Frorrithe 6ou>ritotiort. D>injlain nil his New Position, Vye are notone of those that give Stephen Arnold Dougfaa much credit- for honesty in his quarrel wiih the Administration ahom Kansas matters. We rather rejoice’ To ste fhe arcfi conspiratpr against Freedom placed in a position of antagonism to the parly which sustained him in a giant fraud. Coolly, sys tematically, determinedly, he laid his plans ly r fhe. repeal, of the Missouri Compromise, nod gaye shape .to his infamous doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. - He went down on hia khettahjeclly to his Southern masters; he trampied upon the Constitution; he spurned iind scomed the appeals of the North ; he in sulted God’s minister’s who raised their warn ing .voice against his measure of iniquity ; nod, after days of angry discussion, despite the entreaties alike of friends and opponents, in the dead hour of night the nation’s capital was made a scene of confusion and drunken; ness, and the- Kansas Nebraska Bill was forced upon the country. The man who thus persistently and iasolyntly violated a solemn compact, and in the face of the almost unani mous sentiment of the people, engineered to the bitter end a scheme sp full of iniquity—si scheme,.which has .been productive only ol evil, ami which has been the-cause of strife, pod : agitpuon, and legalized murder, and op presstun, pad wrong unparalleled in the his 4uryrof this Republic-rris not the man that can have our sympathies or deserve our com mendation. We held him then, atid iwe hold him now; a traitor against the peace apd wel- J'aretof Ijie.poualry ; an enemy to Constilu tipnal, .Liberty ; a dangerous, subtle, unscru. pulous foe; .-to Republicanism. The Arnold of the Revolution was not more deserving of .the deep and abiding contempt -and scorn.of Jhe American people, than the Arnold of 1854. The former attempted to betray-, his country; but failed; the latter conspired against Human Freedom, and succeeded. Is I rcaohery ..honorable because successful 1— Then -is Douglas honorable. The Kansas Nebraska swindle was perpe trated by its author to propitiate the South, mid pave the way for bis succession to the Presidency. The Democratic party, while it loved the treason, despised the traitor,.and at |he -Cincinnalti Convention ,he was thrown overboard to make way for Buchanan. The result was a natural one, although unexpect ed. - Buchanan was a-supplp.coward, and ibe ■Souif, knew he could be managed ; Douglas had betrayed his-native North, and although lie bad done ilia bidding.'of the South, they feared to trust him. . They knew fie had been treacherous once, and feared be might be so again- .From iba day the Missouri Compromise was repealed till the preseal hour, the whylc country has been in a constant state of ex citement. Outrages which make the blood run coW have been perpetrated in the name of Popular Sovereignly, under ‘the sanction of the National Government-. Free citizens of Kansas hare been murdered, and their murderers have been promoted to offices of power and profit; towns have been ransacked and burned, and the Government troops have aided and encouraged the work of devasta tion ; peaceful settlers have been forced to fly for their lives, and unprotected women hare been treated as shamefully os the Se poys of India treated the English females in the late insurrection; the purity of the ballot box has been invaded, and elections in every ierritory of the great West have been scenes of violence and-outlawry, and the will ol the legal voters has been overpowered by armed ruffians. The history of the wrongs, and outrages, and usurpation, swhlch sprang like so many hydra-beads from the monster bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise, -would fill many volumes., The operations of the Government from that day to this may well be termed a “reign of terror.” To-day wo. witness a spectacle of a some what different nature. The usurper, ambi lions for power and anxious to gain popular favor,- makes a new tack. His case is becom ing desperate, bis lime is.short, and he must soon get a new lease or retire. Another year closes his career in the Senate, and, unless jie can conciliate and cheat his constituents, he knows that hit hold on that office is cut off forever. The remainder of his time he intends to devote faithfully to developing his plans for re-election to the Senate, or his suc cession to the Presidency. He hopes to cheat the North by a profession of fairness towards the people of Kansas. He expects to allay the South by a recital of his labor of infamy in her behalf, and by promises of renewed efforts to bring in new Slave States. It will be the,fault of the republicans if he succeeds. When he talks of the rights of the people of Kansas, freemen must not forget that the au thor of alt the troubles in that ill-fated Ter ritory is Stephen Arnold Douglas. If Ins party spurns him and tramples hint under fool, be should receive no sympathy from Re publicans, If be is denounced by the lords of the lash, he should also be repelled by the friends of Freedom.