Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1858-03-06

The official dispatches, even Of Gov.
Walker himself, stamp upon the Topeka
party, both designs and overt acts to sub
vert and nullify the Territorial laws, as
well as to resist any constitution, However
unexceptionable, to be made by a convcn-
ton convened under them. In fact, arm.
ed bands, organized in open hostility to tho
authority of the laws, to resist their execu-
ton, and to uphold the authority OF tile
illegal and revolutionary Topeka consIi-
tuition and goYcrnihentC have openly ira
yersed the Territory in the accomplishment
Of their designs, and yet exist under the
lead and countenance Of the leaders OF
faction, turbulence and disorder. No
proposition can be clearer thar that revo-
luton SITS, and those who openly aid and
cousort with them, waive for the time being
their political rights under the government
against which they rebel and can have 10
legal claim to be consulted in those politi-
cal proceedings which are conducted under
the regular authority of tie laws. And
for them to demand that their voices
shall be coun'cd to destroy the powers and
work Of convention which they repudi-
ated from the outset and in tue election
of the members of which they neither
! desired nor attempted to participate, 10
both impudont and monstrous.
| If there be fault upon the part Of tho
/ government with reGoreuce to this nsurgent
and misguided population, it is that they
have been treated with extreme leniency
and forbearance, lily requited by contin-
ued tu buleIce and resistance to authority
upon their part. Aud that the appeal
should now re gtavely made, in their be-
half, for the rejection of a legal constitution
and the con,inuai,ce of excitement and dis
order iu the Territory until they shall be
pleased to subside into order and regulari-
ty, may be classed among the curosities of
faction With equal proptiety might the
appeal be made in behalf of the insurgents
of Utah against the attempt to enforce
upon them the jurisdiction and authority
of the United States.
: Sound and conclusive reasons existing
for the positions assumed, every consider
alton demands that speedy and final action
be taken for the settle of this question
that has So long harrassed the public mind
f and worked an alienation oI that feeling Of
confidence, respect and friendship that
> should reign oupreme among the citizens
, of all parts OF the Union. A postpone.
! ment of the recognition of the legal position
how maintained by this territory for ad.
/ mission may feariu y increase that which
! already exists -,reyolution faction and dis
: cord. No good citizen can longer desire
continuance of an agitation that only
! cngenders spirit Of hostility and bitter
animosity between different sections of the
: conlederacy, and If prolonged, must ulti-
mately lead to consequences of the most
disastrous nature. The admission of Kan
> sas into the Union under an organic iu
ssrrment, complying in every respect Will
! the Federal institution, would signally
! yindicate the supremacy of law, bring or
. der out Of confusion, establish the reign o
: peace where lawless faction now holds it
n sway, calm the tarbu.taE elements of part,
# feesHg no longer Sustained by the hope 0
4 power, and leave the new State free to pur
5 sue her prcgreas in an uninterrup Cd caree
of Drosncritv