C. F. READ .d.; H. H. FRAZIER, EDI'I'OFS. } THE CHILDREN'S PRAYER. TET R. IL STODDARD ~. Tv there is anything that will endure The eve of God, because it still is;pure, . • It is the spirit of a little child, '- Fresh from His hand, and thetefore undefiled. Nearer the gate of Paradise than we, .. Our children 'hpeathe its airs, its ..iingelia see; And when the pray, God hears their simple prayer, Yea, even alandhes his sword, in judgment.bare: Witness this:leg:en.' of a by-gine time, Itself a soag a though yet untold in thyme: ' Where stretches Egypt, and its gardens smile, Won from the desert by the lordly Nile, Famine and Pestilence went hand in hand a ‘, ()fold, and ravaged that amhappy,latid; , - For lo! the Nile, wherein its plenty lies, The fertilizing. Nile, forgot to rise. • . . Day after day it lay, a sluggish (Raid; And slinoimeasters wallewed'in its mud. , • When s'pread the new's, ,and ill-news flies apace, _ A fearful panic selzed the Moslem race; For not alone its native tribes it f e d, -..- But all the East to Egypt looked for bread. In Cairo first, there most improvident, Then in the town, and 'write wandering tent, Under the palms, by many a shrunken well, Fainting,they fell, and perished where they fell. ,At first, they merely starved; but by-and-by - A dread ii4etion brooded in the sky ; • • There was ho time to starve, with every'breath They drew in death , a tainted, loathsome death. ,), AN business ceased; I zaars and mosques were closed; s area wbere:about his ower the Muezzin dozed*: Was heard ~, l o more his cry, (it' was too late!) , _" There is •b) - Garl but Cod 1 Lo! God is great r No more the faithfal bonged toward the east; Was kept no more the Bairam's sacred feast ; (tie fasts, alas! they could not help .lit keep!) T h e l uri d w a s shrouded in a deathly-sleep: ' You mightilave walksd through Caircastreet bY street, Nor met a son)-7twere better not to meet; The flying thief, the murderer abhorred ; o r plaguaaareel: beggars—such were those abroad. A t 1 . - aa eli -- a Sheik remembered what was ivria. (Through faith, not doubt, bad he flirgotten ii it :). That—" Children are the keys of Paradise;"— Also that—" Ihry alone are good and wise, • r a • e nuAr th.4r thonald.e.; their very tirca, are prayer." Ile sought the mosque,. aumMoned the people there, Told them his thought, and made its meaning plain, That they. by childish lips should pray again. 'Twas said, and done c the Emir gave command, And straight the Muezzins sane it through the land. The hour was fixed at 'dawn a at 1a.:4 dawn came.. Slimly the*sun arose, a '4l,the of flame Straggling wish blood-red clouds; in every street WaS seen a crowd, was heard the tramp of feet ; .Around the moeques they gathered with a sigh, Walling to know if they should live or die ! . The Imaums crowned the babes with e.lrl flowers, And bore them up-the minarets and towers, Eren to their topmost summits, where they stood AMI saw the Pyramids.and Nile's black flood;' And Cairo at their'feet, a breathless - mass, Dying to hear them pray, and see, what came to pass! It a-as a beautiful, but solemn - sight, . To mark thif trembling children robed In white, Painted against the red and angry sky, • - Stretching th - eir arms to Him who dwells on.high ! Bat there they stand, and there they knelt and prayed, And front that hour the pestilence was staved; For aliile they prayed there came a rush of wind That rent. 410 p eioml , and allowed the ati*r: behind They saw it-.broad, bright light, and seemed to bear The wave of.palms, the flow`of writers; near. - • ' Ah yes! -'twas true; the )Ale begin to rise, A s if its springgavere fed" from the benignant skies! it rose, and„rolled• and ran before the breeze, - Its long waves furrowed like the stormy seas a its mud a - as :wept awl,y; its monsters.sank : It swayed and 'anapped the:reede along the bank,- • Baging and mating,: rising higher arid higher, - Far flaming in'the sire, a sheet of whale- fire-! - '. All Wept-with joy. And -now there Fame a man , Wild - with good news; he .shouted as he ran, . "There is -no God but God ! • La! God is great 1 - There oands a, row of camels at the gate; Laden for all with sacks of wheatand.grain."' They fell npon,their knees, and wept again ; . But titer, the children; meek and undefiled, Marched through the streets, and clapped their hands and Fllled ,• . Nor was theri - longer plague or famine there, Thanks be to God, who heard the children's, prayer!' AN HOUR:S STRUGGLE WITH POISON. I wa . spending sor,rie days, not many years ago, in a beautiful little, country village and in a family that had 'more. than. common at tractions to one.who loves doinestic life as Hell as my=self. The little. circle had in it more of 'real , interest than 1 hare often seen dc:eloped . in the same number of persons.. The father of the family—almost too young. to (eel yet that he was entitled to that hon. Orable appellation— T was a fine, f rank-bearted— voung'ineihanie, "with a world of bounding life in hiS.veins, an energy that, when fully aroused, drove everything violently:before hirii,-anA a warmth of disposition that won him more friendship than it had given hiM. of the griods Of this world. • \ His wife, to whom- he had been married snow four years, was . beautiful.— They had two children—the one a:- laughing brown•eyeii and broWn-haired little filmy of three years. Her name was Eveleen. The • second was a crowing, laughing, blue-eyed, plum.,i little beauty of less than-a year, prom; icing to have all the charms of the .older at her ate. • was sitting one afternoon in a quiet lit tle room with my feet upon two chairs, read— irk a pleasant book, in a state between asleep awalie—z , m2,- host away at his shop, a hundred :yards off, and my.'. pretty hostess enga r ' ,,. edin her household labors—when I was thro . n out of my indolence by a scream that bt ; otight me to my feet like an electric quo k. It was a woman's voice., and had in it an exCkss of agony that cannot be indicated ui word:,, so.load that it rang over that quiet litzlc village and brought every one forth to. a:rt:c , rtain the cause. 