- If bis Sight has been as.bold and .startling as that.of Lucifer, bis fall will be as terrible and certain. Humanity stands aghast at thejthoughl of the evil he has accomplished. He has.been a heartless, un scrupulous political tyrant, and never can de serve the confidence or favor of true patriots. His party. uoder his leadership, has been to a great extent invincible. Without film, it will he dashed to ruin. The day that Doug, las and Sham Democracy pin company, marks thoera-of the complete triumph of Re publicsnism. ’ Aa Impostor.-— A fellow calling himself Julius Aurboch, who pretends to be ■ Ger man Doctor has swindled some of the citizens t>f Elmira out of various amounts of money, snd undoubtedly tries to play the same game upon people .-elsewhere. Look out tor him. He it * fleshy dulchmao, wears gold specla clos. ond spepks broken English. His ap. penrancs. otherwise is respectable. He has been-pursued with warrants to Penn Yan, but has noryel'beeir arrested;—£An£ra Ad pertiser. ' r An Act passed the last Legislature of this State, providing its u whenever legislation is desired, by which itji- ■■ j.m),-, sale, rents, ts sues or profits,” of' real estate may be affect, cd, notice .thereof ahail .fie uivbn. by.adver. lisemeat for si* weeks in n newspaper of ,the proper county, thedasl publication to_be_at (east fen days before the application is pre sented. — Ex, THE AGITATOR. in. h. c0bt>,,...... WELLSBOB.OIIGH, pa. rhnrsttay Sorßlßf, Dec. 24, lS5r. •,* All Bnfijf&Es,and ollierCdhimunicailontinusl be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. ..There js.no important Washingtun news. Tills js the 2?d of December and yet no snow to speak of!" There was a slight flurry of snow last night, but lbis moroing dawned in adriixle. Mr. David Brionjof this village, has-- shown us a hep's egg measuring 7J inches at its smaller cir cumference and .hjinjclics a tits Jargon. Who has seenfl bigger?, Several correspondents will please wail as patient, ly, as may, be ipr the appearance of their articles. We are forced to put by a,.number of long articles to make room Jor Gov. Walker’s letter. Subscribers to Hie weekly Tribune whose subscrip tions expire in February next, as welt as all others who may desire to procure the Tribune tor 1638, are informed that the new February club is now be ing fdrmed at the Agitate r office. A series of Revival Meetings were commenced at the Presbyterian Church in this village last Satur day evening, under the direction of the resident minister, Rev. J*. F. Calkins, assisted by Rev. Mr.. Mitchell of Scruntqn, Pa. We understand Dial the Meetings will be held nightly for several weeks. Claus has deposited a back-load of Christ mas presents, and knick-knacks at Young's, this year, and our little friends must go early so that they can choose from the uncalled pile. To-morrow will be Christmas, little folks, so a merry Christmas to you, and may each succeeding Christmas of your lives find you grown better- and happier. We call attention to the commnnicatlon of “C,,” tn nnothcr'place, as well as. to the illegal practices of which she makes mention,' We bid her “ God Speed” in her effort to atoose the Women of Wells, boro to a true estimate of ihefr duty and sphere of action. We cheerfully grant them whatever space they may deem necessary In' our columns for (he prosecution of theft good intentions, and. will aid in the correction of theso abuses ss best we may be able. Christmas comes to-morrow. The great question that now presents Itself for-the consideration of all lovers of generous fare, is ; “ Sow can we manage to eat the greatest possible quantity in shortest pe riod of time ?’’ 'Tliisls, indeed, a grave question; for what would Christmas amount lb were it not made the occasion of a feast offal things'?' Has not graybearded Custom proved that men, women and children must glut themselves with grease du ring the holidays? Were not spare-ribs created es peciatly for Christmas Dinners? Are not sausages fried in bailer necessary to the proper enjoyment of Christmas? Everybody wilt answer “yes” to each and every one of these q uestions. Therefore, as is our wont on the eve of such occasions, we say to all —“ Eat ! eat all yon can and the more pork grease you can manage to worry down, the better.’ Pork is a marvelous hygienic agent! Another Victim to the Kansas Epidemic. Robert J. Walker breathed his last—as Govern or of Kansas, on the 15th instant. Wc publish the interesting passages in his dying declaration else where, and commend the same to the attention of our readers. The Territory of Kansas has been appropriately named “The Grave of Governors.