II $1 , C. E. READ &H. FRAZIER, EDITORS `} iloects‘ earielb. BOG WAS SUM t ' • In mice own taud, across Fop wee:l:waters, , 'Green ,Wa L rif the oaken bowers! 'Amid those bowers mine own land's Stately daughters_ Walk q'er the summer flower! t In mine owii land, tar o'er those bkkodied Imes, WherC sinks the'tun to rest, . 1 - Lie cool anti :Ali my fathers' mossy 'staves, In our Isle of the breezy West. But never to that home, far o'er the waves, To its bowers or its stately daughters, Not e'en to lay me in my fathers' graves, Shall I cross yon weary wateril A HYMN FOR SPRING. The' earth is silent with delight, • Beneath the kisses IA the West, The sky, a single chrysolite, " • Sheds odor from its breast. • .1 -SWert music through the merry woo* Eleralds the coming of the leaves, And beauty on.the waters broods • Binding its gorden sheaves— ; • This beauty isAiy breath, 0 Lord 1; N% - iliieh makes the meadows fresh and Air, , And summer fragrance, half restor'd, Blends with the balmy air. Thy glances brighten a the heaven ' Anti still the Wonder-haunted sea, By thee., is vernal glety Oren, : Our hearts shall worship thee! . BLBDS: _ .. , . Birds are - singing routid my 4rindow, • Tiines the awcetest ever heard, And,i hang my cage there daily, ' ,\ Bat.' never coach i bird. 1 \' So with thoughts my.hrain is peopled, And they sing-there all day But they will nokfold their pinions In the little cage of song! of the feast. IN LOVE OR NOT IN' LOVE. , "The aMount of it is," said handsome Mr ry Harv 6, 'to his friend, Tom I.4%vtins, at the end of a biag and confidential 'I conversatbm, the amOunt of• it is, I'm in! a confoOnded scrape. C.Ve gone a little too far, perhaps, in my attention's; the girrs overhead and ears in love With: me, and I don't 4.e. how I'm to get cut of it with honor. I dott. like the Idea vt broken hearts., and all that !sort of thing ; but u hat 4a fellow to, dill I've no.. more_ thought.ort'.gnarrying tlfan I hale of turning preacher. Conte,' give us your advice, old fellow." Torn eyed his friend .with a Merry twinkle in his eye. ,. 8 sagacious and mi:chievous smile plaed round the . aorner!oc his mouth, as he rephed," Nothirigfeasieriin life. harry, if you taut to 6(i t 4.7 - llow+bow .17 aski-d Harry, ear.,erly. • Yuu si , t - y iihe's handsome,. Kitty, amiable, and neeonsPlished 1" said I'om . . "'Yes," returned I-tarvey. . . " said Torn, kneeking the ash e, front hts eirrar, " she's just the wife leant, :ilia I'll take rter off your bandi." !" cried Harvey . ,tqing so turn in- to a pleasant smile the frown which suddenly •T'Sa;-lielied ills . face. "Impo ss ible ; !rum!" be eAlntinued,lamia - " would never do. In', the first place,:you would not suit eacifother in the leat ; there would be nu-congeniality of disposition, intellect, &c. 7 " Is she, Then, sci.decidedly• my inferior . ?" I asked Tio. . -Ihferilr !" cried Harvey, et:ing up with sudden indignation.. "1 don't:know the man she is infe'rior to. sbe's a. beatiti fur creature, • I tell rvou.".. i • --.Nir.Pli. Where's your • objection, then 1" said Toni.‘' '.: , 1 ~. , " W elli,f . I' meant- perhaps, 1 I'm not very' civil to 54 , so, Tom-4-but the 4 fact is, though you're the best fellow in the world, you are - sometime. a little rough ;.and she's so sensi tive and . r.efined, - that.---,that+besides, as .I told you, Tufft-----monfuurid'; it—es i told you, she's in lure with me; there's_ the rub, there's the rub," ; and Harvey subbed; hisbands to ,getliCr.wth returning spirit, as if he had,bit the idea be had been vainly seeking at lait. •• Thank you; Harvey, fur 'your compli mentary;hints," said Tom, as he watched the ascending smoke of his cigar "but, on the whole, notwithstanding my extreme natural diffidence, believe I don't take quite so low an estitnate . of my character as you do. And as regardi the being so desperately in love, and all that- 7 I know bow touch that means. Trust Me bar managing. that. For oaring a girl of a fancy for one: lover, there's nothing like the appetuntice of anotberJ • Why, if the odds ivere; equal in other respects, the novel ty gives the last corner such an incalculable advantage l , that there is no doiibt of his suc cess.: Besilles,,in this case we Shall have the adVaritage of playing into each' other's hands. You have bnly to hold-off a little at first, to give me a chance. You play cold while I play witru, and bet you a box of cigars I win the day as easy as kissing; as the ladies say," i "I think you are entirely mistaken," said Harvey, stiffly, in a tone of pique and &rimy anee. - " Well, i shall I try S ov Or Itay r 'faked Tom. " 014 certainly, certainly, I Should be mac/ obliged, of course," replied Harvey, whose manner- presented the greatest vontrast to his air' of bosiaful security at the Isqinningpf the'opnversation Thai saine e.:ve.ning TOm aocompanied Har vey to Miss Northwood's house.. He *tuna her aD , and more than all, Hervey tuid de scribed: He was indeed charmed • with her grace and beauty. ' The conversation, after the first prelMina rq commOnplaces, fell on works, of art, end' the wondrbus galleries of Europe. To*L had been an extensive and intelligent Traveller, 1 and was in his , element-ixi .this subject. Ile • bad much of interest Wally „ and &midi mtich pleasure in answising„ Miss Nnrilwood's dis criminating (ideation& ,Harvey..wirtk.: had never travelled, was,, of necemity, silent ( and thrown quite into dwelled& ' Frourthbraub-, jeet the transition was easy nod nattirti - to ; music ; and here, ton, Torn was perfect!" at home. In ,ftict,' music was bitistroes He was an accomplished musician, estith;all musician's enthtisiasin for the intl.', -.Slim be. sndMiss Northlood. Wei settled 'at 'the pi inqsinging,, immuring-suatobi!= 1411". ring, comparing tastes, and te,titai!liNg thus astir lovers Of MOsieWill-r___'' " - V . , you know this Little sir ?" "I learned hitt Woks; and Itle;1111 1 6 ccediney beautiful. ,It sorrnauttarirwitn _ . . - —, .