KANSAS. 57 chosen by the people, except in the case of one councilman and one representative. The legislature then stood confessedly legally organized. But that body, soon after organization, adjourned its sittings from Pawnee Mission to Shawnee Manual-Labor School, and on that account, and that only, the governor subsequently refused to sign the bills passed by the legislature ; and thereupon a general movement was made by the free-State party to resist the laws which were passed, whether by a two-thirds majority over the governor’s veto, or by an ordinary majority and the signature of his successor, after Governor Reeder’s removal by the President of the United States. Baffled, chagrined, and glowing with impassioned resentment, Governor Reeder and his friends then loudly charged that the elections had been controlled by armed citizens of Missouri, and that on that account the legislature was a spurious body, and its acts not entitled to obedience or observance by the people of the Territory. This was some months after the elections. Simultaneously, the series of movements, in defiance of law and order, was set on foot which led to the organization of military companies ; the arming with Sharpe’s rifles ; the setting up pretended laws, and holding elections, in defiance of the laws and elections of the Territorial government; the irregular election of this same Governor Reeder as a delegate to Congress ; the framing a State constitution, and the election under it of members of a legislature and of senators in Congress ; the counselling the people to resist the Territorial government, and the application which is now made to admit the rebellious new State thus formed into the Union. Surely a calm review of the facts here briefly hinted at ought to carry with it the conviction that those miguided men, by continued acts of an unusual, exciting, and aggressive character, have brought upon Kansas all the turmoil, collision, and agitation which have unfortunately distinguished it from the other Territories ; and that to countenance the admission into the Union of “the State of Kansas,” unprepared with population as it is, and attended with all the anomalous and forbidding circumstances which have been cited, would be one of the gravest and most dangerous errors ever committed by the American Congress. In conclusion, the undersigned begs leave to suggest, that at the proper time he desires to offer, in lieu of the bill reported by the majority, the following substitute. F. K. ZOLLICOFFER. A BILL to authorize the people of the Territory of Kangas to form a constitution and . ■rom- ri’ preparatory to their admiaeion into the Union, when they have the Tc population. B '“It. ! hy the S'-naie and Howie of Jlepres'ntativM of (he Jfni- ted h tales of Antrica in Cinnyrent anienibled, That whenever it shall a c c us to be taU n under the direction of the governor, bj t..e fc jthority of the legislature, that there shall be ninety-three i : ur hundred and twenty inhabitants (that being the
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