Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-29
FREE STATEsMEETING IN KANSAS.

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A large Convention of free State men, was held
at Big Spring, K. L. on the 9Th and 9th inst. The
object OF the Convention was to secure the rights
of the citizens of Kansas against their Missouri
invaders, and especially to secure protection against
that mobocratic convention calling itself the Kan
sas Legislature. The Convention resolved to nm
point a day of their own for election of a Delegate
to Congress. Thus giving no sanction CT appro-
val to the legislative appointment. They appoin-
ted a committee to collect all the important facts
of the Missouri invasion ,sand its subsequent un-
lawful and tyrannous rule, tending to show their
entire illegality and nullity and to forward these
facts by the hand of the Congressional delegate
they shall elect to the House of Representatives at
Washington and by virtue of them and the soyreipn
will of the people of Kansas, thus expressed, de-
mand his admission as the Territorial member of
that body. Ex-Governor Reeder was nominated
by reclamation and with immense enthusiasm as
their candidate for that office.
The action of this Convention in repudiatino
the authority of their tyrants and asserting their
right to self government is SO far manly. But
with unutterable meanness and unreasonable
wickedness, this ~free-state Convention ATTEMPT
to purchase their own liberty by the exclusion of
Tree colored persons from their Stately their vol
unteered consent to the continued enslayement of
three and q half millions of slaves and all their
posterity and by damning their own soil as the
perpetual hunting ground of slaves. And in that
whole Free ~ State Convention there was found
not one, whose heart was not sufficiently craven
and %cowardly to vote for their own liberty bought
nv Snnh Ipfarpa al ~ aao,
ing these propositions were receiced miA three
hearty cheers and adopted by acolamation. There
is small hope for freedom in Kansas when its
avowed friends thus w~antonly sacrifice it for the
contemplate and cowardly consideration of their
own safety. These Free State men are slayehold.
es and slavehunters in heart, and practice String
fellow has basely slandered them. They are not
only his victims but his willing accomplices, in
perpetuating slavery, and SO are also the Republi.
cans of the North his accomplices in this
fearful work. The freedom of Kansas will be
worthy of the party which purchases it with the
bloody enslavement of our millions of slaves
The following is the platform adopted by the con-
vention
The Chairman of the Committee on n Platform
reported, through Col. Lane, the following resolu-
tons, stating at tho same time that twelve out of
thirteen had agreed upon their adoption and plede-
ed to each other their undivided support:
Whereas, The Free State Patty of the Territory
OF Kansas is about to originate an Organization fer
concert of political action in electing our own off
GERS and moulding our institutions, and whereas.
II Is expcdient and necessary that q platform Of
principles be adopted and proclaimed, to make
known the character OF our organization, and TO
test the qualifications of candidates and the fdeli.
ty OF our members; and whereas, we fLd ourselves
in an unparalleled and critical condition, deprived
by superior force of the rights guaranteed by the
Declaration OF Independence, the Constitution of
the United States, and the Kansas Bill; and where
as the great and overshadowing question, whether
Kansas shall become a Free or a Slave State, must
inevitably absorb all other issues except those in
separately connected with it; and whereas, the cri-
sis demands the concerted and harmonious action
Of all those who, from principle or interest, prefer
free labor to slave labor, rs well as of those who
value the preservation of the Union and the guar
%antees of Republican institutions by the Constitu-
ton, therefore,.
Resolved, That, setting aside all the minor is
sues OF partisan politics, it is incumbent upon us
to protfer an organization calculated to recover
our dearest rights, and into which Democrats and
Wings, Natives and naturalized citizens, may free
~ enter without any sacrifice of their respective
political creeds, but wiiSout forcing them as n
test upon others. And that when we shall have
achieved our political freedom indicated our
rights OF selt-government, and become an indepen-
dent State of the Union, when those issues may
become vital as they are now dormant, it will be
Tune enough to divide our organization by these
tests, the importance of which we fully recognize
in their appropriate sphere.
Resolved, That we will oppose and resist all
nonresident voters at our polls, whether from Mis-.
souri or elsewhere. as q gross violation of our
rights, and a virtual Acknowledgement of our citi-
Gems.
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Resolved, That our true interests, socially, NOR
ally and pecuniarily, require that Kansas should be
q Free State; that free labor will best promote the
happiness, the rapid population the prosperity and
me wealth Of our people; that slave labor is a