- F".•-•+•••••••1•111••• 1, AMIN! .... . • . ... f . , . .. .. . . .... . . , . . . . 0— . . 1 .. .4 .• - •.^ . - . ;.•., :.. ..: ....4, - - ..- '7 -, '' , .-- ' . . i . . .. . •-°. • . - „ . ' .. • ' ' • '.. t . . F. . F. . .p . • ''.• ' " •-• .• z* ' ..• • .-4 , . '. \ ' F' . , i , ; I,' . .. - .... . F - , .. •p . „ . .. ' -. • F St:i .-::. ' ''' :I'.. FF•F :( ~I i .: , I r'i's' ."' ...*.: ,1 _ '•' IF • . ~. .... •t „ ... ~. ... .. ... ... .., ,; ''.:7e F .t..? 7' .F • .': ' 'l' ' l ' ' ' '' ' ..':' F.' '!: -.- : ..- ''' . - • .. . . ''. . 4 .. ._•. . 7 ' '''' . , ' ~ 4: . •.' L , I v ~e , ..,. , . , ... • .. , , . . e. , .. ~ . . . ... , . . . . - • . , . . . .. -. " . . . - . ... .. • . . .. . I= 11 . 2G Fi ___ _ _ _ _ _ it it - • perfisme;Ctiltillits and tbetionnd of tti piing, .ttiot>tilit Witeriks_ ritiPita t ied the di& tent sofa . fmtn 'behind the book tea • 'Mein folleired, t*etiiir Toni had referred to, *Met - hi sent' its -- -eigaisitti'hiate,* with • the ,richest miutl3iAPoleek Miss NerthaiuSd greatly adniiredliited Availed what she felt. "Cogisette lineeted . Haircy,`intn accent of iioncenttited - But; . tillmiconseiona of •these to ritterfAeritis-. mints', the musicians lingered:over:their intl.- sic.• One favorite sir sugmteclAtnettherond - there were scores to be looked over, and du eta to be tang; ' And • Tom' had :Sainte:ly sn- . eedet6s to tilt of suet! and - Audi ninsiciatiii, and stich delightful little hiSteries ofhoWsuch and .such pieces Oftabsie carnet° be written; that 'time/lea on swift:and noiseless pillions. Miss Northworxi's - eyes Occasionally went in search of Harvey, but whenever she ad- • dressed 0 remark to him, with a vie* of draw, ing him• into theconveMatimi he replied with such uncourteous that she was re pelled from further advances. ...Well 'cried TotNits%heY emerged from the' house late in, the_ evening, "pretty well for >i beginning, Harvey ! So far; so good. I consider the affair in a most hopeful . train. Miss Northwood • more than satisfitis my . ex-- pectations, and I flatter_ reyselfl made an im tression—hey, Harvey ?" An unintelligible grunt fromllarvey was the only_reply. . " I say, .Harveyr continued Tom, in the highest spirits, "I don't see those unmistakable-symp• toms of being in love in your fair lady which I expected. May you, not have, deceived :yourself on that polar- Another growl, onlitious this time, from Harvey. You did: very well to-night, Hervey,", proce,....ded Turn. " I commend you. Keep your dlstance, that's right; oepoaching on my grounds, you know." "Your grounds! you rascal!" .burst -forth Harvey, in a tit of ungovernable rage. " have a great mind to knock. you tioin for your insufferable assurance, you—you pup py And there, sic is thy card, if you want the satisfaction of gent lemais!" : Tom raised the card Harvey flung at him 'as he left' him, bursting with hiughter as he did so. a t IMEM Tom my good fellow!" cried liarvey,,as , he hurried into Toni',B room, the - •next day, with_the most beaming smile on his face, "Toin, I've got something plemant to say -to you. \,- Wish me joy, my fine fellow! I'm all settled. We're to be married this' day three Months. k's all arranged, and I'M the hap piest dog alive! Why don't you congratu late me, old boy " Because you take my breath a•Way," .said Torii. "I can't believe you. Why, you told me. yesterday, you wanted me to takeherj.g tuvvois—"• • "And' that you considered yourself in quite a fix," continued Tam . , " from which.! good humoredly 'consented to help you." • " Fudge---nonsense !-" cried Harvey, 'a blush of vexation and shame coming into his face. I "And . that'litiss Northwd, poor thing ! was likely to die of's:broken heart- - ---" " Come, come, Toro 'no More: of that an' thou loVest me!' " said Harvey."-i- " The fact is, Tom—atid I may as well own:it—a man does not know whether he is, in love or not, - sometimes ' till a little jealousy of something else opens his eyes for him. But les allright now. " : • • " Oh, ay !" said Tom, with affgeted gravity, "you may think it's all rieht;4but there is something yet to be settled Which may stand in the way of your true love running so very smooth." - As he spoke, he gravely drew forth Harvey's card from his wicket,. saying, "I litive ordered coffee• and pistols for to-morrow morning, and (who knows 1) 1 m,y. stand a ,chance for Miss Northwood's hand yet."\ Harvey snatched the card,.and:Sent it split ting, into the air, as he buist into a merry laugh. Tom joined him heartily. Their hands met in a cordial grip,,as they exclaimed --the one, "you - may thaak me, liarvev{, tor teach ing you your own .mind"--and die other, "I understand you, Tom; you're the best frend I ever. had. See in I th, K et provelmy gratis tude some of these 'days, by flirting with the lady _yOulre in loVe with!" ".You're welcome!" cried Toni ;.." by the time I'm in love, yOu'll be like ?- lion sans teeth and clairs-4a inarried man, a dto Icing er dangerous." • , . . 1 ~„, had As INTERPOLATI?N.- vv C 4 e pleasure of beirig present "on the Sunday morning, April sth, when llev. henry Ws . Beecher prefaced his - sermon by reading the twelfth l d. chapter of First Corin th ians, th 4 , thirteenth verse of which is as follows ; " or by one bpirit we ire all baptlied into one 'y, wheth er we be Jews or Genii les, 'bond :r free; and i have been a ll made to drink into;'ne spirit." Pausing at the words "-bond tt. free," ;, the reverend gentleman said : "}I i ls thisl— Paul surely could pot have Atli s; it must bean interPola'- 10 4. .11:certain'. tinot mean that a man with _African hl his veins, 4 and held as an Amerimtalive, or reseed by his muter, dvspOiled of his le . and Out by our courts, is baptiz ed' t he same spirit with the white man. It " not mean that a gavels equal to . a freema ;lithe sight of God— a . black man to a white. e. 