Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-30

Republican Organic alton IN Kansas.
F. The complete organization Of the Republican
party in Kansas was inauguraled at 0ssawat'
tonne, on tho 18th inst. The Convention was
the fullest and most important political assem-
blaze ever convened in the Territory, and the
proceedings were spirited and harmonious. A.
o. Leonard, Of Coffee county, was President.
During a recess ON the first day the Conven-
tion was addressed by Horace Greeley. On the |
second day, Thomas Ewing, Jr, son Of the
"Ohio Salt Boiler" and chairman Of the Com
mittee On Platform, reported we'll considered
preamble and resolutions, Republican in spirit
and language After stating the fact that since
the organization Of the Territory of Kansas,
the Democratic party has been in the control
of the Legislative and Executive departments
of the Government, the report thus clearly
and compactly arragns the Democratic Admin
stration:
II has used those powers which should have
| been exerted 20 foster and sustain, only 70 OPP
press our people; violated every principle it
claimed TO advocate protected and supported
| inyasions by foreign mobs, burned our towns,
plundered our houses, wasted our sustenance,
|
! evinced total disregard of popular rights and
settled determination to force the institution of
negro slavery upon us; attempted to put in ex
ccutcn laws which, for injustice, cruelty and
fraud, have scarcely been paralleled in the his
tory of the most barbarous age; supported that
creature of infamous usurpation--the Lecomp-
ton Consttution-by Federal bayonets in Kan
| sas, and by official patronage and Executive
| corruption at the National Capital; made an in
.r,.I AZ. l,t.y
and slave constitutions by offering us a bribe
to enter the Union under the former without a
representative population, and refusing us adj
mission under the latter until we had pOpula-
tion of ~, 900; appointed corrupt and obnoxious
judicial and executive officers over us, whose
partisan sympathies and partial decisions have
prevented the administration of Justice and
by long train of abuses, crimes aud usurpa-
tions proved itself the hitter foe of the people
of Kansas and the enemy of popular rights
everywhere.
The action of the Republican party is strong.
ly endorsed as follows:
The Republican party has, on all occasions,
evinced a devotion to popular rights and an at
! tachment to the best interests of the nation,
that deserve our approval; and has, by its ad-
herence to the principles of the Fathers of the
, Revolution, and its earnest support Of the cause
}, of freedom in Kanses, won our appreciation and
d gratitude.
} The resolutions affirm the great self evident
truths enuncatel by Thomas jefferson and the
e Fathers of the Republic in the Declaration of
J Independence; disclaim all control over slavery
in the States in which it exists, hold that the
7 Constitution does not carry slavery into the
Territories but that it is the creature of special
! enactment, and has existence only where sup.
i ported by it, reprobate and condemn the per
r version Of the Supreme Court of the U S. to
: sectional demands and party purposes; affirm
that Freedom is National, Slavery Sectional
1 and opposition to the extension of slavery tC
: soil now free; condemn the Administration fol
its impotency in supprcssing the re-opened AT
p riean Slave Trade demand further legislation
by Congress to suppress the inhuman traffic.
j instruct the Wyandotte Constitutional Conven-
e ton to incorporate a provision prohibiting sa-
q very; favor the enactment of a liberal Home
o stead Bill by Congress; condemn the Presi.
o dents ordering the public lands in Kansas and
e other Territories to be sold during season oi
universal depression, thus impoverlshng thou
y sands oil settlefsi pTotesI against any dCllOu
: which would put the adopted citizen under
e greater political disabilities than those now i'm
n posed by the naturalization laws of tho United
e States; and favor Harbor and River improve
ments, and a railroad to the Pacific by the most
!, II central and practicable route.
VI Each resolution as read was received with
y loud cheers After discussion of two or three
y of the resolutions in the best temper and Il
+ speech by Mr. Ewing, motion was made for
= the adoption of the resolutions as reported by
the Committee. The Times says:
Amid intense excitement the Chairman called
S the affirmative, and was answered by wild,
y thrilling and deaiening shout OF "Aye" from
D the whole Convention. GAS many are op-
posed will answer Mo-" A moments silence
not one negative-and before the chair had
S announced the result of the vote, the old hall
6 rang with cheer on cheer for the Republican
f pariy Of Kansas. One universal feeling of joy
aud pride peryaded every heart Free Kansas
: for Free men-lho struggle of years to be ter
;, minated by glorious Republican triumph!