II - / • \' NM CHARLES F. REA. -. • • • •-• , rc. , ,:ilatEierzoir ART .1.1 0 .6N5. • • • BEIROT, Jan 8; 1856. on.the 24 i th of Dec. wel' had the pleasure, of welcondlw lir.. and Mrs.- Aiken to . our mis . siurpry field. they iled in the latter ~, ' pay't of Oct,i had a rough, though not a long i j paAsage, and have reach us in excelleuthealth and spirits.' Two 'days attdr. Mr. -Aiken arr ' •rii , e.d..we. started ofr together - . to visit some. ofthe nearest niissionary stations. We first v,i.sited. Sidon, .ancient sOptli -of Beirut and for the , greater ..1 part, - Of the fway the.riaad winds alongthe.sea rs'eoast. * The shoieli very_ level ; and many timvs as we rode along We were so near. - the . water,that iChe great swelling vtavcs-frOta the s eadaShed*p around our horses' feet: pertiltnTed4he'journei - in seven houni, and . dc;ring the, last four hours rode in the `rain, I — tltt-thank - 's to our water proof overhauls, we went thrbughd.W . ll ,- .0.' except that my left .. reMVed a, soakingTilaget - pi epee of m ral4;er pantaloons not .having b'e.en proPerls;= - • .'steered at the bottoin. • Mr.\ Ai ken was ratli . ex - disposed to laugh at My slight misfortune, saving that he was perfectly dry from the, cioyil of his head to the soles . of his fex.st.— .when..ve 'came. to for-the eight, I . tinian i gli ctt kiln, der *on - opening : his sad- . • •• 31 - e b;tgs to, put on ,41 change of . raihient, qturated - with, v' vater, wiltiie On . the other -'hand my bagga,, ,, e. escaped unliarped, its I had taken the pre- . esuticAi to throw a-pit - ice of oil cloth over• , it before stinting. •, - • - 7 oticLw y to'Sidon we: pissed over a share p i oit-it of -land jutting into 'the:sea, Uit .. . 4 wilieh stands the tomb of the I.)l.opliet,Jonah. The tom 4 is a plain, stone Structure, eighteen , - •or -tw.enty, feer-,square,,' and . is F.hrrounded. : by • not a place of much iicterest, - ate two or three,,,ther tombs' of - in Eid-t, and it I;as . no.t,yei ter . rnined,and probably fiev,er be . , , - - ,Which . , s the true,: one. • . . (We reteiviAl a very Warin ft-6M trti n ts' , 7:ogiariei residing at'Sidii; Mr. Thum- . sios and Doetk - tr. an - 1)y tik:and their house is in a central pOsltion, and from zitc, iertnee, - had a - fait: , view ut o w i ith the! surrounding gardens:and the. long Irange.of Lebanon in !the, bitch groand. • .: city of great •Ltntivity,'„reaelling *;l:,aeli.-alinOst to the tithe hf the * flood.. -We • ~fir,,tlindj . n ienpoti Genesis X, 10-, and :again in Gen. XLIX".„ 18. Itonce wasunim- • .portant sea port., having - goOd .harbor "and an exten...-tse trade. Ttie prophet Taialt. i sp . ' o.alo Inc of the trierelian, <lf - .1(1 - on that pasS-Over . the , :sea. (tba. r 2.)' B r•Vrat7 7 dour once - fatuous .eity. has .lung pasSed . 'awit . y. She filled up The meats &. re (Asher • iniquities and fulfilment of the • terrible malcylietigns. of . Abe prophet (1 . 4 4. 23)r'she - received her Merited • .Sidon has- now•but little trade • or enterprise and contains but. 8 .or 10,000 A • ~: • • -- r vkabitants. ; Our -Savior once mtne into the -- Masts of Tyre and Sidon and.there perform ed the miracle of healing the daught• of the Syrophenician - woman. Matt. XV, 121, and Mark VIII, 24. • ° ;•, Nlr. Aiken arid I spent but ,onOnight with cur friOids at Sidon, and on.the next day we srode.twenty-five or thirty miles in n; north easterly- direction over the mountains to Deir ELI - lather. I believe 1 have . mentioned this place' in - uipformer letters, as I 1 occasion to.go there last sunitner -to 1 aftei. the schools: .It is an important to of . several thoualid - inhabitants. Mr:. Bird as just been . stationed . there. . : We spetit a 'irtht with him and half of the next day, and then rode through .the• rain ten rniles,to Abell). • The read: bti tween Deir El I - latitar and Abelh is the most horrible conceivable. It .leads through an immense valley with rocky preCipitOus'sides . and is so deep th.a . t.it reqUirei atedious hour • and a half to 01, .down' and:another \. toilsome hour,iiind ai half get out of In some platys the Atone .steps 'ovor which parts of the road are constructed, have becorne+ . so and Out of repair,..that shoullsup. 'pose no 'animals except donkeys", goats. and • -Syrian horses.,.would dare.attempt to descend them. These Syrian' horse 4 are wonderfully sagaciOuS and '-sure-footed..: They first care= fully, select a spot fbr their .fOrefeet .arid . havo ing planted them firmly, theit hindfeet : seem - to come in right as a matter of course.:::: We. spent but a night. in Abeili c at tat= I and .the next day safely. k tots.4oiyn to' . • -Beirut. We had been abipit (Our dat and . 1 traveled about one hundred On Nov l'eaes' day I made several Balls upon my English, American and Arab friends. •,,. We also received about twenty g.filly*t our - own house. Most of them - were : natiAeS and • we. entertained them, with music, cake, Arab sweetine ats and coffee: All the:native Chris-' tains, Gr,Jeks-and Maionites, and Greek Cali ' • olies;observe New Year's day, CRoss issen!ie; . they' Call it, i. e. kead okhe year as . a hol .. Way: The . Mohammedans hoWev corn. menee their year in October. Wi -them .1 this is the year 1272; dating -.as y u : know from the' flight' of .Mulaornet. You' >e ; there- . • :• •,forelhat we have two kinds of iirde t • - A ll 4 so, too, in reckoning • the 'hours of the day.- the Arabs, like the nneient leWs, :begin at ,sunset. The, Sun now sets at ti.. O'clock. • AniiOur'after ; or .G r is WithAliem oigi o'clock • and.so on till they: rf;ich 12 o'clock ;at 5 in: • the morning, and then - they begin to obunt, one two ;&c., again. ' : The sun acedidingio. their' . . . ~ . . . . 1 .. i . « 1 . . .r • . . • I rs , . . ". . „. 1 . . . • 1 e . . . . . , - ' I . . - . . •I"" , I" I . . . . . , . . - . . . . ... . . . . . • -1-..-, .. - - : --..,, ~ . • , . . . . r - • 1. I r ~,. . - :.: : . .:. . .; . . ~ . . ... . . . . .. ..,. . . 1 . .1' . . . . . . .."• . ... . . . • . . . . . . ." .• • ~, , ~ .. . . '.' 1 . '::- •I: 11 . . ' . . ~• , t . . , .. , . . . ./ It • . ~......,,,.. ...:..,..._..:.., "... . ,• ~. I . . .11 - 1 - I •:. ' • ' • : . • - . .1 ,• ' I I" I • I • 1" • r ' . 