'Yet it certainly,secms so ;, it wrtainty t3ri; aid =it ,would, appear,' from .this,-wil :: we call it an , interpolation, tltt4 we are ill cite children of one common lather, .entitled 44 the carne rights, governed byl the to . une.lirititilples,nlike immortal and precious in his sight.. It must bean interpolation.!" • - it The pause which he made whep coming to the words " bond.and free," as iftihere Must 'tie some mistake, was electrically iinpressive; e S t and his reading and commenting '• . that por titniof S cr ipture was--the 'most ' ive anti- Slavery disttotirese best . .."poll . 'I preach ing"tbat you'd have , been made !' 1,, N . ` LiTAiir II 'r ' • NE ~-,-,. ere is d ittiv., whic h, ihoniih not tirtt Podoz, will Pasein lol3 i Stu rB - , • tie.:—, , Fr i i ill t a il ( 4 7 e bills; doetore t pr, 'w*?tyir ,thills; and Other ale-44iyer Dill • • • - r!Vilk *Wilt , ofl s ratd;Ari yes ihat4cold, mid .ni old„rogi by sharlie r ra ‘!sold * , irdeliver us, ; yivin isiely coats, n roeimea .._, . + sinking bcilits;andlllegal votes —dativer *s. 5, , Penn creaking doors, a'wife *hi) anoies, igantfinnidtxt tiOrea,"'and dry a moris--- - protect us. ~. • ~k • _ From modiist - girbowith west/4 curls ; end teethorposeb—tever l utind: 'I , From' - *leaflet -tries,-4:011-* - It i efildigg aka bliOte crier aliribie4fioq of , iigq3qB. /Irvin the St. Losia g iletrwerett. THE ADDRESS FREE STATE CONVENTION TO TITS . ' ANERIOAN PEOPLE. The Committee appointed by the - late Free-State Convention, held at Topeka, lian as", ort the . .10th -day of •March, 1857, to whom was committed the charge of prepar ing an Address to the American People,have preparixl and respectfully submit the follow., ,lug: The Pro Slavery Convention, 'which as, sembled at Lecx)mpten January 12, 1857, have issued an " Address," w hich has been spread broadcast over the states. In this pamphlet an attempt is made to palliate the crime., and excuse the outrages which the I"nrSlavery.party—sailing under the colors of "Democracy"—luive been guilty ofin the Territory. Nay, more. It is sought to throw the entire blame and responsibility of the afflictions which' have been visted upon the settlers and residents of Kansas on the Free-State meal, and those active and earn est patriots 'hi have labored with an :ener gy that knows .no . deft.at, and a will that knows no Faltering, in behalf of Freedom and Free Labor. The burden of the Address is, - that the . I Free-State party ink:tilted and inaugurated - revolutionary and incendiary, proC4ediegs, that they rallied Against the enforcement of. legal enactments, laughed to worn the auth or.tius, and beat hack the Officers of justice, neeessitating,-" Law and Order men" to take up arms for the preservation of peace and for the punishment of traitors. They brand Lane, Robinaon'and Reeder, and a host of other good and true. men; as . hired emissa ries animated by the fillibeNtering spirit,hoa. tile to the GnistitutiOn, foes to-the Union of the States, and enettileattifthe well-being of the Territory.. They represent themselves - to have been innocent, law-abiding and inof fensive, earnestly in favor of peace and re pose in Kansas,- and end their Address with a great rhetorical flourish, and bombastic as surances of patriotic devotion to their. coun try, their party and their God. • • To unmask the hypocrisy, to expose the falsehoods and reveal the eentradietions and inOetsistenciai of this Address, would be su perfluous, for the throes and the anguish, the indignities and the oppressions, which the • ree-State men have suffered, are written in :Characters of blood, burned into the memo ry -of every Mutest citizen of our country..—: end Ateeett, eramen falsehood, and. base penury,. can - avail nothing; fir the great truths, in the gig:tilde wrongs or Kan sas history, have been seen and known and pondered of-all men, and will stand, like the . Egyptian pyramids, to the surprise and won-- der of coming- generations. The Free-State men have violated no law, for that which is not just is pot law, and that which is: devoid of justice should not be obeyed. The code,attempted to be enfortA upon them was not enacted for proper leis- lotion, for the 'regulation and ;protection of society, or for the development of the re sources of the -country, but to enslaVe the body and soul of every citizen, and to rivet the institution of Slavery_ upon a soil conse crated to Freclillom. \o honest -man could' : indorse or •subs l kribe to such a code, and- the Free-State men did not. Yet they raised no arm, neither committed any viulenceagaiust their oppressors. But when they were driv , en from their homes' and their families treat ed with unheard-of cruelty by this self-styled "Law and. Order" parts., then it was that all the higher voices of their nature appealed to them . torise and protect their rights and lib erties, or sink to the level -of serfs. The blood and the manhood and the muscle of Northern Froeir.en could -brOok no more, for forbettiatim had wised to be a virtue,, and the time was come when they must Otte their courage and establish their rights to the title of men. . • . But when the invaders were driven back and the dissensions in a . mariner quieted,they ()floe again returned. to the more congenial pitisuits*Sf, peace,- and devoted themselves with activity and energy to the industrial-oc cupations which they loved. It is our purpose to present a brief though comprehensive. sketch of what has transpired • in_Kau,sas since the passage of the 'Kansas- Nebraska bill, and to let the American Pei). • pie judge for themselvi.s whether or not the i Free-State party' have acted according to the 1 dictates of justice and of right, whether or 1 not t_ hey been wronged and outragad, and whether they or the self-styled "Law and Order party" are responsible for. the crimes and the blood which have stained, the virgin-soil of the Territory. • But in this cause we must take our prop er position. The Free-State party of Kan sas cannot act upon_ the 'defensive before .a tribunal where the- American People sit As judges. We Arraign. the self styled .