* 1 The Execu tive annals of Kansas present a grim array of Mor tality statistics, unbroken by a single instance of Gubernatorial longevity. Reeder, Shannon, Geary, Walker \—all consigned to untimely political graves, and all in the brief space of three years I A fright* ful record of mortality indeed. The climate of Kansas seems especially fatal to high functionaries. .Of ail (be train. Walker alone has escaped out of Us borders with his official bead (hmly upon his shoulders; and he took refuge in (he Administration hospital only to die a natural death under the allopathic; treatment of no lesa,dis- Unguishcd a leech than President James Buchanan- He holds political life very cheap—as cheap os did his illustrious predecessor, Mr. Pierce. He has de capitated three Kansas functionaries, which, is a gain of one over bis predecessor. Verily, he is do ing the will of the Oligarchy with a vengeance. The reasons assigned for his resignation by Gov. Walker, are sufficient and weighty.. He accepted the undesirable post with the'unqualified assurances of the President and bis Cabinet that he would be sustained in the discharge of bis duly as he under, stood it, and os he distinctly defined that understand ing to the President before be accepted the appoint ment. The President has proved false to his faith; bo has violated bis pledges, and Gov. Walker finds himself face to face with Ihd to resign, or to disobey his new instructions and bring on a summary dismissal. Ho has chosen to resign, whether wisely, or otherwise, it is not necessary to argue. His letter places the whole matter before the people in a light reflecting sharply upon the bad faith of the President. His resignation amounts to a removal. It was the more agreeable of two alter natives leading to the same end* A goodly portion of (he Letter is devoted to an exposition of the principles of Popular Sovereignty as he understands them, and this portion we omit for want of room. Hit views; in the main, are just and endorsed by all parties in the country, with the important exception (hat Republicans hold that the people of no Slate or dependency have (he right to legalize a wrong. Guv. Walker bolds the contrary, that is to say, (hat the people may establish Slavery whenever the majority demand It. We have no lime to discuss this portion of the Letter at this op portumty, nor would it be proper since it Is omitted in our abstract. Should anjr of our readers chance to read Gov, Walker's opinion of the Lecompton Convention in connection with that portiori of llie President's Mes sage relating to the same, they will no doubt be not a little surprised to find that what the President as sumes to be true, Gov. Walker proves to be utterly foltrt. For example, Mr. Buchanan affects to con sider the Lecompton Convention a majority Conven tion. - Gov, Walker declares just-tbe contrary, to be true, lie states that nineteen out of the thirty-four counties in Kansas, were - not represented at aft in that Convention : and farther, that in fifteen of the nineteen unrepresented counties, ne census wat ta ken and ne registry a/ nontea of outers made . These fifteen counties contained large majorities of Free Stale men, says Guv. Walker; and further, that the registry of names in those counties was omitted on partisan considerations. Yet this ftandulent Con vention framed* Constitution for Kansas, and. Mr. Buchanan says dial it is a good one pnd should be adopted whether the majority there, are, or are pot in favor of its general provisions. This is Popular Sovereignly ns elucidated in the President’s Mess THE TIQU A ■ CQ-URffY AGITATOR. age, lint aomewh.tnnlike lljat expounded in Gover nor Walker's Letter.! - - " This is (he third Democrat w<Knf has been driven into a public repudiation of the policy ot bis party toward Kansas: What does thtf-nreanl WfR -tlio .can 1 and file of.tbat. parly.Joager .doubt Obat-iheir . public men arc meditating the death of Freedom in j 'Kansas'?’ Hgw much evidenced!) they require to convince them that black is not white, and how much to convince them that the measures of their parly are rankly pro-slavery 7 The testimony of Reeder. Geary and-Walker, whose devotion to tbe priooiples of (he Democratic party was never, before suspected —if sack testimony 6c unreliable, (hen, in the name of reason, tell us what kind oflesliinony you will accept; Perhaps it will require a still more miraculous conversion than Walker’» to beat down the obstinate skepticism’of some then. Then send soma ardent democrat to Kansas whose utter wont of integrity is notorious; and if he remains on Kansas suit three months, keeping tolerably sober the white, and is not shamed into some sort ot de cency, it will then be pardonable to doubt (he tesli. mony of men of the stern integrity of Asnatw H. Reeoxiu Not lilt then. ■ Editor. So one fraud is heaped above another, until, as now, the impious heap touches (lie heavens and casts its terrible shadow over the length and breadth of the land. Again we ask the democratic rank and file how much higher the unseemly heap must be piled before they will see the wrong and enter their eternal protest against the official madm'cn who are hastening the country to'irretrievable ruth? The position of the Jeffersonian democrats of Tioga is a proud one; a position of which their children and their children’s children will be proud in the coming day. The attitude of the falsely called democratic