1 sprang to the do_ or that separated the sit f:.ll,„7, room from the dining apartments, and the . wli , ile at a glance..Theyoungmother slo•xl at the door with: her first-born—our Eeeteen—in her arms, dying ! A ',rid . ' and hurried word from thesservant told ice tin• sad - story. -The little girl had accom panied a child uncle up -stairs, and while ths attentron of the older child was for a moment turned away,' she - seized a bottle of corrosive, subhtnate in alcohol, and had taken, enough to take away twenty bucb. tires. The- little thing bad .tottered down stairs.and the tnoth-,- er had met her at.the landing with the emp tied lbottle in her baud, and the poison- oozing front her mouth, the child all UrlCOlitiCioll of fearful thing she bad done, AVLs it any xvt , noer that terrible shriek rang out-over - the ,quiet and that already the.oc ,e:ipatitis of every house near were rushing to wards the spot where the mother stood But a; few 'foments could possibly have elapsed since the poison was--taken, and yet the effect Was already fearful: After the first shriek of terror, the motherlad quieted to a cairn despair for the moment, and stood with the child in .bier arms Making no effort for its relief ; and i 'deed it seemed hopetess r fot al retuly the — subtle pOison seemed diffused through the frame; the brown eyes lad .194, their lustre; the face Was blekened a in a ter death, and the teeth were tight set - ib convulsive spasm, that evidently Would iidt pass away. 71 examined the little lost dlr.: ling for a moment, saw that it was hopeless, .efid turned away, unable to bear that moth- ~~~ er's agony. The littl i e door-yard was half! filled with villagers, and sobs, moans and lamentations over the fate of the dying child Were heard in every- direction, mingied with quick and hurried questions as to the manner of its occurrence, and vain attempts at an swering, which added an oppressing confusion to the sadness of the scene. The little play fellow uncle, who had keen up stairs with the. child, had, run instantly to . call the father and but a le* moments had elapsed before ha spiting into the middle of the group. He had been told all, and asked no, questions. I :had time - to remark that his eye was very stern, and that his lip was very ! firmly compressed. Others, too; marked .it, and I knew afterwards that a murmur ran round the circle, 'of how strange it was that he betrayed no feeling.,. • He reached out his hinds' and-took the child from its mother.[ Its eyes were closed now, and a white' ooze! Coming from between the blackened lips. Was ever death more assured ? I saw him open the eyelids and give a sigh of relief. He told me afterwards that the eye was not Shrunken, and s, , death had not begun._ He then attempted to open the mouth, but the teeth were tight set, and they resisted his efibrts: But with a free that seemed almost brutal he wrenched the teeth apart, and opened the month. " Shame," cried :one of'the bystanders. • The father-did not heed them, but motion ed to a neighbor to take the child in his arms. He did so. - "Bring me the e.gg basket," he spoke very sternly, almost Without opening his teeth, to the servant. • !! What do you. Want of it ?" What can you such with it ?7 , "He is crazy !" and many such remarks followed, but the basket was' there in a moment. • lie seized one of the eggs, broke it, insett ed his fing ers again between the teeth and wrenched them open by force, though they shut with so convulsive a motion as to tear the flesh from his [fingers, and poured the al bumen into the throat. There was a slight strangle, nothing More,.and spectators were bOrrified at the: action:' " bon t, the child is dying r said One.. " Please don't hurt the little thing—it Can't live!!" the mother, ftnind•voice to say, laying her hand upon hiS arm. "Mary, be still!", he answered sternly, while • his teeth Were relaxin g from their clenching, and hit; face -was as hard as if he were entering•a battle ; ". and don't any of you meddle with inc—keep. ! ttr!" . • • The bystanders involuntarily obeyed,with many harsh remarks Upon his cruelty—but he did not heed them, and went on. Anoth er and another etr,4 was broken, and still-there %ins no sign of life. Then the while body of bystanders broke into a loud murmur, and pries. of " brute " Let the . eh - 11a ;M k in peace " crazy—take the child away from I int . !" were hard around him. .1116 des'sted for a moment from his efibrts, :arid turned with 4 Jiereeness which had be ;titre been alt - ogether foreign to his nature— but no one who saw him afterwards forgot . it. "Fools!" hissed,," mind your own -business, and leaVe me to mine! Take her away, will you! Try it !" and he went on, emptying egg after egg down the apparently lifeless throat. Tht mother could hear ; this no longer. , --- Her first-born Nv:is being tortured before her eyes in it 4 death, land 'she imploringly flung herself on her knees before her husband's lathe', who had the moment before arrived: 0, Lather, do ; ; stop bun !" she gasped "he will obey yeti; do stop him. He.is tor turing..that pOor:dying child." The grandfather started forward a step. to I interfere, for he, too, thought the proceeding' an Outrageous one-, but he stopped and said, Mary; let him alone; The child will die if he does not go on. It cannot do more than die if he does. 1! would not say a word to him fur the World. The child is his; let him Use his pleasur&7l There was a silence then. Ina moment more there was a quiver of the eyelids, a convulsive movement of the chest, and the I teeth lost their tension. • The father seized his child; turned 'her face downward and. the poi , on began to flow from her mouth.