The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-24
KANSAS.
NULLIFICATION-CIvIL WAR.
"CHICAGo, Mdy Is, Is:

NULMFIcATIoN-cIvnw WAR.
"CHIcAGo, May Is, 1855.
| Mr.. George Park, late of the PdrkUiAe La.
minary, publishes a long letter in the ST.
Louis Democrat, in which he says that String
| fellow and Atchison have organized a secret
| Association, which are sworn to turn out and
| fight when called upon to do so, and which is to
be governed by the following rules. All belong
ing to it are to share in the damages accruing
to any member when prescribed, even at the
| price of disunon. All are to act secretly to
destroy the business and character of Northern
men; and all dissenting from their doctrines
are to be expelled from the Territory. Western
Missouri is to be held in constant terror. All
| the Wing and Benton presses are to be destroy
ed. The destruction of the Hotel in Kansas
City, with the presses at Lawrence, are decreed,
and cannon is to be taken there to demolish
them. The onslaught is not to stop until every
Free-Soiler is driven out of Missouri and Kan
sas. Park says he telegraphed to Governor
Price and President Pierce for protection, but
no answers were returned. By the threats
previously made he traces the destruction of
| the Luminary establishment to Atchison. Mr..
Park promises further developments at an early
day."
The foregoing telegraphic despatch appears
in the New York Tribune.
We have already published the resolutions of
Weston meeting, announcing a plan for eject
| ing all persons tainted with Free-Soilism, not
| only from Kansas, but Missouri. A meeting
of certain persons in Clay county was held
subsequently, to endorse those proceedings, and
the destruction of the ParkciUe Luminary.
Delegates were appointed to meet the conspir-
ators in Platte county, in joint convention,
May 9Th. A resolution was passed, calling
upon all s.,bscribers to Free Soil papers, that
is, suppo.tcrs of Mr.. Benton, and reprovers of
the mob against the Luminary, to stop their
subscriptions forthwith. A committee of five
from each township was also appointed, to
wait upon oil persons Sin the least suspected
of Free-Soism or Abolitionism, and notify
them to leave instantly"
The resolve of the conspirators to destroy
what are called Free Soil presses, embraces,
we learn from the Jefferson No. Inquirer,
itself, the Occidental Messenger, st. Louis In.
| teltigencer, ST. Lonis Democrat, 81. Louis
| Erening Necs, Missouri Statesman. Paris
Mercury, Democratic Lancet, Cape Grardin
Erpositor, and some others.
The Squatter Sovereign, (Atchison's organ,)
says:
Now that the work has been commenced
let the reform be carried further. All eyes are
now turned to Jefferson City and ST. Louis {;
after which, work will be found in the vicinity
of Lawrence, Kansas Territory. We may talk
about using moderate means to accomplish our
ends. To us, such talk sounds harsh.'
Whereupon the Inquirer remarks:
awe would inform the Nulfers of the
Sqnatter Sovereign, that it would be- in the
end perhaps quite as advisable for the NulliGers
Of Kansas Territory and Upper Missouri to let
other peoples property alone, or they may have
to listen to harsher sounds than talk. Com
ment on such braggadocio is useless. We have
a penitentary where incendiaries and law
breakers are taken care of. Do some of the
FSquatter Sovereigns want to go there?"
The Missouri Democrat says of the Nullifers
owe think it highly probable that if they
should succeed in driving out every man who
disapproves of the acts of these ruffians, that
the State would be depopulated. 1t is more
likely, however, that they will find themselves
made acquainted with the waters of the Missis.
sppi or the prisons of the State, than that they
will be able to accomplish their threats. The
editor of the Platte Argus, the valiant trumpeter
of this regiment of rufians, ought by all means
to be sent in command of the party which is to
come to st. Louis to destroy the Democrat and
InteUigencer. We predict that he would be a
wiser If not better man, before his return to
Platte"
1t would seem that the Nulliiers are gen.
orally Know Nothings:
"The Notification newspapers in this State"
says the Democrat, care nearly all Know Moth.
ing papers, but they carry their principles
somewhat farther than the rest of the Know
Nothing organs. The latter are content to
denounce foreigners and Catholics, and oppose
their coming to this country; but the Nulli6ca-
ton Know Nothings have also placed the ban
upon the Yankees, and speak of them in the
same manner as their fellows are in the habit
of speaking of the Germans and Irish"
The secret organization Mr.. Atchison is re.
ported to lead, is probably branch of the
Know Nothings: their Order affords peculiar
facilities for such operations as he meditates.
We presume there is no longer doubt as
to the criminal part enacted by that Senator in
these transactions. A well-informed cores
pendent in Kansas vouches for the following
item: Mr.. Atchison " was asked by Pro-Sla-
very man, how it happened that the tenth dis
trict in Kansas, which elected Free Soil men,
had not been supplied with voters from Mis-
sour? BE replied that it was an oversight;
but he would be Id il he did not attend
to it next time"
The Herald Of Freedom says, that t" at one
time emigrants we're disposed to make Park.
vile their point for disembarking from the
Missouri river prior to entering the Territory"
but now they will avoid it "as pestilence."
Kansas City, 1T says, is the most important town
in western Missouri. "The great emigration
from the East to the States that are to be along
the plains and eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains, viii leave the Missouri at this
point; and after preparing outfits for travel