VOL., IX. Business - tards. F. w.'insTox, • - • attortr.tp-at 74.a1p, c.,44srsport, Pa., will regularly attend the Courts . , in Potter county. ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, Ettorneg Counselor at "Rats, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to his care, with promptness and Office—in the Temperance Block, up stairs, Main•etiest. • ISAAO BENSON attarat2 at katu, COUDERSPORT, PA. • . ®des corner of West and Third streetv. L. P. WILLISTON, flttorneg at Wats, • Tiogi Co. Pa., will attend th e Courts in Potter and 3Pliedn Counties. A. P. CONE, SttorneN at !Lab), Wellsborough, Tioga county, Pa, willregular lj the courts of Putter county. Juno 3, 1848. JOHN S. MANN, Itttorrup., &Couxstlor at ?Lap, Coudersport, Pa., will uncud thu several Courts tu Putter and 31%.eun counties. All builuess eutrustcd in his care, will receive • prompt atteutiou. °nice ou Maiu.street, opposite the Cotut 'louse, Coudersport, Pa. COUDERSPORT. HOTEL, "Banta AP. Glansmire PROPRIETOR. Cernei of Alain and Second streets, Con slerspurt, Potter l u., Pa. 44. W. K. KING, Altringor, Brafaiman, leollueßancer, Smerhpurt, .41Uriean Co., Pa., Will attend to ba3inods for nun -resident land holders, upon reasonable terms. Itelereueee given LI ruquzred. P. S. Maps of any part of the County made to order. H. J. OLMSTED, 35 urbtgor anb Drafromatt, At the office of J. S. Mann, Conderspori, Pa ABRAM YO . VNG, Vaitattyr-inattr ant( alnueltr. All work warranted. A stock of %Vatches and Jewolry . ott hand and for .sa.e. Cali at the store of trtith...t JOnes,'Coudersi:ori, Pa. --- BENJAMIN . REIN ELS, LACICSIC/-1 - 11. All work in his hue, done to ,order and with d.spo.ch. Un West saeet, below 'l'h.rd Coudersport, Pa. SMITH & JONES. Dialers in Dry Hoods, Groceries, Station° ty. Drup A .11,edicines, Palms, iLii‘; Fancy "races, dr.c. Alain .treet, Coltdtrsvort 1;a. • JONES, MANN, a: J().NES. General Grocery - mid t rovision Demets— Also Ltry tiuoaA, liardware, Books and uqu wha.ever men MAIL to thly. Alum birec, Cuudenspur, Pd. D. E. OLMSTED Dealer in Dry Goods, Ready-made Clothing, Graceries; Crockery, t.c. Coudersport, l'a. • J. W. SM ITH, polder in Stoves, and manufacture of Tin COppor, and Sheet-Iron Ware. Main street, Coudersport, Pa. W. MANN . , Dialer in Books & Stationery, Music, and Magazines. Maiu-et., opposite N. W. corner Otto public square. Coudersport, Pa. AMOS FRENCH, Physicist:l & Surgeon. East side Olt► it., Coudersport, Pa. DAVID B. BROWN, Faundryntan and Dealer Ploughs. Up per end of Mum street, Coudersport Pa., JACKSON & SCHOOMAKER, Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, and Ready-41nd* Clothing. Main street, Cou.- Ileriliort, Pa. 4141 4 F,GANY HOUSE, samuel3l:Mills:Proprietor. On the Wells yule read, seven tunes North of Coudersport. • 3. CIiENEY, Merchant Tailor, and Dealer . 4eady lad* Cunhiug. INoral puti‘lie square, f r :onderapurt, Pa. A, B. GOODSELL, C"F 111TH, Coude rsp ort;Pa, Fire Arms manufactured and repaired at his shop, ou short uotice, March 3, 1848, • - • ' • .T. IC ARINCx; • • • Fashionable Taifor. All work entrusted to atis cans will be done With neauiess; comfort, yid .durabdity. shop • over ',Awls Mann's Ser.* •• . ma 4,1- , .. .., . T , . . ~.. ~ ~.,......., ...... .. .• . , L . ~.,.. , . ... ...... ......: . ...,.._ : ~. . U . ••: - : '.' '• . : .---:-.. .. . .. . .. _ ...... THE PEOPLE'S ,TOURZTAT.; PUBLISHED EVERT% TIIVELSDAY ILIORNING. Terms—in Advance • One copy per:annum, $l,OO Village subscr i bers, ' 1.25 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. square, ofl2 lines or less, 1 insertion, $0,50 " " •- " '" 3 insertions, 1,50 " every subsequent insertion, • .25 Rule and Sgare stork, per sq., 3 insertions, 3,00 Every subsequent insertion, 50 1 column, one year, 25,00 A .• 15.00 11.0 S 1 colutnn;.six months, • 15,00 u At . .9.00 Administrators' or Executors' Notices, 2,00 Sheriff's Sales, per tract, • 1,50 Marriage notices 1.00 Professional Cards not exceeding eight lines asserted-for $5,00 per annum. . • la• All letters on buainess, to secure at ention, should be addressed (post paid) 'to the Publisher. The Fremont train has got along, Just jump aboard, ye foes of wrong! Our train is bound for Washington; It carries Freedom's bravest son. Clear the track, fillibusters! Now's no time for threats and blusters! Clear the track ! or, ere you dream ou't, You'll 'neatlt the train of Freniont! Now, down in Washington, they say, The Border Ruffians have their way; And loud they talk of "Buck and Brack," For linking Kansas all a wrecks Clear the track, &c. But they've got up