--- again and again',sas the retching ceased, he renewed the experiment—the life returning , still more, and the face losing its blank color every instant. More than twenty times al- ' butnen had been administoreds and more than half those times followed bb the expul sloe of the poison; . when the eyes opened, the father desisted, the little sufferer lay just alive in his arms; exhausted, its little lifeter-,! ribly shattered, but eared Then—when the necessity for exertion and determinatinn . over—when the!physielan had been -summoned, and they knew that darling little Eveleeri might live, after many .weeks of a struggle between life and death, when the relieved fnends hnd acknowledged that they had wronged him first, when the beautiful and sorrowfid wife had blessed him through her kisses and tears,! and all knew that under God only such almost fierce deter mination could have saved the child—then the father sat down, unnerved, and wept like a child. . ! I Not in = 0 Little Sister Evelyn" did the poison do its.fearful kfrice. Eveleen - is alive to-day, and her brOwn eyes are opened up to womanhood.l34 there is no hour in My life that bling,isO : thrilling a recollection as that of the voimgi .father'e-stru,or - ,le fur the life of his child. {-1 - ; - , I FLOCS AND vrtmar AT THE Scrunt.—:-ThP' Charleston - corr4poudent of the Memphis Bulletin 'writes : 1 • • " It is estimated that the - wheat crop'of Tennessee, Oeorti4, North and South line, wijamonntrto four and :a 'half bushels, end 'of this Amount ";Chai.leaton -is likely to recelye 250,000 barreli'ef flour and 1,500,00 p. - bushei t s of Wheat 'For' the last nine months therel ltave been exported to Spain from this eity 60,000 barrels of flour. Theie are 'now 1M Georgia and . Tenheasee twenty large merchant mills, with 'the capac ity of 200 barrels` each, per .day, besides' p large, number. of Smaller capaelty. l l'hereare also several large Mina'N6rt.l6itid 'South Caroline,''.and a gieat many Smaller f Ones, so that Charleston ratty how be termed a lieu! and t grain".thailiet:" ; • , rff"'The official retch's of the vote of Vert mont for GoverOor givf4,Fletkher Repobli mn, 25 ,675.4KeYei' Dem.;.lt,ol4:i seattei ing 220. To the Senate, 'the Repbblioans have elected:all ~ [theli. • candidates, rhile the House stailda iWnepublicans, against *or MI other Parties,' :1i . 7::.k. -- ,*:-/.5 : *..it:....._ ; - i* : t : --:4. - : - "FREEDOU AHD 200R11 3 aaniumesu e•LAWI2V amp WROMOO99 TO his EXCICLIANCY bales Boettaxex, Pres, • ident of the United States. . In July last, a number of citizens of Con necticut addressed to you, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, a Memorial on the affairs in Kansas. • To this you replied, under date of Aug. 15, 1857, in a manner which shows that you misunderstood, to moue extent the grouUd taken by the Memorialists; fbr we would not impute to you the intention to misrepresent them. :As you ,have thought' proper to lay the memorial and Reply before the puLlie, a . large part of the Memorialists have conferred on the subject., and have felt themselves com pelled again to address you., - We wetild re mark, then, that the main fuels alleged in that Memorial are either passed over without deni al, or are explicitly avowed in your These facts are two :..Firet ) ." that the fund mental principle of, the Constitution of the United States, and of our political institutions' is that the people shall make their own laws, and elect their own rulers." Secondly, " that Gov. Walker of Kansas openly repreeents aiid preielaims, that. the, President of the United States is employing through him (Welke!) an- army, one purpose of which is to tome the people of Kansas to °bee, laws which are not their own, nor of the United States; but laws which, it is notorious, and establisited upon evidence, they never made, and rulers they 'never elected." As to' these two facts, i the material Ellen; alleged by your Memoral aliets, and Wh:ch chiefly require vindication , from you, they say that they find- no denial- I of them m your_ reply. They du not say that you hare attempted no vindication of your acts and doings through Gov. Walker .; but only, that they can find in your reply no plain or explicit denial of 'fees referred not even what they consider the shadow of a denial. These facts Steed in the memorial then, ueceeireelicted, be what you evidently consider a triumphant 'Reply. Why is this? Ate these assertions, on which .the whole sub= jeet at issue depends, untrue--and yet no de- ' nial of them—not a word to prove them un true ? Without such denial, Al hat can you expect your Memorialists of the country' to believe and to' Say ? What; but that the facts, which they allege,are notorious and un deniable? As to the allegation respecting the funda- Mental principles of the Constitution,your Me morialists hope that the time is remote when the enlightened citizens of this country will deny that principle ; though party zeal, in its infatuation, may one day trample it in the dust, when,. in sight of the ruin, Liberty and Religion in exile will together weep - over the desecration. four FORMAL VINDICATION next demands nc.tina 0f this yoer Met orialiste are compelled to say that, in theilview, it iS.entirely ground less and unsatisfactory. Resting 'it solely on what . you call " the plainest and most palpable iestorical facts,' you say that, at . - the time of.e Your inaugura tion, "you found, in fact, the Government of Kansas• As well established as that of • any other Territory." You then •aek, Ayes it not my duty to suetain this government—to pre vent it fame being overturned by force ; in the language of the Conetitution-, "10 teke care that the laws be faithfully eiecuted."--- e You then add "It was for this purpose that I ordered a . military force to, Kansas to ewe ~a s a "poste comitatiis in aiding the civil mag istrates. to carry the law into exec4tion."