The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-12

elutions passed last Monday in the city.
Of Liberty that Clay county is following
the example set by the noble county Of
Platte, and We only regret one thing, and
that is, that she was not the first to put
the ball in motion, for the expurgation
from our midst allmen who are known
to be promulgating and inculcating doc
trines. and sentiments which are at yari-
ance with our long cherished institutions,
guaranteed to US by the Constitution.
Our advice to all such is that they leave
this country for one more congeniai to
their feelings and where their professions
of so much warm attachment for the me-
gro race will be respected.-Ricafeid,
no.. Enterprise.
IA Public Meeting
We gave two weeks ago the resolutions
Of the rioters who were concerned in the
destruction Of the ParkyiIle Luminary.
Clay county '.gave aid and comfort to
their neighbors by holding public meet
ing in Liberty, the proceedings of which
we give below, as copied from the Rich
field, Mo-, Enterprise -
Alta large and enthusiastic meeting of
the citizens of Clay county, assembled
at the court house in Liberty, for the
purpose of endorsing the action of the
citizens of our neighboring county of
Platte in the destruction of the ssPark-
vile Industrial Luminary. y Maj. John
Dougherty was called to the chair and
Geo. w. Morris was appointed secretary.
On motion. II. L. Routt, 6. w, WHhers.
J. Turnham, A. T. Force, w. H. Kerr,
and F. Waller were appointed commit
tee to draft resolutions expressive of the
sense of the meeting. After a short ABB.
sence the committee reported the follow
ing resolutions
WHEREAS we have seen the proceed
:ngs of meeting of the citizens of Platte
county, held at Parkville on the 18th
inst and feel that the time has arrived
when it becomes the duty of every man
in our State to define his position insucll
terms that there may no longer be any
misapprehension on the part of the citi-
zens of our sister states, therefore.
Resotyed, /. That the action of the
non slave-hoiding states, in setting at de-
fiance the laws for the protection of our
property in not only countenancing but
justifying and abetting by their legisla-
ton its systematic and public robbery
the practical exclusion of the citizens OF
the slaveheiding states from the right to
travel on the common public highway OF
our country, by the insults and outrages
heaped upon them whenever compelled
to pass through, or even to land upon the
borders of the non-slayeholding states
the declared purpose of those who per-
petrate those outrages not only to plant
their hosts of felons upon our borders
but to invade our State, strip US, and
drive us from our homes.
9. We will begin at home, and rid
ourselves of the traitors harbored in our
midst
3. To speak orpublish in slayeholJ-
ing community sentiments calculated to
render slaves discontented, to incite
them to escape or rebel, is not an exer-
else of the '.liberty of Speech - but is an
act of positive crime of the highest
grade, and should receive summary and
exemplary punishment.
4. Those who, in our State. would give
aid to the Abolitionists, by inducing OF
assisting them to settle in Kansas, OF
would throw obstacles in the way of oui
friends BY false and slanderous misrepre-
sentations of the acts of those who took
part in and contributed to the gratifying
result of the late election in that terrific
ry, should be driven from among us as
traitors to their country.
s.. We fully approve the action of our
friends in Platte in destroying the In
dustrial Luminary," and their resolutions
to .expel the traitors Park and Patterson,
6. That we regard the efforts of the
northern division Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church 10 establish itself in oui
State as a violation of her piighted faith,
and, pledged, as its ministers must be. to
the anti-slavery prineiplesofth that Church,
We are forced To regard them as enemies
to our institutions; we therefore fully
concur with our friends in Platte, in re-
solving to permit no person belonging to
the northern Methodist Church to preach
in our county.
7. We urge the citizens of other eoun.
ties and We pledge ourselves to act cor
daily and efficiently in executing the
principles of the foregoing resolutions
8. TO show our firm approval of the
proceedings of our friends In Platte, we
viii attend at Parksille, on the fifth o.
MAY next, and III person endorse thei,
action.
Which were unanimously adopted.
The meeting was then addressed BY
Gen. B. T. StringfeIlow, Mai. Johf
Dougherty, w. Z. Price, Judge Thomp
son, Geo. W. Withers, II. L. Routt and
Maj. j. H. Adams.
On motion of Geo. w. Withers, one
hundred delegates from each township
in the county were appointed to meet oul
fellow citizens of Platte in council il
Parkville on the 9th day of May next.
On motion of Maj. ]. H. Adams 1
committee of FIVE from each township ir
the county was appointed by the chair t.
wait on all persons in the least suspected
of Freesoilism or Abolitionism, and no
tify them to leave the county immediate
| ~. The chairman appointed the follow
ing persons under the last motion j T
v. Thompson. Joel Turnarn, a. g. Reed
o. P. Moss. D. J. Adkins, ]. II. Adams
| G. H. Wallis, w. E. Price, Solomon
Levi, G. w. Withers. David Morris
Thos. II. Gosney, Lewis ]. Wood. Thos
iJ, Young, Edmund Tilman. A. T. Force
VIM. Austin, A. G. Courtney, Ryians
Shackleeord, Henry Estes, Maj. Johl
Dougherty, Wyatt Willis, Willis Vim
F. Waller, A. Murray.
On motion of II. Z. Reutt all person
of this county who are subscribers to pa