Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-31

The committee appointed by the Ant'-
Lecompton Democracy OF Knox County to !
correspond with leading men OF the party
throughout the State. and solicit their
presence as speakers at the late demon
s,ration held in Mt. Veraon, having inv'-
ted Hon. John A. Corwin, of Urbana, late
Supreme Judge of the State, to be pres
pn1 and address the meeting, he had pub.
EsheI in tue Cincinnati Enquirer, without
a,king the permission of It's authors the
note If invitation thus received, tgether
with his reply thereto. He said that it
would be impossible for him to comply
with their request, and went on to endorse
,be Presidents Kansas policy in unmeas'
ured terms and without reserve, proving
himself tue most seTvile of the servlIes'-
70 this the Committee sent him the toI'
lowing ready and tart reply;-SandHS6y
hegis'er. ,oro
Hon. JOHN A. CORwIN.
sYour favor of the 9th February has
been received, in the colums of the Gin
cnnati Enquirer For tue gentlemanfyy
manner in which you have given publicity
to our correspondence, We bumbly thsnS
you. You are pleased to tell us, that the
Heople ot Kansas are at perfect liberty, al
snv time, after the admission into the Un
ion under the Lecomptou Constitution tt
change alter or amend it at their plealure
Need we say toyou that there are buttw'
r WAYS in which people can change the'
: organic law--one, laWful; the other. rev
: olsttionnry? The Lecompton Constltu
lion. if Kansas be admitted under it be
Y comes the supreme iaw of the people
e And that Constitution forbids any chang
J, before the year 1864, aud permits non
Il then only on condition that two thirds
i. the members Of each branch Of her Legl
e lature concur in authorizing a call for
1t convention, and that any convention to D
II elected under such call shall no. snpd'
d in anu manner the right of the slaVehoI'
81 10 property in bis slaves IN Kansas :
70 Now, sir, The Constitution being IL
l. supreme lasU, any attempt to alter it, NJ
n done in accordance with and in conform
10 ty to that supreme law, is necessarily III
10 iawtul, and if unlawful, reoolat'onar"'-
of You reed not Je astonished at this view.-
Ons of your distinguished coaajntors
the famous attempt to destroy the sovt
eighty of the People of Kansas senS'
:. Green. in his majority report from
~ Committee on Territories, recommendl
Ie L the admission of Kansas under the l
nn "e compton Constitution, boldly and dIst'n
eu t' " takes the same ground. You will sui
:. -, Us to commend to your prayerfaI cons'd
d. alton that report.
ax. And now,sir. what position do you
ear cupy? You propose. in the first place,
,de force the people Of Kansas into the Un
is against tbsr solemn protest,and then M
,ott unanimously say to them, "You can get
not of your wrongs by becoming rebels aga
to the : Government = which We have forced
sity on YOU" Generous Mr.. Corwin!
sws And this, sir, is Democracy IN, J
nd. opiuiou, God forbid that it should I
,ble be ours Our Democracy teaches US
and "all just governments derive their !o:'
DAD from the consent of the governed,
lean that the people should rule, and not :
bu, of ofinfamous iorgsrs, punurers and b"
END suffers headed BY that heartless scoun
!, and william, John Calhoun