The Nevada journal., 1855-06-15
OutIages IN Kansas Memorial to Congress
-Lettor Of MIR. Participation of the
Mo. Intclligcnccr.

OutIages IN Kansas Memorial to Congress
-Lettor Of MIR. Park Opinion of the
Ma. Intclligencer.
Fehold how great fame few Goals
EindIeth The wild dem1 gogues who
repealed the Missouri compromise have
launched the country into IL abyss of
discoGd and horrors of which the depth
has not yet been fathomed-of which TIE
conseIuen no one cen predict will stop
shot OF dissolution of this Union amid
the flames Of civil var IS faithful chron-
iclers Of the times we deem it our duty
to sprc id before our readers tie fullest
facts OF the outrageous scenes already
consulnmated, and the progress of events
that cali for he painful attention OF every
lover of III Union. Livery one VIII re-
member the fanatical appeal of General
At;hison to the borderers OF Missouri to
cross the boundary anG control the eiec-
tions in Kansas. The results Oh his infa-
nous appeals have yeen published far ard
wide. In the following memorial to
Congress fiom the citizens OF Kans2s is a
faithful and correct account OF the Out
ragcs enacted by the armed and lawless
mob tnat ha"1 trarested ali he sounding
declarations of Douejass and his Cocoon
spirat. - cf the sacred rights Of squatter
sovcrcigns' ;:
To II Ssncte and iIouse Of Representatives, in
Congress ass2mbled:
"hG mcmoria' o. the subscribers, Citizens
AID residents of the Territory OF Kansas, res-
r.c,uly re presents
! That Il state of things exists in said
Territory rnparalleled as ve believe, in the
hietory of our country, and which it becomes
our solemn duty to lay before you. md thse'
you before our fellow @-citizeas of the United
States. Under he GUARANTEES cf your law :cr
the organization of Ibis Territory i.nG it coa-
slider ..tioa of the privileges rhch that Law held
out to is we left our fc-mer hor7os, met tire
privatioIs Of an uninhabited country ana
prepared for adlifg another republic tc our
Union.
The right Of oar civil anC religious Liberty
!, the right of Suffrage end selfgoveinlnent
were Get uT rs The beacon lights which beck
nnec rs on. As treemer we were invited ac
! frccmen we amc, and as fieemen we expected
to live. But we adlross you know as IN oct
/ ragged and subjuga,ed people, dls.ral lchised and
enslavod, ~trippcd Of our dearest rights, and
governed by Il set Of masters foreign to our
soil, and responsible on.y to their own lawless
will.
One Of the Stats of our Union, strong in
.fi1,,
he" accumulated strength of almost half cen
tury, and taking advantage of ou~ feeble in
fancy as q people, has invaded our soil, seized
upon our rights, subjugated our territory and
selected for Us our rulers intending also to die
tate cur laws an9 make US the slaves of their
will. This may well seem an almost iucredi-
hlc thing in the Nineteenth Century and in
this Republican Union-thc peculiar and
boasted land of liberty aud selfgovernment-
but the evidence Of it is as palpable and unde-
niable es the fact is bitter and mortifying to
us and dsgraceful to the public.
This invasion Of our soil and usurpation oil
cur rights commenced at the first moment Of
calling those rig hts into action. The first bal
iot-box that was opened upon our virgin soil
was closed to Us by overpoweriug numbers
and impending force. 1t became, not what
mcricans have been proud to designate it
the exponent Of the peoples will, but was con
verted into the sword of the oppressor to strike
, at civil liberty. So bold and reckless were
our invaders that they cared not to conceal
their attack.
They came upon us, not in the guise of voters
f to steal away cur franchise but boldly and
openly to snatch it with the strong hand
They came directly fEom their own homes, and
in compact and organized bands, with arms
in their hands and provisions for the exped
ton, marched to our polls. and when theiI
work was done returned whence they came
1t is unnecessary to enter into the details it is
enough to say that in three districts in which
by the most irrefragible evidence there were
not one hundred and fifty voters, rost of whom
refused to participate in this mockery of the
elective franchise. these invaders poled over
Thousand votes.
Loving our country and its institutions, WI
were willing, if this was to be only solitary
instance, to suffer it in silence rather than tc
proclaim to the world that even in this remote
spot Of our great country, civil liberty was but
name. Bitter and mournful experience has
g taught US, however, that this was no isolated
) act-no temporary ebullition but the com
r mencement of well-matured aud settled plar
G by large portion OF the people of one of the
States Of our Union permanently to enslaye
US and constitute themselves our masters
r On the 30th day OF March last we were
again invited to the ballot-tox, under the law
which We, in common with our feow-citizens
of the States, had through your Body enacted
Our vigiIant and faithful Chief Magistrate he'd
surrounded it with all the guards and precau-
tions with which his authority invested him
and we are prepared to exercise the dearest
and most cherished privileges of American
citizens with full sense of the vital and inter
: esting importance of this peculiar occasion.
The occasion came, and with it came our
invading and selfconstituted masters in thous,
ands, ard with all the paraphenalia of war
r They came, organized in bands, WITH officers
and arms, and tents, and provisions, and NUM-
tions of war, as though they were marching
upon foreign foe ns. cad Of their own un-
offending fellow~citizens. Upon the principal
road leading into our territory and rea-inr