‘! Law $11(1 Order party" of Kansas as gtillty of high crimes and., misdemeanors ; .we charge upon them the burden of guilt and of . wrong ; and• we only ask a fair and honest verdict from the evidence and arguments_ that we tray ad due. - • - Although th e Kam's-Nebraska bill was violently %posed, at the time of its ptsenta lion to Congress, by , a decided majorgy of the Northirn Representative; backed by the opinion of, their constituents, it, was in dorsed as 'tit law" by the citizens of Kansas, who desired only to have its principles and provisions faithfully carried out. A. IL Reeder was appointol Governor of the Ter ritory under the bill, and a large. Northern emigration poured into the Territory to test the question of " popular sovereignty," and , sem!re Freedom for Kansas by ,a . ,tttnerical preponderance,. - , The time carne at . last fur electing a er ritorial Legislature and a Delegate to Con= grad. Alow,this election was purled is a matter of .13iStOry. , -The Missourians poured i into the,Territory, violate 4 .the sanctity , of I the ballet-boa,oatiuged all law and - decency, and thivartethe voice and the will a the actual residents. -This WB2 On _ . 0E ) 44::ftli p da y of girth, 1856,--a day. never, to be -wrgot ten--whea thejavading bevies, . with insult. log baimetle.94 -I shich were kuperilied "tDegith to Ale. asawd ttWitionista," ."4 Slave 1 litagefor 11 4mees.r '`igo quarter for. Eree titate'.3lenir• ,assi, etbq de7rifiest ana frith 1:010.41010011 adAvarritA4rezinm,*so , ;;.i- - 1 , c- MONTROSE, OF THE EMI 41C n,CZO'ir oLizaw2mr Q.rJD mRoKa..99 TRTJRSDAY,. M.A.I 1.4, 1857. ill, ill. t, P a"' .d . I k- Of i et:0641,4nd this th .. boxes With illegal ~ . Ilrita. - 'ln this MOde, lad by. such nfrms, -i e firat in•ealied Legisbture of Kansas= was eeted-4908 illegal votea being polled by issourians. Only foul days had Lien al wed to protest against' the returns. oUthe ection.judges, and the hrmalities were' at .•nded to but -in six dittiicts, in which Gov- Or Reeder ordered hew elections.:At 4 ese elections—May 22, 'ltsss—nili the ISree-State nominees we}e elected, except at • , venworth city,' where the Missourians Isyed their old On •if invasion and:ilk- . i : . . voting ; . and On the 1 45th, afew dayisuh . , gently, it ProSlaver3i meeting eras held, , which the hfissoi4iittlrwero indorsedi - and e outrage 4 -•on Mr.,Thalips—a Free-state lan,- who WM been taliO in Missouri,. tar and feathered, and said at auction r to 'a gro—indorsed. •-'? l- The firsOneeting of Abe Missourf-eletted L . islature 6f Kan srier place at PaWnee, ne tar 'Dort Riley... - ft - ippearetl that there t w ,but one Free-Statek man in the whole' itneil?who immediately resigned his - Seat., at d the Legislature oust*l all•the Free-State iii c., t mbers of the Housereleeted at the spec. is elections. ordered by Governor Reeder, an gave their seats to their Pro-Slaveryo'p i eats. .An act was ,then passed for -.the re naval of the scat of Government to Shaw-, n,. Mission, near the Missouri:border. which w;a finally adopted over Governor R eeder-'s v- o. - i II Territorial officesivvere filled by these ", islators," or be ,Pommissioners'•.:rip po need by then, and Governor "Reeder, who hr . vely - stood up agninei the illegal Assern bli and their enactments; was removedtkie adininistration falling into the bands of Sec retary. Woodson, whe f tactively co-Operated wiili the Pro-Slavery, party. A code of laws was enacted by the bogus Legislature, pr,ononneed.hy General Cass to bel"a disgrace to the vie;" and, haying pm -4 vi ed : for another. election, the fraudulent y - adjourned sine 'die: . • n the Ist of Oetobeir Whitfield - lwas',re turned as a Delegate to Congress by a vote' of t)' 1. 800 tour-fifths of which • was pulled;by t'' • ' Mi- urians, as the Free-State"men refused to., rote: , • s° . '-. • .'Nilsen Shannon, having been appointed Geyer-nor or . Kansas, lictol with the • pro- SI , very organization, Wok part-in their Meet in. , and pOliseq . eently,,in•respotise to a pall fr n boibs Sheriff Jones, declared the Terri ll to y in a state of open- rebellion; and iebuya or ers fur the enlistment. of men to enforce Territorial laws. An army of invaders • m- rched toward LawrOnce„.scattet ing - terror in.,. heir course, while .Atchison and Stringfel lo • appealed for aid at the Sotitha Free selkor printing prima was destroyed at Lem.- en's - o . mb._ . andi4 the lizrors of a war of ex teernmat um . visiteml ,- tip t ilr i.i... 1me.,..-.41 I - ics.lt - tiers. •: President Pierce -It'l tibia sani-t ton .to the invaders, and authorized Shannon to call ' of the United - States troops. Companies i Irons the purlieusandgmyg-shops of the Sout h , under a Major Buford, took _an active part inloutruging the Free State citizens, and ',the Territory presented . the awful spectacle cif• a tton over-run by fi re and sword. -1, In the meanwhile the actual residents' ofl it Kansas were adopting initiatory measures for the organiiation of a State Governinent for the election of a Legislature, and for the kotectien of their lives and propertys as Well as for the securing a voice in the legis 14.iye proceedings, and the filling ,of official pests.. A Convention of the, people assent b(ed at Lawrence, August 14, 1855, rep‘idi ated the authority of the late Legislature,lind rco:xi - mended the election of delegatesion t.e 2501, to meet at Big Springs, September 5 • for the consideration of - public atlitiri.