The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-04-28

Gen. Stringfellow addressed the invaders
in Missouri, on the eve Of the election of
March 80, 1855, thus
ssTo those who have qualms OF conscience
as to violating laws, State or National the
time has come when such impositions must
be disregarded, as your rights and property
are ia danger and advise you, one ana ali,
TO enter every election district in Kansas, in
defiance of Reeder and his vile myrmilons,
and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and
revolver. Neither give nor take quarter, rs
our case demands it, 1t is enough that slave
holding interests wills it, from which there is
no appeal. What right has Governor Reed
er to rifle Missourians in Kansas His
proclamation and prescribed oath must be
repudiated. 1t is your interest to do so.-
Mind that Slavery is established where ii is
not prohibited"
The Kansas Herald, an organ of both the
Administration and the Pro Slavery party,
announced the result Of the Legislative elec.
| ton in the Territory Immediately afterwards,
rs follows:
yesterday was proud and glorious dav
for the friends Of Southern Rights The
triumph Of the Pro Slavery party is com
plete and overwhelm ing. Come on, South.
ern men, Bring on your slaves, and FIJI up
the Territory Kansas is saved -
The Sqndtter Sovereign, published in Mis-
souri,, thus announced the result Of the elec.
ton, the day after it closed
''lSDEPESDENCE, March 81, 1855.
"Several hundred emigrants from Kansas
have just entered our city. They were pre-
ceded 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 emgrants with good news
Immediately following the bands were about
200 horsemen, in regular order; following
these were $50 wagons, carriages, &c. They
gave repeated cheers for Kansas aud Nilsson
ri. They report that not an ti-Sayerv
man will be in the Legislature Of Kansas -
We have made clean sweep"
y letter written at Brunswick in Mlssou-
ri, dated April Goth, 1855, and published in
the New York Herald, Pro Slavery Jour
nal, says
ssFrom five to seven thousand men started
from Missouri TO attend the election some
to remove, but the most to return to their
families, with the intention, if they like the
Territory, to make it their permanent abode
ut the earliest moment practicable But
they intend to vote. The Missourians were
many of them, Douglass men. There were
$50 voters from this county, LIS from How
~ids wv Afpul toOpcTs iHueeu every county
furnished its quota; and when they act out
il looked like an army. They
were armed. And, as there
were no houses in the Territory, they carried
tents. There mission was peaceable one
to vote, and to drive down stakes for their
future homes. After the election, some
| ,ooD OF the voters sent n committee to Mr..
! Reeder, to ascertain if it was his intention to
ratfy the election. He answered that It was.
and said that the ma ority at an election must
carry the day. But il is not to be denied that
the 800, experimenting that the Governor
might attempt to play the tyrant-since his
conduct had already been insidious aud I'M
/ just-wore on their hats punches of hemp.
| They were resolved If a tyrant attempted to
trample upon the rights of the sovereign PEG
! pie, TO hang him."
On the 18th Of May, 1855, the Squatter
! Sovereign, an organ of the invasion of Mis-
souri, thus gives utterance to its spirit
"from reports now received Of Reeder, he
never intends returning to our borders
Should he do so, we, without hesitation. saw
that our people ought to hang him bv the
neck, like traitorous dog AS he is, so soon
as he puts his unhallowed foot upon our
shores.
.bndlcate your characters and tho Terri
tory and should the ungrateful dog dare to
come among us again, hang him to the FIRST
rotten tree.
"A military force to protect the ballot boxi
Let President Pierce or Coy. Reeder, or any
other power, attempt such course in this.
or any part of the Union, and that dav will
never be forgotten
i COY. keeder, at Easton, in Pennsylvania,
on his first return to that place after tile
elections, declared the same result in frank
ana caudid words, which cost him his Office,
namely:
sit was indeed too true that Kansas had
been invaded. conquered, subjugated BY an
armed force from beyond her borders, led on
by fanatcal spirit, trampling under foot
the principles of the Kansas bill and the risht
Of suffrage
The Hon. David K. Atchison, direct and
out-spoken man, who never shrinks from re-
sponNblllty, and who is confessedly eminent
at once as a political leader in Missouri. and
as leader of the Pro-Slavery movement
therein, directed against Kansas, in a speech
reported as having been made to his fellow
cltlzens, and which, SO far as know, has not
been disavowed, said -
II saw II with my own eyes. These men
came with the avowed purpose of driving or
expelllng you from the Territory What did
advise you to do? Why, meet them at
their own game. When the first election
came of, told you to 90 over aud vote
You did so, and beat them. We, our party
IN Kansas, nominated Gen. Whitfield. fhey.
the Abolitionists, nominated Flenniken not
Flanagan, FOR Flanagan was a good, honest
man, but Flenniken Well, the next day
after the election, that same Flenniken, with
500 OF his voters left the Territory, and has
never returned-no, never returned
"Well, what next Why, an election for
members of the 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