— Here, then, is-the distinctadmiSsion mid dec laration on your part, that you' ordered a military force to Kansas for the purpose of sustaining its Territorial Goyernment, And of enforcing 'its Territorial laws. So fare then, in respect to One matter of fact, you admit ilk assertion <nf ypur Memorialists: . ' Your vindication, therefore e resta upon the assertion that there was, in fact, 'a Govern ment in Kansas—such a 'Government as it was ,yonr duty LO sustain. The essential question, on 'which the whole controversy turns, is thus raised ; it is simply. this: Was there a Government, or. were -there :aws, in Kansas, in the just, proper; and authorized meaning of the language. " when yoii entered upon the duties of the Preeideutial uffice uD the 4th of March last V' • , . ,If this can be proved true yoUr Memorial ists will know something wt ,ell they have yet to learn. If it it can be proved not to be true, wilLpresent a memorable example of the truth, that political prejudice is blind even. to the existence of the plainest and 'Most palpa ble of historical facts." Nor is 4,his ail.. It. wilt show. ehat you ordered an welly to Kari, sas to sustain •a eti.etalled • Governgeent which is not a Government, and laws which are tot laws. MONTROSE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1857. 11om the New Haven' :Daily Palladium. REPLY TO THE PRESIDENT. Here your memorialists take the position; that NOTHING CAN DE TRULY GOVERNMENT OR LAW WHICH lIAR SO AUTHORITY; and that NOTHLVG:OrLD BE . TREATED AS GOVERNMENT OR LAW WILICH.PRESENTS NO EVIDENCEVE Atr- TitoarrT., - Can anything which trample-sunder foot all human rights; und is a known outrage upon our Constitution and our political institutions, whatever be its name or form, be just+ re garded aa government or law having al her ity under our Constitution? Can. s an outrage be clothed with authority by a res t ident, Senate, Congress, or a whole Co rem of Presidents 1 . Can usurpation beget a valid government or law, or impart that right to govern Which implies• an abli;tation -to obey? lts migl' it- make it a matter of prudence to avoid its• wrath by submission, but can .usur pation create an obligation to obey when none _exists? . • -.. . _ Suppose the Great- Mogul, or .any other tyrant, had established the. same 130-celled government and laws of Kansas by.the same means by which, as all the world knows, they were _establishedby invasion end-arms— would uity.citiaens of the United.Stateicall them . 0 government and laws," except in de rision and with bathing 1 ' Is s bogus gov enunent---government? - Are bogus laws—. laws? . -.ls this - 0 government- established.," , and are these ", lawsenacied"--sediet known 16 'mama. notaker oribighez authority" than ' that derived from BOIIDER RUFFIAN" L Are ‘ We, the people of the United States" to-be atukitred into - the I?elietof emit 'a 09011— ,For, that, roult,' wait at letratiorlhe More abeolute dominion of a tyrant.* ' • - Youi 1 4 46 0 “ 2118 0 ' will now :present. what th'ey consider ;he flindamenta error :of t ient. reply. - -Initheir view, in recognizing - the Ter "ritortatOP iTKi;t Fie:a and laws of liinsi* 0 A `genuine 'Gtoiern rßent.sari'd " valid" lisii i ' ')e' •ti perverted the general principle Upcit WM) _ . you rest your vindication,.and have Violated support from the Federal Executive was the its essential spirit and meaning. ' • strongest evidene6hat it, did not come from That general principle may be thustzatated. I the people, and find' no lawful_ authority.— When rules of action, claiming 'to be valid This shows, at once, that this Goveinnient• laws, present on the first aspect, evidence that I was not, in the lowest sense, what you call_ they proceed from a . rightful • law-making lan "established Government;" for it shows power, it is the duty of the people and the ' that it was not and could not be established executors.of law to recognize them as author- without a United States army; and, there itative. To this,n.s a general principle,' your fore, the army was sent, not, as you pretend, -Memorialists subseribe. It is the only mews Ito sustain an "established Government," of giving ' practiml authority,to law,•and'of j but for the purpose of establishing what was preventing violence and anarchy ; nor do j not established—a Government of ruffian au they . yield to any: man or class of men a [Murky.. • . . higher estimate of its Importance, r a firmer : Nor could you have been ignorant that the _determination to adopt and defend it, than I House of Representatives had sent a special themselves cherish. Bur* say 'that ALL I COmniittee of Investigstion to the Territory, governments• and ALL laws, claiming to be 1- and thus acknowledged and contirMed the valid; inust be recognized,.executeil and obey- 1 propriety of a strict . inquiry into this very ed as such, is as preposterous as to deny the I case. :emu the report of that Committee the general principle itself. 4', , %,istake the gene- house of Representative.s authoritatively de ni/ rale for an universal - rule, the conditional •i elated that the 'Government of Kansas Was far an unconditional principle, must lead to established by the terror of bowie knives and• false reasoning and to practical conclesions :revolvers, and that it had been , proved to of the most dangerous character. • This, in.' have notn shadow of authority. And here view of your Memorialists, who believe, that ; y our Memorialists ask, Whether a plainer none are too wise or good 'to err, is what you '.case or stronger evidence can well be iniag (they trust inadvertently) have done. , i:- ! ined ? ---J•glien, if' not in , such a-case, ought In recognizing the Teri itorial Government and law, as authoritative, have you not lilted the whole spirit and meaning of the ' general principle laid down ? Have You "not wholly thgregarded the essential • condition, that ,the only government which it Is your duty:to sanction must present some evidence of rightful authority'? You recognize .the Territorial laws as valid. What -is this, but to act upon the principle 'that, when the sl)- ea lied government ana laws come before you, without the•shadow of evidence of thei‘pro reeding from a regular .righttol law-making pow,3r, lint with Ow imika_clor4sive and over whelming,prout that they have originated in a palpable and violent usurpation—that even then—even in a