par y is such as should unite all true patriots around a common standard—the standard upon which is inscribed, ’<No Monk Suvr Son-!” (D*Committees have been appointed by the diff erent churches in North Brookfield, Mass., to act.to gether fur the suppression ofthe liquor traffic? in {hat town*— Exchange. I Well, that is aa excellent pUa—a jjdod example and worthy of imitation. Doubtless ibe several de nominations in Wells boro will see the matter in the same light, and in & tew weeks, or days wo may have the privilege ol saying as much fur them as an exchange says fur the churches of North Brook field. If there was ever a town cursed with the traffic in bedbug whiskey, it is this. If there was ever an instance of rapid degeneracy from cpmpar alive sobriety.lo shameful excess in a singje year, its parallel may be found in the history of this vil lage for a twelvemonth just passed. .Has any man a license to trade in whiskey in this town ? If so, let it be known; if not, then pot the screws to ev ery transgressor of the law. Show us the good cit izen, in or out of the church, who will stand up and B»y that this defiance of all law and good order' by a fe«rmen shall go on unprotested. We have held oar peace 100 long already in lire vain, hope that this wrong Would be righted without bruiting the deplo rable state of things here, abroad. We do U.reluct nfllly even now, but there is no discharge in the war of duly, and there is no way other than lo prosecute it to the bitter end. Lawbreakers must be dealt with, and if this community does not see fit to pro tect itself, the fault shall not lie with ns. We are ready forttie question in its broadest signification. Lei us hare ao more raeeitpgs to fizzle out io Com mittees of Vigilance. Let us have no more Com mittees, but Action* Our delectable friend of the Wayne Co. Hkr&td is in a mighty tight place. He would really like lo know which is likely to come out ol the squabble the worst whipped man—Douglas, Or Buchanan. If Douglas, then be would like to support Bachaaati; bat if Buchanan in to get the drubbing, why then he would like to support Douglas. We gather so much from his last leader. Ours is naturally q sympathetic heart, and though we cannot appreciate exactly the distress of his position, we deeply feel for him. It is just now impossible to say who will whip, we rather reckon Old Buck will, however. It will be safe enough to continue patting both com batants on the shoulder a while yet, as he did last week, for it is *• monsns uncertain” Into witose ser vice our friend will eventually go. The Little Pilgrim , edited by Grace Greenwood and published monthly at Philadelphia, is Ibe pret tiest sod best little paper for little folks that was ev er published anywhere in the wide worjd. Grace Greenwood is thoroughly acquainted with the good desires of children and therefore she makes her pa per just what it should be for their instruction. It is 50 cents a year, single copies, but if 14 of oar liitle friends can raise $3, they can each haven copy for one year. W/Il they not try to do go I VATICAN, Teiend Cobbs— -I send you'herewith’a specimen of Natural History—-a biped—not alrtiman,yct pos. scaring many of the characteristics of humans. He is very fashionable, dresses in the latest style and is naturally somewhat proud and vain; struts and swells a good deal, sometimes, but many, a dan dy does the same; is kind and peacable and never qnarrels with those who keep out of his way; is cbaciuble—giring to others ail that he cannot take from them *, is not hypocritical—believes that might makes right and practises in strict accordance with his belief; he never sails under false colors. He lias little uf the fillibuslcr in him though he does some times wage war with the British (creoles) and the Chinese (Shanghai*). 'He has a few failings in com. roon with the * 4 rest of mankind.” )He will drink and delights in being "corned **; but he does not' smoke or chew. As lo whiskers, he wears a goatee bat cannot raise a moustache.' Altogether, he is more human than aome Wbo have the human form. By the way—-are not his qualifications (barring the moustache) Such as to entitle him ioan entrance to the editorial profession f He is a great talker, a gabbler (gobbler) by-profession, and I think if he bad some M *nejum” to drive im qnills he might write. Suppose you adopt him as jupior editor, or give him the chair for a few weckeaod see if your patrons will notice the difference between turkey gobble end human gabble. jSSscolapiu?. P. S. X sec by the Agitator that you are out on Turkeys ahead of me. Strange that your gorm’an. dizing propensities should lead you to so low a view of them. Suppose some one occupying a' higher Kphero should consider you fit only for the spit or bis gluttonous stomach—how would you feel while frying on the gridiron 7 and bow would yon relish such a meal going down the gormandizer’s throat to satisfy his insatiable appetite 7 I claim'the Agitator for one year. This turkey tqill line to laugh at spits and Dutch Ovens and to