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We - darknesa;• as near to the . t ,and shoals would allow, trkrita taking - 4 on their backs safely' over the - few rods tif tat ireinailied-And lauded us j - • ach l ,.• . Mr. Hunter being . a,- . --. or : individual than myself, 1 •• - s feet in the sea and thus F.I full of salt water. This . ,_ tiered ayslight tnistiartune urselves that we had not . lens,to Tram. - We had reached] Tripoli,.— as the and. The place . aewhich Mena, the name signifying. I ,rt of Tripoli ' aid contains F.. , •, . • ' • lailiauitaiits. Having oe,o -at- • [ the ..office of thL‘ French • I l. ,groped our wfiy thrdigh the dark. narr - w strecq, to - the Outer gate and then •j • entered. a •bro td smooth ) high Wa- walled [ in i• .i"i' both sidei.: :ma with hedges groWing UPOn the ,walls.(. ThiS - road led us directly toTri- • Toll'. lt Was near imidnight when we 4-eaCh: ed the citY wilsd. We passed- through the gate into - an ak-ehea street, dark, solitatfy and deserted, ] but by dint of. strenuous hallooing . [ and pounding we wt>lt length succeeded inrous [ ing a ma ti:, m a neighboring' dormitory, and i 1 i inquired , f hkin the way to the residence bf . Ilowadji liUkiit. - •,...itlie- Anierican/ vice 641A1. The - man ve;ry - .kin t, dly conducted us . * to tlae , , house, an Wor.oelitn toroate, utterly refused ' to.take airy l,)ii-14ce.s.' li for t-his l pains. - The [ .-4 i ' • I .vice conkul r [ eceived , us With great politeness and cordialiy. - He bail been iinforthed the ,-•- I i - . week bef..re [of or intended visa-, and] ws therefot - e expee,* i g, us. - This Man is the on ly openly • riafe;s4.ed- Protestant in • Tkirppli, 1 and is nit taper 'of ,the church in Beirut. 7 —. Ile, is weLtihy : 1 , , . and, though an nib, liVes - la European tyle. The apartments allotied to . me and Ir. l - -Hanter were ainply furnish ed with . beds, tables, chairs, marble-top 'rt . •ash-stan s, mirrors &e: Ydnne has. been , compel] to. undergo sever persecution t 'from hi . elativais on aceotin tiof his leaving, the k Gree , - - chfireh and ernbraei4 • the Protes: tarit faitl. He hoWever still adheres firmly to thatrti h,'but nee& sympathy and encour ing one o i r myni:).- et.: a r s e, t, r l es l i r d .. e N n li . lso .. n l , thefor-' opziary a Tripoli, removed to Hurns, the tito ntaiiis, and since- that time I.a Is been eft to centend .with his per single- n deal. .. On he. day after, Iwe - eel-Fed severe calls tills and also some - ouses with a tiew of obtain.. conclud ed to„,ta j o the o 0 foimerly occupied by:Mr. i ll ii Wilson, but it is ; sadly . out of repair, and it • will rewire - somle weeks to pit it in Order... ..I i The oweer promises to commence work up- - on it:at [rice: There are sozn fine hour in t k ' I • . . Tripaili,'but •th - ey -are. mostly . owned by Mo hammedans whoVrefuse to- rent them t,,,'. in-.. fidelS,' as they 4,M :the christianS. - Tripoli. Contains- some 20,000 or 25,000 inhabitants, I• - • and is noted roll itsfrultful and of orange, [lm extensive , gar denseon and other frnit, trees.-- . i • - Ent I will reserveescriptin of the my A• [ city and people j And gardens Ste. fintilleothe to ,take. up my [residenceTthere,--andbec_ume betterracquaint4d withtheiplice.. Mr. Hunter 410 spent bUt.one day and . two (nights in Tripoli, and on 'Friday morning, flaying:the preceding evening hired Urges for , 1 ourselveS, and A muleteer to take charge of 1 ourheds,and'haggage, we started over land ' forßeiru.t. • We rode nearly all day "along the sea coast=•- . ,Passed numerous convents and , V, 'At night stoppell at „. tieo:511 : a town of perhaps .2 or 3,000 inhabitants.- Tl 4. is the ancient 'Gelid alludedto in -•Ezk. XX:i,'ll, 9. •._ The in habitants werelcalled Giblitei ( t lesh. XIII, - 4) and though,neVer subdued. by:, - the children of Israel, they were employed by Solomon as zna - sons and st4ineionfters, in 'the building "of the. temples'_ - The modern Je i kail is walled on' three sides and open. towards .lie.,sea.• . It con= tams-, a mo'nne, a Maronite 'Ce.htirch,- and an old castle Probably built in the time of the crusades. pleat of the buildings are small ... [ .. [ and uncomfOrtable. • I obserVed, lying about. •in various planes, Many fragblents of beauti--1 wrought colunms of granite and Egvp-, tian porphyry,i l tnournful mementos of a gran , - deur long since passed away. i Thesacolumns , were the_wOrkloftheancient Itomans, • There are some in Beirut still standing. • , We. spent the 'night .in a 'Kahn Arab .a. __ inn, a= rude sthne Shelter, - . w]ifh rough walls thatched. rOof,land ho. floor but the earth.-- 'llere Men,ll4-ses..and,,donkeys• congregate, i eat'and lodge on s terms 'of perfect equality:— rlietseletted a ttalerably clean spot in a corner, 1 procuiiiidiA - ;r4t,spro4,yur_beds`therecniH, [. tthd havii4 13,1 -- itiik . en - largely ...of : Sotneifea.' steal/. chicken; tvk. , ,s - , bre4 .And figs.' watt . _ we.; 114 brought.with us, endeavored to compose oar.:' Selves to - rest.. The . Sea: breeze came in fresh( : t , •-t And strong throuer the vride-moutnert slit ranee f way; the Aruba - qUarrelled, the asses brayed; and the hordes of ileas: ran. riot. Ayer ,us i .- but rriOde of kirping lai l i (our 7) and their am On:Jan. 2nd : 4. + our -mission prin er,, my futureistation. go some weeks s tic( We,s4o.ted' in I. e . ter dintier and a i chc 1 a sot. Mea time a and fashe the's it ii ci "dared to oine ut to think vfn sli old on board the steami ic~lo+ l bdre he to 'ere a being caxr • place, a h however, that we M proceeded sh - or 'as and then t -transports, shallow w; fin its e ho ro I I liter t lie b >tyl ja i - I , ne EideV on consideia ; lig hi dragged MEI we c tula ! sllsk I and . .ongr! F got to go,. I . not howl 115 ~~ er asi city lies ne lande E Is ea t Stl a port to p( laud' SOME; six LIME cured a 1 i~ steamers; agement Tiler far off in, Yanrie ..; seeutors our arri, looked a I= e',,1.1•7r . '..i . A.'9 E'prit'.i!s, iIIONTROE, .TT-W1 ,•• e' were too. weary to notice these aunoyane -:-. .0 and soon fell':. asleep. ; We ,were, up and off at the first (limning of day, and three or four hours' ridibg brought us. to the banka'of the Adonis, elas l aical name, familia'r,t4lt itiv. dents of ancient: Greek - dand Latin We ;found no