case so flagrant, it is your duty to sustain and execute th6m, even by the armies of the United States? • " Your Memorialists are here anxious to call your attention to .411 itnportant distinc- Om, whieh'you appear entirely to overlook. They readily concede:that, in cases of no uu frequent .occurrenee, one government may properly recognize -another ,as-: authoritative, or As a government de facto; on a very low degree of -evidence, : without rigidly investi gating its authority,_or even considering its origin. For example, the Goverunient of. Grvat Britain, when Louis Napoleon was en throned in France by the army of the Em pire, and with the. acquiescence and consent of the people, had no right to interfere with a government thus " established." The Brit islt as -a foreiyit Government had no, right of question or of control in the matter. , But doeS it follow, because the (.4ovetimicnt. of Great _Britain had no right to interfere with . 4 “, il ' ,ie. tote;tiMt ieeveitrep,tkin fa iii eigii kingdom, that the Goveloot. etw United States had no right, and were not bound to interpose and put down in one of their own Territo.ries,a rutilin usurpation from Missouri?. In respect to France, there was 'reason ! enough why other nations 4 for purposes of notional intercour'se sho'uld rec. ognizc 'its pco.ent. government as au "-estab lished government.” But is dot the Consti tution of the United States the supreme law of the land ? lies not our government -the right to authorize and regulate the govern ment of its own 'Territories? Can Congress or the 'President abandon this ri4t, or the, duty which arises from it? .11 this Govern -went - owes any duty whaterett to the country, is it not most sacredly bound : AO protect both State and Territory against di imposition of a government and , laws by art an and vio lent invasion from another Sia Your . Memorialists, then, Strenuously in. tat the only principle on which recOgnition .0. _ever be justified; is that Were is someevidenee, be. it more or less, that the government PitocaEus FROM AN ACTLIORIZED LANT-ILLKING POWER.— And they - further insist, that when such gov, eminent is wain : our own borders, under the supervision and control of the Federal Gov 7 eruti:ent and claiming to derive - all its-sanc tion from •a law. of Congress, .Tus ETIDENCE OF ITS AI:TILORITY MUST BE CLEAR AND DECI SIVE. But how is it when there is no suck evidence ? How is it when there is the best eVidenee the case admits of, even: decisi unquestionable proof, that the so-called go:- eminent has no other authority than'Rufliiin isM and outrage? .Is such a " government" - to be practically recognized and that too within. the limits of our own Republic?— There surely may, be cases in which it would be gross wror , to sustain a Territorial Gov ernment whiclThasoo authority.. A t nd now; we ask, what government could you . .refuSe to sustain, if Dot one that had its origin SOLELY in a violent invasion - of ruffians.trom Another . State. This fact in - the( present case can be denied, so can God, when his sun iltineth 'in the heavens. • - . • The usurped Government cannot be sanc tioned by the law of Congress authorizinf the formation °fa Territorial Government. . That law declares that." the true intent and Mean ing of this act is to leave the people (of the' Territory) Per,fectiy free to regulate their domestic institutions'in their , own was, sub ject only to tho Constitution' of Alm. United b'tiites.' To rug PEOPLE, and them alon:e it expressly gives the right to make their own government and laws. Mere_ is no sanetton„ 'no authority ' for a government • not framed_; 133, - the. eople, but founded solely On invael on. Can this jaw enthrone, in rightful sovereignty bandits from , a rieighborirrr c State,l As Well, say that it authorizedthemto', seize every acre of Kansas, for.their own uie . anithehnof. It 64, as, wol I, deprive the people Af Mane right as of aiaatbers of , oll.rights ,as.of 'one. , . It rS said, "that . o.h.gress 'authorized the istablisE rnent Of a government.: 6 ; ~Yea; but. by the peoPle; not by marauders. Tt ss further said, that. we must aiihre to the general-prihci "What principle,?. , Why, as ytsur ' wholoArgutheil , implies,"that, a governident, established" is a g,overu tuentio be recognized. -We deny such a government in Kansas.--- Beware how you stretch a general and *lto it.,iinitrrfaL, - -.Though one may safely pass:the Niagara dyer _ s t. all other' points and placSoonebuca - ißadrnan wata ot - 4 4 1)P(the t.:610:9P 9f the eats , :Your Merobrialists trse - ;_therefori; t h at the so-cal GoVeniment of R''C can elairri Ao-inn!Oti9 l l,froto•the act of :P 3 Pg4tsP: • mil evidetkce.,!as sicsinstit. 7l saideice known tothe whole,pit virorld v apparerit on the very W4loll,Alkst ha!, voulergeo .4.so . * ; dativtioo, long : bercite you hid taken the ostliot.offico. : -.....Tbe very `Act that the so•called Government required the Presipcnt to denounce a government as spurious, and to refuse to aid or sustain it? The laws of Congre,s trampled in - the dust— the invaders from Mis.ouri proved, beyond a to•be the only authors of this "govern anent"—is it not an outrageous wrong to hold Kansas subject to. such usurpation by a Uni• ted States army? The fire of ruffianism still burn .there smothered: in the.drearitiess• of their iiwn . desolation, and ready to be re kindled in their fury by the slightest move ment for Liberty and Right on the part or the:people, while the echo of their sufferings ever rings in the ears of our National Meet]. tlve. Let kLo romomborod, t!lat this*Gov ernment comes to the people of Kansas not with the sanction of gray antiquity, nor yet has it come from any law of Congress as its true and proper source, nor yet from the peoplerof the Territory, nor yet from being even fully established. It is of recent origin . and ,fisrniation. the only from the im; position of it by the ruffianism from Missou ri, upon the people whO abhor and disown it. very man who has, from the first, known ,1 its existence, has known its 'origin and its na• tore., Let it then be taken as it, is; as it is, ' in its originand its nature. And what is it ? code of laws, oppressive, unjust, cruel, out ageous without a parallel, created, imposed, y the usurpation of ruffians from. Missouri. ml these laws, and this." Government," without the least evidence to estalilish their iutli'Urity, but with the most abundant proofs ' o the contrary, you . are proposing to•sustain Mel execute by the United States army I You speak of " numbers of lawless men," &c., alluding evidently to the Topeka Convenilon. it so, fur the- sake of the argument : but ow - does one " lawless attempt" to establish government. justify or palliate anothet b.”