Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-15
MOVEMENTS IN NEBRASKA AND KAN.
.I....Ia SAS.

Tho following extract Of q letter from the for
mes delegate at Nebraska, 10 q member of Com
gress, la, been communicated 70 US for PUBLICATION.
I'D. Fra. .I
Kansas TERRiroRY, June 8, 1854.
50 It seems the foul deed has been consumma;ed,
and this beautiful Territory, for whose LuneGt I
nave spent ~ much time and money, is surrender
Cd up to the full power Of Slavery. But tho out
rage is not to stop here. 1t is but one link in the
chain of insult aud injury offered to the people Of
the Tree States. You will remember that at the
last session Of Congress $4,000 were appropriated
to enable the Prcsidcnt. to treat with the Indians
OF these new Territories for their lands. But this
law was disrogarded until the plan for the repeal
% the MISSOURI Compromise was arranged and
then, instead Of Commissioner being sent to treat
with the Indians in the ordinary way, delegations
from each tribe have been hurried off 20 Washing
ton, and the treaties there made, 50 that neither
the tribes at large nor the public knew anything
OF the conditions of these treaties. The Indian
Agents, the Senate, and the particular friends of
the administrator alone know, what is going on.
These individuals circulated the story that no citi-
zen would be allowed to take claims or settle on
the lands cedcI by the Indians to the Government.
until the surveys were made and the land offered
ut public sale. In the mean time, Senator --
sent a private telcgraphic dispatch to bis friends,
to 60 and take possession Of the most desirable To-
cations. This information was circulated secretly,
and thousands of the Pro-Slavery party swarmed
over the country before those not in the secret were
apprizcd Of what was doing. These men, | under
stand, have banded together to prevent the settle
ment of Anti-Slayery men in the country. SIEVE.
raj meetings of these clubs" have been held in
Missouri, and Anti-Slavery men have been de-
nounced with fierce threats. This / knew from
the start would be the course pursued by the Slave
Power, if the Missouri restriction was removed
Thus you see the one great act of troachcry and
bad faith has been followed by others equally afro
cious. Is there to be no end of these outragcs
Are freemen to be thus trampled upon, their rights
disregardcJ, their personal safety even endanger-
cd? And no remedy? Will the people of the free
States quietly submit to these wrongs and insults
to be mere yassals of the Slave Power? | am for
rcsictance; | care not to wAot extent, / call upon
you and every friend of freedom to come to GU,
isslstance-to rescue this land from this remorsc-
less powcr-this country, the most beautiful, the
most fertile, and the most healthy, | do verify be
leye, on the face Of the earth.
You see the plan of operations adopted Ivy on,
adyersarics; it is this: it is asccrtainod where &
company Of shareholders and their friends dcsir,
to settle the Indian Department ut Washington
then sends on for Il delegation of the tribe owniu,
the desired lands; this delegation goes to Wash
ington, makes a treaty ccding the coveted lands
and private in .ormatlon is sent to the SHAREHOLDERS
that all is ready, and they take possession befor
outsiders know that u treaty has been made, or tn
lands sold to the Government at all.
This is an easy way Of coloniging the Who'll
Territory with shareholders, Willie an Anti SLAYER
man cannot even get Il good home. These ar
facts which the whole country ought to know, an
I as soon as i am in a little better health / shall Ell
deavor to make known. / wish we could have
press here. Can you not assist US in getting one,
What we want, is men-men of courage. indus
try, and intelligence. They can find no place OF
the habitable globe where they can get . moro dc
sirable home than here. The other Territor,
(Nebraska) is not comparable to this in any res
pect, and there the stakeholder will make no effor
ut dominion.
Your obedient servant,
ABELARD GUTHRIE.