— , t this Convention the bogus laws were al 'repudiated, -Ex-Governor Reeder nomfina ,.... as delegate to Congress , and a dad *rip ., inted fur the election; On the 17fli.of 'eptember another Convention was held.at Ippeka, to make • arrangements ,for electing elegateS:for a Free-State Convention. i This Convention selected an" Executive Cuininit t. • who.wereinvested.with the authority of provisional government, to provide.',lbr the mplete Organization of a State Government t.)ctober 9, Reeder was .elected Delekate to ogress ; by a vote of 2400, and Delegates t the same time , were elected to the Consti utional :Conveution, This ConYeinion as mbled at Topeka on the 23d, and; Septem e- 17th submitted a Constitution to the peo le, appointing the 4th of 11Lirch,1856,-; . for ..c. .irganizing a state Government. - . i December 5, 1855, the Topeka Constitutiolii'was voted pun by the people, withnOptitb4.ak, except tu. Leavenworth City,where the election was 'prevented and the poll-book stolen. .On the sth of January, 1850, officers Were elected' tide! the Topeka - COnstitution,.!and Robin n chosen Governor. On the 4th of March he State Legislature met at Tiipeka, Gov " rnor Robinson and other of fi cer*. Sworn in, he Executive Committee discharged, and :, he Legislature then TO -aJuly 4. • Although these proceedings were in viola-; 'on of no Law, and demanded hy the hems ales of the•ocrnsion, and althotigh precedent . d authority could be found tot them in the. .. istore' of Michigan, Arkansas , f and culifor-, 'te, the President of the United ptstes issued a proclamation denouncing the iformation ofl inStilte Government its . an act i' of rebellion, d up holding and indorsing the Bogus,Leg tlature. • Acting upon this proOamation,and -accordance with his own base instincts, ' . edge - Lecompte charged the firand Jury to nd find indietmentifor high treason against II Who lad- participated - . in organizing the tate Government The lutfy succumbed,' and . indictments against Robinson, Lane, er*. ' me and many ethers, t , presented the t' co • 'L awrence newspapers and the Free . te hotel as nuisances. .p i Thus affairs stood when the Congressional investigating ComMittee arrivled in the •Ter.. ri ry. Many obstacles were*hrown in their Vi; by the Pro-Slavery patty, -and every i y s adopted by•whieh a liiir and just in-. si . tigatiorrof Kenos •affairs.nightber, pre ;‘,' led.. But the - CoMmittee., proved equal - ,tOqie arduous responsibility ithieh devolved i ua , them and. well performed . anoble duty. 1. result of their laboii and the character. of', a air 'report are well knoski... It antastait L `tithe' illeg _ever ality .of -eve - election ,held 'an e itd i the enactments of the- ants - -- Legisla iit ' and corroborated - the lentil -of a ll that theYreas•Btata men of Kea*were reported , . to * • Ne undergone. , ',l •'-' • ;_ • . pto this, tune the - Pro•s . lltvevy.... party been.:gtiAtV. of Canuni*Mg ' crimes at the bfood . ctirdlea.' 1. f,W; :13,. Zellev s ' l, l , whi had been beaten :and shamefully . abused at Atchison; the Rev; Pardee Butler had been lynched,' turred, and feathered, and sent down the l'tlisgouri. on a 'frail raft; Collins had been cruelly murdered at Doniphan, and Dow at Hickory Point; Barber. had been shot down by Major Clark, a government official;.and .Brown tortured, to death - near Leavenworth: And yet the murderers ran at large.;boasted of their exploitg, and open ly defied the law. Governor Robinson wag arrested, :May 8, at Lexington, Missouri,and sent hack to Kansas, where, with six others, he was thrown into prison and kept for four months. . . On the 11th, Marshal Donaldson raised a force of ruffians, embracing Major Buford's "chivalric boys," and marched to-des' troy -Lawrence, under the pretense. that the citi zens had aided-Reeder in resisting his auth ority. Like the swarm of Egyptian_rocusts, this fbree carried desolation- as they went. Jones and:Stuart, harmless and excellent cit .izeds, were shot down like beasts, and upon the 20th of May the Ruffians reached the City of Lawrence. • The citizens were al in wit . paralyzed with amazement as they looked upOn the a'ngry and demoniac throngs by , which their homes were surrounded. But they determined on mustering all; as in the days of Roine, from twelve to seventy, and I resolved to, beat back the ruthless invaders' of their peace and prosperity, or fall like earnest men and patriots: The marauders, I though outnumbering their - opponents i five to one, were yet afraid to risk a lair engage ment, and sent Bogus Sheriff Jones to se cure their arms and cannon by promising protection to life and .property. Deceived and betrayed by these pledges,: in an evil hour the Free-State men agreed.to the terms - and the Ruffians were allowed to pour into their city, and then, regardless of their pledg c!t; af.d plighted. faith, did' they commence Snow the work of rani and:; plunder. Two presses were dt.troyed, together with a beau tiful new hotel, and Gov. Robinson's.private house, while. Atchison incited them to other deeds. of violence and wrong. Seatteigng ' from Lawrence,in foraging parties, Buford's inen scoured the country like lawless pirates, as tl Were. tieh-was the • policy: of the " La •_ nd-Order party"—=the " National De ? mOc ary" ofKansas. • . , . When the Free-State men discovered how useless, how Worse than useless, •it was to appeal ftir protection to Shannon, the • intle: pious Governor, to the National Admihistra, to the: iog , a e.-ttrrimithen• in their distant Wines they found themselves forsak; en. betrayed and deserted, surrounded by a relentless and blood-thirsty foe, bc.ntondriv ! ing them from their fireside-s, or 'crimsiining the soil with their blood, then was it' that they felt utlled upon to'resort to arms and physical resistance. Inspred by a cause as att tisat fur which Washiu g bm fought and Warikti fell, they rallied under a common banner, and „went forth like - , the - brave Magyars to defenktlaAc rights Which are intuitive hr the manlylreast---rights and liberties which must be preserved by free men atall hazards, if they would preserve ' their own self-respect. -:Theidid-nOt " gird on their armor" out of revenge for their wrongs, neither out of, any .mercenary tno . tire by which their interests might be—ad vanced. They sought only to .drive- back the oppressive hordes of unprincipled invad.