Olffieulty - in fording.: the stream, and before noon we arrived at .the • Nakier •. . Kelh, D i pg river. ' This river rushei uto the sea, through a remarkable gorge it he .mountains..,The massive rocks tower . . up precipitously- on either side; and "yet over these apparently impassable : barriers / winds one of the rose flirtiods . military roads of an cient times:. Here. we see the prints of ttorr , sea' feet, and ti-ace. 4 ot_heaVy- carriages and chariot wheels-ern deep in , the solid rock:.' Here are t e inscriptions iti ghenecian, Egyptian, dre k awl , Latin, which were left iv, t. by successive-' onqueritig licroca'itt long ages past. „ Over this old highway of nations . ; Sen. aeherib led hil Assyrian . bust, hundreds of. years befor the time of our. Savior. Over this road, t o,t Alexander the Great led his Grecian warri4rs, dad after'words'.followed the legions' ort'iel Roman EmPeritr, Titus and • . Antoninus Pins;, - -7 As I stood gazing upon those' venerable inscriptions and heard. the Waves of the s* . a,s,l Ash against the rocks below, I could almost imaginethat I was listening to the solemn tramp of armies; and that scion 1 should behold the .lonm n lines 'of Glistening J . . , shields and spears,' winding .. : along down the mountain side .?.. Many- scenes of War and con quest - have thi pe•gray old Mout - 31411ns Ivoked down upon /,But the, actor's iu these scenes ;have passed away. to be nO.more remember, • . , ~ ed forever./ Truly,. ' bow are the mighty - fal-: len; and the - wreapons of war - perished.' ~. .We, arrivc.t. sit Beirut safely at•lialt past two r . It. and found all vell. • - - • - Jan. 31. IWe . received th'e Missionary Herald, Of Jai: a few days since; by which - wet leaned that; Br. Jessup .and Mr. and ..iqrs. Bliss sailed on Dec, 12th. ' We shall..there fore look for•lthein in about at Week, though as the sea has been N'cry rough and' stormy Of late, they fray be 'detained - ,ome`t.iine ion g. 4r. We. Mle• all .:rearly for them,: and are awaiting their arrival with great inte'rest.,-- i I have been greatly interested in rending the reports which have appeared in the papers Of . the MissionaTy Convention in *Montrose ;and Dr. .lessup . s ordination. - They 'ha o ve carried ~.. my Mind 140: to the time' not manymonths - . passed through *?) w, when' I.passed through similar scenes.— How changed liavean . l '. circumstances become in tl.i.se few nonths. Then' I !was aniid the scenes, and 'friends" of hoinei now . a Vast Ocean rolls t,etween us, and - Lm surrounded . , by people of i a strange language, strange cus toms, and st[range. religion. But here is my home nqw, lore is my wank, and here I .am cpatent - to bn. The Cholera of -which 1 spoke in my last,, • disappeared; from :11eirut sip[ weeks since, hiving eau43 245 deaths. T • J. _LORENZO LYONS. affqii s t 3 SPEECH AP HON. GALIISHA A. GROW, • - OP PEN:i:SYLFANIA. In thi House. of Representatives.. • , • ItAam 5, 1856 The Hinise •beir.g in:Conimittee, of the Whole on the state if the. Union, and hocing under•cOnsideration . ,;he President's annual • message, .i Mr. GROW said: . •Mr. SpEtticau: ' .Rumors of a prospect of civil war in the Territory of Eansiig have reached us , ,and filled the public'mind with gloorny apprehensio:i. The President in his annual message informed us that ',in the Ter ritory of 'Clans:is there had been acts prejudi cial to got d crdef," but. neglected .to tell What these lads were' and at a later day he informed this House by special message that there had been 'acts, 'Alia!' ogainst the lino,' which n4w I threaten' the vcace not only of the Territory ~f Kates:l4, but orthe. Union. . It becomes the imperative. duty of .Congress, then, to inquire into the catfses of this state of •things, find devise if possible some Means by which to avert- so * dire a )'4;zilatility. Congres being ,the,- supreme le g islative power for Ole Territories, - giving. them Their organic.lar, executive land 'judicial' officers, and prescribing the mode and inapner of the i • exercise °fall their legislative 'functions, it is I our firstduty . to see' that the inhabitants i thereof are secure:in the:enjOyment of all- the rights and'; priVilege4 guarantied to American freeman eVerywhere under the protection of I the Republic. The actS which the . President regarded as threatening the- peace not only of the . Terri to-, ry‘of Kansas, but of the Union; are summed up in a paragraph .cif the •message ; • • .. . • "Persons; cenfeasedly not . - colistitutiug the •.hody politic or all the Mhabitantii, but merely a party of the inhabitants, and without law, have undertaken to innutnon a convention for the purpose of transforming the Territory into a State, and. have formed a consti tfition, addpted it, and under ,ii elected a Governor and otherpificeri,' awl' a ;Repre sentative . to. 'Con gres-s : 1 ' / i - - ' :• - . "all of Which' he - pronounces\illega/ and of rev olu tionari cfittmeter." Sir, :the doing of, any or all the acts in thifr enumeration would be no violatinn of just -lawor constitutional right; for the pOple,..oe any part Of them, of aState .0 . ,, ,, r_ Territhry -have a perfect right: peace • to-a.ssemble, -at any time, and deposit their votetefortany person they:please, ' with such.] designatiim.of offibe as' they choose to affix ; and unl* they, or the person so chosen,•wm ,tnit sorn . 6 overt. act.against the Government -Under.:whi,ch they live, they have violated no law arid tii:e amenable for no offetise i 'any more than thepo:ould . bete:assemble and :discuss - flieirgriiti'imees,..and petition for their redress. In Rhode 4sland, vvl.kre there . was no question" as - to, thb regularitS . pi the existing goverii; meet—k it had •existed - for.altuost - .tw.o cell. turie.,call fo`a convent - ion to farm - anew tonatitu..o was.lSsued .berpersone confessed i'ly not co I estiinting the body' iialitie; . and with- 1t.1),..A1.Y 1 --NAR.,C4 20;. I • 1 . 1 - I , . out la th , for ithipurposo fof transforating a charter gevernment into a , State.., They &meet a ceristittition,.tulolited it, and'under i it elected a Governor and !other, officers, and a Repreeentative, to Cengi•en-• - The mean = . bers of thel./egislature•mes swore:to support. the new contitution, and ithe'oath of offico , . . waS'ladministered to the - Governor, and his message, transmitted to lhe• Legislature.