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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Port Leavenworth omcers.

Some weeks since, the papers OF TINS
city published, as an item of news, that
the officers at Fort Leayenworth had been
put under arrest, for the course they had
been pursuing in regard to Delaware
lands and the town of Leavenworth.-
That report was not correct. although we
have seen no correction made. We un-
derstand the facts 10 be about these -
When Commissioner Manypenny visited
the Territory he heard much said, ana
many reports reached his ears concerning
infractioas on the Delaware Treaty by
squatters. He sits down and writes a
letter to the Secretary of the Interior,
telling him the condition of things, that
he had found few rickety shanties on
these lands, erected BY squatters, and
tells him that if they were all burnt he
believed the difficulty would be settled
He tells him, also. that Majors Ogden and
Maclin. aud Capt. Hunt, were not only
coaniTing at the acts of the squat;ers, but
were actually interested themselves, and
had been using government hands and
teams, and may be funds, and private
claims on the Delaware lands.
This Letter was handed to the Secretary
of War, who sent copy of it to each or
those officers. They wrote an answer
denouncing the Commissioners letter as
false-demanded of the government
full and thorough investigation of their
conduct IN the whole matter-and called
upon the Department to require Mr..
Manypenny to make good his charges.
or dismiss him from Office.
Thus the mater stands at this time, so
FAR as we have been advised, and viii re-
suit. no doubt, in an inEestiga ion.-
They say Commissioner Manypennycan
not make good his allegations: but we
don't suppose that would be crime, in
the eyes OF the Administration, to justify
bis removal. Il may be esteemed vir-
tue by some Of the powers that be-
0ccideakaf Messenger.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
The Locuat.

A correspondent communicates some
facts in relation to the culture and growth
of the locust tree, which viii be Of inter-
est TO the people of Kansas. He advises.
that lecast.seed be taken out In preference
to plants or cuttings, because more pofts-
BE and snrer. He states that he has rais-
ed locusts trees from the seed, and had
them grow to the height of fo;ss fset the
frat year, and tha. In the cold, sterile soil
of New England. To insure the vegeta-
ting Of The seed the first year. however.
he says it Is necessary 70 pour boiling wa
ter upon il. say hall an honr before plant
ing. It will not injuret the seed Except
this course IS pursued, the seed may lay
in the ground I'LL the second year. II
planted IN rich, new soil. q Considerable
quantity Of fuel would be procured the
first year.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
From Kansas.

Our friend Mr.. CAMPBELL, of the Ohio
House of Representatives. from Meigs,
paid us a visit on Saturday. He has
Just returned from Kansas, to which
Territory he was deputed by Commits
sioner MANYPENNY, on a special mission
TO the Indians He states that he was as
far south as the Usage river, and repre-
sents the country as splendid one
He represents the Neosha Valley as the
finest part of the Territory. The Indian
tribes he visited were the Miamis, Kas-
kaskias, Weas, and Peorias. These In
dians are pretty well mixed up with
withdrawing many half-breeds among
them. Few whites have yet settled
among them. The land is yet to be sur
yeyed. l: viii be opened next season.
The most of the settlements are back of
Fort Leavenworth and Kansas Valley.
Mr.. CAMPBELL estimates that there are
about 5.UOo people permanently fixed in
the Territory. Tie papers represent
more but Nr. c. says that there is .
great stir-a great many people going
and eoming-but not so many remaining
there as is supposed. He says that if il
were left to tie Missouri emigraats alone
to vote against slavery In Kansas, ma
ioritF of them would vote .sNo" to the
institution, and five out of seven of the
whole people. He thinks that there is
no earthly chance for slavery IN Kansas
hardly any question about it there
The land is taken up in small tracts By
those who win exercise the prerogatiye
of squatter sovereigns. Slavery cannot
live on little tractlets. It requires large
plantations.
Mr. CAAPBELL left the Territory about
two weeks ago Ohio &asssman.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Correspondence.
Letter from a naissou,ian.

