Freeman's champion., 1858-02-18
The N. Y. Tribune on Buchanan's 8
.,er Il Lecompton Message. la.

The Message Of President Buchan-
an, presenting to Congress the Le-
compton Constitution, and urging
the admission of Kanzas as o Slave
State, under and by virtue Of that in
strument will be read with grave
and anxious interest. Let not its
length deter any one from peru
sing it. 9fm,.. ...g. ..A'..s )
So monstrous compendium OF
fallacies and misstatements-%-of sup
precision and Misrepresentation
seldom been imposed ON a long
suffering public, Beginning with the
deliberate, intentional fraud of sup,
pressing the whole domestic history
of Kanzas prior to the assembling Of
the first Topeka Convention, il leaves
those who rely upon it in utter dark
ness and confusion as to the very.
pivot of all this Kanzas controversy.
The rational but ill,informed reader
Of this Message, seeing 50 much said
in it of rebellion, revolutionary gov
ernment, resistance to laws, &c, must
inevitably ask, Why was this To-
peka organization effected? Why
did the people OF Kanzas refuse to re-
cognizo and respect her earlier Terri
torial Legislature? Why did they
refuse to vote at certain Territorial
elections 2" Our readers, with most
Republicans, will readily answer
&" Because the Territorial Govern
ment, was usurped by invading vio-
lencc and fraud a. the first Legislative
election in March, 1855; and because
the Government, thus usurped, be-
came a plant instrument Of oppres-
sion, iniquity and wholesale fraud,
such as slaves could only be expected
to endure" The Government thus
seized and perverted was necessarily
repudiatsd and deded by the great
mass Of the people of Kanzas, whose
right of suffrage it crippled by uncon
stitutional test oaths, and by election
laws framed to facilitate and give
impunity to fraud, The Topeka Con
vention, Constitution and Govern
ment were simply aSolemn appeal tt
Congress by the great mass of the
people of Kanzas from the Slavehold
ing conspiracy invasion and iraut
whereby their most precious rights
have been wrestcd from and turned
against them, The President knows
these facts, yet he willfully suppresset
and ignores them, proceeding in thei
absence to heap accusation alter &c
cusation, wrong, after wrong, on tn
Free State men of KanzaS, who's
whole history he d ist orts, an'
whose every motive he mlsstates an'
calumniates most wickedly.' From
the gigantic falsehood by suppression
with which it sets out to the Snufliinl
cant with which it concludes, all il
systematic impostule, perycrsion an'
villainy. M o......,. ....
We have neither time nor space +
expose this atrocious document il
detail. It's labored citation Of Gov
Walkers dispatches written er
Walker had sickened of being Slave
ry's iackal and the Presidents plan
tool-its toilsome sophiStry designed
to prove that the fraudulent rule of
small minority, upheld by batterie
and Dragons, is popular sovereignt
Its preposterons assumption tha
the admission of Kanzas Ms a Slav
State will suppress /" agitation" AM
localize the Slavery issuc-its at
tsmpts to show that fastening tho lie
compton Constitution on an indig
nant, outraged people, is the Shortcs
way to enable them to rid themselve
Of its yoks--in short, every featur
OF this MeSsage--stamp it an elabo
ration of imposture and iniquity sue
{ as no false prophet ever concocted
Our columns show how it was re
, ceived in Congress--it must awake
| q still wider and deeper indignatio
among the people i t,iIa u,io (