Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-04-20
The InvasIon of Knnsns.

LEAvENwoRTH, X. I. April 2, 1855.
l attended meeting of Shareholders and
Slavery Propagandists. in the town of St.
Joseph, Buchanan CO., No, on the goth Of
March, where they we're rallying their fore
es to so 10 Kansas, and vote at the point Ct
a Bowie-knife and revolver" The meet
ing was addressed by corrupt hireling,
named Stringfellow, who got about five
hundred dollars for writing a lying pam
phlet in favor of Slavery, and also hel lps to
edit an inhamatory PIo.Slavery sheet in
Kansas. to which be has a few hundred
dollar subscribers, who live in Missouri, and
who want to make squstters believe that
the best form Of government is that which
is composed Of tyrants and slaves.
The speaker came here With bis red eyes
and whiskey face, to call on the Missourians
to sustain Slavery at all hazards in Kansas
He said that Slavery existed in Kansas and
everywhere else where it was not prohibit
ed by unjust legal enactments; that Kan
sss rightfully belonged to Missouri that
the the SsGigru s;iIru Abolitionists were determined
TO make a Free State of it, and. if they
succeeded, they would steal all your slaves,
horses and oxen, aHd every thing else; that
our rich country would be ruined. He de-
nounced Gov. Reeder as the prime leader
of the sgd id" Free Soilers and Alb
olitionists, who we're made up of paupers,
thieves and murdeEers, who were imported
to abolitionize oWr territOry-who ought TO
be exterminated as fast as they come, and
all who support them.
al tell you," said he, TO mark every
scoundrel among you that is the least taint
ed with Free-Soilism or Abolilionism, and
exterminate him. Neither give nor take
quarter from the id rascals. l pro-
pose to mark them in this house, on the
present occasion, SO that you may crush
them cut To those who have qualms of
conscience as to violating laws, State or na-
tioual, the crisis has arrived when such i'm
positions must be disregarded,ss your rights
aud property are in danger; and l advise
you one and all, to enter every election dis
tIict in Kansas, 10 defiance of Reeder and
bis vile myrmidons, and vote at the point of
the Bowie-knife and revolver. Neither
give nor take quarter, as our cause demands
il. Il is enough that the slaveholding in-
terest wills it, from which there is no ap-
peal. What right has Gov. Reeder to rule |
Missourians in Kansas? His Proclamation |
and prescribed oath must be repudiated.
1t is your interest to do so. Mpd that Sla-
very is established where it is not prohibit |
ed"
After this ferocious monster got through
instigating the violation of all law and order
urging fraud and violence with bloodshed |
and murder. he was followed by four polit-
ical bloodhounds, who breathed nothing but
violence and destruction to every one who
would not sustain the almighty cause of
Slavery. They demanded the suppression
of the freedom of speech and press all over
the Union. They not only want all blacks
to be made slaves, but all poor white folks.
If they cannot obtain their Internal demands
they declare for a dissolution of the Union
the sooner the better. The North, they
said, was but curse 10 them at best, and
the sooner they got rid of the North the
better. They discarded the declaration of
Independence as great humbug, and Free
States as curse to any people. The rights
Of man commenced when the first slaves
were manacled in the chains of Slavery, and
those rights they we're determined to main
tain with their blood Correspondence Of
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