Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-02-08

tne eHoftS OF tne people 10 Tld themselves o
that great evil. That if the propagation o
Slavery was a crime in the feeble minded
King of England, in an age of Samparativ,
darkness, it is a far greater crime If commit
ted BY the free American people in the full
light of the nineteenth century.
Resolved, That The insaiiate demand of III,
South, for an increase of Slave Territory
while vast districts already such lie unoccu
pied. evinces determination 10 obtain for the
Slave Power potteai preponderanee in tn
national councils. and such preponderanct
would Re used TO prejudice the interests anc
prosperity of the Free states.
Resolved. That those Members of Congress,
who manfuilv opposed the passage of the Ne
braska bill. whatever may be their party
TO our lasting gratitude.
Wherever in this Union the press and
the people we're really free, similar action
was taken. The old parties fell to pieces,
and the REPUBLICAN PARTY was organ
lied upon this necessity-to preserUe Lib
erty, and to maintain the Union on The
principles of our Fatters Tits progress
We need not note. Its fair, peaceful, legal,
constitutional triumph, three months ago,
is we'll known. The attempt to trauple
upon that election-as upon Kansas-ws
trust will be likewise repelled
The Kansas Act falsely but plausibly
pretended to leave the Territory open to
Liberty or Slavery, just as the accidentally
strouges. party might decide. They were
to be "pe.feet.y free to manage their own
affairs 10 their own way, subject only to
the Constitution" &c. This provision
recouciled many to the enormi,y Of the
wrong. But it was soon seen that this
"stump speech in the belly of the Bili'
was only = false bait. Even before the
bill was Law, David R. AchisoD, acting
Vice President, aud U. S. Senator from
Missouri, vacated his seat to organize Sc
cret Blue Lodges, to keep Free State men
out of Kansas; and the Missouri river
vas closed sgaiG.t them. We can refer
only in the briefest terms to the lawless
invasions of the Territory by immense
bands of Missouriaps, in battle array,
savages by their atrocities to the
burning Of dwellings, and the numbering
Of $50 to 200 Free State men by the ruth
less bauditti-to the sacking of Lawrence,
and the breaking up of the Topeka Legis-
lature, BY U. S. solders-to the barbarous
And inhuman Slave Code, and the impris-
onment Of Gov. Robinson, Judge Smith
aud many others for disregarding ito
he polling Of thousands of illegal or 6csi-
'ious votes, counted as valid by the Ad-
the rejection Of the Free
State Constitutions, enacted by the real
people of Kansas, and the freozi attempts
10 enforce the bogus LecomptOn Conssi.u-
lion upon them, with threat and bribe
Is inducements; its rejection BY 10000
'otes, and the continued exclusion of that
State for its honest choice-the disgrace
If Governors Reeder, Shannon, Geary,
Walker, &c, because they could not or
would not coerce Kansas into submission
o the Slave CoDspiracy-and to many
',her outrages, uuequalled in any civilized
and in our day. and all, to make Slave
State against the peoples will!
Virtually, the Slave ascendancy in Kan
as was nulliied in 1856, but the People
we're still lorded over by Pro Slavery tools,
nd the fires Of hatred aud oppression often
'roke forth into acts. Hopeful, manly,
nd faithful, the true friends Of Freedom
ave steadily urged her admission into the
Jnion, as the best settlement Of the issue.
But the Slaveocracy as constantly opposed
rue, Delaware, Florida, and Oregon had
ess population-but the FIRST two we're
csually, aud the last practically, Slave
tates-and they were in, voting Kansas
with more people, out! Whenever an
onest House could vote for Kansas, they
id, but the Senate rejected her. In the
'st month, however, enough extreme
left the Senate to allow
.ausas to 60 through, with an unpalata-
lie clog Gu the person Of one whom Col.
'enton openly described to be 50 great
ar and dirty dog" as Judge. Kan
70 friends concluded to "compromise"
ith him, and on Tuesday, Jan. 80, 1861
the President having sigued the Act
IARTIN F. CONWAY took the oath Of Of.
,e in the House as the first Representa-
re Of the Free and Independent State OF
iansas in the U. S. Congress-Kansas,
le thirty fourth star in our armament
The Wyandotte Constitution is the one
uder which the bill passed by the United
tates Congress admits Kansas as State.
was adopted by the convention on the
7th of July, and ratified BY the people on
'e 4,b Of October, 1859. On the 9Th Of
ecember, 1859, the people of Kan
8 held an election for officers of the State
overnment, under the constitution framed
Wyaudo., and the following gentlemen
ere elected:
Robinson. Massachusetts.
euienant GOVERNOR. p. Root Connecticut.