LIBERTY, No., Dec. Is. 1854.
Mr.. BRows:-Being at Leasenworth
City at the time of the election, was, for
few hours. a spectator of what transpired
at The "polls" at that time and place.
Being also resident of Missouri, I felt
no inclination to take part in the aaairs
of the day, except to observe the manner
in which the election was conducted.
The voting was done through win
dow-from the outside of baiIding-
the Judges" being stationed in room
inside.
In another room of the same building
was place where liquor of different
kinds was retailed. The trade seemed to
be very brisk-purchasers were plenty !;
patriotism was cheap-was in the ascen-
dant-culminated-passed the meridian !:
alas that its rays should have been
quenched by, or sought repose in, free
soil.
Men were patriotic, very. A solid
phalanx closed efectually every eonve-
nient and decent avenue of approach to
the polls. Many were lifted above the
heads of the crowd, and were pushed
head foremost to the window, and in that
elevated and horizontal position, voted,
were let down to earth again, and others
were exalted to the same place. How
self-sacrifcing is patriotism!
Men grew valiant. See those long
brawny arms and big fists lifted to the
sky--mark the brandishing-but more
than ali, hear that voice. Men grew elo-
quent-and it did seem that valor and
elequence at this iuncture embraced each
other and went off in fit of ecstasy to-
gether. See |! hear cd d. an
Abolitionist p' cd d Free
soiler '' :" can lick any Cd d-d
Yankee Abolitionist. Cd D. 'em p
Men grew logical. Hurrah for Whit
field !'' " Hurrah for whisky !'' Hur-
rah for hell"
Then came the musical de capo: CD
d an Abolitionist l'' &c. :" This
beats old Kaintuck!'" " This aint one
horse 'lectionn &C.; but enough. These
things were prominent and peryading
features of that occasion.
An intelligent resident of Kansas Terri
tory, and, by the way. native of No..
said it was !" foul crowd" He with
many others-Whitfeld men too--linger-
ed about the polls all day-tried to vote
gave it up, and returned home, without
voting. Whether any were frightened
have not learned; but some have since
boasted that they scared the "d-d
Yankees" Is this an index of future
elections in Kansas? Shall foul crowd
make safe and decent approach to the
polls impossible? Is Kansas the soil
where the mighty tide of moral and polit.
ical corruption is to be poured forth-h
bear down and sweep away the sacred
rights of freemen? | have no idea tha
Kansas pioneers are at all inclined to med
die, In any unwarrantable manner, witt
the rights and arrangements of Nilsson
rians-and l am equally eager that thl
people of Missouri abstain from all inter
ference in matters not their own. Ma
: both parties strive to establish and main
; tain the relations of friendship and goo,
neighborhood. VERAX.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Choice Poeitll.
Mako Your 6ar,r.


In the quarries should you toll,
Make your mark;
Do you delve upon the soil
Make your marx:
Ia whatever path you go,
In whatever place yea stand,
Moving swift or moving slow,
With firm aud honest hand
Make Your mark.
Should opponents hedge your way,
Make your mark
Work by night or work BY day,
Make your mark;
STRUGGLE nanf1lIy and well,
Let no obstacle oppose,
None right-shielded ever fell
BY the weapons of his foes
Make Your mark
what though born 0 peasants SON.
Make your mark
GOOD oy poor men may be done
Make your mark !;
feasant's CARDS may warm the cold /;
PEASANTS words may calm fear
Better far than boarding gold
is the driving Of tear
Make your mark.
Life Is feeting as shade,
Make your mark
Marks of some kind must be made,
Make your marx
Make it while the arm is strong.
In the golden hours of youth
Never, never make it wrong,
Make it with the stamp of truth :.
Make your mark.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
The New Road.

