Show from the newhaven new nep haven dally palladium IELY TO THE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT to his excellency JAMES bucl Buci zANAN president of the united states in july last a number of citizens of connecticut addressed to you as chief magistrate of this tilis iia yia nation tion a memorial on oil the of kansas to this you replied tinder under date of aug 15 1857 1657 in a dianner manner which shows that you misunderstood to some extent the ground taken by your me moria lists for we would not impute to you the intention to misrepresent them As you have thought proper to lay the memorial and reply before the public a large part odthe of he Memoria lists have conferred on the tile subject and have felt til themselves em compelled again to addres address you we i would r then that the main facts alleged in that memorial are either parsed passed overa over oven without phout denial or are explicitly avowed in your reply these facts are two first that the fundamental principle of the constitution of the united states and of our political institutions is that the tha ti ae people shall make their own laws and elect tl their eif elf own 4 secondly that gov walker of kansas openly represents and proclaims that the president of the united states is employing through him walker an army one ona purpose 0 of f which is to force the people of kansas to obey laws which are not their heir own nor of the united states but laws a Ws which it is notorious and established upon evi evl evidence they never made and rulers they never elected As to these two bacs the material facts alle alie alleged by your Memoria lists and which chiefly require vindication from you they say that they find lio iio no denial of them iu ia your reply they do not say that you have attempted no D vindication vindicate ion lon of your acts and doings through gov walker but only that they tiley call can find in your reply no plain or explicit denial of the facts referred to not even what they consider the shadow of a danial denial these facts stand in the memorial then by what you evidently consider a triumphant reply why is this are these assertions on which the whole subject at issue iesue lue luo depends untrue and yet no denial of them nota word to prove them untrue without such denial what can you expect your memo realists nia ria lists and be file country to believe and to say what but that the facts which they allege are undeniable ema ees A s to the allegation inspecting the fundament tal principle of tile the constitution your memorial ests hope that the time lime is remote when wien the enlightened citizens of this country will wiil deny that principle though party zeal in fit 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 your formal vindication indication next demands notice of this your compe compelled llad to say that in their view it is entirely groundless anu and and unsatisfactory resting it solely on what you call the plainest and most palpable historical facts you say that thatah at the time of your inauguration you found in fact the he government of kansas as well established as that of any other territory you then ask was it not my duty to sustain this gov eminent to prevent it from being overturned by force in the language of the constitution ato to take care that the he laws be faithfully executed ted led 1 you von then add it was for this purpose that I 1 ordered a military force to kansas to act as a posse comitatus in aiding the civil magistrates to carry the laws into execution here then is the dis admission and declaration on your part that you yon ordered a military force to kansas K ansas for the purpose of sustaining its territorial government and of enforcing lis its territorial laws so far then in respect to one matter of fact you admit the assertion of your Memoria lists 1 your vindication therefore rests upon the assertion iser tion that there was in fact a government in hi Kansas such a government as it was your duty to sustain the essential question on which the tiie whole controversy turns is thus raised it is simply this was there a government or were there here laws in kansas in the just proper prop 1 er and authorized meaning of the language when you entered upon the duties of the presidential office on the 4 ii of march llarch last lasov if this call can be proved to be true your memori lemorl alises will know something which they have yet to learn if it can be proved not to be true it will present a memorable example of the truth tl ti at political prejudice is blind even to the existence of the plainest and most palpable of cal facts nor is this all it will show that you ordered an army to kal kai sas to sustain a so called i government which is not a government and laws whichard chare not laws here your Memoria lists take the position that nothing call can be truly governmental or law which has no authority and that nothing should be treat i ra 0 1 as government or law which presents no evi I 1 dence of authority can anything which tramples ram ples pies under foot toot all human hul 1 rights right and is a known outrage upon our constitution and our political institutions what ever be iti lie name or fonn tonn be justly regarded as government or law having authority under ofir our