Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-09-04
The Emigrant Aid Society of 1855.
NUMBER II.

The Emigrant Aid Society of 1855.
NUMBER II.
To the Editor of the Belmont Cnronicle:
The Slave Power wants more Slave States
for the same reason that it insisted on the
three-ffth principle in 1889, and will have
them by means foul or fair. When it was
found there were more freemen than syce-
plants in Kansas, armed Missourians were
brought over to establish Slavery by force
On pretence of Indian difficulties consid-
cradle number OF United States troops were
stationed in Kansas, apparently 10 aid the
refused to be arrested, it was pretended ex-
ira force was needed to execute the process.
The troops were at hand. but to order them
to burn, pillage and drive ou, innocent Free
Soilers. would make the President infamous
as NERO for causing Rome to be set on FIRE.
So it is contrived that Marshall DONALDSON
call out posse of some eight hundred or
more of true Slavery. loving fanatics, mostly
Missourians and South Carolinians. Public
arms are given to such as need them by the
agents of The United States Government.
and they proceed towards Lawrence, while
the Lawrence people are making no sign of
resistance, but avowing their readiness to
permit the service OF process. The Marshal
enters the town with a few men, arrests
whom he pleases on charge of treason, for
doing what Michigan, Arkansas and Cali !
fornia's Conventions did. The forbearance
and submission of the Lawrence people re-
moved all pretext for attack by the Marshal.
But the printing presses, the Free State
Hotel, &C., had been declared nusances by
jury, acting under the Bogus Legislature
forced upon Kansas by Border-Ruffians, and
the Sheriff appointed by this Legislature, a
resident of Missouri, then takes command of
this posse, armed with Federal weapons,
and under the noses of the Federal troops, |
proceeds to enact what NERO is accused of
enacting against Rome. 1t was expected
the Free Soilers would be driven out This
claw and order" mob, or, in other words,
this indirect Federal force, used as much
violence as was supposed necessary to in
timidate and put to fight all the squatter
soveregns that had no more courage than
their assalants. This large law and order
mob is next heard OF in scattered guerilla
bands, plunderirg and abusing the inhabit-
ants in the country. The people, seeing
that the United States troops would n OF pro-
tect thep, began to assemble and arm them
sc ives; then it is found United States troops
are in the field for the purpose of disarming
the people of Kansas, and advising the Mis-
sourians and South Carolinians to retire,
but permitting them to pillage and burn
Ossawattamie. 1t seems the Federal troops
have acted as a shield for the "law and or
der" mob to keep it from being hurt, while
the object of the Government, that is drive
away all the friends of freedom from the
soil of Kansas.
How wicked is this Emigrant Aid Spciety
to help lreemen to go West, without being
sure they would stop before reaching Kan
!
to think they would have the
power of sel-government, as squatter sov-
ereigns. They have now learned that what
was meant at Washington by squatter
sovereign, was slave TO Slavery. BUCH-
ANAN, in this sense, is squatter sovereign.
Wonderfully soul-6ebasins experiments
have been tried on the human mind; but
hope no considerable portion of any party
will be found liable to the charge of being
the slaves of Slavery. BUCHANAN yields
himself up body and breeches to that cond-
tion, as though the Slave Power had the
art OF charming such as came within its
snake infue nee. And recently poor Mr..
FILLMORE was so overwhelmed with rever-
ence for this Slave Power that he actually
forgot that the candidates for President and
Vice President had four times, at least, been
taken at the same time from the same side
Of Mason & Dixon's line, without end1nger-I
ing the Union.
A charmed person cannot judge of facts.
The mesmerzed takes cold water to be hot,
and stone to be beefsteak, if the mes
merizer ills it.
Are men metamcr rphosed now as they
used to be? once asked child
Yes, my son. when they join party bear
ing good name, though its acts be bad and
brutal. # they do no, use their reason to dis
.ingush the measures from the name, they
may give their vote to sustain robbery and
murder, and thus they become transformed
rom men into wolves, because they act or
help others to act like wolves. F.