— None . iii-thiZS,e -nets were coneidered,as 'illegal by the conStittited authorities of Rhode . , Is land_; .- - ififd.nkariti - St were made till Port Call ed onta ft - 140Y forcuto Uphold his govern- merit. .. , • , .• ~. • . . :• The' people- of ..Kan sas. 'have thus far done' only what was done Rkscle Island previous • 'to an appeal of arras: :Are -acts that are. harniless When perfurinctiLin. a State illegal and treasc4 - ble when perilortned under like circumstances in a- Terrilory . ? ' It was not thought ;o _hy the countrx in the case of the adinission of, Michigan into the Union, where a .convention of the peoli , le, called without riciic 'accepted certain corylitions oft-ConnTeSs , . 0 1 which had just been rejectled by a convention of delegates ! , ssembled under authority of an act of the Leiiislature. BO; sir, the undoubt- , ed right of the people of ii-Territury to call a State convention, withontinny act of the Ter ritorial LegiAtture. or of Congress, fur the ryurpose of • transforming ,la Territory. into ti.. State, - and . to elect all the, officers 'necessary to .nitninister such a Stage government, has beesettled ;not only byithe. practice of the ... . (1,1 Government . ; but by the , Ipinion of oue.of its ablest legalLpfficers - • and •F , ristitutional; advis ers of the Bresident. Oilring Genii-al Jack - sOn's adminiStration the G l o v e rnor of the Per • ritory of Arkansas iddrased him a-letter so liciting instructions • for his cruidance il l . . ease the . people. of Said 'Territtiry . t- slfould , elee . t. del egates to a I.Conyention without a law of the Legislaturk - ', and organizt• and p'ut in opera-. tion a State government ;..vithout authority of CongresS. .;The Governor informed the Pres ident : 1 that, Unless .otherwise instructed,. he , . . , 1 should fee t!' , " bound to c 1 snlet and treat all. Fsuch proceedings as enlawfdl." • The Presi-- I dent—for Gene - tut Jacksisn. it seems,,had not Ladopted the "great principles of porailar soY -1 ercianty," !established'• 1,5 v the compromise . measures of 18 50—replied 'through his At torney' G'elteral,'l3. F. llntier,' - on the.2lSt of September, 1835', thaif i t 1. ' .•• . -. . "It, LA noelin-the power of the General Assembly 'of Arkansas' : to pass any• lu- for the purpose of cleCting•ineinbers to A convebtion to form a-constitu tion and State government, nor do any other act, di rectly or indirectly, to. treat? such new government. Every such law, eVen• thOugh it were•approved _by 'the Governor- of the Territory, .would, be null and .1voll.".• . i - 1 - • a .. - The people of a Territory have an uniljibt ed right at, any time tb call a convention, frame rind!; : adopt a State, constitution, and elect all • otficers necessary to its action as ari indep , ndeqState . ,`thOugh- it might . be allies lion:whether thei'couhll perform any, offiCial act its State'. oflieers' unt'l the -action of Con gress, though Michi , ratt. x•tiacted iawS . and vo ted; fir Presid , :nt „b7tforc she wasi - dinitted as a . State into the Union. But the State must be formed before her ailtoiLsion ; for it. is. States thA are admitted, undee the the third section ...f the fourth article ofi the Constition, and not 'Territories. Upor this, point,, I. read from the Opinion of the . Attorney General, in did Arinnsa.s case; I This Provision implies that the ,new State shall r fieve been constituted by the settlement of a consti , • tenon or frame of Government, and by the appoint meat of those official agentS which are indispensable to its action as a State, andlespeCially.to its action as a Member of the Union, prior to its adinis - sion into the Union. In accordance with this implication, ev eryt State received into thelUnion idneevtlie adoption of the Federal Constitutiou has been actually organ ized prior to such admission." •1 • . : . Now, I desire to'cell. particular attention to , the part of . this opinion which appltes di-. redly to' the people.of Kansas; and had it ' br i e Written expressW Tor theitetisejt could not have been more aftlicable. , In defining tltl ''' ri ,, ltts of the citizeni of Arkansas, he says : . -..-- 1 , . • `They undoubtedly , possess the : ordinary privi-. leges and immunities of citizens of the United States. Meting these is the right of the people, ' peaceably% tolassemble and-to petition the goiernment for the redress of grieyances.' In the exercise of this : right th e people of Arkansas !nay peaceably meet 4ogeth er ,in pri try assembly, 4r conventions chosen by Su h asz_ze blies, for the purpoSe of petitioning Con griesi to el»gate the territorial government, and to admit then into the Union as an independent State., Tile particular form which they may give to their pe tition • 'cannot be materidl so •IfSng as they confine themselves to the mere right. of petitioning and con diet, all their proceeding) in a peaCeable Manner.— Aid as the power of . Congress over the whole sub ject is.plenary and unlimited, they may accept any constitution, however fraineth. which, in their judg ment meets the sense Of the people to affectedl.iy ' it': . If, therefore, the citizens of Arkansas think prop 'eli to - accOmnany their 4ielition by a-written cornititu -1 tree, l- 'fraineded agreed on -.by their primer; assem blies, or by a convention of delegates:chosen by such Lassemblies, I perceive no legal objection .to their pixer to,do so._" l .l' . : • - • - , -• 1 But, it may be Said that this, doctrine viill not apply to• Kansas, for there is "mere -I.i,- a part of the inhabitants" who called the . convention. ' In all' t..l..ses;the call, in the first 1 instance, must be :by a - part of the people ;.. f r it wouldhe altrioSt an impossibility to get t le , signatures of all the inhabitants of a T.er r tort'. ' .The call issued for a State conten tj now con- o , n; wh in. e K re il l is t a. h s e u te , i rri ts to ir r i la t l h g is ol f .e o r r n i: t m ; ' To the Legi4 I'oters.of liansas: stituted for 'Kansas has proved a'i failuresquatter Sovereignty underls workings a miserable delusion, ili proof of which i is only necessary to refer to our Past history and •ti r present deplorable condition: ) 1 Our ballot-boxes have been taken- Possession of by a Our of armed men from foreign States; our pedple forcibly tiven therefrom- . persons, attempted. to be foisted upon us as members of also -called Legisla i. 