At a public meeting of the citizens of
Parkyille, in relation to the building of a
road up the north side of Kansas river,
and to Lawrence, committee. was ap-
pointed to view this route, who reported
at subsequent meeting, suggesting such
alterations in the existing road as were
necessary. Thereupon r. G. Stevens,
I. w. Davis, and F. Burnes were ap-
pointed working committee to notify
and request the public-spirited citizens,
and the Indians, to work on the road
the number of days each labored to be
recorded, and published IN the Luminary.
The report for Monday, 18th of De-
cember, is: B. F. Nicholson, day and a
half; 6. S. Park, two days and half ;
J. Wilson, one day T. w. Davis, one
day; I. Sharp, one day; J. Richardson,
one day j. Nash, one day; Aspling,
Stevens & Co., three days.
On Tuesday and Wednesday ice in the
river prevented the crossing. Further
reports next week.
While on the subject, we will remark,
that the importance of opening a road
westward cannot be over-estimated.-
A line of great States will soon extend
from the Missouri to the Pacific ocean,
and the advantages that will accrue to
our merchants from the trade west of this
point are already beginning to be felt.
While other places are dull, the drawers
of our dealers are full of gold-while the
same yellow representatives glitter in the
silk purses of our farmers, gotten in ex-
change for their produce. The road in
question communicates with the heart of
the Delaware nation, who receive large
annuities it also leads to Lawrence, to
Pottawatomie, to Big Blue, and the i'm
mense territory to the westward.
The daily reports viii show who lead
in this great public work.-Laminary.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Poetry.
A Country Homs.

Oh give me home In the country wide.
And seat by the farmers wood freside.
Where the fire burns bright,
Where the Jest and the song and laugh are free.
Oh! the farmers home is the home for me-
Oh give me home In the country wide,
When the earth comes out = blushing bride,
With her buds and flowers,
In the bright spring hours. =
Her bridal song singing from fresh-leaved trees,
And melody floats on the perfumed breeze.
In summer q seat In the shady nook,
And close by the side Of cooling brook,
Where the violet grows,
Or the pale swamp rose,
Painting and sick meath the SUMS scorching beam
Dips her petals In the deep cooling stream.
Oh give me o home in the country wide,
In the golden days of farmers pride,
When the barns are filled
From the fields he's TILED,
And he feels that his yearly task is done
Smiling at winter, he beckons him on.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13

disrespeeted, and viiely aspersed. and
contemptuo1ssly threatened with mob yio-
lence. wherefore, it is imperatiyely de-
manded that we, IN mass meeting assem-
bled, on this, the first day Of September,
A. D. 1854, do make prompt, honorable,
effective, and immediate defense of our
rights and privileges as citizens of this
glorious Union; therefore,
/. Resoired, That we, whose names
are hereunto affixed, are order-loving and
law-abiding citizens
9. ResoEsed, That we are Union men.
We love the South much, but we love the
Union better. Our motto is-the Union
first, the Union forever.
3. Resolved, That we disapprove the
Bayless resolutions, as containing nullifi-
cation, disunion, and disorganizstion SEN
timents.
4. Resolved, That we, as consumers,
invite and solicit our merchants to pur-
chase their goods wherever it is most ad-
vantageous to the buyer and consumer.
5. Resolned, That we hold every man
as entitled to equalrespect and confidence
until his conduct proves him unworthy
of the same.
6. Resolved, That we understand the
Douglas bill'' as giving all the citizens
of this Confederacy equal rights and
equal immunities in the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska.
a. That we are believers in the digni-
ty of labor; it does not necessarily de-
tract from the moral nor intellectual char
acter of man.
8. That We are competentto Judge who
shall be expelled from cur community,
and who shall make laws for our corpo-
ration.
9. That mere suspicion is not a ground
Of guilt; mob-law can only be tolerated
when all other law fails, and then only
on proof of guilt.
10. That certain members of the Platte
County Self-Defensive Association have
proclaimed and advocated, and attempted
to force measures upon us. contrary to
the foregoing principles, which measures
we do solemnly disavow and disapprove,
and utterly disclaim as being diametric-
ally opposed to common and constitution
al law, and as having greatly disturbed,
and well nigh destroyed, the order, the
peace and harmony OF Our families and
community, and as being but too well
calculated seriously to iEjure us in our
property and character, both at home and
abroad. We viii thus ever disavow and
disclaim.
On motion of Samuel J. Finch, it was
Resolued, That both papers published
in the city of Weston be requested tc
publish the foreging preamble and resoiu,
tions; and all papers throughout the State
friendly to law and order are requested
to copy the same.
G. w. GIST, Chairman.
j. B. EVANS, Sec.
In addition to the officers of the meet
ing, the resolutions are signed by II
persons.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
The Struggle in Kansas.