constitution can such all ail outrage be authority by a president senate congress or a whole ion ton congress gress of presidents can carl usurpation beget a valid government or law or impart that right to govern which implies all an obligation to obey ogey its might may make it a matter of prudence to avoid its wrath by submission but can call usurpation create an obligation to obey when aheu none exists suppose the great mogul or any other tyrant had established the same so called government and laws of kansas by the same means by which as all tile the woid world knows they were established by invasion and arms woold would any citizens of the united states slates call them government and laws except in derision and with loathing Is a bogus government government are bogus ocrus laws laws Is this government establish established eil eti and are aro these laws ena enacted cled and aud yet known to pos possess ess no other or higher authority than that derived from border ruffians are we the people of the united states to be stultified into the belief of such a dogma for foi that result wait at least for the more absolute dominion of a tyrant your Memoria lists will now present what they consider 1 the fundamental error of your reply jn in their view iu in recognizing the tile territorial government and laws of kansas as asa genuine government and valid laws you have perverted the general principle upon which you rest your vindication and have violated its essential spirit and mean ing that general principle may roay be thus stated when rules of action claiming to be valid laws present oil on the first aspect evidence that they tiley proceed from a rightful lawmaking law making power it is the tha thel duty of the people and the executors of law to rec cognize etem as authol ita tive to this tin s as a general principle your subscribe it is the 0 only ill ril y me means a ns of giving practical authority to j law andoe preventing violence and anai anal cli nor do they yield to any ian lan man or class of men a higher 1 estimate of its importance or a firmer determination to adopt and defend it than themselves cherish but to say that all governments and all laws claiming to be valid must be recognized executed and obeyed obey edas as such is as preposterous as to deny the general pi principle itself to mistake tha iha gen etal rule for an universal rule the conditional for an unconditional principle must lead to false reasoning and aud to practical conclusions of the most dangerous character thi this in fit the view of your I 1 Memoria lists who believe that none are to too 0 wie or good to err is what you they ti fiust anad vei vel t antly have doi e in the territorial government and laws as authoritative have you not violated llie file whole s spirit irl iri and meaning of the principle laid down me have you yuu not wholly disregarded the he essential condition that lile llie ohly only government which itis it is your duly to sanction must present some evi dance of ri rightful biffl authority you recognize the tire territorial laws ianis as valid what is this but to act upon the principle that when the so called nov gov government and laws come beffi e you without the shadow of evidence of their proceeding from a r gotful lawmaking law making power but with the most decisive and overwhelming proof that they have originated in a palpable ald and amt ami violent usurpation I 1 on that even then even eved in a case so fl flagrant arant it is your duty to sustain juslain and execute the them cin lin even by the armies of the united states your Memoria lists ake aie her anxious to call cali your attention to an un important distinction which you appear ell eli entirely to overlook they readdy concede that in cases of no occurrence one government may properly recognize another as authoritative or es as a government de facto on a very low degree of evidence without rigidly investigating vesti gathie gating its authority or even con considering its ps origin for example tile the gow government rement of great r eat britain when louis napoleon was enthroned in fran france fiance ce by fhe the army of the empire and with tile he acqui acqua keence and consent of the people had no right to interfere with a government thus established the british as a foreign government llad bad no right of question or of control in the file matter but does it follow because the government of great fortain er tain had bad no right to interfere with what was an undeniable usurpation in a fo foreign relo reio pi kingdom that the government of the united states had laid no right and were not bound to interpose and put down in one of their own territories a ruffian usurpation from missouri in respect to france there was reason enough why 0 tiler other nations for purposes of national intercourse should recognize its present government as an established government but bat is not the con constitution ution of the united states the supreme law of the tiie land has not our government the fight to authorize and regulate the government of its own territories call can cog CoS congress gress or the president abandon this right or the duty which arises from jiom it lt if this his government owes any duty whatever to the country is it not most sacredly bound to protect