-- ess attempt, fur the .same purpose? - Further : In'your reply you seem to your Memorial'ests,to concede, in all "its truth and bree, the principle whiel' they maintain.-- ' hus you unequivocally and justly assert 'hat- " for.a portion of the people of Connect 'cut to undertake to establish a:Separate Gov rginent, within' its chartered limits for the hrpose of redressing any grievance, real or 'imaginary," would, be usurpation, and add - hat " such a principle, earned into execution, would destroy all lawful authority, And pro duce universal anarchy.”. Your Memorialists uIIV Subkribe- to: this .doctrine. But what s" the act which von call usurpation in the' ase supposed ? What is it but setting up Government 'claiming. antheirity, and-laws • emending execution, which in the nature of he case, can claim no authority and are op 'used to existing authority I . If you would call this " usurpation" - -in Connecticut, if it would " destroy all legal authority and pro duce universal Anarchy," what is this but the very act Whit*: Missouri invadershave . per • etrated in Kansas? There Government 'n Kansas— , r ±overnment .upder the Constitu ioh of the United States.: .Law was there also, a law.for the organization of Government: TOE PEOPLE OF Tlik TERRITORY. .Right, too; was there; the inviolable right of the •eople to . make thelr-own laws and elect their own'rulers. - In opposition' to the existing 'OW ent, in violation of that existing law, trampling uptin those inherent rights, Missou ri invaders have setup a 'bloody tyranny, -which has, in fact, ,produced anarchy and bloodshed, If you condemn the one, eon - demo the Other' also. - Your Memorialists have nothing 'to ask of ytiu in. this matter but consistency of principle: Condemn the same conduct in both cases; put down the usurpation in-Kansas, and thefriends of' truth, justice, and of the country, would rejoice.- . Your 11.temorialista 'again ask, whether case on well be imagined, to which the name of authorative- government could be applied with more palpable impropriety and untruth, than to the Territorial Government of • Kan sas? Might not even political shamelessness; blush to call it by such a name? Was not the, true and only 'character of this 'Govern ment known to you , 'aud the wholocountry before your inauguration, and during the Prcdidential canvass ? Did you not, with the full knowledge oft, accept your. noinina tion, which you were free to decline, and thus avoid the responsibility . of executing, these. , nefarious taws' ; or, did you suppose that the oath of ; office , would, exempt you, from this responsibility 1- You admit the Constitution; , al duty, of thO :President, to " take care thiit . . the laws .be faithfully, executed." And now,, withoutholding you .responsible for any acts of your . - Predecessor,. for which, you are not ' willing to be responsible and have, not fully sanctioned,. your •'Memorialists would : ,-ask,. was - there na law to be taken care of; bypre venting a WiliAnCesn - projected ' invesinn of the political rights of the pepple of Kansan ? no law to be talren• care of" ailerwatil by ex= polling the invaders from'the Territory? no law to be taken: care/if — in respect to the thefts, the,. robberies,' the incendiarisna and • the murders that w re perpetrated ? no law to be taken ' care in the - mode of civil ad ministiation it'd' ted 'by Federal . officials`? . officials`? tgf e no la* to bit t ken idre of in not appointing , officials whoOtAntsasratrrod 7witt innocent' blood, _or-in removing, bribed and priured 1 judge4l no jaw tp be taken care of by secur r ing. to the peophkof the, Territory,auit. fun*, mental, right of T.*, Constitution— a , right: guardid,by an ,gpresi law of Congress, =the right.` - to make. their owe laws and elect tboOr own rulers I? no. lastri,to ixf tglign.. Ct4cl4 QC in giving , to, .t.ongresa #iformatlpn ; lik. 104..4' the state of the Union, and,,eveciallyja M cominendinf necessary and expedient men, ME I • H. FRAZI,P,R, PUBLISHER---VOL. ures f,r the relief of the people of Kansas from the InjustiCe, the oppression and the barbarities 'to Whicf they were subjected ? Had then Great Britain any such laws to take care of in France, when the present Em- Ivor was enthroned there by usurpation, as those which our GoArnment— out' Presi dent ;--was bound to take care of in our own Ter. ritory ? In utter neglect of these laws, have you not, with a full knowledge of the nature of this usurpation, its origin,lts progress, its violation of Constitution' and of fundamental rights, its violence, its rapine, its measures its conflagration, and its shame, sustained:at . _ every sip its- authors and abettors..te this hour ? - 7iave you not sanetioned such 'Co 'duet by placing, or prominent ead ers therein in official stations . ? Again, are the' troubles and calat titles of Kansas the legitimate results &the wiSe.ad ministration—of the tine and right working in such an exigency—of ational GOv ernmenti the - most perfect/ cimen of hu man government the wog d has seen—to our own admiration, the pe allot' of excellence. Surely,:such results !espeak some derange, meet; some disturbing force in the evolution§ of a machinery so fitted to do good, so pow erful to its high design. .... But if your example in admini,strntion,and that of