no such Wg. team As this of Ours, that goes by steam; And arguments. we've not a few, To bring in men just such as you. Clear the track, They tell us, though. th it Washington's . A dangerous place for Freedom's sons, For canes are cheap, and laws are scarce, And murder trials all a farce ! Clear the track, &c.. But what care we for nal in might, When we arc on the side of right ? And soon we'll let them feel the pains, That votes can cause as well as canes! Clear the track, &c. And don't you see we've just the matt Lo meet the foe l—for he who can Brave torrents wild and mountain 'snows, Will fear no Brooks nor Southern blows. Clear the track,„;&e. Then jump aboard the Fremont train, And soon the Capital we'tl•gain, Thou we'll rejoice o'er one in power, Who never will to Slavery cower. Clear the track, &c. Old Buchanan'a come td town • He left Ens post of some renown; t. Ile's come expecting to be sent To Washing:on as President. You've collie too late, James Buchanan: We shall put another man in. Fromont is both great and young, And never can be thus outrun; lle • crossed th• Rocky mountains cold, And showed us California's gold. Get out- out of the way, James Buchanan We shill pit a younger roan in. • . . Old Buchanan has no wile, - lle'sJived a bichelor all his life, And hopes to be the White House lime Instead ot - Fremont's charming Joule. Get oft the track, old Buchanan: We :Ma put our Jessie's ram in, : Cincinnati forged the' chains To bind with Slavery our domains But we shall have . Free Speech and State, With Fremont for our candidite! Get out of the way, James Buchanan: Tke shall put a freer man in. .LETTEA FROM THE STATE PRISONERS CAMP OP U. S. CAVALRY, NEAR 'LECOMPTON, KANSAS, Monday, July '7, 185&. Cot.. E. Y. Sunastea—.Deai.: Sir: In my conversation with you on the sth instz, relative to the outrage at Topeka on the 4th, and the general partisan character of the . General Government, I intended to cast no reflection or . cen. sure upon yourself as an officer under orders. On the contrary, I :have rea sat to believe that, in this last act of . the tragedy, as in all others, you have strictly obeyed the orders of your su perior., the Commander-in-Chief, and Could riot have done otherwise, unless you had atted either against orders or without them, or have resigned your; commission. - : . • Whatever judgmeu; 'din - people, ,of Kansas other country may pass upon DEVOTED.TO•THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCIIACY,.AND : THE DI . SSE4DNATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE, ,AND NEW THE FILEXONT TItAIN Tore—" Old Dan Tacker." ANTI-BUCHANAN BONG TuNr.--" 0! &ban Tucker."' egiJDERgPORT, POTTER COUNTY, P . A., AUG. 7, .1856. -the conduct of the administrators of Government, or I . should - rather say, administrators of eutrage, in Kansas, all pa!ties must concede to you, ier sOnally, the character of an honorabla impartial,. highminded, and efficient officei; . notwithstanding, in the' dis charge of your official duty, your ,sti periors incur the censure of perso*s of all 'shades of political faith. .. The causes of complaint the people of Kansas have against the: President of the United States, are many and various. He has appointed officers, Execu tive and Judicial, fur the Territory, who, with very few exCeptions, have countenanced, and aided the foreign invasion of the -ballot-box, and the for eign mobs, robberies, murders, fire and-sword, preying upon the bona fide ,settlers of Kansas. The President himselfrefuses to interpose for our protection, saying he had no power to act in our behalf. When, however, his Governor refused, for cause, to re cognize the body elected by citizens. of Missouri as the Legislature of Kan sas, and would have made their enact— ments a dead' letter, the President could find power to act, and removed him on a false charge. His successor, ow his way to the Territory, told the people of Missouri that he would enforce the laws of their Legislature upon the people of'. Kati sas, and from the first, has acted eith er the part of a' tool of men in Missou ri or a violent partisan. - ' He avoided the settlers of• the Ter ritory, refusing the hospitalities of the citizens, and declining their invitation to address them as he had done the people of Missouri. Last Fall,' when the people of an other State wished to destroy Law rence, the Governor, on a pretense, that a difficulty had occurred tenmiles south of the devoted city, issued proclamation, fur his militia to turn out and encamp over against the town, which had taken no 'part in any diffi culty, and