Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-16
THE CHIEF OF BORDER RUrF1ANs.

Atchison and StringfellOw to lie idership arc thrown
in the shade by the murderous course Of this un.
principled man, who now has the power Of the
nation at his disposal. In addition to his late
border rufhan Message tho Telegraph informs us
he has issuel u proclamation, "sctting forth that
indications exist that public tranquility and the
supremacy Of the law in Kansas is endangered by
the reprehensible acts and purposes Of persons both
within and without the territory, who purpose to
direct and control its political organization by
force. That combinations have been formed there.
in to resist the execution Of territorial laws, and
thus in effect to subvert by violence all the present
constitutional and legal authority. That persons
residing within the territory, but near its borders,
contemplate armed Intervention in the affairs
thereof. That other inhabitants of remote States
are collecting, engaging men and providing arms
for tho same purpose. That combinations exists
within tho territory, by the agency of emisOrios
and other means, 10 induce individual States, Of
the Union to interfere in the affairs thereof, in vio-
lation of the Constitution Of the United States.
Plans for the determination Of the future institu-
tions of the Territory, if carried into execution
from within the same, will constitute the basis of
insurrection, and If from without, that of invasive
aggression, and will in either case justify and re.
quire the fOrciblc interposition Of the whole power
Of the General Government, as we'll to maintain
The la rs thereof, and the Union. lie commands
oil persons engaged in unlawful combinations
against the constituted authority Of the Territory
OF Kansas, TO dispense and retire peoceoble to their
respective abodes, and warns all such persons that
any kteea ptod iusurrection in the Territory, or ag-
gressive iAtrpsicn into the same, will bo resisted
not only by tie employment Of the local militia, bnt
also by that of any available force of the US. troops
to the end OF a~ffording immunity from violence and
full protection to persons and property, and the
civil rights of all peaceable, law abiding inhabi-
tants Of the Territory.
IF in any part Of the Union the fury or faction
of fanaticism, in1aned into a disregard Of the gen
eral principles of popular sovereignty, which under
the Constitution are funda mental in the whole
structure of our institutions, is to bring on the
country the dire calamity of arbitrauent Of arms in
that Territory; it shall be between lawless violence
"on one side, and conservative force on the other,
welded by the legal authorities Of the General
Government,
The President calls on the citizens of both adj
Joining and distant States to abstain from unau-
thorized intcrmeddling with the local concerns of
the Territory, admonishing them that its organic
daw is to DO executed with impartial justice, and
that all individual acts of illegal Interference will
receive condisn punishment, ana any endcavor to
interfere Will be withstood."
.Fhis proclamation though professedly putting
the Missouri invaders and the defenders of their
homes in Kansas on the samo level is in fact aimed
directly at the latter and designed for the benefit,
of the f1rmer. President Pierce intends to make
war nrinripally and asroc;,lly neon .I,o C,oo C,,,ol
organization Of Kansas. That, according to tie
proclamation is ian insuIrection," IAN unlawful
combination""whi;h is to lie Ut down by the whole
force of the Gevernment'-which will be resisted
not only by the employment of the local militia"
(which means the border rufians) but also by any
available force Of the L. :. troops" The Free
State men now compelled to bear their arms by
day and sleep upon them by night--hourly antici-
pating Il new incu rsion Of the savaces who have
~solitcly retired before their valor-these are to be
suppressed. They have associations Of tic most i'm
perative necessity for present personal defence; no
matter, Pierce is going to let slip upon them his
dogs of war and rapine. lie lorbidS all citizens Of
Distant or adjacent States from contributing aid
for the defence of their sons and daughters and
brothers and sisters who have left their society but
a few short months since, to find II W homes in
Kansas. Does President Pierce think that the
people of New England and the West are monsters,
devoid Of natural affection, and human sympathies
that they will thus quietly consign at his bidding
their fellow citizens. their old neighbors and their
kinsmen, to death, by the savage murderers who
are threatening the determination of the settlers
in Kansas? We hope to see the President com
mencc soon his "~condign punish ment' of those
,yho sand niI IN rho ,no,lo nf K,peo. e., .Io;, oy
tremity. Gov. Chase has recommended cvntriLu-
tons for the object in his special message which
we publish this week. lie is for Interference
here though not for interference in the case of
the millions of slaves who are held by State
law. Governor Chase has not only recommend.
cd tae citizens of this State to contribute aid but
has set q good individual example by his own cor.
tribution.
We recommend President Pierce to commence
sneting out his "Condign Punishment" upon Gov.
Chase. We might have some rich times-some
agitation" if he were brought before
some ~. S. Commissioner, or Federal Judge to
answer for the Treason of his special message, or
for the mobocracy of his fifty dollar contribution.
Such q course would most effectually swell the
current of Contributions and we might soon ex-
pect to hear Of the transportation of 'hOlOw acare."
We should not wonder if it should do even more,
and stir up the spirit of volunteering, of which as
yet, we do not SEQ much, and set men en- route for
Kansas.
What is to be done for Kansas? Her case looks {
desperate. What is before her but submission to
the slave power or resistance to the Government t
Revolution. The Government is the organ of that {
power, il commands submission. To please that !
power, Free State men are to be suppressed-to
become exiles and outlaws in their native land, !
even as the slaves have been and are. But what
ever may be her fate, we hope her outraged people ;
the people of the whole nation will learn that I
their hope for themselves ana their duty to the '