your predecessor in .iflide, are to be flillowed in future, -whenever similar cases shall occur—if every usurpation of power, when it has gained a temporary success, is -thenceforth to be backed by the whole pow er of the Federal Government, and forced upon the indignant, people on whom. by fraud or violence,•it had imposed itself, where will the end_be ? How Often will suelverises ac.. tually occur,i•esulting from ,the very nature of our Government,Weith such a principle in its administration to originate and foster diem? What a temptption :to party-spirit, thus unrestrained, emboldened, upheld by the Government of the nation, would be fur nished to carry out- its scheme and its tri, =nits in violence and bloodshed ! • What shall hinder? Let the administration of the Government change hands—and such chang es may be frequent-'-how surely 'would the same contests be reenacted by way of repri. gals for past injuries and oppressions l How would such contests be repeated m.-Territo ries.and in States bil t to your own mind, . would he revealed, in the very principle which you assume, a wtakness in 'our Government foretelling its speedy dissolution.. Of the particular considerations by which you have endeavored to support the funda, . mental principle of your reply, the first Which demands -notice- is that, a when you entered upon your official duties, Congress had'recog nized the Legislature (of Kansas) in different forms, and by different enactments." hied you informed your Memorialists what these ". different enactments" were, they might have been made the subject -*of distir ct examina tiee: A. n. 1., - tier taau witty say a1k....t th e ,. know of no "forms or enactments" of Con ro-ess which could be binding on'you as au thoritative, or which you had reason even to . : regard as evidence of the validity, - of that Legislature. Do you,- refer to the act by which .the usual appropriations, from the Treasury were made ? „Every one knows.in ,what manlier and 'for what reason that act was passed, and that many' who voted f us-it regarded, and still_ regard ; the Territorial Legislature as dOWnright useepation ; nor had they any' Snspicien- that they were recog niziit, its validity: ' Hem this bill can invest an act &usurpation with authority, your Me, morialists are unable to discover. What if the Legislature of Cennecticut . had, underthe excitement of party strife, even 'by_ a for Mal act, recognized the usurpation which yOu - kayo" supposed, might; not the Governor justly CM_ back .upon his.:Awn official prerogative, call out the militia, and snppress the yebelionl if - he would hehotind. to recognize. such an usurpation as government having authority, wherr - ontild.he -ever Suppress-it without him self becoming ttfebel against The very author.; ity - which he recognizes? Apply thiS illus tration 'to_ the President of the Uniti.d States, and you will that the fundatnental princi ple of all your reasoning is absolutely suicid al, and thus renders nugatory your entire vin dication. Did not Presidentlitekson, on'his• own ,official responsibility :as !stational Exec/ utive, set at defiance alike the power, and the authority of a." SoVereign State?" And / Can; a Territorial Government rank with anitride *t pendent State; Sovereignty ?: '-Can / Border Ituffianism, by 'any act of Congress," becente entitled to: respect and support, as z t‘ rightful law-making power, from the Presulent of the - flagrant--- United States? This case is too The-facts are-too . notoriotti:o truly inde -pendent, self•relying Preoi,. znt;'who under, , stood his official prerog4 ve,and his duty under the Constitution, would have hesitated. to disregard even a direct act of Congress 86 . tyrannical_, and OPpresSive,artd appeal to his country-and the world forhis.yindication., ,But no such trying •emergeney. was here. p`resented. With the solemn decision of the House of Representatives, afters long - inve. tigntioh„thaf.the Legislature or Kansas - had no atithoriti, and that itslawS,were no laws -with that direct,..pogitive and :mrimpeachai bit:, evidence before you, your i!dernorialista amnoyhut express their ,surpr,ise Attat e you .have/relied upon your . construction of indi• reet, inconclusive acts-of that, same., body - as; eprdeuce,ofthe authority of that Legislature., .TheY know of ,no rule iillaw . .by which 'yoU, can eel up constructive, inferential •eyidenee agaiusi directandpositiVe evidence frcni the sancoO:Urti.. But this ptporyou,-paSs.o l vei. in_utter.adence. ~ .. .- .- • ~, . , -.- .!--,- ,: Albllai'tci the'enailition of the.Territori.' you_ speak. - of :the cAitirse..3.;•bicib ..iti:i tulopt;i, as`" absolutely necessary ;'°. and ask. whether, " , you would not have been•-juSily eimdetnued had Vou left,r i what you assume- to lie -the go'etc.:oh:Nit ,and its - Ud;tiltAttation " hitpo teno, and thus have sufteiill. kt.to become an object, ofeonte.mpt iti the .eyeti of the people. Our first reply to this view of the ease is, afi before, there - was no ITerritorial) govern. vomit in Karoo tobe,AW4.4p you, lip, pose. .-Aial_again we saKtlia usurpedt.govi ern:neat 'aught ti:have beentrendered, imp*« test;; and- ter have -become 4113- vbicrt - b.f 'eon tept:iit the o.es'of the, pyt i , 4 l , it' tote: co ii ine...,:BUtliirtliOr.s i Cul bal Pistifi i lawlte,ibe estiblishatent of argoyeramentiin this Teiritory,' , with - this fortnit'and positive' explanation Olathe per!pb3 (iu the,Tetrifoiy) ,beiel , ,:perfectly fte44 tO form and iegtihtte. their. doluediO:Platitutiuna in theic:otn wAyi Why; then, could not it, OuVolloe , uf Kansas havertieura-nteirtvial 41,04: 6.