both slate aud and territory against the imposition of a go government and laws by a ruffian and violent invasion from another state your Memoria lists then strenuously insist that the only principle on which recognition can ever be just justified is that there is some evidence be it more or less that the government proceeds from an authorized lawmaking law making power and they further insist that when such government is within our 0 ur own borders tinder under the supervision and control of the federal government and arid claiming to degive all ali its sanction from a law of congress Con giess the evidence of its authority must bo be clear and decisive but how is it when there is no such ei evidence dence how is it when all the evidence is strong against its authority how is it when there is the best evidence the case admits of even decisive enquest couable proof hat that the so called government hag hai no other authority than and outrage Is such a cgovern government ment to be practically recognized and that too within the limits of our own republic there surely may be cases in wirch it is ouid be a gross wrong to sustain a d government which has no authority and now we ask what bovein M ent could youre you refue fuce to sustain if it not ot one hat hail hatt lis origin solely in a violent invasion of ruffians from another state this fact in the present case can be denied so can god when his sun ebneth in the heavens this usurped government cannot be sabeti sanctioned on by the lw of congress authorizing the formation of a territorial government that law declares that th atthe the tille due intent and meaning of this act is to leave he people of the territory perfectly I 1 free to regulate regu late lafe their domestic dome tic institutions 1 in their own way subject only to the 1 j tion lion of the united states to the people and i them alone it elpi expressly essly essiy gives the right to gake make make their own govern government ment and laws here nere is no sanc sane 1 tion no authority for a government not framed i by the people but hut founded fon tided solely oil on invasion i call can this law enthrone in rightful sovereignty ban bill aits from a neighboring state slate As A well say that it authorized them to seize every acre of kansas for their own use and ia can as well weli deprive the people of one right as of another of all rights as of one it is said that hat congress au an aut i thorl theorized zed the establishment of a government 1 yes Ys but by the people not by marauders it is further said that we must adhere to a general principle what principle why as your I 1 whole argument implies hat that a government established is a government to 0 o be recognized we deny such a government n kansas beware how you stretch a general principle and make it universal though one may safely pass tile the nufa ra river at al alho allo lother iother ther lher points and places plates none but i a madman would attempt the passage oil on the theve ige of the tile cataract cafara ct your Memoria lists urge therefore that the so called government of karis Katis kansas ns uan can claim no sanction from tile the act of con oon connies ies les the evidence was all against it evidence known lo 10 the whole civilized world apparent oil on the very face of tile the transaction and which must have llave challenged your attention long before you vou had taken the oath of office the very fact that the so called government required support from the hip federal executive was the strongest est evidence that it did not ilot come from tile the people and had no lawful authority this shows at once that this government was not in a the lowest sene sense seh sen e what you call an established government forit for it shows that it was not and could not be established establish pd without a united states aimy army and therefore the tile arav was sent not ahyou pretend pret eid to sli sis Stain all ail b j ed government but for the purpose of establishing in what was llo ilo not t established a Govern government men t of f ruffian ruffian auf aut nor could you have ben ignorant that t lie house of representatives had sent a special spec al committee corn of gation gatlon oll oil to the eni tory fory and thus thu s acknowledged and con coi confirma firmed firme I 1 lne ine t e propriety pro of a strict brict inquiry ir into this very ery case cast oi on the tl e report liport of that committee the house of representatives declared that the government of kansas was est estabi bushed shed by lle ile tile lie terror of bowie knives and revolvers and thatis that it had bad been proved to have not a shadow 0 of anthonty auth onty and heie hele your Memoria lists ask whether a pa pinner liner ce or 01 stronger bronger tr evide dep pep can dellbe wel wei be imagined when if not in it such a case ought the president to denounce a government as spurious aid ard lo 10 refuse to aid cr or sustain i I 1 the laws of congress trampled in the dit dust he the invaders fi om Alies missouri miri niri pi a cavil to be the tire only authors of this tins government is is it not an outrageous wrong to hold kansas subject 10 lo such buch si ch usurpation by a united states armye army the fires of still burn 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