Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-18
KANSAS MEETING

LH e.. E. - I'm.
We. were present, on Monday evening, at a very
interesting meeting convened in the Town Hall
for the purpose of listening to the statements OF
Mr.. Wood, one Of the editors Of the KanSds
Tribune, concerning the Inducements afforded for
emigration to Kansas, by the climate, soil, etc. Of
that Territory, and also, concerning the nature Of
the popular Sovereignty prevailing there.
Mr.. Wood impressed us as q sincere and earnest
man; il the mass of the northern people had for
tunately possessed any thing like the unmistakable
devotion to the cause Of freedom by which he APP
pears to be animated the necessity for the appeals
which he made to the north for countenance and
aid would never have existed. A fighting man
can never be twitted with inconsistency when he
declares his readiness to use the musket or the re.
solver in defense of the sacred cause of freedom,
this Mr.. Wood declares himself ready to do, and
what promises better for the success of northern
principles than any thing else we have heard from
that quarter, he declares his firm conviction that
This is the prevailing animus of the northern men
generally, now in Kansas Territory.
According to Mr.. Wood, WHO declares himself
intimately acquainted with the Territory generally,
it possesses physical advantages of a high order,
and the ypsayorable reports which have been cir
euiated to some extent by the northern press, con-
corning it, have been originated by persons very
easily discouraged and who returned to their
homes without becoming at all acquainted with
the great resources Of that region. We have no
doubt of the reliability of Mr.. Woods statements
which merely confirm those we have had privately
from other reliable sources.
AS to the motto of popular sovereignty" Mr..
Woods description of the workings of that princi-
pie as verified by his own personal observation and
experience, were rich in the highest degree. To
any one Of our citizens who still labors under the
unaccountablc hallucination that this Union and
Government exist for any other purpose than that
of extending and perpetuating slavery, Mr.. Woods
narrative must have presented some very embar-
RAISING facts.
Here we have the positive testimony of an eye
witness that the whole Territory of Kansas was
literally overrun by armed hordes Of cut-throats,
headed by the arch-rufians, Doniphon, Atchison,
etc, aided and abetted by such agents of the gem
eral government as were within their reach, all for
the express purpose of utterly overthrowing that
very popular Sovereignty the establishment of
which the gen eral government has ~profcssed to
have so deeply at heart. Threats Of prosecution
from the Indian Agent against the settlers from
the north who presumed to lay the foundations of
their log-caLius in the region where his own al
ready stood with a warrant not a whit better; the
polling of a vote of eight hundred where the CEN
sus showed but dozen legal voters; expresses
demanding detatchments Of u hundred men or two
to carry an election which seemed likely to 60
against the pro-slavcry party; hordes of wander
ing Missourians and even Virginians, inquiring
the way to the precincts where their Sovereignty"
was to be made manifest, all were portrayed in
that peculiarly graphic manner which is possible
only to an eyewitness, and proved as plainly as
that two and two make four, the utter carelessness
and anarchy brought about and encouraged BY Mr..
Franklin Pierce in this new territory just opened
to the inroads of that institution which is fast
mastering every thing that is decent and honorable
among the American people.
We certainly did not need this additional evil
dence to convince us that a dissolution of this
union IN fact, is necessary to the protection ofthc
liberties of the northern people; if VIC had needed
such evidence this would certainly have been all
sufficient. X.