless have vote
against it, because il successful they woul
thus have removed an obstacle out of III
way OF their own revolutionary constitution
IL They would have doue this, not upon tn
. consideration of the merits of the whole
% part ot the Lecompton constitution, but sin
ply because they have ever resisted the a,
= thorlty OF the government authorized b
y Congress from which it emauated.
u Such being the unfortunate condition
q affairs in the Territory, what was the rigi
Il US well as the duty of the law abiding pc,
! pie? Were they silently and patiently
/ submit to the Topeka usurpa:iun or adoi
= the necessary measures to establish Col
e stitution under the authority of the organi
q law of Congress! That this law recognize
10 the right ol the people of the Territor,
> without an enabling uct of Congress,
p" form a State Constitution, is too clear t,
. argument. For Congress to leave til
people of the Territory perfectly free"
d framing their constitution, To form an
+" regulate their domestic Institutions in the
own way, subject only 20 the Constitute
d of the United Sta,es," aud then to say tn;
they shall not be permitted to proceed an
r, frame the constitution in their own wa,
0t without an express authority from t,Onrrcs
e, appears to be almost u contradiction i
'e terms. II would be much more plausibl
L to contend that Congress had no power