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KANSAS. 
state, 68 whose constitution clearly embraces a republican form of govern 
ment, is excluded from the Union because its domestic institutions may not 
in all respects, comport with the ideas of what is wise and expedient, enter¬ 
tained in another state.” 
If our state 88 be absolutely excluded from admission therein, that fact 
of itself {may) constitute the disruption of union between it and the other 
states. But the process of dissolution could not stop there,” and we should 
have the chief executive on our side in such an event. But no such re¬ 
sult is to be anticipated. When the President fully understands our case, 
he can do no less than withdraw his recommendation for an enabling act to 
form another constitution, and Congress will admit us without delay. 
Also we have confidence that no attempt will be made by the federal au¬ 
thorities to enforce the enactments of a foreign Legislature upon the people 
of Kansas. Mr. Christian, the pro-slavery clerk of Douglas County, says, 
the people of Missouri came into the territory on the thirtieth of March last, 
88 bearing with them their peculiar institutions—bowie-knives, pistols and 
whiskey — to the amount of five or six thousand, carried the election by 
storm, and elected every pro-slavery candidate that was in the field, by 
overwhelming majorities, thus securing every member of Council and House 
of Bepresentatives, in some instances driving from their seats the judges 
appointed by the governor, and placing judges from their own number in 
their stead, who paid no regard to the instructions of the executive,” etc. 
It cannot be that the President, after permitting the people of another 
state to take from the legal voters their constitutional and organic rights, 
will add to the outrage by compelling the people of Kansas to submit to 
their authority and obey their enactments. It is bad enough to be deprived 
of the right to make laws for ourselves, but it is worse to be compelled to 
submit to the laws of those who deprived us of that right. Although there 
has been and there will be no organized resistance to the self-styled territo¬ 
rial Legislature, yet nine men out of every ten spurn it with contempt as a 
gross outrage upon American citizens, and it is highly proper for the Gene¬ 
ral Assembly to memorialize Congress upon this subject, as with reference 
to the admission of the state into the Union. 
The President apologizes for the frequent invasions of Kansas, on the 
ground that some northern people talked about the repeal of the Missouri 
Compromise, and subjects connected with the extension of negro bondage, 
and because an emigrant aid association had been formed. 
The people of this country have been in the habit of talking about the 
affairs of government ever since the Mayflower discharged her cargo on 
Plymouth Bock, but this is the first time that it has been considered an 
apology for the invasion of a distant state or territory. If the people of 
Kansas were accountable for the loquacity of the North or the silence of 
the South, the case might be different. 
Emigrant aid associations are nothing new in the United States When 