gobble at you for your coward(ec. flfo, . Good gracious, dear pestle and mortar, what seas qf “ sasa” you send along with the Turkey 1 One would think the disciples of the healing art are never to forgive ua (he flagellation we gave them just about two years ago. Very well, lay it on as thick as you please, just so long as you season the •Mass” with such unctuous gobblers as accompa nied (his. We arc inclined to think he might be a proper candidate for filerary honors; he appears lo very tcell red and displays considerable talons , though not of the keenest order. Add to this the fact that he has epjoyed our friend, tire Doctor’s so* cicty from his youth op. ond we cannot harbor a doubt of his fitness to drive his own quills. And then, ho would always ** talk turkey,” to hit rcad ers,'which is one of Iho' finest of editorial accom plishments. Yes. dear. Doctor, be will do? but he can't hold a candle lo the old Connecticut gobbler Tor ferocity, of which wc made honorable mention last week. Callopatorediviws ! AbslUct of |&>v. Walker’s loiter ._ m obsignation. Cit*, Dec. 15, 1807.| { iff tbs Don. Lewis fife/Secretary of State. - - - Suf; 1 resign the office of Governor'of lheJ3if.rihQry_QC.KanMs!._.i.have. been. rpp»i, reluctantly forced to this conclusion, alter anxiofas ifnd; careful jboasljjetalioYv .of'my' duty to my country, io the people of Kansas, to the President of the tfniietf Stales, and to ntyself/ 1 • - Tbegroumisassumed-by ibe Presidenl in, his late Message 4o Congress, and in recent instructions ■'in' connection with the events now-transpiring heteand in.Jiaima,,admon ish me that as Goverpot of- that Terrhery, it will no longer be in-iny power to preserve -Hie-peace or'ltrodnoteths poblic welfare. -At the earnest solicitation of thoPrasident after - repeated refusals, the' last being ■in writing; ! tinnHy -accepted this office,-upon hit letter showing the dangers and difficulties of the Kansas question, and the necessity of my undertaking the task of adjustment. -Under these circumstances, notwithstanding the great sacrifices to me; personal, political and pecuniary, I felt (hat I could no more refuse such -a Call from my country through her Chief Magistrate, iban a soldier in bat tle who is ordered to the command of a for lorn hope. I accepted, however, on the -express con dition that I should advocate the submission of the Constitution to a toco of the: people for ratification or rejection. These- views were clearly understood by the President and all his Cabinet, They were distinctly sei •forth in'my letter, on-.the- acceptance of tfils ; office, of ihe.2oih March last, and reiterated in my inaogutaLaddcess of the 27th of May last; aa follows: "Indeed, I cannot doubt tbanhe- Convention, after having fromeda State Constitution, will-submit if for ratifica tion or rejection by e majority of the (hen actual bona fide resident settlers of Kansas." By that inaugural and ff "subsequent ad dress, 1 was pledged to*the~people of Kansas (o oppose, by all lawful means, the adoption of any Constitution which was not fairly and fully submittedto their vole for ratification or rejection. These pledges I cannot recall or violate without personal dishonor and the abandonment of fundamental principles ; and, therefore, it is impossible for me to support what is called the Lecompton Constitution, because it is not submitted to a vote of the people for ratification or rejection. As all free' government, as" stated by Mr. Jefferson, depends upon “the consent of the governed,” bow can it’ be, known whether ihe pebpTeAt'duld assent to the Constitution, unless it be submitted to their vote for ratifi cation or.rejection ! . But if acquiescence can be presumed in any case, surely it cannot be iq that of Kansas, where so many of the delegates violated their pledge lo"-submit the Constitution itself to avote of the people; where the delegates who signed the Constitu tion represented scarcely one-tenth of the people, and where nearly one-half of the counties of the Territory were disfranchised, and that by no fault of their’s, and did not and could not give a single vote at the elec (ion of delegates (o (he Convenrion. I have, therefore, discussed the subject mainly on the question that conventions are not sovereign, and cannot rightfully make .a. State Constitu tion without its submission to-a vole of the people for ratification or rejection. Yet, surely, even those who differ wifh me bn this point must concede, especially under the Kansas-Nebraska act, it is only such Con ventions can be called sovereign -as have been truly elected by the people, and repre sent them well. On reference, however, to my address of the 16th of September last, on the day qualification quesliorf, a copy of which was immediately transmitted to you for the information of the President and Cabinet, it is evident that the Lecomplon Convention was not such a body. That Convention had vital, not technical, defects io the very substance of its - organization under the Territorial law, which could only be cured, in my