The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-05-28
The STATE Of J.h.r.op.


We learn from the Cherrv r..
Pioneer. published at Denver City, BY
JOHN L. MERRIcK, formerly of the =,
,cood Press, that Convention was h.ll
at Auraria, ON the 18th of April, to tai.
action for the organization of a Stat.
Government.
The most important resolutions p,,,.,
were as follows I:
The delegates from the pr.cino,,
Denver City, Auraria, Fountain Civ III
Dorado and Fl Paso, Of the counir :.
Arapahoe, Kansas Territory, in conv.O
ton assembled in the town of Au,.s;.
the 18th day Of April, 1859. do sSOa,
the following preamble and resolution.
viz:
WHEREAS. A very large numbe, =,
citizens of the United States having in
very short time been brought Together =,
this remote point Of the Union. iudpcsS
by the recent discoveries Of rich gold, i
this locality, and the good prospects If
success held out here to the farmer ma
chanic, trader and professional man and
being wildly impressed by our recen,
journey hither over the plains, with ina
great distance our heterogeneous and 40
tive population is removed from any sea,
of government, either Territorial or State
of the United States, where our want,
could be made known, our civil and reli.
gious rights protected and our wrongs re-.
dressed having already experienced the
evils of such remoteness from Govern.
ment adequate to the duty of trying and
Furnishing crime; and being fully i'm.
pressed with the belief from early and
recent precedents, of the power and ben.
ehts and dnty of self. Government. and
Of the evils attaching to the government Of
bodies of men By agents Of States Or Ter.
ritories at distance, or of Legislation
without representation and
WHEREAS, We, men of various yoea.
tons in life, having found this couutrt
which we have sought. not only abound.
ing in gold just as represented BY ,hs
majority Of those who have written on
the subject of these western gold field,
and Of all those who are in the hab, Of
weighing we'll what they wrote and hav.
ing also found it country rich likewise
in timber, in rock and crystal waters; a
country with soil capable of producing
food for its inhabitants, if not equal 70
the richest western agricultural States, a,
least superior to those Of New England ;
and Astounding with inducements sufi.
Gent to retain its present population and
large number of the immense rolling
wave of emigrants now on the way
from the East and soon to leave their
own crowded homes to partake of tho
homes and harvest which we are low
providing and
WHEREAS, Owing to the absolute and
pressing necessity Tor an immediate and
adequate government for the large popu.
latiOn now here and soon to he among us
actively engaged in the various acts o.
life and aware of the impossibility o.
an early formation into a Territorial
Government, that duty having been neg
lected by the present session of Congress
and also believing that Territorial Gov.
eminent is not such as our large and pc
culiarly situated population demands
therefore,
Resolrel, That the State content latet
shall embrace the following Territory
viz !: Its north eastern boundary commenc
ing at the intersection OH The 102d me
ridian of west longitude from Washing
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