The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-21
Indictment.

The Grand Inquest of the American Nation
duly empannelled and authorized to inquire into
the state of the Nation at large, 90 present and
say that the present so-called Democratic party
have been guilty of high crimes aud misde-
meanors against the natural and chartered
liberties and rights of the American people.
They repealed the Missouri Compromise for
the establishment of slavery in Kansas and
Nebraska.
They instigated Border Ruffian invasions in
to Kansas to drive the Free State settlers there.
from.
They received the Border Rulilian invaders
into the Military service of the United States
in Kansas and used them for the purpose OF
dispensing the assemblies OF the free citizens OF
that Territory and to create reign of terror,
robbery and bloodshed, for the purpose Of
driving the free citizens theretrom and deter
others holding similar sentiments from settling
therein.
They removed four Governors, three Secre-
tar;es of the Territory, two Judges, and mum
Der of inferior Officers, because they either re-
luscu oE were tuTuS AL dsoistluS " "cN ehe
chains Of oppression and slavery on Kansas.
The have appointed to high and valuable Of
fees the most distinguished of the Border Ruff
fan thieves, robbers, and murderers.
They carried the Presidential Election of 1856
on the doctrine that the people of Territory
have the right to admit or reject Slavery at
their pleasure, and they now laud the Dred
Scott decision as the true exponent of Demo-
cracy, which says the people of Territory
have no right whatever to prohibt'slavery.
They attempted to force the Leeompton Con.
stitution on the people OF Kansas, and failing
| to do it by direct force, attempted to carry 1t
by bribery and corruption, Offering the people
of Kansas millions of acres OF lands if they
would accept that Constitution.
They have given preference to slavery over
fee labor by declaring in the English Leeomp
ton Bill that Kansas might come into The Union
with her 5000 inhabitants if the people there
of would accept the Lecompton Slave Conssi-
tuition, but if they failed to accept it, that here
after no Territory should be admitted as a
State into the Union with less population than
90, ,420 inhabitants.
They have North and South, East and West,
fred cannon. illuminated their houses and
shouted victory over the defeat OF Blair, the
Representative of Jeffersonian democracy and
free white labor in Slave State.
They are spending sso,oo0,oo0 year for the
ordinary expenses of the Government, being
81 ,OoO, 900 a year more than was expended
during either Of the years of the Mexican
war.
They are squandering millions of the people S
money under the contingent secret service fund,
and deficiency appropriations. in filling the
country with special Agents and Government
Spies, in maintaining multitude of partisans
in Office at high salaries, where there are little or
no public duties to be performed, and in plr-
chasing pretended army and navy sites of their
partisan friends at twenty times their real
value.
They are welding the whole force of the
General Government to establish slavery as
a National institution, contrary to the doc
trne of the Revolutionary Fathers, that Slavery
is sectional and Freedom only is National
Wherefore as such acts and dongs are
against the peace and dignity of the United
States, and endangers the perpetuity of Repub-
lican Government, we, the said Inquest, do pre-
sent this Indictment in open court and ask that
it be placed on the Record thereof.
| (Signed) a true Bill,
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Foreman.