in which no legal process' o f any kind had been attempted to .be sei ved by the Sheriff, and in which no crime had been committed. But Lawrence was the successful rival of Lecompton, and contained some Free-State men within it, and it must be destroyed, and President Pierce's Governor must be the instru ment of destruction. , how ever, the public determined to protect themselves from mobs, official or oth erwise, and having no legal action against the town or its citizens, ho concluded to wait for a more conven ient season.. Where a two fold ob ject is to be accomplished, namely, the destruction of a rival town and the crtishing • out of political.. opponents, the occasion is not long delayed. The President comes to their aid, (having suddenly learned that ho has power to act) by a special messafe and procla mation, informing the settlers of ICan sas, and the rest of mankind, 'that ho indorses the. Draconian code of the Legislature, elected by, the people of Missouri and its officers, and whether legal or not, the Army and Navy of the United States -and. the militia of the several States shall'beenaPloy e d, is the necessary, to. :austifinse officers and laws. .Moreover, he more than intimates that it n ould not be out of - character to have some indictments . found tor - treason. This is. safficient. authority for all . that follows. A regiment of suitable characters is enrolled in - the 'extreme South, "armed, it is said, with Bibles and Sharp's rifles, revolvers, ' bowie knives, &c., and- arrives just in time to be ocrolled as the militia of the Territory, and to:be - Used as the posse of the Marshal mid Sheriff. In the mean time, the :President's Judge instructs his 'partisan Jury, se lected:l4llm President's -. Marshal . or his depiity,to indict certain characters fur 't reaSoh . arid the like. 7he Jury, theniaelres instrument of the riarth find true against certain persOns Tor treason, because they roisoived . :to defend tbatnaelfes and their families: from a mob: and against the hotel at Lawrence - a nuisance, because its Walls, net . then complete, had sheltered some peOpe while preparing to defend • themselves from mob Violence, and becaue Le conipton had no hotel as good; and against the _newspapers of Lawrence, also as nuisances, because they justi fied the people in their preparations for selfdefense, and because they ex posed the villainy of the President's laws and officials, and also:they were an evidence of prosperity which Le-, compton could not brook in a: rival town. This, much accomplished;now . for the execution. The arrest of those indicted for trea son is an easy - matter, as no one pro poses to resist any process in the hands. of the marshal, except iu the case of Gov. Reeder, who pleads his privilege from serving as a witness Before tha Jury on account of his being a con testant for a seat in Congress. His declining to recognize the right of the Marsha . al to' take hint from the Committee of Congress on such an errand, was seized upon as a sufficient excuse for calling on all the people of the Territory to assemble once more against Lawrocee. The Southern regiment are on hand and the people of Missouri once more cross the line, wait upon the 'Marsha and the Governor, receive the Govern ment arms, are enrolled as a militia or posse comitatus, and curathenc3 opera tions. dill horses and other Property of Free-State men are pressed into ser vice {which means stolen or plundered. in their language), and the meetly ar my proceed to Lawrence, against the rettibnstrance and protests of all, good citizens, who volunteer t. secure the service of any legal proc s in their town, if this bOdy Of aline depreda tors. could be kept away. But this . Would not answer: there were certain things to be done that even the Gov erner and Marshal did not dare say were legal. and to this end the' mob must be taken into town. . All is quiet in town before the Mar shal 'enters. He appears with a few men, arrests his °prisoners, as he had been doing for several days before,. witheut opposition, and then'suddenly loaies. His posse, under the direc tion of the Sheriff; who is Indorsed in' the message and proclamation of the President, then enter, disarm the peo ple, bombard - the envied hotel and burn it to the ground, destroy two printing presses, type and offiefi-fix tures, burn a private dwelling, and pillage the -town. This done, the civil posse is dis . missed into guerilla bands that infest the Territory like the plagues of Egypt committing all manner of thefts, rob beries, murders and other outrages upon the