VOL., IX.
Business - tards.
F. w.'insTox, •
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, • - • '
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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. •
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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
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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, .
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