'tire, unacquainted:With our wants and hostile to Purl pest intereste—some of them never residents of Per .1 emit() ry ; misnained latvt passed, land nosy attempt- 1 4 to be enforced . by,the aid of eitlzens,of fbrogil tates ,ofthe most oppressive, tyranniiiilo 4 indinsult ing :tweeter; 'the right of suffrage. taken from ma ; debarred froth the privilege of a voice in the election of even : the most insignificant offieers t• the right of free Speech stifled: - the muzzling', of the . press at tempted : And 'whereas longer forbearance with suet pppres.siou and tyranny has ceased to, be a Virtue; and Whereas the people of this country have 'hereto-. fore 'exercised the right•of changing .their.-form of goyerrithent when it became oppressiVe,'inid have, let all times,;conceded this right.to the peOple. in this land-all other govdrinnents: and whereas a . territorial 1 flirm ofgovernmentis unknown to the Constitution, 'land is: the Mere creature of necessity awaltina the ' ,action of the people; luid whereas . the debishig chitr acter of the shivery - which now iny,olves us impels to laction, and leives.us; as the-only legal Mid peaceful alternative, the immediate establiSlatneni of a State tlgoveng oet.the co nient : • and' urse wherto beeas the adepte organicl- act - fails in ,pointind In au eutergen 1, cy like;OurS: Therefore you are roptested to meet at 0 , Your.several•preeinets in said Territory hereinafter mentioned, on the second Tuesday of October next, it being-the ninth dayof .said month, and then and - there east your ballots for members of a convention, to meet at Topeka on the fourth TueStlay in October next, to form a tonstitution, adopt a bill of rights Ihr 'the - 14ple of csas, and take all needful measures • i . . . . . , . ii2.o'7 ..6‘.4v*Ofv- -.A.o'Vrabrio,o.'H'.' for organizing a State goernmeat preparatory to the admission of Kansas i I tto4he ( Union as a State." -Under4t all the legal voters of the Terri tory could papAcipatel and -Who shall say _ thataimajority othem ; { di4 not . The fact that it-was ,neeessary for thb Pro-slavery . party at ,a later' day to sumrriori armed men from Mis souri, is almost concliiive',evidence that a majority of the peopleler the Territory are in favor of the free State linoiemer.t.' But to give validity to the action of the people of a ' Territory in arty, act which= they have, a right to do,.it is not necessary that they should be, unanimous, any, more i lhan if is necessary, in order to give validity Ito` a law of a state,that every voter should be: in favor of it. Major . .e . ities, under our systeM of zwerntne.nt, eon; stitute the people, afid their action Is the action of the people= I, I I . The members of the convention were eiee- ted at the.-same time n d by about the same i , vote as the free State;; • etegate to Congress, and he received alinost, three thousand votes at a time when there !Was no occasion for if= legal Votes: , Judgingy the; census, and the. It other elections held iit the Territory, that Would be a' majority oft the legal ,voters., If : the'procee' dings for alS i tatel convention * . Ori.l participated in by a Oarty ,only, how. dia:itl Iliappen-that the delegates did not . all hold onel sentiment on the all-hlisorbing question be fore them—that of Slavery .7. Many :of the] delegates in, that . conlren lion . were never suS 7 i peeto of being A.boliti'oniAs•or Pree-Soilers! • 1 - .before they went to Va l l.. Territory, and some of them were well-446 via to the country al ,cartiest .adVocates cif. the Kansas-Nebraska , , billtand 'of all the In'eft ures of this admiffi - s4 tration... • : -s ' : . . i Ilut -why was it nec ssary - for ..the fv•pplti • t of Kansas at this iearlyl day . after tileirorgant', izatiOn as a. Territory Ito Call a convention to &ante a. State constitlition 7 --What' are the, gr .- %trces that 11ey i i b - I• i this way tore-. dreSs 7 ' They claim .114 under. the act or CUngress oNanizingiti e Territory' they were to have the right to form and regulate their ,dotiitistie institutions i their own way ; but, Instead of that, a Legi -latnre vas elected by non-residents, the ballibOxAseized by armed bands of men from M l rs outi, and peaceable citizens ofAhe Territo y ere drivci(by vi - knee from- the polls, Or , hot down in cold blcod. T The President ha t an.entireniessage . t4 inf l ?rdiatii:w. as. to : ith whieh that election w. T mere anxious to (Ilk iss 1 questions involrOd in , the ear tlsted seat, of. its • Delegate on this fltsOri and tO shOw, if ds.dible, inconsistelicies of jj ondue:. In i ,otie . Of the Officials whOria' ;fie had a r pia . 6itl to otlie iri . that Territory.÷, i . 'We are; herefore, le. to rely on the history. of those t ansactiona they have reached us. througli t, le press and by, private correspond - - en 6.. 1 Oat that thci-Olection was a fraud, acid the' liegislatere • a tisUrpation imposed upon the aktual settlers clfi t ansas, is as well egtah lishdd as that there! ‘ j as an election held ; for it have, po diirereiSt Or ; better neaps of in fo mation', of the one thaniof the other. 1 ..IThe census of the Territory was taken in :February, and the !election was in ,the fol 16Witi,g March. BS , : j the census there . were but about three .tiMusand legal voters...Y j et, at the election ab4t t six thousand votes. were polled, while a large number of residen 'aid not vote, 'Owing to the threatened viorencelof -the election; and every tl tifenaber elected Ito the-, Legislature at; that tints save one, he t longed to the pro-slavery party. • Is it to be j "siipposed that, at a fair election in . that Ter ritory, but one free State man would be elec ted to the Legislatnre Out of thirty -nine meal ' bers,and that he hould •be tin the district furthest removed.t rom Missouri? But 'pas• sing by the election for members of the Leg iilature, I desire to mil attention to their Of-. heist acts, for thes,e'are ilie'first fruits of pop , tiler sovereignty, as established by the ,-ire pealof the Missou i compromise: • Without inquiring into the alidity of that Legislathre `soh account of the ode 'of its election, orlby reason of its chan ing the seat of to Shawnee Missi . n, the legislation itself la a snakiest justifaxtti n for the free State •,men i of sastiAn to app I, in o,e'ilacide they hive adopted,. to Collor s to secure to them tlieir J . riebts and privilege t • e, . . I • This Legislator , imposed upon Kansa&by min -residents, has isfranchised a large class of its citizens, and deprived them of the right of holding office, o of practicing as attorneys at'-law in the courts, by imposing, as a con dition,•uuavarrante(? oaths to support particu lar lairs of Congr ss or of the Legislature, thereby -destroying freedom of opinion, and the right of private judgment as to the Con- - Stitutionality of the:laws of the countq,whielk. is, .1 I the birthright of an , American .citizen.