° ors, and to vindicate a principle which was dear to them as life itself: _At the first engageMent at Osawatomie, the Ruffians were sorely beaten. At Pal myra or Black Jack; Captains Brown and. Shore routed a band of Plunderers under the lead of Pate from Missouri. The battle' of Franklin foNwed, in which the .Free-State men were also victorious. :Whitfield, the bogus Delegate to -Congress, who was vancing into the Territory with a large force„ was unceremoniously sent back by Cot. Sum ner,commanding the United States Dragoons. Th - diens murdered a Free-State 'man. -110 _ _ s3C+Jt4 Central, in cold blood •by way of revenge,. and committed other_ heartless depredations. During the. remainder of the month of June, the Territory:was aflli6ted with all the hor rors of a bloody civil . ' war. Osawatomie was sacked by .a large Pro-Slavery company who destroyed or = r tied off of value; and' shainefUlly 'abused the unarmed and defenseless citizens.: . Then followed the_ . . Missouri river outrages- The .boats Werel 'stopped and searched—money,' goods and arms st - len; and- Northern emigrants sent back penniless.. Governor Shannon, Colonel Sumner and Judge Lecompte rehised to -in terfere, and the Administration openly en couraged, the ciffireditions.. • - . Upon the 4th ofJtily, the Free-State Leo-. islature convened at Topeka, pursuant to ru:3- journment. It was a day memorable in the history of our govennuent„ . upon which Our foretatbeis declared rtheir independence in a Declaration which constitutes the noblest pa per which graces the archives of any nation, and n marked correspondence esisted'bn tween the two occasions, though separated by a long line of years. The, Free-State men of Kansas met, like the . Revolutionary patriots, in a dark and' trying hour. 'They met, as overS of liberty,. t 4 organize against anexiSting oppression. . They met as men Who felt the yoke of bondage, but who could notsubmit to the enslavement of. body and soul. r For peaceful deliberation they had convened to . consult the interests of their . country, and to devote themselves to the ad ministration of justice. They met in' obedi ence to the will of a majority of the resi-: dents of Kansas,. and they were intrusted with the hopes and, the prayers of a suffering people. Then and.there h that sacred place. and on that solemn day, was an .outrage com mitted, which must ever 'remain a blot up on the historic page—an outrage that man tles the cheek of every true American with shame, and paints with vivid colors the de, ' g eneracy a (Rradation of our Federal GOv ernment ; for, when:the-Legislature. was on the point of, mmirig to order, the gleam of United States arms and tho entrance of Fed eral troopi were' seen, and an officer of our Government ordered the Legislature to dis;. perse. , He spoke 'not for hiinseif, but fur. higher official—for him who occupied the Most,' honorable pwitofi that this or. any Country ktiotiws. •Okomwell - Oace dispersed a refractory - Paillatiren‘and the - great Wapole, on an angry 'Assembly,: lint- !hese iniurpa tiona of authority were • nothing in ..coniyial:ir, son to that executed by fleitie - in-ordering - a. Federal otticeitelispeneaLegialatare eon. .xeneci:vieltitiOnik.f.:oo-, established POEwlide,fil i,630 0 ,ir : llo4ol,eg to be a free . republic: •,dsiket4 of `the - •: . - rnany dark 'deeds that 4ittieguistiet *- H. H. FRAZIER, ,i'UBLISHER---VOl, 8. ministration, and consigned it • to..s grave, of . eVerlaSting infamy. . • When the report of *hat was transpireng in Kansitof Shnnnon'a treachery; the . Ruff) ! ans'cruelly, and theAdministiation'adupli4 ity = reached the Northern States, they were scarcely credited. Persobs cents not b e li eve that. the detailed cruelties had been commit ted, or that the Government could _lend its sanction and indorsement to a set of Tuffiari invaders. But, as the reports were stlbstan , tinted and the frightful a&ounts of existing atiltirs verified. the Northern people awoke to a realizing sense of their ditty, and contri buted men and means; as . .well . as . arms and provisions, fur their friends anti relatives in the far West, with an alacrity and liberality that did them honor. • As Northern emigration on the Missouri river was interdicted, a new ornate was open-. ed through lowa, and Lane took chargeof a lame body of emigrants, who. reached 'Kan sas"during' the manth of. Angu.t. • The sup. plies they brought, together with. evidence they furnished to the Free-State men that their struggles and privations Were not unap: . preciated, cheered and animated them with a new hope and fresh courage.. A short time preVious to this, Mr. Day, the only Free: State Federal officer in the Territory, was cruelly 'murdered. Colonel Sumner, who had exibited some humanity toward the Free- Statemen„ Was superceded General Smith, of Lonistana, who was • expected to'side en tirely with the Kansas invaders. On the sth of August;:another contest took place between the respective patties, near 0-awatimtie, and 'a set of . Georgian marauderS 'were driven from their post. At,. the same time Mr. Iloyt, - of Lawrence, who had been sent sin gle, and alone to remonstrate with a4prow.ling band Southerners, under Colonel Tread. Well wrtv ! waylaid and murdered. ' ltnpoilent events fidluvied in rapid succeas ion, and various warlike encatinters-between the Free-State and Pro-Slavery parties, in which. the latter were generally worsted. On the 18th of August it treaty of peace was con cluded between the citizens of Lawrence - and Governer Shannon. On the'same day , two Free-State 'men were murdered and scalped near Lawrence, while a German, Who ex pressed his . horror .at the blow - 1y work, was shot dead in the streets. . • - - . The leading Border - Ruffians—Richardson, Atchison, and Stringfellow-;—laboring under the hallucination that. Lane was advancing to the -Twirritfoory *with --vm 4 tirm:f• -as uttrnertius that of Xerxes, issued a proclamation .to the Missourians which was promptly...respond ed to, and numerous . crowds gathered at Weston, .Nto., e2hpse Atchison 'commander-in, chief, anti marched towards Lawrence.