judgment, as set forth io my inaugural and other addresses, by sub- the Constitution for the ratification of the people. On reference to the Territo rial law, under which the Convention was assembled, thirty-four regularly organized counties counties were. named as election districts for delegates to the Convention. In each and all of these counties it was required by law that a census be taken, also the voters registered, and when this was completed the delegates to the Convention should be appor tioned accordingly. In nineteen of these counties there was no census, and therefore there could be no such apportionment there of delegates upon such census. And in fifteen of these counties.there was pu registry of voters. These fifteen counties, including many of the oldest organized counties in the Territory, were entirely disfranchised, and did not give (by no fault of their own,) and could notgive a solitary vote for the delegates to the Convention. This result was superin duerd by the act that (he Territorial Legisla ture appointed all the Sheriffs and. Probate Judges in all these counties, to whom was assigned tbe duly by law of making this census and registry. These officers were po litical partisans, dissenting from the views and opinions of the people of, these counties, as was proved by tbe election in October last. These officers, from want of funds, as they alleged, neglected or refused to take any census, or make any registry in these coun ties, and therefore, they were entirely dis franchised, and could not and did not give a single vote at the election for delegates to the Gonstitulional Convention. And here I wish to call attention to a distinction which will appear in my ipangural address in reference to those counties where the volers were fairly registered, and did not vole. In such coun ties where full and free opportunity was given lo register and vote, and they did hot choose to exercise such a privilege, the question'is very different from these counties where there was no census or registry, and no vote Was given, or could be given, however anxious the people might be to participate in the flec tion of delegates to the Convention. Nor could it be said these counties acquiesced, for, wherever they endeavored, by a subse quent census or registry of their own, to supply this defect, occasioned by previous neglect of the Territorial ’office?®, ihff dele gates thus chosen were rejected by the Con vention. XT' ■ I|- ■ I reptetat that, in 1 nineteen counties out of Ihirty-fSir,' there was mo census. In fifteen out of thirty/four there was no -registry, and Sot a solitary vole was given; or could be given, for Delegates lo the Con vention-in any oneof tbese-couniies. Surely-, then, itcannol be. said that.such a Conven lion, chosen by scarcely more (ban ona tenth of the present voters of Kansas, represented the people of that Terrilosy, and could rightly impose a Constitution upon them without their consent. These nineteen coun ties/ in which there was no census, conslhu ted a majority of the counties of fhe Terri tory, and these fifteen countiesin which there was no registry gave a much larger vote at the October election, even with the six months’ qualification, than the whole vote {given to the Lecompton Constitution on the l-7th of November last. If; then, sovereignty can be delegated, and the Convention as such are. sovereign, which i deny, surely it must be only in such cases os when such Conven tions are chosen by the people, which we have seen was not the case aa regards the -late Lecompton Convention. It .was for this and other reasons that in my inaugural end ■other addresses I insisted that the Constitu tion should be submitted' to the people by the Convention, as (he only means of curing ibis vital defect in its organization. U was, therefore, among other reasons that when, as you know, the organization called the “To peka State Government” iwas made, and as a consequence an inevitable- Civil war find conQict must have-ensuedj these results-were prevented by my assuring 1 , not the Abolition ists, as has been erroneously stated (for my address was not to them,]but to the. people of Kansas,-) that, in my judgment, the Consti tution,; jvnaJtFbeisuhaiaiffd fairiy and freely for ratification , or rejection by their vote; and that if this was not done, I would unite with them (the people) as I now do, in lawful opposition lb Such procedure. Inasmuch, however, as this difference is upon a vital question, involving practical re sults and new instructions, it is certainly . much mare respectful to the President, on my part, lo resign the office of Governor, and give hinl ah opportunity of filling it; as is, his right under the Constitution, with one who concurs with him in his present opin ions rather than go to Kansas and force him lo remove me by disobedience to his instruc tions. This latter course, in my judgment, would be incompatible with a proper respect for the Chief Magistrate of the Union, incon sistent with the rules of moral rectitude or propriety and