Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-13
GBe 9aiIn SPY,
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 10. 1854.
FROM KANZAs.


Monday afternoon, intending to larry unit /
Spring, and then remove his family to til
Lawrence settlement where he has establishe !.
a claim and made other necessary arrange
ments for permanent home. Mr.. Fulle
speaks in the most encouraging terms of II
prospects of the Colony. Everything is goin
on prosperously with the emigrants, an
though many of them arrived out late in til
season, all are now 50 far provided for, as {
enable them to pass the winter comfortably
Thus far the weather had not been so Sc
yerea to retard out door operations upon tb
land and buildings, and the marks of improve
ment, energy and enterprise were everywher
visible at Lawrence and in its vicinity. Nj
Fuller is Of opinion that the Shareholders
Missouri have made the worst demonstrate
Of hostility chat they ever will make, and
has the fullest confidence that Kanzas wi
come into the Union as FREE STATE. W
are indebted to him for copy of correspon
dence which recently passed between a com
mittee OF the Missouri +" Regulators an
Gov. Reeder. The Committee was appointe
a, a meeting Of Missourians ,oithia the terrific
ry Of Kanzas for the purpose of urging upo
x the Governor the necessity for the in,medjat
election of members for territorial Legislo
tare, and they addressed letter to his Excel
lency in obedience to their instructions.
We have not room to publish the letter. bu
its character may be learned from the porto
of the reply of Gov Reeder, which we annex
1t may be hoped, from what follows, that Nj
Reeder is a man of the right stamp, and tina
Frank Pierce might have done much wors,
act than, he did in the appointment of ma,
possessed of so much real Yankee grit to tn
important position of Governor of Kanzas.
Fort LEAvENwoRTH, Kanzas w., }
Nov. 81 1854.
To. F. Gwinner, D. A. N. Grover, Robert
G. Miller, VIM. F. Dyer, and Alfred Jones,
Esqs, Committee:
Gentlemen: On the 10th instant you called
on me in the capacity of committee claiming
to represent and speak for a meeting of citi.
zens of Kansas Territory, held the preceding
day at Leayenworth City, and presented me
your memorial on behalf of that meeting. The
memorial commences with the statement that
you acting under resolution of such
meeting, and ends by "urgently pressing me
to comply with the wishes of those by whom
you were appointed"
The meeting acaS not of the 'citizens of Kan.
Zas, as your proceedings will show, if YOU
will produce them. 1t was a meeting COM
posed mainly of citizens of Missouri and
few of the citizens of Kanzas. Your own
body, whom l am now addressing, contains
two undoubted residents of Missouri, one of
whom is your chairman, who resides with his
family in the town of Liberty, Mo-, as he has
done for years, and whose only attempt at
residence in Kanzas consists of a card nailed
to tree, upon ground long since occupied by
other settlers, who have built and live upon
the claim. The President of your meeting
was Maj. John Dougherty, a resident and
large land holder in Clay County, Missouri,
as he has stated to me since the meeting, and
will not hesitate to state again, as he is high
minded and honorable man, above all conceal
ment or disguise. The gentlemen principally
composing your meeting, came from across the
river, thronging the road from the ferry to the
town, on horseback and in wagons, III num-
bers yariously estimated by different persons at
from 200 to 800; and after the meeting was
over they returned to their homes in the State
of Missouri. These are facts as notorious
here as any public occurrence can be, and ev-
cry man who had eyes to see, and ears to hear,
is cognzant of them.
They We're the subject of much remark,
and the cause Of deep dissatisfaction, and,
even on the ground in the meeting, and in re-
chief spokesman of the occasion, this invasion
of our Territory was loudly complained of by
some oil the outnumbered citizens of Kanzas,
and has frequently since been made the sub
iect of indignant complaint to me. Such is
the meeting from which you derive authority,
and such the title by which you assume to in
terfere in the regulation of our affairs Few
men with all the facts before them, would be
hardy enough to say that the assumption is
entitled to any respect. The Law guarantees
to us the right to manage our own affairs. 1t
is the great much discussed feature Of our
Territorial Government, and one which our
people highly prize-under the pledges of
which the inhabitants of the Territory have
come and staked their future fortunes on our
soil.
The pledges of that Law must be redeemed,
and it We're poor and pitiless boon to have
escaped from the domination of Congress, if
we are only to pass under the hands of anoth-
or set Of self constituted rulers, foreign to our
soil and sharing none Of our burdens, no mat
ter what may be their virtues or their words
as men and citizens at home 1t may be very
desirable for gentlemen to live among the com
forts of the States, with all the accumulated