Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-27

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help hang every one Of them on The first
tree"
The frsi Eastern emiCrsnts y ould have
met oesth on their FIRST entrance into Kan
sss If this Lynch Association had not been
opposed at home.
August 9Th, 1854. they resolved "to hold
ell who are not for Us to be against u."-
"to trade only with our friends '-.thst mer-
chan should tuy goods only in Slave
Siates,"&
B.! They sent a commiitee 10 each ol the
merchants TO ge; them to sign an agree
ment in accordance with the resolutions
I The tyranny wss coming too close. A sud-
Gen uprising of the outraged community
ioUk piece. Public hand-bils called the
people together on the 1t OF September
1854, They passed resolutions which were
signed by one hundred aud seveDty-four
citizens Of Weston, stating that their rights
had been infringed and threatened 3y mot
yiolence-ihat they love the South much
but the Union morc--invite their merchants
10 buy where they aud the CONSUMER will
DC mos. 5enebted--!Ldi they understand the
Douglas Bill as giving AL citizens OF the
+; Union equal right. il, Kans.s-that they be
lie, c in The dignity Of iaoor, &c.
This checaed ;he Lyachers. Thrice they
ordered the free blacks 10 leave the country;
and when al the third command armed ont
laws were coming to drive them out, the
citizens armed themselves with loaded rife.
to meet them, and they iorebo:e 10 enter
the town.
i The Association then forsouk Weston
and for seven months did not hold q public
meeting there. The citizens Of Parkvilic
twenty. three miles South Of Weston, op,
posed their meeting in that town. 1t then
Withdrew 10 the little interior towns Of the
/! county to hold its meetings.
! I3le in the scagon the Northern em;grants
began 10 enter tie Territory, but TIE Assu-
! ciation was so troubled with difficulties that
! it could not, as i: had INTENDED, drive out
| std murder those first Northern settlers
The Platte County Association had been
an open one, bul Stringfellow and Aich son
despairing OF accomplishing It's objscts kept
it alive for future service. Meanwhile, they
organized The "Blue Lodge Of Missouri and
kansas," which hdd its officers, and every
msn who entered it was made to swear thut
be would 60, any time. any where, and do
anything, that might 9 commanded by the
Captain OF his company. The Blue Lodge
was but poorly organized when It was ne.
cessury to begin operations; bat even then,
it extended Amos: one hundred miles from
! West,n.
PetwecH zoo end 500 men fr m Missouri
came o-sr into X nsas before aue election
had ever been held ,here, and nominated
resident o: Missouri, Whitfield as candi-
date for Congress from Karsas. Two weeks
| 10 elect this NissouriaE and he was sent to
Congress TO misrepresent Kansas.
When Gov. R"eder had the census taken
| Missouri almost en- nlaSse wished to be en-
| roiiet, but the Ct nsus takers would enroll
only actual settlers. At length the election
Of Legislature was ordered. Al Platte
City, Atchisons home, On the 5th Of March,
| 1855. Pro-Slavery mass meeting was held; !;
1t which Atchison declared, ave must and
,ce tcM make Kansas a Slare S!ate-peace-
! ably if ne can, forcibly and at the point Of
| the Ld 9onst if we must"
The Rev. Learder Kerr, United States
Chaplain 20 the Army at For! Leavenworth,
an United States officer, paid with money.
| three.:ourths of which comes from the
North, previous to an election IN Kansas,
passes rom Kansas over inro Missouri to
stimulate Missouri mob to come in Kan
sas and violate TIE rights of American citi
zens. and 10 slaughter innocent persons,
against whom, by his lbels and falsehoodS:
he had stirred up the vengeance and brutal
ity OF ign GRANT Scu,herners- But hear this
Re7'd Government Chaplain urge to assas-
sination: Talk not of honorable and law
ful means save the law OF sci preservation
"Honorable warfare is for honorable heroes,
not for robbers and banditti; and such these
Abo!itionI>ts are" Thus urged, no wonder
that assassinations, rapes, plunderings,
burnings, sca'pirgs, robbcries fulowod, al
most in the presence Of the United States
troops, whose Chaplain could thus speak.
Seventy-tour a, tual settlers signed ca Il
for meeting on the 2Ist March, '55, four
miles West of Fort Leavenworth, TO nom-
nate candidates for Council and Hou1e Of
Representatives of Kansas.
The Platte Argus copies it. and adds the
following notice: "Peope of Missouri! read
and act! You see the proclamation signed
By lot Of cold blooded scountrels; meet
them; deal with them as traitors and scoun.
dreIs should be dealt with
Now what had the people Of Missouri to
do with this public meeting in KansaS!--I
What action had they to take in it! What
business had Missouri to regard it! But
such were the means Of electing the Bogus
Legislature.
A week before tho election Of 3Oth March
'55, thousands of copies of legal opinion
By Stringfellow, late Attorney General o
the State Of Missouri, and actual Pre- ident
of tie United States, were issued BY Atch-
iscn's organ, the Argus, in which it is as
serted that The PRESENCE o! a voter is all
the proof OF residence he is required to give. u
The Bogus Legislature vas elected by Mis- |
souri, voters, rs detailed in the Congrcssion-
a: Ccmmi'ice's Report.
Strngiellow and his Blue Lodge were
victorious. He next turned his attention o |
the destruciiJn OF the Benton press al Park |
vile, in Missouri. 1t was destroyed. Park !
and Patterson were ordered 10 leave the /
country, and were forbidden 10 GO into
Kansas on pain of death. The Methodist
Church, North was forbidden in that county |
to preach the gospel. The first offence tar
and fathers; the second, death.
Thus It's plain that the South meant TO
break the Compromise when she made it;
that in 1886 she did violate it by attaching
said six counties to Missouri; that the adop-
tion of of"squatter sovereignty was to se;z-
all Territories by pratical violence for the
Use OF Slavery, and that he cmigrants are
not 10 blame for what has transpired. They
were only the occasion not the cause. Had
no 'reemen gone to Kansas, ;hen no tree