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/ ora, they ragged, particularly against the town,
OF Lawrence, already known, BY the firmnesa
OF its principles and the charanter of its rit;.
zens, as the citadel of the good cause. On
thls account they threatened, in their peculiar
| language to twipe it out" Soon the hos
| tile power was gathered for this purpose. The
wickedness Of this invasion was enhanced by.
the way in which it began. A citizen Of
hanzas, by the name of Dow, was murdered
oy one OF the partizans Of Slavery, under the
name OF I" law and order" Such an ontraoa
naturally aroused indignation and provoked
threats. The professors of claw and order -
allowed the murderer to escape; and st. II fur
| ther to illustrate the irony of the name thew
assumed, seized the friend of the murdered
man, whose lew neighbors soon rallied for his
rescue. -
This transaction though totally disregarded
| IN Its chief front of wickedness becaTna the
| excuse for Unprecedented excitement The
weak Governor, with no faculty higher than
servllity to Slavery-whom the President in
his official delinquency, had appointed to
trust, worthy only of well balanced charac-
ter-was frightened from his propriety. Bv
proclamation he invoked the Territory By
telegraph he invoked the President The
Territory would not respond to his senseless
appeal. The President was dumb; bur The
proclamation was circulated throughout the
border counties of Missouri; and Platte. CLAW.
carlisle. Sabine, Howard and Jefferson, each
OF them, contributed a volunteer company.
recruited from the road sides, and armed with
weapons which chance atTorded-known as
the "shot gun militia with Missouri Of
hcer as commissary general, dispensing ra.
tons. and another Missouri officer as general
Ia chief with two wagon loads of rifles, be-
longing to Missouri, drawn by six mules from
It's arsenal at Jefferson City; with seven
pieces OF cannon belonging to the United
States, from its arsenal at Liberty; and this
formidable force, amounting to at least 1900
men, terrible with threats, with oaths and
with whisky, crossed the borders, and en-
camped IN larger part at Waukarusa, over
against the doomed town of Lawrence which
was now threatened with destruction,
With these invaders was the Governor, who
by this act levied war upon the people he was
sent to protect. In camp with him was the
original Cataline of the conspiracy, while bv
his side was the docile Chief Justice and the
dociIe Judges. But this is not the first in
stance In which an unjust Governor has
found tools where he ought to have found
justice. In the great impeachment of War
rem Hastings, the British orator, by whom it
was conducted, exclaims, in words strictly
applicable to the misdeed I now arraign.
"Had he not the Chief Justice, the tanned
and domesticated Chief Justice, who waited
on him like familiar spirit?' Thus was
this INVASION countenanced by those who
should have stood in the breach against it.
For more than week it continued, while
deadly conflict seemed imminent, l do not
dwell on the heroism by W hich it was encoun-
tered, or the mean retreat to which it was
compelled; for that is not necessary to ex-
hibit the crime which you are to Judge. But
cannot forbear to add other additional fea-
lures, furnished i'll the letter of clergyman,
written at the time, who saw and was part
what he describes:
Sour citizens have shot at and in tvo instances
auidered houses invaded hay-cxs burnt corn and
Their provisions plundered. catte driven Of ali comu.
icaton cut off between the States wagons on the
ray TO US with provs stopped pudered and The
rivers taken prisoners and we in hourly expecati Of
attack Nearly every has been an arms in 1he
eHdge Fortihcations have been thrown up, BY inces
ant labor night and day. Toe sound of the UNI and
he tramp Of armed resopnded through our Streets
antilles fleeing NTH their household goods for safety.
Day before yesterday the report of
ur house. from the direction of Lecompton. Last Thurs
ay one OF our neghborsone of the peaceable and
xcellent Of men-rom Ohio on his way home set
.pon by gang OF twelve horseback, and shot
town. Over ght hundred are gathered under arms
Lawrence As yet act of violence has been perpe-
rated by those side. No blood of retaliation
tdias our hands Ne stand and ready to act pure
yIH the defence Of our homes and Tues"
But the catalogue is not yet complete. On
he 10th OF December, when the people as
embed to vote on the Constitution then sub
nitted for adoption-only few days after the
treaty of peace between the Governor on one
ide and the town of Lawrence on the other
another irruption was made into This I'M
happy Territory. But leave all this untold.
Enough of these details has been given.
Five several times and more have these in
'aders entered Kanzas in armed array, and
hus live times and more have they trampled
Ipon the organic law of the Territory. But
hese extraordinary expeditions are simply the
extraordinary witnesses to successive uninter-
'upted violeuce. They stand out conspicu-
ous, but not alone. The spirit of evil, in which
shey had their origin was wakeful and inces-
'ant. From the beginning, it hung upon the
ikirts OF this interesting Terr tory, narrowing
is peace, disturbing its prosperity, and keep
ing its inhabitants under the painful alarms
Of war. Thus was all security of person, Of
property, and of labor, overtime wn; and when
urge this inconrovertible fact, l set forth
wrong which is small only by the side of the
giant wrong for the contamination of which
all this was done.
Sir, what is man-what is government
without security; in the absence of which
nor man, nor government can proceed in de-
velopment or enjoy the fruits OF existence -
Without security, civilization is eramped and
dwarfed. Without security, there can be no
true freedom. Nor shall say too much, when
l declare that security, guarded Of course by
its offspring, Freedom, is the true end and
aim of government. OF this indispensable
boon the people of Kanzas have thus far been
despoiled totally, absolutely. All this is ag-
grayated by the nature of their pursuits, rem
dering them peculiarly sensitive to interrupt
ton, and at the same time attesting their
innocence. They are for the most part en-
gagged in the cultivation of the soil, which
from time immemorial has been the sweet en-
poYment of undisturt ed industry. Contented
in the returns of bounteous nature and the
shade OF his own trees, the husbandman is not
aggressive; accustomed to produce, aud not
to destroy, he is essentially peaceful, unless
his home is invaded, when his arm derives
vgor from the soil he treads, and his soul
Inspiration from the heavens beneath whose
canopy he daily walks.
And such are the people of Kanzas. whose
security has been overthrown. Scenes from
which civil cation averts her countenance
have been part of their daily life. The bor-
der ineursions, which, in barbarous ages or
barbarous lands, have fretted and "harried'
all exposed people, have been here renewed,
with this popularity, that our border robbers
do not simply levy black mail aud drive OF
few cattle, like those who acted under the
inspiration of the Douglas Of other days. that
tbey do not seize few persons, and sweep
them away into captivity, Ike the African
slave traders whom we brand as pirates; but
that they commit q succession OF acts in
which all border sorrows and all African
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