- who t: ills control, who would have. suhresse ait internal violence and ntention, an "left the people free to for and re g ulate theirdp mestie institiftionsc., as well as employ the army to act th absurd and 'threical part • of a posse comitaius, to enforce, under your direction, terr" oriel laws which had no pre." tence ,i 5. of au rity ? Without -mying who were or w o were not, the responsible orig inators o the troubles in Kansas, can - it 'be dot4bte that the President long 'before this / tithe, y the course now suggested, - or sumo of r, might have pin an end to these troub / I -I. Ilas he not power to " take care that the laws"—and , of course,. that' the - law. of - Congress, respecting Kansas—" bt\f3tithfully executed 7" • lou have introduced several topics into your reply, as that of . Slavery, the decision of the Supreme Court -in the case of Dred Scott, with others, on which your Memorial ists have said nothing fif their Memorial, and on which they intend to say nothing new,.ex= cept to express their dissent from your cpirt, ions. . - - It . is needless to prolong this discussion.- 1 our whole vindication, if it has any ground, rests, in the view of your Memorialists, upon one 'palpably. false assumption That what r ever claims to be a government de fatty, without h pretence of its proceeding from any 'rightful law-making power, is entitled..lo your support. The world has not seen a usurpation :which - this principle would not sanction. If adopted in the' admin6tration of.burGoverunient it must involve, sooner or later, its destruCtion. • • . • .pardon, new, it nerd be, the plain and re spectful earnestness of your Memorialists in . unfolding What they _consider. fillse. principles in your positions on the ',present subject.—;• They speak of_ no went, of honesty .in your opinitins, nor of sincerity in your avowal of -them—:of no want of. patriotism on your part, nor yet of that higher principle _which God approves. They speak - only of -what 'they consider error in your reasonings, and of its consequences in political evils. They, judge not the heart. They have nooimputed to you any violatiOn of yetir oath oforliee,as You have thought fit to charge. Their len- gua , r l' e shows the contrary. They said, By the foregoing yon are held up—as violating," &c. ' The "foregoing" here spoken of IS shown by the connection to be the- claim of Goy. Walker that "'the •.F:'resident .Of the United States is . .employing through hire (Walker) an army, one. purpose of which is to force the people ~!_of Kansas - to obey laws 'not alerr own, - nor•Of ate United States; but laws which, it notorious, and established' upon evidence, they, never made; and rulers they_ never t elected." This. claim of Ger. Walker, ifadmitted by you in its full extent, and admitted On tin), ground of making the general principle mentioned above a tourers e./ one—thus applywg-a mere rule of it national law to the __internal government this countryW6tild, in our • view, inv. the ThOst:?riluils isliputaticake upon any, Cl Magistrate.. But vou had .not atahst_ti . . so far as weare aware, given any - public tion to that claim, and the Memorial, tl fore, did hot contain the imputation y(7 posed. , The Memorialists have dwelt on. the 9: referred to abore, - as they regard it', not merely on account of its fatal tendeney, and the calamities.which have act-licitly resulted from it,-but, also, because - the; Fare -Confident that you, in common with many ' OeYour hon est fellow-citizens,gave orerl96ked one es sential principle inAsuming, , ,that the -ruffian usurpation in Kansas is !,‘'an'establishod gov ernment." Be assu d'iltat they intend Us withhold no to ' itete yourintelltvtual eminence, or ora / character. They believe, however, that many errors and: misconcep tioni are conipatible with the highest mental culture and intellectual ability. - - • Your Alemorialilsghava spoken earnestly; becaue they deeply deplore the adoption of a principle'which leads to the mal-adminis• tratien of so perfect a system, of gosfernment as that Which our fathers, by their wisdom,. their,prayers, and their blood, have given to their posterity. They cannot believe in the unapproitchogl; infallibility of • their rulers, tinder this systent'Of true liherty,;• and, while . they Would hc them in the fear . of God, they are cot&(ip thatmeither they„.noreven kings;have the right, divine to govern wropg.' They hope for the ikintinuanee of our national _- government, and for its wise and effective ad ministration, in guarding the privileges and blessings it is so fitted to afford, and* perpet nate. They wait with hope for the ernanci - pation of the nations, and= : of all men, be the. light and power of the example ofsuch a gov ernment. .They trust that no untinthor4ed •mode of its administration will Cause it to 1141 of its design, and that you may yet see itithis respect one false principle, if ad hered'to, must prove a principle, of weakness; and decay—a sure prelude to the end of all Our greatness, happiness'and glory—a death spot in the tree of Liberty, wheseleaves,liko those - of the tree of life,: are for the licalineut the nations. • - NATHANIEL W. TAYLOR, S..G. Humunro., 4 1 / 4 TnEo. D. WOOLSEY, JOON A. BLAIR, i ITENV Durrom, . Wm. IL RUSSELL, Cuanirg L. Esoustr, A:N. Sxmizn, JOHN IL BROCKWAY, COARLES ROBINSON, ELI . W. BLARE,. JOEL lIAWES, SILLIMAN JR., G. A. CArvoim, TIIOMAS A, TITACIDER., - • I . 4IIONAED BACON, ,J; A. DATEEpOnt, - '4l. C. toNosi.Er, W9R,Tuis-roN HOOKED..,'• BEEJ. as.; PfIILoS BLANK, CHARIER Ives, : A:sfoLVOthitalrlM' "40814 u W.. Gram, JAMESBREMFSTIIi,.. • JAmEs• F. Bktmocir,, :ELI IVES,' •• • A . I.FRED - WALKISR, • 11ASTLEY. OLMSTED. - . tar The election day came; and Mr. flu, ehanan was made President.—FornresiPress.' We are - always gratified When we eon bear witness to the.-truthfulness of any assertions ,made by our • opponents ; and the quota tion above; we •et - in endorse to . the letter. Mr, 'But-tianan-was made President.- The Demo- - 'cretin party,knows how to make Prosidents.y. ~It has. long.ago abandoned the idea of eleetiag , thein.,, Twenty - I:woe ot false- naturalizatiori.:) papers; fifteen ittilian of voting 71, upon the.,papers• in one Irishman's pocket t pickpockets, thieves and " rangero,veting• three,, four and :five time* (see the evideame in,„„ the Mann and Cassidy ease,) wore the.gteeq*--, ".)' 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