From the day that the Kansas Eebras-
IA bill was clothed with the forms of
law, we have done what we could TO en-
courage the migration to Kansas of ca
pable, energetic, Independent farmers
and mechanics, who. would endeavor to
make her a free Territory, and in due
time a free State. We have never rep
resented that region as paradise, though
we believe it contains very much good
Land, enjoys a fair, mild climate, and
lies on one of the great future highways
of commercial intercourse between West
ern Europe and Eastern Asia. We do
not believe every one fitted to succeed in
Kansas, and have uniformly discouraged
the migration thither of any but resolute.
strong handed workers, who would be
likely to succeed anywhere. And,
though the false cry that the eastern
anti-slaEery men were sending paupers
into the new Territories has been echoed
through Missouri and along the border
until many believe it, We are confident
that better class of emigrants, one
more able to sustain itself, has never
yet settled in any new country than that
which has left New York and New
England to uphold the flag of Freedom
In Kansas.
From the day Kansas was organized
to the present, we have heard of no sim
gle act of outrage or robbery by any
member of the anti-slavery emigration.
1t has not even been alleged by the Mis-
souri, pro-slavery journals that any per-
son in their interest has been molested
or menaced by any settlers from the East.
No impediment has been offered to the
freest influx of emigrants from the
slave States: no one has even pretended
to keep away from apprehensions of
wrong or violence from our sort of peo-
pie. No meeting was ever held by anti
slavery pioneers to. denounce or deter
emigration from the South. Yet, on
the other hand, meeting after meeting
has been held by Missourians, now on
one side of the line, then on the other,
at which violent and threatening resolves
against anti-slayery emigration were
passed, and every indication of settled
purpose to crowd slavery into Kansas,
peaeeably or forcibly, has been given.
Popular sovereignty in the Missouri
acceptation, is the sovereignty of the ri
fie and bowie-knife and it is the arbitra-
ment of these, and not of the ballot-box,
that the pro-slavery party in and near
Kansas has constantly invoked.
1t is very plain that bloodshed in Kan
sas is only to be avoided by extreme
meekness and forbearance on the part of
anti-slavery men. We ask all to con-
slider the state of incipient civil war al
ready existing in Kansas, and Judge
whether Congress ought to throw this
fre-brand of slavery agitation into each
new Territory it may organize. Is it not
better to guarantee to every newly-or-
ganized Territory truly Republican con-
stitution, thus precluding the subjection
of one man to another as a chas.el, and
allowing the settlers to prosecute their
arduous labors in peace and harmony =?
" y Irib1ne
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Ponnlar aoxereientu-


