The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-01
Selections.
Origin of the Conspiracy.

Origin Of the Conspiracy.
The plot BY which Kansas was to be
made Slave State, by violence and
fraud if necessary, originated. we re.
peat. in the wicked head of ID. r. Arch
iIsoN, at time mhe,a he sxgposed that tie
repeal OF TIE Mssouri Compromise pas
Impossible. Its first Development which
was made public, we find in the Platte
dryus. Western Missouri paper. In
the fall of 1858. a public meeting was
held in Platte county. II, which Mr..
ATcHIsoS was the presiding spirit. 1t
was called for the purpose of taking
into consideration the affairs of Kan
sas, then not named, and almost year
before the passage of the Nebraska
bill, when the population was made
up only of Indians and Indian traders.
Mr. dfchison addressed Tie meeting. and
probably grote tie resolutions. The first
of these expressed an opinion adverse
to the propriety of opening the Terri
tory to settlement, The second de-
elared that if it were opened, the Mis-
souri, Compromise should be repealed.
The language of another we give:
sResoiued, That if the Territory shall
be opened to settlement, we pledge
ourselves to each other TO ertead He an
situations Of Missouri orer the Territory,
at aehoteper sacrifice Of blood or treasure.
This. be it remembered, scas long be-
fore tie project Of rspeoliag tie COM
promise 'eos agitated, and while Mr.:
DOUGLAS yet believed that the Com
promise was sacred thing which nc
ruthless hand would disturb At
this same meeting plot was elabora-
ted, by which Kansas. if opened, sros
to be conquered TO iSiaresy IN any erenf,
and Il as remarkable that tie plan Is al
most identical NTH hot rlsich the RuJfans
haze carried out. The nature of it was
this: "If the Compromise were not
repealed. and the Territory were OPEN
ed to settlement under it, State Gov
ernment was to be early organized, az
were the Governments, respectively
of Arkansas, Michigan and Tennessee,
and the Missourians were at ''whatever
sacrifice of blood aud treasure" to con-
Itrol, as they have since done, the Con-
vention and the Legislature. The
lproceedigs of this meeting at that time
attracted little attention: and but from
the significance given them by subse-
lquent events, they would have been
forgotten.
| After this demonstration, we lost
sight of the intention to introduce
Slavery into Kansas, but the probable
iities are that this meeting was the ORR
gin of the Blue Lodges in Missouri and
the South, about which we have since
heard so much. Mr.. ATcHIsoN went
to the South, and when Mr.. DouGLAs
brought forward his measure for or
ganizing the Territory, without a
clause repeating the Compromise, he
compelled The Illinois Senator to come 10
has terms. We hear no more of him,
his office-President of the Senate, and
er-o6fcio Viee-President of the United
States-holding him in cheek.
We next find the Blue Lodge organ
lied and in full blast. Before the
passage of the Douglas bill, which
became a law June 80, 1864; before
the organization Of the Emigrant Aid
Society, which held its first meeting
July 30, 1854, Mr.. JoRDoS DAsIsoS. q
Missourian and Border Rufiian, swore
before the Kansas Congressional Com
mittee that he eos In Blae Lodge az
Pleasant HsR. Missouri. ia Februorv
1894, and that Tie object Of the Society
aeas 10 make Raasose Stare STATE.
Next We have the resolutions of \
public meeting held at ParkviIfe, Mo-,
published in the Parkville Lnninarg.
June 10, 1854, before the Kansas bill
passed-before the Emigrant Aid so-
ciety was organized-at which the fol-
lowing resolutions were passed:
8 ResolUed, That we recognize the
institution of Slavery as already eristiny
in the Territory, and recommend to
Shareholders to introduce their prop
erty as fast as possible.
8 ResoIped, That we afford protee-
tion to no Abolitionists as settlers in
Kansas Territory.
On the same day the resolutions
were passed by meeting on Salt
Creek, K. T.; and, on the 9Th of July
before the Aid Society organizd.i ]
they were reafirrnd by a squatter
meeting at Roekbridge, X. T. On the
18th of june; (more than month be-
fore man had come from Massaehu-
sets these same resolutions were
passed by meeting at Whitehead.
Are not these facts conclusive?
Could clearer case be made out?-
CHICAGO Tribune.