Freeman's champion., 1858-03-25

Governors and other officers were sent
there, bound by law, and instructed
by the President to do the needful
acts and to protect the people in the
free exercise of their rights. The
people were promised by authority Of
James Buchanan that they should be
protected in the free exercise Of their
choice in the formation of Consti-
tuition.
All the while it was his secret pur.
pose to establish slavery there, whe-
ther the people would or not. The
Governors sent there by him, Walk
er and Stanton, (acting Governor, J
pro-slavery men and his friends, en-
deavored to obey his intructions as
they had been spoken and written.
They were too honest and too manly
to follow his secret and dishOnorable
meaning to effect his purpose by in
direct, if he could not accomplish it
OJ opcH luohnS'
A convention was called to frame
constitution. This Convention was
not elected by the people Of KanzaS
nor in pursuance of their authority,
but notoriously by strangers who
were enemies to the freedom of Kan
zas. This Convention was presided
over by renegade Yankee, tool and
minion of the President, known to
people of Western New York as an
unfortunate engineer who had OBJ
tanned a federal appointment in Kan
zas and gone there without his
family. ..s..rua e,.
The adoption or rejection of this
Constitution fixing Slavery upon
Kanzas was not submitted to the peo-
pie of Kanzas, but was withheld from
them, and single question was 80
contrived as purposely to prevent the
larger portion of the people from vo-
ting, as they had been cut off from
voting for members of the conven-
tion. An election or what is not
properly called SO Of State officers
and Legislature under this instru-
ment, ms-called a Constitution, was
so ordered that the presiding officer
had power over the whole subject of
the Constitution. False, fraudulent
and forged returns were forwarded to
the presiding officer, Calhoun; icti-
tious names by hundreds were added
to returns after their receipt, to pro-
duce the results secretly desired by
tho President and his pro.slavsry
friends. 1t is sought to install men
in office over the people of Kanzas
as Governors, Legislators, Judges,
&c., with power over life and proper
ty, of course, by these acts Of Cal
houn. AS soon as he, Calhoun,
found he had done sufficient to secure
the objects of the President and the
pro slavery party he surrounded him
self with the military force of the
United States, kept in KanzaS to
ovOrawe and subdue the spirit of free
dom and to protect ruffanism, and
under the protection of this force he
marched out of Kanzas. Ho hied to
Washington. Walker and Stanton,
astonished at the bold depravity OF
these measures and not willing to be-
come the tools of the President IN
carrying them out, were recalled, one
obliged to resign, the other displaced.
The President, in the face and in de
fiance Of the fullest evidence of all
these frauds and villainies, declared
the people Of Kanzas rebels and trait
ors. He is using the utmost Of his
influence to induce Congress to force
this Constitution upon the people OF
Kanzas, though every man in the ma
tion, Of common information, knows
that it is against the will Of an inn
mcnso majority, and though the Gov
ernor Of his own appointment, his
political and personal friend, has as
Sured him in au official and RESPONSE
Bile communication, that q very large
majority Of the people Of Kansas are
irroconcilably opposed to il. This
is not the act Of any law or authority,
but only by the wW Of James Bucha-
nan, He is keeping large portion
of the array in Kanzas to oyotawe
this majority and to subdue them il
they resist his will. This is not the
administration Of any law or the as.
sertioa Of any principle of FREQ gov
ornment. II proceeds entirely Jrom
tho acW Of James Buchanan Il; and THU
is tho essence and substance Of high
handed dospotism and is precisely
that kind Of oppression which ma
keith q wise man mad"
: Would We have fIoemen resist III,
exercise ofthis power unto tho death
Yes. II can acquire no Legality from
! any act Of Congress. The momen
} that Calhoun shall SGT his foot OF