The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-09


and hire dsspsradoes emigrate with them in their
hands to Kansas In the progress Of their operations
they improved in the skin and efficiency Of their plans
Defeated in their Vaccinations by constitutional IN
the Territory for the delegate to Congress they ordered
the Topeka convention to be held That done Their
foremost leaders there the notorious Lane and Reede
were pretended 10 be elected under the authority Of
that ouawed body to the Senate Of the United States
That part OF the drama fully played out IL failed
Resder and Lane forthwith detailed for the recruiting
service and entered the crusade TO raise money and
men, They effected both. Lane with the aid of his sub
ordnates conducted the traitors to Kansas bearing
ample supplies of and ammunition That part of the
plot which now after the curtain has been drawn aside
diScoses that there was treason the CAPITOL
aged with great ZEAL boldness, and perseverance, in
the respective branches of Congress, In the House.
the black republicans were absolute. They proclaimed
that the ncpient Topeka insurrecton constituted the
lawful convention of the Territory and that the govern
ment established by the constituted authorities OF the
Union was null and void and not binding upon the
conscences OF such pure patriots In the Senate they
deayored by what pronounced there to be forgery
to force two of their consprators into seats in that body
This attempt also failure But the conspirators who
members of Congress ceased to give to those
instruments of their designs aid and comfort In the
House they voted to of them large sum of money
under the false preence of his having the right to contest
a for which, in truth he had been candidate
In their prohigacy they voted il reward premium
upon nsurrecton
The final development of this part Of the history now
have before in the present. threatening aspect of in
Kansas. .
We tn The Last ointo f In
daring, and complicated plot
When Lane and his confedeates arrived upon the bor
ders of Kansas they remained for length of time if
quiet and ndecve in their purposes The appropriations
for the support of the army had passed The bill
kept suspended. At last it made known that the
black republican party would permit it to become
law without prescribing, by prouso that the army should
be used in Kansas by the President preserve peace
enforce the laws With that provso they passed the bill
and sent it to the Senate There it was stricken out 1t
vbraed for several days between the two houses until The
1871 Of August at IL o'clock, the day fixed for adjourn
ment 1t found in the Senate that longer time might
be advisable in order to try its passage That body passed
joint resolution extending the time 1t sent to the
House; the there actually being taken for its
consideration, and the Speaker adjourned the House.
without day at the fraction of minute by the clock in
that body He would not let the vote be finished regard
less Of the fact of what might most probably be the true
time 1t said that the resolution would have passed
Their party leaders had been able to rule at that time
few of their refractory spirits into the traces. Three
days before that the House had sent the bill with the pro-
to the Senate This the 18th. twas stricken
and the other repeated efforts followed until the 18th
The telegraph had been at work for those would
only take hour to transmit that intelligence TO Lane
They would inform him, too, that they would adjourn
without voting supplies for the army and imus disband
He confident Of the poW and the VH of his party
They had wrought be believed the overthrow of the
army and he had before him unobstructed field for his
contemplated carnage The, official documents have
published show that he and his volunteer desperadoes
put into motion early the l6h Of August The
day after The final intention Of he black republicans
auoped that they you'd stand By the prouiso TO the
last. They first sent out marauding parties for plum
der and assassination They accomplished their pur-
pose. They robbed and murdered tho helpless and
he lsh they preparing 10 attack in full force LecOp
ton. Al this date he did not know of the extra ses-
sion called by the President Still conhding, doubtless
in the of the of the Of has
porkrs in Congress he believed that the Executive had
been stripped of all power suppress the rebellion he
about to perperate
Such is brief history Of The concert between the
sprators Congress and the rebels in Kansas The
has put The purse and the sord into the hands of the other
The has pointed to the victim the other has already
hcd his weapon OF DEATH and stands ready to do deed
of more blood, which, if done will be equally the crime OF
both Comment is useless No tries TO add light to
the MONDAY sun. No doubts what he The
truth is a conviction which is compulsory and
resist It,
We put the question: VIII the American people support
party who have been guilty OF such rank cdtnes2 Dare
they trt them Nth their lre, their liberties and their prop
erty, tie Union, and Ls contribution Of their country