The twenty second edition of the Ne
braska Kansas bill, containing the Clay
ton amendment and the test oath, is as
follows:
"SEc. %. 4nd be Il further enacted,
That every free white male inhabitant
above the age of twenty-one years, who
shall be an actual resident of. said
Territory. and shall possess the qualiiica-
tions hereinafter prescribed, shall be en-
titled to vote at the first election, and
shall be eligible to any Office within the
said Territory; but the qualifications of
voters, and of holding Office, at all SUBJ
sequent elections, shall be such as shall
be prescribed by the Legislative Assem-
bly, Propidcd, That the right of suf-
frage and of holding Office shall be ex-
erclsed only by citizens of the United
States, and those who shall have declared
on oath their intention to become such,
aud shall have taken an oath to support
the Constitution of the United Slales
and the provisions of this act: Ind pro
sided further, That no officer, soldier,
seaman, or marine, or any other person
in the army or navy of the United States,
or attached to troops in the service of
the United States, shall be allowed to
vote or hold Office in said Territory by
reason of being on service therein
The New York Evening Post explains
it as follows:
1.-The declaration of intention referred
to is that mentioned in the naturalization
acas; and the oath to support the Con-
stitu ion is thai taken at the end of FIVE
years residence after dee.ara ion of IN
tention. None but citizens, those who
are born in the country, or, by FIVE
years naturalization, have become cii-
zens-swear to the Constitution. The
Judge appointed viii unquestionably so
hold, aad exclude all others from the
polls
By the same bill, the Indian inter-
course act is extended to the Territories,
under which it proposes to exclude all
foreigners, unless they bear passport
from the War Department, specifying
the object for which they visit them, and
limiting their sojourn in them.
No attempt will be made TO enforce tins
last feature.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
B. P. STRINGFELLow, Secy.

At large meeting of the Association,
held at Platte City, on the 9th August,
1854, among others, were the following
proceedings:
The resolutions heretofore offered by
DR.. Bayless were called up, and being
amended, were unanimously adopted, as
follows:
1. That this is no time for neutrals
but it is our right to know who are for
us and who are against us and that we
know no better rule than to hold all who
are not for us to be against us.
2. That they who hate Shareholders
have no right to shareholders money,
and hence we declare our purpose to be,
to trade with our friends-our enemies
We will let alone, SO long as they let us
alone
3. That we recommend to our mer-
chants to make their purchases in the
cities of the slave-holding States. And
we furthermore earnestly recommend to
our merchants, in the purchase of foreign
articles, to buy from those who import
directly from Europe.
A. That we will take pains to infcrm
ourselves as to the opinions and conduct
of merchants, and others, with whom we
propose to trade in st. Louis and else
where, on the slavery question, so as to
fully carry out the foregoing resolutions.
GEO. GALLOWAY, Prest,
B, F. STRINGFELLow, Sec.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13

1 Boys, did you ever think that this
great world, with all its wealth and wo,
with all It's mines and mountains, its
oceans, seas, and rivers, steamboats, and
ships, railroads and Steam printing press
es, magnetic telegraphs, etc. win soon.
be given over 10 the hands of the boys
of the present age? Believe it, and look
abroad upon the inheritance. and get
ready to enter upon your duties.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Public Meetings.
Platte Co. sslf-Dssensive Association

Platte Co. Self-Desensive Association.
We cannot do the public better service
than by placing the following proceedings
of meetings held in Platte county, Mo-,
in July, August, and September last, on
file as portion of the history of our Ter
ritory. Many of the articles we are now
may appear worthless to the
general reader; yet We are desirous of
furnishing complete history of Kansas,
to do which we are compelled to go back
and bring up many articles of the past
In due time we shall be publishing the
history of to-day only.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13

At meeting held In Weston, on the
29th July, A. D. 1854, among others,
were the following proceedings:
On motion of DR.. G. w. Bayless, it
was unanimously
1. Resoloed, That this Association
will, whenever called upon by any of the
citizens of Kansas Territory, hold itself
in readiness together to assist in removing
any and all emigrants who go there un-
der the auspices of the northern Emigra-
ton Aid Societies.
2. That we recommend to the citizens
of other counties, particularly those bor-
dering ON Kansas Territory, to adopt reg
ulations similar to those of this Associa-
ton, and to indicate their readiness to
cooperate in the object of the first reso-
luton.
3. That these resolutions be published
in the papers at Weston.
G.. GALLOWAY, Prest.
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