The Council Bluffs nonpareil., 1858-10-02
From the Hawk-Eye


lue uEUnu lHQucst VI Ine A"cIlChu 1>n>
ton duly empannellcd and authorized to
inquire into the state of the Nation at large,
do present and say that the present social
ed Democratic party have been guilty OF
high crimes and misdemeanors against tho
natural and chartered liberties and rights of
the American people.
They repealed the Missouri Compromise
for the establishment Of Slavery in Kansas
and Nebraska.
They instigated Border Rutian invasions
into Kansas to drive the Free State settlers
therefrom.
They received the Border Ruf6an invaders
into the military service of the United
States, and for their acts of violence and
outrages perpetrated by them on the persons
and property Of the Free citizens of Kansas
paid them from the Treasury of the General
Government.
They removed four Governors, three Sec
retaries of the Territory, two Judges, and a
number of inferior Officers, because they
either refused or were tardy in assisting to
WELD the chains of oppression and slavery
in Kansas.
They have appointed to high and valuable
Offices the most distinguished Of the Border
Rufian thieves, robbers and murderers.
They carried the Presidential Election OF
1856 on the doctrine that the people of n
Territory have the right to admit or reject
Slavery at their pleasure, and they now laud
the Dred Scott decision as the true exponent
of Democracy, which says the people Of u
Territory have no right whatever to pro-
hibit Slavery.
They attempted to force the Lecomption
Constitution on the people of Kansas, and
failing to do it by direct force, attempted to
carry it by bribery and corruption, offering
the people of Kansas millions of acres OF
land if they would accept that Constitution.
They have given a preference over free
labor by declaring in the English Lecomp.
ton Bill that Kansas might come into the
Union with her $4,000 inhabitants if the
people thereof would accept the Lecompton
Slave Constitution but if they failed to &C.
cept it, that hereafter no Territory should
be admitted as State into the Union with q
less population than 90, ,420 inhabitants.
They have North and South, East and
West. fred cannon, Illuminated their houses
and shouted victory over the defeat of Blair,
the Representative of Jeffersonian democracy
and free white labor in Slave State.
They are spending $50 ZOO, 900 year for
the ordinary expenses of the Government,
being Sl5,000,O00 a year more than was
expended during either Of the years Of the
Mexican war.
They are squandering millions Of the peo-
ple's money under the contingent secret
service fund, and deficiency appropriations,
in filing the country with special Agents
and Government Spies, in maintaining a
multitude of partizans in Office at high sala-
ries, where there are little or no public du-
ties to be performed, and in purchasing pre-
tended army and navy sites of their partizan
friends at twenty times their real value.
They are welding the whole force of the
General Government to establish Slavery
as a National institution, contrary to the
doctrine of the Revolutionary Fathers, that
Slavery is sectional and Freedom only is
National.
Wherefore as such acts and doings are
against the peace and dignity of the United
States, and endanger the perp.tuty of Re-
publican Government, We, the said Inquest,
DO present this Indictment in open court
and ask tina, it be placed on the Record
thereof.
(Signed) ga true Bill"
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Foreman.