The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1858-02-11

RE"Tho Message of President Buch-
anan, presenting TO Congress the Lecomp'
ton Constitution and urging the admission
of Kanzas as a Slave State, under and by |
virtue Of that instrument, will be read
with crave and anxious interest. Let not
its length deter any one from perusing it
So monstrous compendium Of taIIa-
ces and mis- statemen!s--of suppression
and misreprcsentation--has seldom been
imposed on ong-suLfering public. Be
ginning with the deliberate, intentional
fraud of suppressing the whole domestic
history of Kanzas prior to the assembling
Of the first Topeka Convention, it leaves
those who rely upon it in utter darkness
and confusion as 10 the very pivot of all
this Kanzas. controversy. The rational
but iIl-inforRed reader Of this Message,
seeing SO much said in it of rebellion, rev
outionary government, resistance to the
laws. &C., must inevitably ask, why was
this Topeka organization effected? Why
did the People Of Kanzas refuse to recog-
nizo and respect her earlier Territorial
Legislaturesl Why did they refuse TO
vote at certain Territorial Elections'-
Our readers, with most Republicans, will
readily answer Because the Territorial
Government was usurped by invading Vi
olonce and fraud at the first Legislative
Election in March, 1855; and because the
Government, thus usurped, became PHI
ant instrument ofoppression, iniquity and
wholesale fraud, such as slaves only could
be expected to endure The Govern.
ment thus seized and perverted was nee
cssariIy repudiatod and dcfed by the
, great mass of the People of Kanzas,
whose Right of Suffrage it crippled by
, unconstitutional Test Oaths and by Elec-
ton Laws framed to facilitate and give
impunty to fraud. The Topeka Conven-
ton, Constitution and Government were
! simply n solemn appeal to Congress by
the great mass of the People of KAMA.
from the slaveholding conspiracy, inva
y sion and fraud whereby their most pre-
q cious rights had been wrested from ant
turned against them, The Presiden
:. knows these facts, yet he willfu)ly sup
presses and ignores them, proceeding il
= their absence to heap accusation after ac
!. cusalion, wrong after wrong, on the Ere
# State men of kanzas, whose whole hstor,
q he distorts, and whose every motive h
, misstaes and calumniates most wickedly
"a From the gigantic falsehood by suppress
II sion with which it sets out to the snuff
:. ing cant with which it concludes, all i
Ie systematic imposture, perversion and vii
"a laiuy.
:e We have neither time nor space to eS
"a pose this atrocious document in detail
Il Its hbored citation of Gov. Walkers dis
patches written ere Walker had sickene
of being Slavery's jackal and the Pres
q dents plant tool - its toisome sophistr
I se designedto that the fraudulent rul
a 'of small minority, upheld by batterie
IN and dragons, is PIpul2r Sovereignty
g its preposterous assumpaTh that tpe ad
o' Emission of Kanzas as Sasa SHE wi
!. suppress'agitation' and ldFaliz5 " s-Sla
US VERY ssue-Aits attempts to show thktias
81 lening the Lecompton Constitution SSt6
"a indignant, outraged People, is the shor,
u u est way to enable them to rid themselve
l. of its yoke--in short, every feature
{ this Mcssage--stamp it an elaboration
imposture and iniquity such as no hl'
!. peophet ever c6ncocted Our column
of show Aew il was received in Congress
" y 1t must awaken a still wider and deep,
~ y, indignation among the People.
q Tftb.