Free-State settlers, and-it is not till the people, driven to despera tion, take Vengeance into their own hands, and commence a like warfare upon this Government armed ex. potre that the President or his' appointees find any occasion for restraining the villainy of their, friends and- partisans. All this time every Free-State, man suspected, or even charged with •an offense without suspicion, arrested, confined, and sonletitOes put in : irons and shamefully abused and tenured, while murderers, thieves, robbers, and every kind of criminals, are . suffered to go at large, provided always, they belong to the Pro-Slavery. or -Admiu istration party;, and not only suffered to go at large,but.are promoted to or are ietainedlitt office under' the Gov ernment. .' . • . Property has been taken. by the officer and bis posse, and when appli cation was made for it to the Execn tiye, the applicant was tauutingly;Ask ed 4 , Why he gave, it up 1" and told that the officer had-no right to take it, az:. 7 , yet if any man tittampts 'to 'pro tect his person or..his property ,from theie officials and 'their partisans. ho is at once charged with treason ; had, as Gov. Shannon reported to 'haiesaid. char g e 4; must be tried andlf convicted, and ffcolvictsc?, hyus.7. Such; in, Brief, .is the . Government forced upon the people or Kansas at this time, and indorsed by the Presi dent, and upheld by all the power of this mighty nation. The wrongs of 1775 and '6 imposed upon our fore fathers by the - Britiih Crown were rights—yes; Unmerited favors and priv ileges—coMpared with the tyranny practiced upon the People of Kans s as . But the above is nut all; deprived Of a government of their own—a foreiffn government forced upon thertf.:that . they could not recognize without for- - feiting their,inanhoodappressed bo yondend-uriiiice by Federal tyranny— . the people of Kansas, in imitation:of several new Stair's, by their Delegates in Convention' assembled, without ref erence to party distinctions, drafted a State Constitution which was approved by the people at the ballot-box. An attempt was made to organize a State Government. A Legislature and of& cerswere chosen, and on the 4th of March the Legislature met, chose two United , States Sehaturs, memorializ ed- Congress, appointed Committees . to prepare laws for the completion of the State.orgauizatir, and adjourned till the 4th day of July. In the mean time, their application fur admission into the Union as of the States of the Confederacy was made, and a me morial presented to Congress: In the Senate of the United States their trio naorial Wastejected, and their Senator grossly, insulted, and the peophy' of Kansas taunted, jeered and abitsed as if they were a set ofpirates or banditti uuworthy of .respect or protection. The organ of the Administration also omitted no, opportunity. to libel , and denounce the real settlers of KAn• sai,.and to apolUgize for or justify the barbarities practiced upon thorn by he people of Missouri. The 4th of July came, and the Rep' resentatives met for the purpose of ex culpating their Senator froni the gross charges made against him dethe floor of the Senate. and also of memorializ ing Congress relative to the inhuman barbarities practiced upon this people. by ,the President of the United - States and his accomplices, as well as to com plete the State •organization prepara tory to our admission into the Union, as Michigan, California, Arkansas, and other States had done before. For. ,this proceeding there is a Constitution al sanction ;for that instrument (not yet, however, extended over Kan sas) declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the tree exec ci:se -thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or the press, or tilq rO4 of the people peaceably to assemble .and to petition the Geeernmeet for a redress of grievances:" While attempting to assemble in strict accordance with this provision, a bage l military force, with artilleiy and all the paraphernalia of war, rush es upon thein, with cannon loaded arid torch iu hand, and disperses them. The apology for this unheard-of outrage upon the Constitutional rights •of the people is found in a proclamation of the acting Territorial Governor, in which he says "that such an assem blage was in 'xiolation of the' Act of Congress organizing the Territory and of the laws- adopted in pursuance thereof." If there iii,anythisig in "the organic act; either.directly or indirectly for, biddingsuch an assemblage; I am un able, after careful perusal, to find it; and iftt can. be found' it is in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States, which ought to be ex tended over Kansas. As for "the laws • _adopted in Tursuanee thereof," none. have been adopted by a Legislature chosen by the people of the Territory in accordance with the . .provisions i of .the law of Congress. 