Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-05


enough that the saveholding interest wills it,
frrm which there is no appeal. What right has
Governor Reeder TO rule Missourians in Kansas!
is proclamation and prescribed oath must be
repudiated. 1t is your interest to do so. Mind
that Slavery is established where it is not pro-
hibted."
tiereis what Atkinson said after the invasion:
"Well what next why at the election for
perubers of Legislature to organize the Territory
must be held. What did advise you TO do
then! Why, meet them on their own ground,
and beat them at their own game again; and
cold and Indictment as the weather VAS went
over with company of men, My object in 60
ing was not to woe had no right to vote, I'M
less had DISTINGUISHED myself in Missouri. /
was not within two miles of voting place. MY
object IN going was not to vote, but to settle
difficulty between two of our candidates and the
Abolltionlsts ct the North said, and published
it abroad, that Atkinson ,vaS there Dnh bo,rie-
Knife and reuoiUer, and By God 'ticas true. L
neUer did go into that Territory-I nerer intend
10 go into that. Territory -icithom beng pre-
pared for all such kind Of cattle Well, we heat
them, and Governor Reeder gave certificates to
majority of all the members of both houses, and
then after they were organised, as everybody
will admit, they were the only competent per-
sons to say who were and who were not, MEM
beers OF the same"
1t is confirmed by the contcmporaneous I'D
mission of the Sguatter Sovereign, II paper pub
lished at Atchison, and at once the organ OF the
President and of these Borderers, which, under
date of April lst thus recounts the victory
. INDEPENDENCE, Miss. March 81, '55.
Several hundred emigrants from Kansas
have just entered our city. They were proceed
ed by the Westport and Independence brass
bands They came in at the west side of the
public square, and proceeded entirely around it,
the bands cheering us with fine music, and the
emigrants with good news. Immediately fol-
lowing tho bands were about two hundred horse
men in regular order; following these were
one hundred and fifty wagons, carriages, &c.-
They gave repeated cheers for Kansas and Mis-
souri, They report that not an Anti Slavery
man will be in the Legislature OF Kansas. We
haze made a clean Sueep,"
5. Iii also confirmed by the contemporaries
GUS testimony of another paper, always faithful
10 Slavery, the New York Herald, in the letter
OF correspondent from Brunswick, in Missou
ri, under date of April Goth. 1855.
From five to seven thousand men started
rom Missouri to attend the election, some to
remove, but the most to -oturn to their families,
with an intention, if they liked the Territory,
70 make it their permanent abode ut the earliest
moment practicable. But they intended to vote,
The Mlssourians were, many Of them, Douglas
men. There were one hundred and fifty voters
rom this county, one hundred and seventy-fye
rom Howard, one hundred from Cooper. In
Iced, every county could furnish its quota; and
when they set out it looked like an army"
> "They were armed" "And,
is there were no houses in the Territory, they
carried tents. Their mission was pcaceable
0ne-to vote, and to drive down stakes for their
future homes. After the election some one
thousand five hundred of the voters sent com
mittee to Mr.. Reeder, to ascertain if it was his
purpose to ratify the election. He answered
hat it was and said the majority at an election
must carry the day. Bot it is not to be denied
hat the one thousand five hundred, apprehend-
ing that the Governor might attempt to play
tyrant-since his conduct had already been i'll
,'Idlous and nnlust-wore on their hats punches
9f hemp. They were resolved if u tyrant at
tempted to trample upon the rights Of the SOW
oreign people, to hang him"
q. Its again confirmed by the testimony Of u
lady, who for five years has lived in Western
Missouri, and thus writes in letter published
in the New Haven Register;
MIAMI, SALINE Co., Nov. &c, 1855.
you ask me 70 tell you somefhlng ahout
D'ic Nailsas "no slissourl troubles vi co our
you N''ow ~ VIVA. 'ney t,'sVe o''S'h"'1"' Im'e
10 10 asy'nS '"0. :, 1"e .ufs'our'ans ne'' "'t'
do ''t IT, ,u' th4 th o e,momS Po'I ;"u
eoH i NV" t"qs ."0t, "','suis' w. ~ r ,",
"Go eAoep' up. npo" en' pin';e VI e SUI 1,eSei
ratvm ""O 'IA'' "" N"0"' 10 '"0 n'S' ~" u
-"'G And - 10 oone.no1 .t;,, c,rtbo, ~, tno
r;no,1n g. +i" 10 e.. w. '.I' Wv
j.; Hi;ssoOn; atpJ % 't os., r Nn.al
1o5e IN ,rh;oh 49, ofr or ~"
n,orl,, nn,,co,ood VI '"' '"'
pba Western conot;,s If ,J;s.o,r; l,,,o far
+hn la +,rn rn,ra hao,, Ll,,,;I,, toaa I,tl ~,
,nonav and tins in G,rb,;nn tIo hat,los W ,hn
Sontb ToCami,e raTnln oJono Gns r,neoJaJ
snoro ,bon @ioo oco IN .,,.rn,, naJ ,s ,,,,.r5
~, ,,oro in ;;non r., to tl;s t;' tLa ,n..l,,.
co,nt;oo nf M;sso,,r; ,,'holl "1
e1 tha r;gbts and ;ntorcs,sarf tha c Sn,th IN tI.
strnoo)n un,s.;stod and not mns,,ooosst,,llr -
gSluso' I .hs':.: anu ny unsuccess,uiiy
Tho Konsas ;csno md hos;tat;o', nv ~ o, tY
fa;r or FAM ,nor;,r booron ~ o,rtl - m,,dar
+hot h0,nt;f,l Tarr;,onr E"na c,a,a
'iS' G ma'. ~, Ao':l'oiy fte' '95o'e
~ tisio' .iso, 10 oonlic'o "o"''sS'pn VI '"e
oSurpation' oy the MfeWgeAcer, u leading pa
per Vi d. ho"'s' M'ssouf' mace IN the ensuing
summer -.
AsGn'Soh anu o'flng'eiiow' with their MIS-
souri, lollowers' oyerwheimca the settlers IN nan
sas, pro"oeas ana ouli'ed them; ana TOOK the
Government from their hands. Missouri votes
elected the present body OF men who insult pub,
nc intelligence anu popular rights by styling
themselves the Legislature OF Kansas. Ihis
body OF men are helping themselves to fat spec
ulatlons by locating the seat Of Government
and getting town lots for their votes. They are
passing laws distranchlSlng all the citizens Of
Kansas who 10 not believe Negro Slavery to be
Christian institution and II national blessing
They are proposing to punish with imprison
ment the utteranoe of views inconsistent witt
Their own. And they are trying to perpetnatt