could be adapted with no other view than to force the President to remove me from office. Such a;course, it is alleged, would present me lo the public as a political martyr in the defense of the great princple of self-government; but to gb' to Kansas with any such purpose; or with a certain knowledge that such a- result must follow, would be alike unjust and- improper. My only alternative, then. is that of a respectful resignation, in the hope that Kansas and our beloved country may be shielded from that civil war, with which, I fear, both are threat ened, by any attempt to force the so-called Lecompton Constitution- upon the people of Kansas. I state it as a fact, based on a long and intimate association with the people of Kansas, that an overwhelming majority of that people arc opposed to that instrument, and my letters state that hut one out of twenty of the press of Kansas sustain it. Some 1 oppose it because so many counties were dis franchised and unrepresented in the Conven tion. Some, who are opposed to paper money, because it authorizes a bank of enormous capital for Kansas, nearly unlimited in its issues and in the denomination of its notes from one dollar, up and down. Seme be cause of what they consider a Know-Nothing clause, by requiring that the Governor shall have been twenty years a citizen of the United States—some {because the elective 1 franchise is not free, as they cannot vote against the Constitution, but only {on the single issue whether any more slaves may be imported, and then only upon that issue 1 by-voting for the Constitution to which they are opposed ; and l they regard this as but a mockery of the elective franchise and a per ilous sporting with the sacred rights of the people—some oppose it’because the Constitu tion distinctly recognizes and adopts the Ox ford fraud in apportioning legislative mem bers for Johnson County upon the fraudulent and fictitious returns, so falsely called, from that precinct, which recognition of that fraud in the Constitution is abhorrent to the moral sense of the people. Others oppose it be cause, although in other cases the Presidents of Conventions have been authorized to issue writs of election to the regular Territorial or State officers, with the Usual judges and with the established precincts and on the adjudica tion of the returns, in this case unprecedented itndf vice-regaT'powors are given to the Presi dent of - the Convention to make the precincts, the judges, and Ip decide finally upon the returns. Prom the grant of these Unnsual and enormous powers, and from other'rea sons connected with the returns of Oxford and McGee, an overwhelming majority of Kansas have no faith in the validity of these returns and therefore will not vote. Indeed, disguise it as we may lo ourselves, under the influence of the present excitement, the facts will demonstrate that 'any attempt by Con gress to force this Constitution upon the peo ple of Kansas will be an effort to substitute the will of a small minority for thalmf an overwhelming* majority of the people of Kan sas ; that it will not settle the Kansas ques tion, or localize the issue ; that it will, t -fear, be attended by civil warj extending, perhaps, throughout the Union, thus bringing this question back upon Congress and before the people to its most dangerous and alarmin'* aspect. The'Presidenl takes a’ different view of (he 1 Subject in bis Message, and from the events occurring in Kansas as well as hero, it is' evident that the’question is passing from theories into practice, and that as Governor of Kansas I should be compelled to carry out new instructions differing on a vital ques tion from those received at the date of my appoint menu Such instructions I could riot execute 'consistently with my views of the Federal, Constitution and of the Kansas and 1 Nebraska bill, or with my pledges to the i people of Kansas. Under these circumstan ces, no alternative is (eft to tesigri the {office of Governor of the Territory of Kansas. No one can more deeply regret than myself the necessity > hot it arise* from do i l of opinion op my part. On the cooi M should moalcheerfully have. m ortied i(f'9 ms 10 carry out my original- instruction,-1® thus preserve the peace of ihe iS and finally settle the Kansas question b) M deeming my pledges to the people. -g my intention at this lime to culiar circumataaces and unexpected !fl which have modified the opinions of President upon a point so vital as the t mission of the Constitution for ratiScaiic; i rejection by the vote of the less do I desire any controversy wit!) • President on this subject. Yet, hov. widely my views’ may differ from these terla'med by him on this question— which I have held ail my life, and which ' involving fundamental principles of q liberty and of the Constitution, are unebj j ;i able —yet, a* regards all those great n ,J sures which 1 trust will constitute the p.; . | of bis Administration in other will give roe pleasure, as a private eilizea, yield roy cordial support, i have said a 1 the Slavery question, as a practical | had disappeared from Kansas long before) £ arrival there, and the question of self., | ernmenl had been substituted in its p 1: | On some future occasion I shall dtssipat*; .1 delusion which has pievailed upon this« || ject, and show that after three year,'. 