Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1855-05-29

permanent occupancy, and returned to ar
range their affairs. The election for the
Territorial Legislature was evidently or
dered at time and IN a manner to deprive
these people of their votes. The official
notice was long deferred, and atlencth was
published at an unexpected time, bret
period before the day appointed for the
election. But the Abolition Emigration
Societies of the North were notified long
beforehand of the time fixed for the election
in order that they might be prepared for
it.
e was this proceeding which especially
aroused indignation against Gov Reeder.
1t became evident that he was using his
powers to control the organization OF the
Territory in a particular way. The scheme
failed; the Missouri settlers carried the
dav, and now heaven and earth are moved
to deprive them of their rights.
False statements, without even the plau-
sibility of fabricated testimony, are adj
yapced to make out case for the interpo-
sition of the bayonet in the affairs Of Kan
sas; in order to array the army of the Uni
ted States in favor of FreesoI.
Something of this kind was tried before.
The Military Governor of California fixed
| the qualification of votes in that conquered
region; called Convention Of the people;
presided over the formation CT State Con-
stitution, and assisted at the election Of
United States Senators,-al1 before the
United States had even established any
form OF civil administration over that coun-
try. This was the first great military oper-
! alton of the Abolitionists, and proved sue
cessful. California was a great way of;
the Military, and the Northern settlers,
had it in possession, and many other ques-
tons complicated it and induced the South
weakly to yield to the tide. It seems to
have been taken for granted that because
we yielded California to foray, that hence
forth all that was necessary to secure a
Territory to the North, was to drum an
army of occupation among the Free-soil-
ers; squat on the land; carry an election;
pass IN Anti-Slavery law, and demanded
admission into the Union on the strength
of it.
This was precisely the course pursued in
the case Of Kansas. The instant the Ter
ritorial bill was passed, the Abolitionists
began to agitate for its forced settlement
| by Free-soilers. Societies were formed &c
furnish means to transport an army Of Abo-
lition settlers to the spot in time to put down
all competition, and fix violent Freesoi1
character upon the Territory at its very
birth. The very violence Of the proceed
ing alarmed and aroused the South, and
Missouri, to defend herself from such an
inundation of hired barbarians from New
England, organised an opposition force
She had some experience OF an Abolition
State Oh her Eastern borders and did mo-
care to repeat it on her Western. Thus
these two ernigrating currents came in con-
| flict, and if the Southern swept away the
Northern, it is simply that it was the stron-
ger, the more earnest and more congenial
to the country.
The Freesoilers are beat at their own
game, driven back by their own weapons
and now their organs cry out for the pro-
lection of United States bayonets. They
will not get them; but if, atany future time,
this Intervention shall be successfully call
ed for, it will simply be the beginning Of
civil war, and we leave those who invoke
it to imagine where it will end. The Abo-
tionists have, of their own free will, COM
menced this struggle for the possession Of
Kansas, and they must abide the conse-
quences. The whole South is now deeply
interested in the result, and will be no in
different spectator, but an active participa-
| tor in the struggle.
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