- I - Mr. Smith, of Arirghda. Quote the acts. Mr. Grow, That is what I propose todo 'be voter,if t required must swear,- in ali tOn to other thingS, to sustitin the fugitive • lavb law before he cani rote—an, unheard-of equisition,,to require a voter anywhere lit , r our form of gorernnient to swear to sup- LC Oa any Rarticular law as 4 condition to vote; I I (fr in most cases, the very object of his gOing o the polls is to secure. the repeal or moth i:ation of such laWs as -he consider& tncoo- i " titiniunal or unjuSt.., And every Person Ulec , ed or appointed ito office in. the Territory nest take the: seine oath. • To- be admitted O practice.as attOney in the courts thel•ap plicant must sweiifto ` support the, Cunstitu thin of the United States, and to support:and*, I irstain th&proriSions•of an act entitled an t Territories, eour . o: has, gelded i e vf t . nd Kansas, and , he provisions Of an•act coin : only known as jthe fugitive slave law,' land . o hic o h rg ..l an un iz d e e t rS ir tiui 11 the laws _of the Territorial Legislature. • - ..1 The Legislature. has 'appointed or provided or the ap'pohitin'erit of all officer& not already ! .I appointed by du. General ,c4oTerinnent; 'for terms of from' two to 'five years, *hiding slieriA constables, justides of the peace,coun ty .commi4sioner4, and. election 'boards :I So that there.: is 'nut ll of officer. in the Territory of Kansas tO4i‘ y, ot any j kind or*Oeseription,eiy ii, military, -or_ judicial, except-,the;thirteen inemberslof the Council; who held. j theiri &B ees for twn yearS, in 'the selection of which the .peot4 of the Tei:rit . oy have had' any ,• • I voice, not can they •have nnuer present.rw,u lations tillvtlie fall. of 1851. i„ The Legislature. has prolohged its . own existence: by lOgisla.: tive act till the. Ist of January; 185 S, soithere . Can be nd chang • in the, laws. tilt . aftei that time. Tliiv* tie pOpular.sovereightithat (eaves 't to reople •! perfectly free to forin and A•I • . regulate theit,dOmestic -institutions ) in! their Own Way. And Wider - these circumstances the people of li.tiris ' t as are assured-. by . the IEI o'6 • though devotirig anisas to b crivO os atty • Toode , , or manner conducted,but seemed _ • IFRA*.T_Eit & SMITH, PUBLISHERS----VOL 2. NOr 10 President - that'' the constitutianal _means of relieving, the people of unjust' administration end laws by a, change of public agents and by repeal aro ample.' :: ••": - :, • ~ i ..But, in exldition'to invading the right s pf private judgment,' and„of depriving the peo ple of ear:lD . ..Ace in the selection of their 'rut lers, theAgislature has struck down freedom lof speech, freedom of the -pr and the inal- ( lienable rights id men, and e 0 ed into. law a despotism as galling, if ,Er .as odious, \as that, of the Mouse of Hapsb u .g. The 'rights of freemen aro -trampled under foot, while the_ right to _slave property is shielded. and protected by the highest sanctions of .lavi,— '. The penalty far advising, or assisting au dp prentice to runaway from. his master is a fine of not less than $2O, nor more than $500; but for. enticing or carrying away a slave, death,, or ten years' imprisonment. - For harboring or concealing an apprentice, i one dollar for: each day's concealment; 'but 1 for` ntrboring4nr - concealing a' slave not' le s i ,than five years' imprisonment at hard labor. For advising or persuading an apprentice' s to- rebel againat -or esseqt his master, not less than $2O, nor more than. 000.'; bat for ad vising or persua d ing a slave to rebeti-dealk; Kidnapping a free man and stilling him in to slavery, an offensegthet Shonid receive the severest pgnishment known to the. criminal calendar, unless it &a ft* . taking life—and I know not , as that should. be excepted ; for what grivernliense against the laws of a Civ;: ilized ceinomnity could be committed, than ,to seize,a peaceable. citizen reposing Upon - its protection, and place upon Inin,-the.vhain and: the manacle; and thei:. r iolsi2n hint_ .to hope 7 - less bondage—yet the Penalty for such an 'of tense iiniler the laws of ' Kan9,s is not to ex ceed ten years'.. imprisonment; while deaih, is the penalty . for aiding or assisting in per suading a slave ta obtain his..freetioin:. Far: decoying' and • carrying 'away -a, child . undei twelve-years of age, in order to.ditairt Or conceal it from its parents, • imprisonment riot tot_ exceed' fiveyears, or six months in, county jail, or fine of $...500, at the' discretion of the 'court. Even the innocence 'and help lessneSs of childhood finds less protection un der: the sanction of these,laws than' is given to the; right. of property claimed in the. souls Mid bolies nf men.. l : .' A .11.1ENIIIER. ' They .do not sell the soul. Mr. Geew. ' Can, it be separated at the auction block ? Does it not go with the body: in this. world's, pilgrimage, till' it passes the dark:Valley '? ' Mr. Chairman,l have contrast ed some of these laws' fur the purpose of showing What kind of proteCtion , .is thrown around - the, rights of freemen, compared with that given to.a- particular species oftproper- ty. '•:, General Stringfellow, in a letter to the Montgomery (Alabatica) AdVertiser, uses thi.S language as to- the character-of the • laws of the territory in reference to..slaverY: ' • • / • "They have now laws more efficient to -protect SlaVe propert'c than any State • iii the Union. • - These, laws