White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-28
Toueka fe1islature.

. This body Is in session sgain. and Gov.
Robinson has delivered his Message with
as much solemnity as If he were really
in earnest. They are following up the
regular Territorial Legislature-some of
the members holding seats in both. They
are dogging the regular Legislature. i'm
portuning them to repealshe entire bosnsI
code Of laws. and adjourn without pas
sing other laws in their stead. and permit
the Topeka Government to go intooPe-
ration. ~ ~
We begin to believe that these fellows
are perfect monomaniaes. We did think.
at one time, that they were trying to do
what was rigbt-that they opposed the
Pro-Slavery Legislature, because it was
fraudulently chosen; and that If fair
election could once be held. they would
De satisfied. But their actions forbid
continuance intbis belief. We now have
a Legislature overwhelmingly Free State,
elected at the regular time. which cleo
ton was participated in by all parties,
and the body is recognized as proper and
legal BY the General Government. They
can now pass any and every law that
Free State men could desire or demand.
and could not be controlled by the Gov
ernor's veto. What more could any rea-
sonable man ask? Yet we see men asking
this Legislature to give way to body
which every person knows TO be illegal,
and whose acts would have no more
binding force than the resolutions of any
public meeting. Is not this proof sufi-
cient, that it is not peace they want. but
opposition to the legal Government at all
hazards? 1t is revolution and discord
they want, which is to assist political
demagogues at distance, who care not
the snap of finger for Kansas or her
people. They are determined that their
pet schemes and notions shall prevail, or
that there shall be no peace. Such car
rying on as this will have a tendency,
more than any thing else. to induce Con-
gress to force upon MS the Lecompton
Constitution, and they will haxeqsome
show of reason for SO doing.' When
they see body of men. pretending to
represent the entire Free State population.
opposing body and Government cleo
ted as legally as any body possibly could
be. will they not conclude that their op-
position to the Lecompton Constitution
is in the same spirit, and that they are
determined to oppose all law?
We hardly think they will succeed in
blufing off the Legislature. although they
will make desperate effort to do so.-
And we have the unwelcome task to per-
form. of informing the Free State men Of
D oniphan County. that their entire dele
cation in the Legislature, with a single
exception, favor this outrageous clique
Mr.. Graham is the only one who stands
up for the right, and truly represents his
constituents. 1t is thought that his COL
leagues will attempt TO crush him here
after. But the people will endorse his
course. He and his colleagues were cleo
ted in opposition to the policy of the
Topeka clique. and the great mass of the
Free State men of Doniphan County viii
sustain him-the people of Doniphan
County cannot longer be blindfolded by
such tom-foolery. if we may judge Of
the balance of the County by this portion
Of it.
We protest against the people of the
States, when referring to the Topeka
Government, calling it the Free State
party. They are not the Free State par
ty, and that party is in nowise response
bic for any of their actions. The Free
State people of Kansas are peace-loving
and law-abiding citizens. The Topeka
Government is clique, who are endeav-
oring to sway the Free State party, and
use it to further their desperate schemes.
The Free State party are the people who
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have twice tiiumphed, within the space
of three months. in opposition to the
policy of the Topeka clique. who oppose
peace and law. and destroy ballot boxes,
and whose policy, if successful, would
utterly destroy the Free State party. The
people. ere long, will arise and rebuke
them in a manner that will forever silence
them.