Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-01
LETTER OF GOV. ROBINSON.

Tho following letter Of Gov. Robinson ha, re.
Gently been Published.
The people Of Kansas have given up sill hope
Of the deient Of the Lecompton Constitution in
Congress. The combination Of party drill and
Federal patronage will no doubt carry it safely
through both llou.es. With the passage OF that
act, popular freedom dies in Kansas. and in its
place a cruel and relentless despotism is establish
cd q despotise, snuihilating the last vestigc oi
tree government, providing by cunningly devised
schemes tor its own pcrpetuity, and using the
mpss desperate and abandoned Williams for the
tnstrumcuts Of its power. We are fully convinced
Shat tho commission OF this gigantic crime has
been resolved upon by the Democratic party i'll
Congress.
They doubtless think that, wearied out, poor
and oppressed as we are, We shall submit or 4
not, that we can be crushed like q worm. | need
rot tell you that we shall not submit. If we did,
We should deserve 10 be yoked with the negro
slaves that they seek to impose upon us, and
driven forth in chains from the glorinus land tha,
we were too base and cowardly to defend, and oil
which we hnd proved ourselves unworthy.
IL the Federal Government will let us alone,
we can peaceably and speedily revolutionizei
throw off the usurpation and establish a Free
Government. But it is too evident that the Presi
dent, utterly insane and besotted in his tyrannica
designs, intends to guard the cradle OF his iavor
lite bantling with g powerful force.
Under pretencc Of the Utah war, the army IL
occvasulating here, which he intends to use against
US, il we make any attempt to regain our los'
rights.
We have information. also, that Gov. Stewart Of
Missouri. has An arrangement with Marshall
Governor elect Of Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution, to have a large force in readiness to
cooperate with him in putting down rebellion,
Against such odds we cannot contend alone.
I cannot believe that We shall be abandoned in
this hour Of peril, and left to be crushed beneath
the heel Of despo,ic power.
Ny heart bleeds for this suffering people, so
brave and self sacrificing for liberty.
Only those who know them thoroughly, can
realize how muGh they deserve sympathy and
support, for defending this outpost so long and
so successfully against such fearful! odds, and al
such cost 70 themselves.
Will not the sovereign States, in this last ex
trenity, rouse to some proper sense Of their duty
70 usf Will they not stay the hand Of a tyran'
nical President, by making common cause with us
IN sustaining she right of self government, fol
which our fathers poured out their blood and
treasure! Can we not ask, at least, that they
should do this, from s3lf,respect, if from no sym
pathy with usi
trust that Wisconsin, the noblest daughter o
tho Northwest, will remember her sons, some o
whom have died here, fighting for Freedom, AM
others OF whom live, ready to rally to her stan
dard.
We have not heard from your Legislature yet
We receive various counsels from our friends
Timid friends who, last year, came near running
US by counseling peace, again assure us that som
way of escape will be provided. Had we take
their advice then. the Free State population
would have been annihilated. We shall ne
.folOo it noc, ,chea ITS folly is so fully demonstrated
We have gained only when we made up on
minds to fight, and prepared for it. Submissio
las always been .JoUoped by more ~erdctions an
iyuries. l know that the people are ~religiousl
resolved upon resistance.
know not how to characterize this damning o.
Of the Federal Government, and tie apathy
tho people under it.
My soul is filed with indignation too deep ft
words.
May God direct and help US.
Most truly yours.
CHARLES ROBINSON.