have just taken effect, and have already sileiked Abolitionist ; for, in spite. f their heretofore beast ing,_ they know, they will be enforced to thevery let t, ter and with the utmost rigor. Xot only is it profit able for slaveholderts to go Kansas; but politically it is all-iniportant." . . • Not content with- enacting litvis more effic ient te protect slave property than any State in the Union, they attempt. to stifle freedom of speech, and of the press by en' cting that-H . -"If any free person, by speaking qr writing ; asseit or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves ingibis Territory, or shall intre . g.uce into this Territory,itirint, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be introdu'ced into this Territory, written, printed, published; or eirculatedin this Territory, any -book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, , or circular, .eontaining any denial of the right of persons to hold' slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of .felonyOuad punished , by imprisonment athard labor, for a term not less -than two years. . "No 'person who 'is conscientiously opposed to holding_slimes, or who does licit:admit the right to hold slaVesin 'this Territory, shall sit IA a juror on the trial of, any prosecution for any vitilation_qf say sections of'this act." ' . . . Such are some of of the laws of-the .Terri tory'of Kansas which the. President has, an-. nounced.rmist be enforced at the point of the bayotiet;:lf necessary. The first gun fired by the armies of the Republic in such .a cause, would be but the ecbci of the British'musket ry in ibe , streets of Boston on the Oth of A pril, 1775, and its. flash would light*•a -flame that the floods of the father of waters. could . not.extinguish. • • • '®. . Should a deSpot of the (yo World issue an ediel, thatany of his-subjects-who 'should .de clare that he had'not a divine 'rig t to• rule,' to imprison and to kill, should-1 incareera tea.lii the dungeons, and that may one shOuld be incompetent to try the accuse unless, he belieied in the divine right. of ki 0•4 • would. ii not an execration -go - up from t . ei - hart .of civilization deep and bitter, as the 'weilings of the damned ; and his name wool -bead ' the infamous roll orthe werld'a Ner .s,'•Gessterl, •and Haynaus ; yet in the-heart of this Repub lic,- American citizens arc to-day; required to submit' to an enactment in the form ,-- of law not less odious.' • -, - • • It is to free themselves from sr and that'they may eeloy . the cont of American freemen, that the pet sas have peaceably 'assembled an constitution, in order.to petition a redress of grievances. I The _President informed us, in . his speci'al . message; that associations wer . formed in . . . some of the, States to promote- e nig:lawn to, KansaS,•which,' awakened emetic, . of intense indignation in States pear the ' serritory of Kansas,: anti especially in the, adjoining State of Missouri' . Why -this indignation.. at any effort to furnish, settlers to - the 'llerritory, ond . thus to 4:leoPle the wilderness 'I -,Vor the first . time in' the: history of the countri haS: any -ef fort to ihei I i tate. the, settlement of new States .exeited 'indignation anywhere. But the prayer of the Patriot and trio philatthropist-has ever followed the hardy pioneer,ailie.Wetit forth to subdue..the forest and convert, ; the' - lair of the wild beast into.a home .for civilized 'Man— But the -reason assigned •for the special in dignation of the people -of •Missouri is„. that their' diaciestie peace was the most directly \ endangered.' .. .Sir, how .could the domestic peace of any section-of this Union be endan geredby bnilditig up ne‘4 , States•in -• the wil derness, and: covering its desert waste with the.'homes Of , civilized men-1 . Though the. President filed to give iis..tha information; General Atchison has, in a ietter to .the. Ata lanta'(Georgia) Eiaminer,diited Pliatoecity, December 15 . ,.1855 : • . . ... . . "Kansas and idieSouri Wive the Aline latitude,All- . mate, and Soil, 'and should 'hate the' Saint institutions:' The . peace and prosperity of both, depenkupon it.— Kanstia must /we slime Instinitions, - or IfissArri must 4iive. fret institutimis—heitce the interest "the " border Ttuflitine take in • Natisas affairs.':" -.. . 1 7 4 - - ME ll= . . "If the settleinefit, of Kansas'. bad f. .been leii.:to..thei laws,whielirvern emigration, it would have been a slave • Territory as certainly:- as. Missouri Is, a' slave • State ; bitt_inasmuch as those - lawslave be& *tot ed and perverterL by the.force of Money; and'a Vow erfill organization in - the North and-East, it. becomes the South` ' to °L4i up and doing,' and to senOti a imp , Illation to, counteract the North. ' , ..... -,1- . • • " Let, your .young. Then 'collie ferthlO Missend and ~ Kansas.. Let them come well gritted,-with)lonerl -enough to support therefor treebre 'months, and de4 'ermined to, see thisk thing out I One Inuotred trod , men will-,be an acquisition. 'The more therbetter:,i—: 'I do not see heir we - are to avoid.ciril.war '.:. -Coble ?it • will. Twelve months - will . not elapse before, warl--- civil war of the fiercest kiUd;--will be upon us; We are .arming and preparing for it. Indeed; aa• of 'the border 6 9 counties rue prepared. ,- We • must hove the support Of the 'Smith. :Wik arefightiity tlusi tunics of the South. Our ilistituttons are iet,stake. You far..Sonthern men are now out of tbc'naiie of the war ; but, ifve fail, it will reach, your own doors, perhaps' yourliVarths. We want men;, armed men, • jye want Emcineyot for ourselVes, but to support our friends. I whOmay.come fromli distanee." j• .. . 1 '• ' Is the domestic peace. of Missouri 'leaden gere,d, then, by an effort to • Make Kansas-.a tree State 1 Are the . institutions of Missouri. and the -SCu.th staked oii the issue whethe,r a •freeState'shall join a Slave, State on the! west? 'Tien. the Only vital qtiestionin the Polltinq of the day is freedom .or slavery in Kiinfaa.s ;- for its destiny is to shape and control' t 4 orall the . territory 'west of it to the .Pacific}., For, virith i 'slaVery established in Kansas,. 14. ill the South;insti tutions, as well as those, of !Wbe .... . - jest as insecure with a .free State on its west ern border as .would lie. Missouri with, Kan sa§ free. ..