Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1855-05-29
From the Charleston Is. c. Mercury.

lhe ADontlonlstS, having Jailed to take
Kansas by the storm of agitation, and by
pouring in hordes of purchased emigrants,
have at last, in their desperation, called
for the Intervention of the United States
Army to put down the Missourians. The
proposition comes from the New York
Evening Post, in an elaborate article, the
pith of which is contained in the following
extract:
'The Chief Magistrate has but one
Reeder; he must see that the real settlers
of Kansas elect their own Legislature, and
if they are disturbed and hindered by bands
of ruffians from any of the States, the dis
turbers must be put down by the strong arm
of the government. We have raised a
few new regiments lately for the purpose
of protecting the people of Oregon and
California from the Indians. In both of
those parts of the country the Indians are
now quiet; not rife is likely to be aimed
| by savage at white man for months to
come, nor a cow or horse to be driver off
| from the neighborhood of white mans
cabin. 1t is the settlers of Kansas who
are in danger; they are ten times more ex-
posed to the incursionists of marauders
than the settlers of the region beyond the
Rocky Mountains. Ii they are not to be
plundercd of their property, they are to be
robbed Of their political rights; the plot is
laid by tribe of sayages TO whom the in
dams on the Pacific coast are quiet and pa
cifc, and blood is to be spilled by the arm
ed and drunken crew who go out on this
prohigate errand, rather than ii should fail
of execution. Here, then, is the place for
the new regiments; detachment Of men
In military order to guard the polls when
any disturbance, any violent intrusion of
DULLES sent out from Missouri, is expected.
There is not one man in ten throughout
the whole country who would not say that
this is the best use to which our troops can
be put"
If it were true that only one man in ten
throughout the country should be opposed
to the domination of the Freesoilers In
Kansas, yet if all these tenth men ilappen-
ed to be on the spot and ready to risk life
for their cause, they would form an exceed
ingly respectable and very dangerous par
ty to trihe with, even on the part of the
United States Army. But we have no APP
prehension THAT, under the administration
of Franklin Pierce, the army will be put
to any such base uses as surrounding the
polls and managing the politics of a Ter
torial Government.
| But the articles of the Post is based on
the assumptions, OF rather fabrications, of
the Abolition press, that the elections were
carried by violence and fraud. They first
invent the facts, and, then invent a remedy
for them. The following is simple, and
we believe, truthful statement Of the histo-
ry of the Kansas settlement:
KANsAs.-The St. Louis Republican of
the 23rd instant, contains a letter from
| Whitehead Kansas, dated April 10th,
which states that Gov. Reeder has receded
from his claim to decide all the contested
elections for members of the Legislature,
and that such cases will be referred to the
decision of that body. The writer OF this
letter left St. Louis for Kansas, April Sth,
and says there were on board the steamboat
which conveyed him, numerous emigrants
from Virginia, Kentucky, New York and
New Jersey and that those from the two
States first mentioned, had a number Of
slaves with them.
There are two classes of people who
come from free States-the independent
and dependent. The first have some means
and intelligence, and think and act for
teal as well as theoretic. They come to
|
comfortable and prosperous as possible. If
they find the country better suited to slave
labor, and that that institution is the sine
qua non to the peace and advancement OF
the State, they will become pro-slavery
men. And that they will find such to be
the case, all who know the nature of the
soil, and its peculiar adaptation to the
growth of hemp, and the tone and senti-
ment of the leading citizens, can readily
comprehend.
| The other class are the subjects of the
Emigration Aid Society,"" who come with
out means and with Utopian anticipations,
and are sadly disappointed, and curse the
men who sent them hither.
| AS many as are able return. Those
who are unable to do so, are obliged to la
bor-hard manual labor-such as they are
unaceustomed to. They are not used non
have they the physique, to handle the maui
and WELD the axe with the brawny sons of
the West. They feel their inleriority,
and their energy and pride stir them TO ex-
traordinary efforts. They try to emulate
their hardy compeers in every thing, and
in nothing more than in their freedom and
independence of thought and action. They
become ashamed of their relations to the
Emigrant Aid Society; they do not wish to
be thought subject to its will; it has deceiy-
ed them; they spurn it; they desire to show
to it their disregard of its edicts, and to
give evidence to those amongst whom their
new lot IS cast, and they are freemen, and
viii act as such; and thus many of them
who have Free Soil or even Abolition