The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1858-01-14

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Kansas. From the day when that
territory was deprived of the safeguard
Of the Missouri prohibition by the
passage Of the Kansas Nebraska act,
the whole action ofthc Federal govern
ment seems to have been directed to
the establishment of slavery within its
limits Instead of committing in good
faith, to the people of the Territory,
the formation and regulation Of their
own institutions, all the influence OF
the national administration has been
exerted for the subjugation ofthe peo.
pie to the will of the propagandists of
slavery. The whole practical effect of
the Kansas Nebraska act has been the
substitution of Presidential interven.
ton for slavery, instead of Congress
ional intervention against slavery.
Without resistance or rebuke from
the National Administration, the ac-
tual residents of Kansas we're driven
from the polls at the first territorial
election, and pretended Legislature
was imposed on an unwilling people
by the fraud and force of invaders
from an adjoiningState The people,
harassed and outraged beyond cndu-
rance by the tyranny Of the usurping
legislature and its instruments, who
were countcnanced and aided by Fed
eral office holders, sought relief in
State organization. Through con-
vcntion assembled at Topeka, they
framed a State constitution, and, after
its ratification, by the popular vote,
sought admission under it into the
Union. Their prayerfor such admiss.
+ ion though grantcd by the House Of
Representatives rejecting the will Of
the people, was denied by the Senate
rejecting, in this, the will oftho Slave
Interests.
Every Federal ollicerin the territory
who manifested any sympathy with
the people, was, from nc % time,
removed, and bodies oi'droops we're
d. sent to compel Submission to usurp-
ing power.
A few months since, under an act
which practically disfranchised vast
majority of the citizens, a pretended
election was held for members OF a
$ convention to frame another constltu-
t ton. This convention was constitu-
0 ted, as was intended, exclusively ofthe
O. partizans Of slavery. It framed, Of
i course, slave-state constitution, and.
+ provided for its transmission to Con.
9 gress without previous submission
!, the people for ratification. 1t
h posed to submit to popular judgme
S the question of slavery or no slayeryS
c but so framed the terms of submission
g that no matter how the people might
d vote slavery would in any event exist
n in the new State, if admitted into the
= Union under that Constitution.
- Happily, subsequent to the election
! of the Constitutional Convention the
y period for the second election of a
70 Territorial Legislature arrived, and at
'o the election then held, the actual res
~ idents of the Territory succeeded in
|. electing a majority Of its members IN
'e both branches.-The people, mockcd
r and insulted by the proceedings just
u narrated, now invoke from the Secre'
" tary of the Territory, acting as Gov
- ernor. the convocation Of this body
a For compliance with this just demand
., ., the Secretary was removed from office
" For expressing himself in opposition
IL to the admission of the State into tn
:, Union, under the Constitution the
~ Convention, and without previous sub
he mission to the people, the Governor
IS, of the Territory fell under such dis
~ ~ plersure of the Administration tina
10 he was constrained to resign his posi-
~ ton. If the power and patronage o
i" the Federal Government can secure
I'e the admission of Kansas into thu
n Union under this slave-state Constr
&c tuition, that power and patronage will
,c' @ without dout, beactively emplo yed t.
n u that end.
~, u, In all this the people Of Ohio hav'
Is "a deep and vital interest. 1t is be
iai yond question that vast majority o
her electors are aanzSed to this IN
at torpositioq q =
he ment in be
in that tie