'A s for the acts . of a body .elected the' people of Missouri, calling themselves a Terri terialLegislaidre of Kansas; which an thorize "abridging' the'freadonz of speech or the Press," or the 'rag . t of the 'people !' peaceably to assemble, and, to ietitron the oovenimaiit - for a ;.‘ rcs - - rrt: =;:. ME ..~ .r1" - ,.~.~F. YY~ei CI redress of griere44e4e? Iva the deitructiOciorprinting praise% hotels and priiate dwellings; the of the people of .their horses, cattle and ether propertroheitickliig and rOhlaing . of "towns and their citi zens; the murder of political oppo: nents with impunity; the "quartering of soldiers ill•ti ail' of peace an houses without the consent „of the. owners; " the infringement of the "right - of the" people to keep and : beat' anat.,'" the violation of aka:tight df tTid liesiple to be "secure in their persons, houses._ ,papers - and effects against unreasenz able snatches and . seisures ;" the e is-- suing of • itairants without "prohitble, cause supported by oath or affirmatione „ ' the requiring o) "excessive th e indictment of persons fur high, crimes.: for the sole purpose of persecution, or, of depriving theca of their liberty and . lives; these, and such as those, can dignify by the name . of "laws : adopted in pursuance thereof!" While such things are come in Kan. : sag, and her citizens are obliged P 1 flee to escape death from the Govern-. mont's tools and partisans, the Mis souri River and the public highways, leading to ;he Territory are blockaded, by pirates and robbers who plulailsr, Free-State men, and drive them back from whence they came. They stesi, and rob iu the name of the Governor of the Territory of Kansas, and hold 'the plunder subject to Ids order. , Tae- Presideut of theof the United Statis looks on unmoved, andwiteesses (mt. ! rages 'which, were they perpetrated a foreign power, would involve the u. titan in. a war of revenge at once. :,Ev..l the Governors of other ,States permit their citizens to be robbed of all their - constitutional rights and neglect the 4 protection.. few hundred . despera. does in the State of Missouri have de. fled and overthrown, with the coun tenance of the President, .the power of 25,00 . 0,00Gef people, including' tis.l National and State Governments. . They have made 'the Constitutioli a dead letter,. and the name of Repta:,: licanism a reproach.; yet the, peepl., are unmoved; except to pass oces.sio,o ally a resolution of indignation,. and the President looks,,complacently. All this, and more, has been broug i t t about or, permitted, directly,,ni iodi reetly, by the President of the Unitej States andhis appointees ;lied a ot,cs large and respectable party has, b i t resolution and otherwise at a late Con :veation at: Cincinnati, indorsed it, ,a the nominee of that Convention, °Jac., an honorable man. has offered him !cif with alacrity, as the representative 14.1 -embodiment of this -system of outrage. rapine and murder. .Under such cir cumstances can,l, or any . Arnerice;a citizen who loves his country and hates tyranny, be expected to hold t z u, peace t No l All-the threats of all the faS dials- of the Administration, that unle'. 1 keep'silence I shall be ".hung" ock the false charge of treason, cannot pre- vent me from uttering . say views- an.i belief respecting their conduct. may lose my life upon the gallows, ,u .perjury in Kansas is cheap, packed juries coramon, and Coustitaition'A rights , unknown ; but persecution will ,be very apt to stop at the,gallows and - there May_ be a plae beyond " Whe4- the wicked cease from troubling" scheie ther e may be leisure to settb accounts with this Administration anti its abettors. • Such;' dear Sw, - are my views toneh r ing •stai . 4'd itraiii in Kansas ;' enEll that yon utlaerstrutd ,ire;' iinVe 'thought', 'iirOper to 'stile them to you isi s rein no insprr.-. prety tnifriandi in due States to knots , ' thorn, shall forivird a copy :Of ibis 'for persiial. • With esteem: for you parannally.„ • • i - ' 1-ant very respectfully ,youre , 7 • . ' . ..'• Cr. ROBIN SC • We, the: arularaiglys.d. concur, in qsa: foregoing etaternent fully. and am:Ursa sh 9 one. • • E .- - qt 9. W-SmIT 4 4 4 Jcistria, . Hoar IL.Ww.upos .1 3 :FP. W.J,I/!r,1:%E,1431... EINE HEIM GEM ~~1TQ: I~
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