-- Shannon haVing been removed,.Woodson sumed the reins of government, and .raised another force in the West to .act' in :concert with the army of Atchison, wrLioh atyleti its self, with sardonic irony, "the army of Law and Order in. Kansas Territory." This "peace -fill " army exemplified their "Law and Order" propensities by falling upon a . Quaker Mis sion and treatingthe settkrs . .with 'tic fury. Lawrence was again in ditnger, ;and was only saved from destruetion by the . prompt action of Lane, who organiied a force of 300 Free State nien and aro% e Atchison across the Missouri, where he , dispersed his, troops, engaging them to rally again -on.,the 13th of September, tar "another march on the d—d Abolitionists)' - Although we have 'recounted outrages at which the heart sieitens„and which must shuck the sense of every civilized community, a darker chapter yet rernsins unwritten, The annual Muncipal Election at Leaven. worth City took September' Ist: That day, which is known as Bloody Mimday, and • 'the events which transpired upon it; in their rolling and* distorted featurt4, more re sembled- the of. Terre r" :when the streets of Paris ran blood, than an. American . city of the nineteenth' century. The-Missou rians, thirsting for revenge, and burning with hate and fienzy,poured intr) the city, cried Maroc; ' • And let slip the doge of war. , CAI. Emory led on the infuriated mob, who committed the most horrible netstii violence. Phillips - was shot down at his own threshold, andlnillets were fired into every ,part of the house... The leading citizens were driven from their hotn e s s and their wives and daughters ;subjected to every -species of indignity. ` In the agony of despair, many appealed, as.cinfy the -suffering . can appeal, to 'General Smith, the commanding officer at Fort Leavenworth, for a detachment of troops to . protect their 'families- and property. But that appeal, which was enough to ;mike ".a marble statue weep" mettto respon - se from the icy 7 hearted commander.. Though he might have quelled the disturbance in a moment, no finger was lifted, and no order was issued, except to Corn. mend his sergeant- to drive- from the fort. the niTlicted citizens, whe had there sought: temporary refuge-and prote:ctinii. In that act' the ilag. of our country - was disgraced; and the character of our military offic*rs:stained. It would require volumes to enumerate 'the outrages that. were subsequently perpetrated in Leavenworth—how houses and stores -were burned—how the citizens were foreed,iipon the boats at - the point of the hapmet—how' men:Arerc murdered in cold blood—bow the` sick and the weak, . innocent „woinen - and :el ildren were. treat-4_oth a:cruel ty almost beyond Ciineeptien. Sueh , were some :of the marked features which" diatin- • guished the reign of the 'Law and- Oriler par- • ty in Leavenwortb,City. There-may still:he seen the charred and blackened tuins..of.ntany -buildings that were destroyed—many are the. residents who can , give heart-rending accounts" of what occurred*dtir,ing that - sad iiiid new-made graves' upon' Piliat Knob seem 'to . plead, with' it sad and. mournful _eloquence, -against the cruel and .untiniely cutting off of thrisewho sleep beneath. -Dating this month; lide forced Woiills,on, the' acting Governor, to- release - State prisoners, and disband his -forms.— Upon the Stit the-Supreme Court met, it .Le ccuiptou to - try ; the ,priSonem. The Distriet .. Attorney not being t early. to..gobn with the case, all the prism:Jeri were admitted to bail, ind on the same day Goy. Geary ar ritiai In the Territory. • Immediatelruporfaus. isuming his offim, he hewed .a proclamation -commanding `-all - Wins-441 4 W: combined. armed mid ,equlppol_yritb„Munithms without authority Of"., GOvernMeni, instantly to diabiCd and' quit' the Territory," r : Ito obedience to this proclamation, the:Wee .Stat‘ kirces Aisbandedi but the 'EtOrdeelltutfi jinss,l4 op/m.o*mo of it, reassemble d. "Ver._ ding to pre'4ous arrangernett4tWeatimAo:, and: the nbiliberOf '2500 *itb,dre EMM pieces of artillery,marched toward{ Lairrenee. It - was with great diftket" lty that Gov. Geary,. at the bead of the United States troops, by throwing himself between the in Were and Liwrenoe, succeeded in saving t city,.and prevailing upon the. Missourians- to refire.— In their retreat, among :other outt a ag,ers they. shot down an unotlending FrenS to man—. BUtfurn—for remonstrating againritthe steal= ing of his horses. • . , • The political Free-State_priso ers ttudet indictments for treason' and mu der,, were treated with revoltinir barbarity iy Col. Ti tus. and his Southern ruffians, and; he citizens of Osawatomie were once againl i visited by. new afflictions from fresh bodies c f invader& October 10, an election took place under-bo gus Legislature enactment, fOr c Delegates to Congress, members of Territorial Legislature, on the question of a Delegate convention to adopt a State Constitution. ' It'thia elec. tiun the Free-State men took no part, and the.Border-Ruffians had it all tliei own way. On the 13th a Free-State ' ;Con' entien waa held at Topeka, and a few days afterward , another at Big Spring, where prof i sts against Whitfield's electirai to- Congress, and memo. rials to Congress were adopted, praying the .. admission of Reeder, as representing thereat sentiments of-it