Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-25
Tina Present Condition Of Affairs in Kan
O0o.

The Black Republican party in Kan
Sos is now in a complete snarl, and its
leaders know not how to move or
where to turn. They have in the last
two years involved themselves in so
many Inconsistencies and performed
so many tragical farces that they arc
finally and cm~phatically played out.
Many journals in the East which have
sided with the Lane and Robinson
party in Kansas are now puzzled by its
unaccountable action, and are begin
ming to withdraw their support and
confidence from it. 1t is well known
that in the month Of October last an
election for members Of a Legislature
was held in Kansas, at which the so
called Free State men were completely
successful. Gov Robinson advised his
friends to vote, and he himself partici-
patcd in the election. 1t would of
course be supposed that he would ack-
nowledgc the regularity Of q legisla-
TUE which he and his friends elected,
and it was understood that the Topeka
humbug should lie undistnrbed upon
the shelf. Now, however, to the sur
prise Of those not initiated into the
mysteries Of freedom shricking and
depicting crimson Kansas, whilst the
Free State Territorial legislature is in
session, the self styled Topeka Legisla-
lure assemblies, to which Gov Robin
son addresses a message, ignoring the
validity and denying the authority of
tho former which he ia October, help
ed to create. 1t is difficult to under
stand how there can be two valid leg
islatures existing in one territory at the
same time, or how a man may be a
member of both bodies at once and
yet, it happens that eleven of the
members of tho Free State Territorial
legislature are likewise members of the
Topeka legislature, SO that when there
10 q quorum in one body, the other
cannot get q quorum together. The
eleven gentlemen referred to indulge
IN the pleasant amusement of attending
two legislatures in n day. In the
morning they discharge their duties in
the Free State territorial Legislature.
and in the afternoon they saunter into
the Topeka legislature, which is
straightway convened and then ad-
journs to a neighboring bar ROOM. How
long this state Of things is to continue
we are not deep enough IN the secrets
Of the shriekers to say.
Now, can it be wondered at that
sensible and high minded men in the
East refuse to endorse, or lend them
selves to sustaining, any such trihing
with the rights Of the people and the
peace Of the Union! That any good can
result from perpetuating the Topeka
humbug is impossible /; and it must be
plain that no party can maintain ma
tional respect, whilst it stultiies itself
by electing . legislature to-day and
setting up an opposition Legislature to.
morrow. The reason of oil this obvi.
ous. The Free State leaders, as they
call themselves, Lane Robinson L. Co
have no settled policy, nor is it in the
nature Of things that they should have
Their object for the past three year.
has been to keep alive a senseless api.
%tation, nor have they cared wha,
means they employed. Now, thank.
to the prudent but decided stand o.
Mr.. Buchanan, they find themselves in
tight place, and utterly at a loss fo1
new e~xpedients. Ofone thing we may
rest assured, that the opposition to tn.
administration in Kansas is split into /,
dozen pieces, and is powerless for evil,
except 90 far a. Jim Lane and his Dan.
ties may have opportunities to murder
and rob those who diffey from them il
opinion.
Somebody says the Mississippi raised on
foot during the last storm. When it raise
another foot it win probably run.