White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-05-06

| FRAUD, and the result may reach the National
Capital in time to prevent the co1sunnatiOn Of
that great wrong already begun BY the Senate Of
the United States. But, If this wrong shall have
been cOnsummated, then BY your vote, you will
be choosing directly between Consultation IN
der which Kansas would be subiugated Slave
State, and one under which It would be forever
free and independent. You have it within your
power to reject and defeat the hateful Pro-Sla-
very instrument ~ endorsing this new Free State
Constitution.
1t may be argued by some that such a proceed
ing would be revolutionary, but the arguments
are speeiozs and unfounded. The admission of
State into the Union is a simple contract, the
parties to which are tn people of the State and
the Federal Government. The terms of that
contract can in nowise include the Constitution
o. the State, for IL they did, no State could ever
change its Orgrnie Law, without first obtaining
the consent of Congress. Upon the admission
of State, the Federal Government sbAndons
its authority represented BY the Territorial gov
eminent, and the State becomes independent in
all things. except wherein limited by the terms
of the Federal compact. and the people, conse-
quently, become possessed of full and sovereign
power, to make Constitution for themselves,
and in their own way, without reference to the
Federal Government. No act Of Congress can
give legal force to the Fundamental Law Of a
State. After the admission of State its Con-
stitution depends entirely upon the implied or
expressed sanction of the people for all Of its
legal virtue and effect, and without that sanction
it is in fact, ana ever must remain, null and
void. With full confidence in the correctness
Of these views, we declare that If you, the peo-
pie of Kansas, adopt the Constitution nov pre-
sented for ratification, and give to it practical
application and enforcement, upon admission
into the Union, It will become the only lawful
Constitution, no matter what instrument Con-
gress may recognize in the act of admission.
Whatever, then, may be the action Of the Fed
eral Government in regard to the L.ecompton
Constitution, your highest and best interests ap-
peal to you to give to the present movement all
that significance which the unanimous action of
a people can impart to il. You have proven to
bhS "OiiN thAb euS SOhShbuGOu -
not your choice. Let the world see, by your
course now, that your repugnance to that instru-
ment has not diminished in the least. You have
resolved, neDey, of your own accord, to live un-
der it. Let it again be shown that in this deter
mination you are inhexible. Even in the abb
sence of such determination no people could,
without the violAlsh of the fundamental prin- |
ciples of a fee government, voluntarily, submit
to Constitution forced upon them, or one orig |
mate in fraud, and you, who are the descend
ants of a liberty loving race, and who have suf- |
fered so much and so long in the pursuit and
defense Of your rights, will, we are confident,
express by your emphatic vote that the Organic
Law Of your State neUer- shall deriUe its origin
in any nay trhateOeT from the LecOmpton Con-
stitution or Government, but will demonstrate
that it is now, as Il ever has been, your high
aim and unalterable purpose to dedicate Kansas
forever to Freedom, by course true to princi-