majority of the citizens of the Territory. , • I)urine- the latter part of October the trial of the KeesState prisoners took place at Lea eenipton, before a packed jury of bitter fro- Slavery partisans, and twenty one - were sem tenced by the Kansas Jeffreys tofive years' hard Weir with ball and chain. The per; • sons were guilty of no crime. - They had . - acted purely in. self-defence at Hickory 'Point, • - and -would - instantly have been ac,quitted by, a fair and honorable tribunal. Their crime,- in tae eyes of the court, was - a , devoted love - ' • of Liberty, and for that devotion! they werec — . treated as felons and murderers. But in that. higher Court ,and by that higlier, law which sr - exists in and: is constituted by a just and generous people, they Were not, only pro. claimed "not guilty,' but crowned with hon. . - or and loaded with grateful testimonials, as a _- small acknowledgment' of their !labors and -. services in the cause of Freedom! • - It will be remembered that while the Free; State men were being subject to the severest penalties which an unholy' tribunal could in.:', filet, their oppressofs and persecutors, with hands reeking with blood that crid s- alotal.feir.._ ser.siesstesissys..- 'O Prgfirat.ciAltdiVal, iii•ckK or. , (Wade to answer-tor the laws they had oat- raged, and the barbarities they had perpetra-' --. tett. -The Judges of the Suprenie Court, be it said to their eternal disgrace. threw of the spotless ermine, and cloaked in the pollutlid garments of . polluted partuemsbiE 'Before such a tribunal, a charge against 4 Free-State, I man ' -no matter how base, bow unfpunded or - - low frivolous, was 'equivalent44c:eviction. ' Law Aims a-niockery, principles Magda/dams ; - _and justice-was but a word. To illustrate the truth of what we affirm, we need but cite , the murder of Beffunf and the! subsequent action of the Supreme Court, or l which Gov- .. ernor. Geary gives. - the following account: "'When be reached Buffum, - the 'poor fellow was lying upon the earth "In his egonieS, the blood streaming, frem his wounds, and-the cold sweat of death upon , his, brow." ~ Ile . . seized the Governorl hand, and d4red that; : as he hoped for mercy hereafter!, he was,•in- ; .- nocent of all cause of offeeee—that it was a Most foul and unprovoked murder. He - • asked. the assassin why he'sough,for his life 1 or desired to take Ids property? That upon his efforts depended `the..subsistence of an aged father and mother, a deat and dumb brother - and sister—that he hin4self was a Cripple and therefore harmless.'" To this appeal he was told that he was "a d---d . ‘abolitioidst, and. that they intended : to destroy the whole of them. ) 'Upon whielt Hays one of the - gang, seized hint by the col lar and placing.the pistol against bis stomach, shot him. The Governiar - pledged him while he held' his cold hand in his Own, that he would use all his power to bring his murder._ . ers to . justice.. "I spent," Said rte Governor,. 4500 tohave his assassin arrested, and Lwo'd have spent $5OOO to have done 'so had it been necessary.'.' It is well kne T iwn that the Governer had Hays arrested, but _scarcely was he put in prison when Lesicimpte issued a writ of habeas carpus and:had him released and set at liberty upon. straw ha 1. Hays is' now in Missouri, and is .playin the gentle i man. The Governor further st tea that, af ter the release of - Hays,' Surve or-General Calhoun took occasion, in a wild Speech Upon the matter, to declare that , tbeiScharge of Hays Was perfectly legal, arid t tit was a 'iniitake tO suppose that- the Ter itoriallairs i t t were enacted for thelenefit of a y other per- sons than the Pro-Slavery men: ' • - - 1h consequence of Judge Leco ptels course in this case, and his determined Opposition to Governor Geary, the . Governot. demanded : his removal from the e office he d'sgrseed.' -. , ' On the first Monday in Janua y, 1857, t he ' €4) 'second bogus Legislature cony ned at :Le: 4 .. compton. A More disgracefill lion ixitild: not have been conteived;mor could a. body ' of lorn have been found more . bitterly - opposed tothe views and conviction° or thakree-State party.. Their legislation Was a Perfect mock ecy, forming a fit sequel to and connecting link with the enactments of that odionsend :illegal -body which Inaugurated; a ",reign. of terror" in Kansas, and which spread a blight ing dOastation over the beitutifid - -and pesees flit fiteo of the Territory. In vaitiVrovertior Geary'atiove to moderate thelif fury avid el---- - lay their , passiOns: Insensible to the dictates of rea.son, and deaf to the pleadings of justice, - . they had yet the impudence to believe that the actual residents of lisnisS wOuld be forced to acknoWledge their legality isalaieglslatire and the bindinginice of their enactments! God forbid that another such islature pol lute the soil or taint the !atm ' , There of that TorritorY 1 - - ... • , , . . The Pros Slavery . conventio. tact met at, Lecomptim on thei2th of - J. - ;user was an outgrowth of thitrotten end , iferuus trunk . ail ugly but. miturat-eXcreisiens, The. Ad— dress they coined is too palps , ly courtteifeiti to pass current, and adds but *other to the formidable list of crimes of wh ~ 'the "Law- ..- and-Order party," or "Nati , ', I-Democrticy of Kansas," beim bee* , guilty the:crime of falsehood and. perjury,' - - =....=,'• .:`..a_ %,..'. - On the 4th of March:Gore , , rGisary sant, - .. . on his resignation. to Waal lag :;Hit red. sons for this are only titio-well i ittio*n, . Mtn faithlessness 'of the' 'Feder* . Administra s , than ;. ' the hostility .of -the-Jedtchtryi the itt. activity of the military - I *refusal to reinovit. Leoompte ; the - want of funds,land the devel. opement of consfiliteilesapini; his life, corm pelted him tO ilea* 'Hirst ternegts pro**. cm O. 18. LI LI A
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