Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-26

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BARBARIAN DESCENT on KANSAS.
STEAMER NEW LUCY, !
Kansas River, April l.
,f'The, great fight in Kansas has proved
nearly as fair contest as the struggle be-
tween Hungary and Austria-ony that the
Gar when he overwhelmed the Magyars with
his legions, observed more of the amenities Of
civilization than have the Cossacks precipitat-
ed upon US by Atchinson. What think you
of a free election in the Territories of these
United States of America, in the year of grace
1855, where thousand Outside Barbarians"
rush in, wrsst the polls from their two or three
hundred legal guardians, making new Judges,
overturning the whole machinery, and allow
ing every man access who has Pro-Slavery
ticket in his hand, white ribbon in his but
ton hole, and all the whiskey in his skin he
can hold; andfn many instances compelling
known Free Sellers to take the same dose and
vote the same ballot, under serious threats Of
instant death by the cord in case of refusal
Brave doings, these and bravely has the
freedom of our elective franchise been vind-
Gated before the world Who will refuse to
huzza for Popular Sovereignty
All that | have here implied is sober fact.
On the Both day of March, an army from
Missouri, regularly organized armed, differed
and disciplined, and literally supplied with
rations and whiskey, seized on the polls, in
each election district in Kansas. appointed
their own Judges, prescribed their own rules
and cast three-fourths of all the ballots. more
or less; what matter a few figures 1t is
enough that they were prepared to oyerwhelm
any legal vote that could be cast, and thus
they did it. What matters it whether the
psosSlayery nlajority iisnness ahousapa, or ten
the right, the justice and the result are the
same.
All this will read like fable in the East;
would that it were so. But it is fact plain
unvarnshed and will receive its coloring
from the atrocious details which will soon
reach you. The invading army was divided
into battalions, which were detailed to various
points as wanted. They were held as a re-
serve-corpse, to be brought into action if need
ed. The main force wasdirected against Law
renee, and that devoted city was completely
overwhelmed. Resistance would have been
madness against an armed and infatuated mob,
crazed with passion and whisky. 1t was only
by submission that bloodshed was avoided,
aed even with it. it is said that Mr.. Brown,
editor of The HeraM Of Freedom, was a
mark Tor the bullet of desperate named
Wallis.
As for the Governor men, who ought TO be
respectable, are daily heard to say that his
life is not worth an hours purchase, if he re-
fuses to sanction this audicious mockery of an
election. But the Governor, thus far, has gone
strait on and l have that faith in him that |
believe he will die, if need be, at his post,
rather thon violate his oath by any such a
sanction. And | also believe that his firm
ness will produce its legitimate effect, and that
no hand can be found animated by a courage
or depravty equal to the execution Of the hor-
rible threat made against him. Iii now said
that he will refuse the certificates, and go in
person'to Washington with the matter; but
Slavery swears that he shall not quit the Ter
ritory alive.
On this boat are hundred men from the
interior of Missouri, who are returning from
the election many OF them serouslyiil from
the effects of whisky and exposure. They
are an army Of semi-barbarians; they carry
ones mind irrestibly back to the Dark Ages,
when might made right, and the weakest went
to tbo II S,ol, ,,,inht h., baa, tbo k,,l,
ing and protane crew who tore the dust of
1nln1n from. his grave, and butchered the
at their affairs Slavery has in
aimed and perpetuated the vices aud
l5sfSafism of. the past
i Will the North--the Union-abde these
insults aud these wrongs? Less cause has
overturned States. Let the Free States, if
indeed they are free, arouse and act. Let
them cease the vain glorious Boosting which
has answered no purpose as yet, but to infuri-
ate The South, and proceeaoalmly and strong
" to work. A few thousand good men in
Kansas, prepared for an emergency, will de-
fend it against all odds. Send us no more
coxcomhs and towards, armed with big words ;
but send us sturdy workers, sworn to the right,
and inyincible in calm courage. Kansas can
be free.
A DouGHFACE REBUKED BY A SHAREHOLDER
The Philadelphia Christian q Observer
in its zeal to sell Christianity for Peace and
the Union, has gone so far as to call out the
following rebuke from one of its southern sub
scribers -
81 think in rcpellng aboitionism some
times you are not anti-savery enough. SIav-
cry is a great evil, not in all supposable con-
ditons, but | mean American slavery. In
view of its enormities, feel like saving. with