Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-08-22

was a Free State man. On his answer
! ing that he was he was shot dead on thu
spot.
Some desperadoes on the border have
been known to boast of murders of which
we have no knowledge in any other way
| Whether these boasts were mere lies, o.
whether their victims really lie in som,
obscure ravine prey to wolves and buz
yards, can only be conjectured. Tht
boast is at least illustrative of borael
morals.
&. The full details of all these outrage.
would fill volumes, and large portion
of them have been already published il
the Northern and Eastern journals
These papers are extensively read, here,
and II is matter Of common remark that
the reports of occurrences in this Terri
tory-though some times inaccurate -
arc seldom exaggerated. The reports
which we have seen of the more impor-
tant events as the sacking of Lawrence
&c., have been neither inaccurate nol
exaggerated.
The conflict here is not between ad-
verse parties within the Territory, for
the Pro-Slavery residents are tootew to
engage in such conflict and many of
them arc pcaccable men, willing to abide
the dicision of the majority. Our en-
emies are without. Their attaks upon
us have been undisguised invasions.-
The piracies lately committed at Lexing-
fan vi ,,tho, h,,,,,,., II.
sufficient clearness wkere our enemies
are. They also show what they intend
which indeed they openly avow-viz to
torcibly prevent any more Free State
emlgi iants from entering the Territory,
and to drive out or extermlnate those
who are here.
What shall be the end of thts things:
1t seems to us not very difficult to pre-
dict. If fanothsr Pro- -Slarery President
be elected, onr enemies w'U either accomp-
Hh Meif purpose of expetliag or ertcr-
miaating as, or eonrutse the Nation Nth
Civil War in the attempi to do it, If
the North does her duty Kansas will be
saved and the Nation saved with her.
We shall read our doom or dcliverance
in the result of the presidential election.
Pierce had no personal reason for op-
pressing US. H. has only served the pow
er which gave him his seat, and Buchan-
an, if elected, will do the same-with
more dcccncy, and fewer blunders. but
not less effectually. live had no other
criterion, the knowledge that our enemies
tru.t him, woald be sufficient. The hope
OF Kansas lies in the success of Fremont
and the Republicans. We appeal to the
voters Of the Free States to forget par
ty att chmcnts and animositics for the
time and unite as one man, for the de-
fence Of our rights and their own. If
but one or two large Northern States
sas is lost.
We appeal to the tens # thousands OF
candid men who acquisccd in the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, believing
that the Administration and the South
were sincere in proposing to leave the
slavery question to the free action Of the
people of the Territory. You can no
longer doubt that you have been betray
ed. We appeal to you as you
love fair play and detest oppression
to unite in the only course which can
save us from ruin and the Nation from
disaster and disgrace.
We cannot close without referring to
an inquiry which for months past has
REQUIRED continually to every thinking
mind in Kansas. That inquiry is, ''N hat
can Slave Power mean % We are amaz-
ed and confounded by its audacity. We
have said of this and of that step" They
will not dare to do it Yet they have
done these very things, one after
another, until the enquiry has become
- What will they not dare do - Their
seeming utter recklessness of the effect
which their doings must have on the
presidential election, has continually
forced on our minds the suspicion of
some deep laid treason by which they
mean to hold on to power, even though
the election go against them. This ap-
prehension may be unfounded, but we
have well learned this truth, that THE
SLAVE POWER sCRUPLES AT NOTHING.
Topeka, July 4th, 1856.
A GRATIFYING REPORT CONTRADICT
ED.-There is no truth in the report that
the Kansas Judiciary officials have been
dismissed, or even requested to resign ;
nor is there any foundation for the state
ment that the treason prosecutions in
Kansas are to be quashed. Geary &C.
ceptcd the governorship without condi-
tlOns.
- The Monroe Mich. Commercial
one of the eldest Democratic papers in
the State, this week hauls down the
names ofthe Cincinnati candidates, ant
runs up Fremont an d Dayton.
- a vote taken at the New York
State Teachers Association, (including
teachers from all parts ofthe State re.
Gently in session at Troy, resulted as fol
lows: Fremont, 127 Fillmore, 16 ;
Buchanan, IA; undecided, "a.