• The moving -cause; it semis , then, for, abrogating the .restriction on - slivery 14: Ithis vast territory,: once consecrated to Irec. : i-doth, - was to plant. upon its Virgin' 'soil the, in i stitutions of human bondage,' so that !the do mestic pe,ace!of the southern States might.not be. endangered. • I—* • The . repeal of the Missouri compromise .i,vas i : froin its inception,. a cotiipitraey, against freedom. The. moving-cause that.- abrogate 1 , this time-honored restriction wits te• - secur 6 the introduction andtestablisfunent of Slavery so. as to prevent; if possible; nfreeStatn bor dering a slave State .on .thelwest. For be' oneTerribyy was needed fir all purposes o fair settleitient ;. and such teas the ferm of th. bill first introduced: ', Yet it is warn afterward! divided 'without any apparent reason;' unless it was to' enable slavery the! more casily tc make its conquek -.. • • . 1 - •- • 1 - 1 -•.; , -Why was Kansas intrenehed andhetuind I in entirely by the State of .Missouril and re I strieted to a small ;• area eernpared(With - Ne Ibraska, with an imaginary line far-it's ;flora ernl'oundary, s when 'the Platte -river, a fei I\ miles further -north, 'was the great eaten: beurii ary - that: should have divided the - twi if a divisia was- to be made :I' Was it be cause 'that would bring. a parttof Kansas o pOsiteJewa, ' -that, freemen i.. could.. iced), '.- t . h necessity- :Territory Without.. the t.-Of; ps•si - t hrough a.-slave state - 1 `Why wti:sthe clafil • . always' before insetted in . every .!tetritori •i bill since :the formation of the COyernmen (requimeg the laws of the TeTr • itoryaci beau! • ' d - to tl • - • -of C - g ''' ' frnitte the supeciamon fai ress, cam Ited:inthlS i -, ,,Then„ when the tune conies fi electing' the Legislature, w bleb. is, of Ours 'to give shape, by itanetioti;to the institetio ; 'of theVitnt stateJt is secured to slairery, • an invasion of neti;resMerits, and then folio the legislation .to ; which 'I have . : ,referred; series s .`of acts; all ,pointing; from the fret, the consummation .of one, object the tful .ment 'of, the 'prophecy .of-? General Atehii made ,ln the Senate of the United States, t • if the,MisSenriecnrip'ebtaisewaS repealed K • sas avOuld - be a slaveStaq: And he .haa slated- upon that :opinion! from that • 'day .this. • . 'i' '.• 11 tl ' 'th In addition o, a . iis,. e secretary-of t ~ Territory, who is required! liyaet 0. Con& to transmit `f: one copy of thelawe nd joern - Of the- Legislative Asietithly. 'within= td i days' after the end of each-session, and • -COpy of the executive proeeedingl and o o -.correspondence Semi-annually," to the Pet dent, and copies of .the laws- TO the Senate aid House of Repteesentatives, to•bedepositedlin, the libraries of Congress, - has 'neglected ti-: entirely to send the laws, to Congress,. or tO. furnish the President with the executive p , seeding-; or it' so, the - President hns not tr s ' mitteifthein to ; the Senate, in answer to th it. call for theft,. atid has not ! answered a-, 11, made by this House more: than three - weeks .since: So I take it for grantedthet they h ye. • not been furnished by - the secretary of . he Territory;: as required by ; law. .1 . So; iiii i in. formation of the doings of the Teritory reach 'ea us Offioially till .. a late! day,:, and then '-' l / 4 ve .are,furnished 'oaly sueh '',pnrt aS thd:OfTieli Os' chiese to give. •Btit this' riegleet!ori the prt.' of one of the officials of the Territory - Lap - . .. s.. sed by unnoticed by the - Presidelit, while, he retrieves otheryofficera for alleged dereliction of.diitY.• • NoW,..if the gentleman from . .14ir..... ginia• {Mr. - ),Smith]. ivislies •it, I *ill Aor t ic,' - - • N..: - i • , : ..-; 'Mr. &friar, 'of. Viral= t . dai' not desire .t., • . . to , interrupt the gentleman; at this,:pOint• l ; •I. 'merely, made, the reinark-4Enther,sut. r.4ilea• than otherwise-that' I did' notl' understand' why the gentle Men should cortiplain of the , - secretary of, the.,Territory t : for- tailing.-th tut ..... the - Heuse and thecountry inTiOS4i§ioll- of the : territorialt-laWs; When ifeenit hiikusing-th se laws andorguing upon -them: -.. I. tthough it . - .waS rather.umiecessary faillOindiug..l-;• ' •, ' ' .• ' Mr. GitOW. I sappose,- ther4 -Mr,; - Ch)11-- Man - that :it would not be necessary - for the' . ,ciflieialnof the - Goierntntint, to. de their o'chit ft `luty because the: information ! they m ght. •, eoninuficate-coeld be obtained in some , Otli- , er, way. , I take it for granted.that,,'WhenLiiie I organic; taw requires an:officer of thciTerr, O--. ; try' to do a certain dutY, .yon have nlrigh to -: Complain if he iltilsto perform' that dkityr:: Teu,'.- though :. y c.a. rimy. obtai4,3lie information'by v t. some, other means. . ,-- .: . -•-!• I -,:- '-* -.. .... But tit return from the diare.ssidninto* ich ~ I have been drawn'by this gehtleMite' .: re- mark.' •. - /- '•.: ' ; ' i -•-• .• I"' - it seems,.then, that but-oun - objeet ha : ac= Wilted this,whOla iaave#4 6ll ta-Om . ille - i t t i leeP .• (`ion ' of the repbal of tho.p.laSourt _no' i pro s • initi' l e, and .that has been ; to supplant free labor . ' .and tree institutions, in Order! to. establish , s i rko ry oil the soil of Kaosno.: - •_- .. --.,,- :, ' Why are olefin brought' there faledn `face - 'with the. bayonet in:their . handS-.and'de ill}_ hostility in their hearts. ?• -- Geyenor Slim non,' in his , .dispatehlo . the .. PreSident l: giving a .ae: , . count of the - traithles - at LaWrei ce,says- - : :: : . 4 The excitement married and' prOad; no only • throughout whale TerriterY;•butl was Wilk d up:, - to the utmost point of iolenSity clothe whole: fkthe tipper' portion of ,Missouri. ',Armed 1 tnen,.*erel,con. 'rushing from all - quarters . towards .Lawrence,..aeine to i defend the..place and others todeimliplilt." - ,. I.Mott rush With artnii,tO• . : : demolish'irt IProm wh el . ' . The Stato...o .;141 sour ('What interest 1143 ,15114619.1:iti 'elgOreil - 1" .._ e i wrong', [non. rights ple Of.Ka n formed ,ct .ngress fur, ~ '-s N -', 1 1 , ME lEEE U lIN •1:' f EMI = MEI NI ]~ MO ri -1 the
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