The Washington union., 1858-03-20

ri IL Is to prevent all this the governor calls upon the
President TO send the army the United States To aid in
the preservation OF life and property. will not fail Just
here to to the late President Of the United States the
high compliment which he richly deserves for his man
y and patriotic reply to Governor shannon by inserting
The same that the country honor him for his dcvo
ton to as arid ohitt a,.l give him The hig position to
which he is Justly entitled but which the party bitter
| ness of the hour denied him He says:
yoa despatch received Al the vested in the Ezccu
tive viii be eSertod t preserve order and enforce lhe laws
notwithstanding this, The sworn regulators, con-
nuing their rebeious opposition TO the local govern
ment, SO forward elect all their officers both state and
pera declare certain persons governor, senators to
Congress, Judges and helis with the ayowed purpose
of destroying that government which Congress had
4 thorizod This put in operation but very
sufficient arrests made to temper tho spirit OF
rebellion which had broken out among these " rcgul
tors and forced the immediate parties to acknowledge
that theirs only mere . fancy government, and
existed only paper Understanding full well that no
could be punished because hc imagined himself
| governor Judge or a sheriff
/ No sooner, however, these discharged than
they attempted to set up their State government and
put at defiance the laws of Kansas and it became
suy for the President of the United States 10y proclaa
ton, Ito command all persons engaged in unlawful com
binations ogaas he constituted authority of the Territory of
Kansas of the United States to dispcse and retire
pcaceaby to their respective abodes and to all such
persons that any attempted nsurrccon in said Territory
aggressive intrusion the same will be resisted not
only by the local militia but also ty that OF any avaa
! bic forces of the United States
This proposed use of villanous saltpete had very
happy though temporary effect for, although no orc'c
attempt made to set ub the Topeka govenent yet
every other method adopted to weaken and destroy
that which lawfully established Failing to
psh their purposes in Kansas. these eguators' came
before Congress aud demanded admission for her into the
Union State under their government but she was
rejected by the votes Of member Of Congress
cept those who determined TO act in obedience
to law which opened common territory to The in
gress Of slavery. and whose party had planted sel!
tIn 1octrin tltut no moro Stafp
added to this thiof.
The democratic party upon that occasion, stood y the
law of 1891 organizing the territorial government md
in which law recognised the right of people in form
ing their constitution to adopt reject slavery, they
might choose and, without regard to that subject, such
State might he admitted into the Union Upon the
lection Of this revolutionary State government by Con
gress the Imprisonment of certain regulators in Kan
sas and upon the great principle OF selfgovernment
contained in the act itself these regulators, through
their tps and head ncn appealed for Justice they
called it, to the American people in the poplar elections
| of 1856 They stood with bleeding Kansas and the
Topeka constitution cmblzoned upon their banners and
called upon the people to hurl from power the oppessor
aid to drive from these halls all who had refused to
dress the wrongs of Kansas But here they appeal
ed in vain for majority Of the people decided to stu
By he iaw and to sustain those men only who lived in
obedience thereto
Thus our present Chief Magistrate came into the cx-
ecuve chair instructed to enforce the laws they had
been made and they had been construed by his prcde
! ceSsr.
The people of Kansas who obcyng the laws of the
Territory seeing that majority of the people of tn,
States would not justify rebellion there and desiring
to satisfy the wishes Of those who sought admission
st,tc for ltat into the Union, through their Legislature
pass isw in January, 1857 authorizing the election
delegates Ia conyenoD which was in pursuance of the
! same to form State constitution So much had been
sld and written upon the subject of Missouri voters and
of their having forced the laws of the Territory upon
unwilling people, that the Legislature provided against
fraudulent voting the election for delegates b., re
uurug n registry of flc of such pcrSous
county ms authorized 10 vote, to he made three
mouths prior to the day set apart for the election.
The 4. Kansas regulators at that thic, we'll as al
his, claimed or themselves mnj6rity IN The Territory
Yet under this fair aud proper mode of ascorainng whr
legal voters, and who not, in COUNTIES
they refused to he registered, whilst in Others for in
stance Franklin, the sheriff who authorized to dis
charge this duty had been killed and the probate clerk
who, in the absence of the sheriff, had the power
utterly refused to obey the law.
This preliminary duty, however executed ihi
rs possible, and wherever the people would submit to IT,
and the regularly appointed time the election held
and delegates chosen for the purpose of forming Stat,
constitution The elective franchise is right priv
legc which is to he enjoyed not by the citizen if hi
chooses he exercises IL and il not he delegates to Others
the authority and power of acting for him. BY his
refusal, therefore, he is esoppcd from complaint at
suits which his act might have prevented Thus IN
Kansas those who refused to obey the law by with
holding their from registry, and subsequently
from voting, torccosed from objection by their
deed This, of ITSELF is sufficient argument against
! them but how much it becomes when
member that in this matter in all others they stood
outside the government and obstnatey refused to participate
in the rights secured to them, perform the duties
quired of them. They had the of both Terri
toral and federal governments that they should be pro
tectcd in al their rights Instead however, of accepting
these poicrcd offers and by way of manfsting their
purpose to disregard all law they undertake, by the
tboy of municipal election, TO exercise certain char
tered rights given to the town of Lawrence, in known
violation of territorial law, and in direct conflict there
with. so pnlpably rb6ious this movement that
Governor Walker, who had made himself obnoxious tc
the charge of intervention in their behalf thus writes to
General farney, commander of the troops in Kansas
have received authentic intelligence dangerous
has cprsd the Lawrence, this Territory
defiance OF the laws and the establishment Of nurgcnt
| ernmcpt iu That city.
This movement speedily arrested assured
bc extended throughout tho Territory aud must result the
| Of civil
~ becomes my painful duty, my
President the United States, request regiment
dragons proceed
posse executor
Of The laws and for tho preservation Of the public peace"
General Harncy obcys the order and marches with hs
| command upon Lawrence but before any act of bos
ity by the troops upon this population Governor Walker
issues his proclamation, in which he charges them with
the following crimes
You nauglrating rebellion revolution you
gadng the laws OF territorial government
dmg their authority conspg overthrow the
men OF the Uphe this Territory Your purpose
o oet IN the mode designated by Ivy putting laws
ciby INTO execution would involve you in the guilt and crime
uchson.n
General Harney's troops and this proclamation hal :
most soothing effect upon the regulators of the cit,
of Lawrence for although many for bringing OF
the conflict yet the prudent counecs prevailed
bloody issue avoided Still obedience civer
to the laws, and participation taken in the affair