3 periment, when 1 arrived in Kansas j wereleas than 300 slaves there, andthvs; ~ ber constantly diminishing; that, as ps, .j by the official records of Congress pubis ? and 1 authenticated by those distingnif, ,■ Southern statesmen, John C. Calhoun i Jefferson Davis, the Winter climate ey !s Eastern Kansas is colder than that of y. England.and that the Pro-Slavery Terr rial Convention of Kansas consolidated » { the Pro-Slavery Territorial, Legislature ' the 4th of January, 1857, nearly five mor before my arrival there, did abandon Slavery issue because, as set forth by os; : their number, the Pro-Slavery party wjj asmalland admitted minority, and the. ■ operation of the Freer Stale Democrats t ; invited as the only hope of success—na make Kansas a Slave State, which wasc i ceded to be impossible, but fo make it a c servative Democratic Free State. Evan ; late as the 3d of July, 1837, when the D; | ocralic Territorial Convention assemble! | Lecompton, in consequence of the law: '| the climate and the well-known will of people, none contended that Slavery eJ be established there; nor was it until Southern opponents interfered in the «&■ a of Kansas, and by denunciation, menact tM otherwise, aided at a eritica! period by sere Federal office-holders of Kansas, inclua the Surveyor-General, and the Presides: | the Convention with bis immense patrona I; embracing many hundred employees, its J vened, and as I believe without the knowled 5 or approbation of the President of the Cnt States, produced the extraordinary p« palled the Lecompton Constitution. Yeti ; act of intervention by the federal offiem; defeat the will of the people seems to ben ’ mined by my opponents, while my intern lion, as it is catted, m obedience to my cr and oath of office to support the Fttfe ; Constitution, and to taka care that cr« t gnnic law should be jfairly.executed hys , deavoring to secure to the people of Kia ■ their tights under that act, is denounced!: calumniated; .Ft is still mbre remarkaS that the hypothetical remarks made bye as regards climate in its connexion with. influence upon the quest ion of Slavery] Kansas, after that issue had been abandon there, which views were for consolidating;! the Union between the Conservative, the Fro State and Pro-Slavery Democrats, so ss: prevent the confiscation ef the small nutrat of slaves then held in, Kansas, have been 4 nounced by many distinguished Sowte Seniors, who, when the’ Kansas and Si braska bill -was pending in Congress, «L when such remark from, them, if ever mif? affect 'Southern emigration, were then hate fa proclaiming that because of its cliraa* Kansas could never become a Slave Suit Indeed, it seems that all persons in saint of Kansas, whether in public or private life - may publish What opinions they please in re gard to these questions except the Govetwt of that’Territory, who has so little pom aad no patronage. Host respectfully, yotfr obedient servant, 8. J. WALKER, Destrcctiv-e Fire at Cajstok.—A. cs respondent sends us the particulars of a tractive fire which occurred at Canton villi? on Monday evening, 7th iost. It otigina'-'. in the Hall over Manley’s store, which In been occupied by a singing school evening, and was discovered about II o’clod destroying the store and dwelling house oft G. Manley, which were insured for $2,401 a small building directly North;, the barnt. the Central House, owned by Kingsber.', Newman & Morret; and the Canton Houst a fine tavern, owned by Lee <Js Harding, as occupied by Mrs. Spalding, widow of the lan A. E. Spalding. . The tavern was valued i? about $6iQOO, upon which there was no iosu ranee.. The furniture was mostly removed The.atote.of Mix and Hooper andVand® were iu great danger, and the buildings atw slock considerably injured. Total loss abos $15,000. Mrs. Spalding having fortunately saves i portion,of her furniture from the conflajr' 1 lion, has taken the Keystone House, near lit depot, where the travelling public will be comtnodaied. —-Bradford Reporter. Speaking of the lumber business, the Jit’ dfetown Journal says :— - ‘We have made ! to sound our lumbermen in & gard to the amount of lumber on band, a a ; find that they have pretty generally sold ot and, that they intend to lay ina heavy suppC in the Spring, which they say will be net# aary to meet the demand. Our Saw Jh® are tunning every day, aod the entire s' l * 1 now on hand will be tun through about ib* holidays. Prom this it is evident that demand for timber at out-' market will b® 4l great if not greater than at any former tim*-. The cry of bard times has but little e®* l our lumber merchants.” i The chap who look the thread of W*. sew the rent of »| bouse, has gose and invented a patent point for cross-tP needles.
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