The apportionment of the members of the Territorial Legislature to be chosen the ensuing autumn was also based upon this same defective registry and census.

Here again disproportionate power accrued to the pro-slavery party, and the free-State men loudly charged that it was a new contrivance for the convenience of Missouri voters.

Governor Walker publicly deplored all these complications and defects; but he counseled endurance, and constantly urged in mitigation that in the end the people should have the privilege of a fair and direct vote upon their constitution.

That promise he held aloft as a beacon-light of hope and redress.

This attitude and policy, frequently reported to Washington, was not disavowed or discouraged by the President and Cabinet.
The Governor, however, soon found a storm brewing in another quarter.
When the newspapers brought copies of his inaugural address, his Topeka speech, and the general report of his Kansas policy back to the Southern States, there arose an ominous chorus of protest and denunciation from the whole tribe of fire-eating editors and politicians.