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Kansas Meeting.
According to previous notice, q meeting of
the citizens of Ray county, NO., was held at the
Court House on Monday, the LIST January, 1866,
which, on motion Of Colonel Ewing, was organ
lied by the appointment Of Judge Branstetter
as Chairman, and II. j. Conner, as Secretary.
The objects of the meeting being made
known, committee consisting of DIR. Chew,
Colonel E. B. Ewing, Colonel B. +. Smith,
Captain James II. Cant John Stone ESQ.,,
Judge George w. Dunn, and Judge Eli Carter,
was appointed to present resolutions for the
consideration of the meeting.
During the absence of the committee 81. L.
Routt esq, Of Liberty, was introduced to the
meeting and addressed it. ct length, presenting
forcibly and clearly the designs, and systematic
efforts Of abolitionists and their allies in refer
ence to slavery and slave property in the Ter
ritory of Kansas; their Interior aim to affect
and overthrow it, in the slave holding States;
and concluded by urging the adoption of all
justi6able measures, to counterfeit the aggres-
siye movements, of the northern fanatics.
When Mr.. Routt concluded, the following
preamble and resolutions were submitted BY
the committe, and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, spirit of hostility to the Southern
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slavery as it exists in those States, has become
so pervading and intensified in many of the
Northern and Northeastern States as othreaten,
it it has not already caused, disrupture Of
old party organizations, and-to unite the oppo.
nents of slavery Of all classes and grades in
concentrated effort throughout the non-slave-
holdSng eLates W organize IN their stead a
great Northern Abolition party, under the cap
tivating cognonen of Republican, whose every
principle is at war with the constitutional rights
and domestic institutions of the Southern and
slaveholding States; and, whereas, in thus alb
juring all allegiance to, and severing the ties
which hitherto united them under other aus
pices, and reconstructing around rank aboli-
tionism as the nucleus, great sectional party,
an exposition of whose creed is found in its
avowal to restore the Missouri restriction to the
Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska, the abroga-
ton of the fugitive slave Law, the restriction OF
slavery by Congress, to the States in which il
exists, opposition to the admission of any more
slave States opposition to the acquisition Of
any more territory, except upon the condition
that slavery shall be forever prohibited therein
we see an aggressive movement, which should
be met in spirit, by citizens of the slavehold-
ing States overlooking all the minor obligations
OF mere party fidelity and, whereas, the en-
dSthCht Ny SOuSlCoo, dt itS ldSl SESSION., Oh laws
for the organization of the Territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska, embodying the great princi.
pie Of popular sovereignty and the right of self
governments principle enunciated and main
tanned by our fathers in their separation from
Great Britain-defeated the purposes Of Adolf.
tionism, as they were sought to be accom-
plished by legislation and, whereas, q general
and concerted movement has been, and is
now being made, by Aboltienists and their
allies, in the Northern and North eastern
States, by means of emigrating aid-societies-
rendered efficient and potent BY money and all
the appliances that q fanatical zeal can EMPLOY
to pervert and thwart the natural and leRiti-
mate operation of the principles of the Kansas
law, by shipping to that Territory hundreds
and thousands of mercenaries, picked up from
the purlieus of Northern cities to vote for the
exclusion of slavery from the Territory. and
thus overpower by force Of numbers at the
ballot box, those who are attracted thither from
Missouri and other States by the ordinary and
proper inducements to emigration-there
Resolred, That we regard the course of Adolf.
tionists and Freesoiers In reference to the Terri
tory of Kansas as lawless crusade against the
institution Of slavery - it now exists there; and
that their Interior object II to overturn the in.
stitution of slavery in al the siaveholdinp
States. We, therefore pledge ourselves to de
fend the institution q slavery, not only in Mis-
sour, but in Kansas, and everywhere else
where Abolitionists and their emmissaries are al
work; and we will, by all lawful and proper
means, aid and assist the citizens of Kansas in
resisting all Abolition influences and acts in
the Territory.
Resotced, That this meeting approves Of the
call for a general convention to be held at Lib
erty on the 9Th instant, and that the chair ap
point fifty delegates to attend said convention