New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-29

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i"ol"h uN - oct De- -rrugl Why, IL -. in
~, Tfc SeYh apd Saerrg did nat VIII.
m'A"".. p,,,id,nt ai6 Vice Pr.iteu of thc Untet
s,,ic. wee the veg 'r'"h Aun '"'p'."'"u :" ~
-, .sot Tie So1h and the present Ad n ais uatioo
y',h,6 1his ooula not le ~iUng! The wiodcdte,s
I'D rin.,rai'y a. l,e (so Franklin III -roe tachs The
,ttui ITO ito wirk,d men WHO would ot say 10
Lci t-up barren New -Eussuo, and let Sogiherncrs
s.itr fionC hItii. kaUsso all by the Aselv,s.
Tel, te0ow-o,tzeut, that II the upri-ag OF good
nlal- Us W's',u Missouri had lot Frustrated for
motils hat Monster Pletc County Associst'cn, tae
welcome Of tie inst eastern emigranis IN OF 1914,
WOrlG have bceb bloOdsted and death. That same
soclery under ITS name aud under oro'her nome
tas been for tho ls-i wear doing lie Intended and
q eris &C work 10 KaIlsBs
But this So'1ety not only tr'ed "Abo1R DRlsS, ana
drore from Missouri, because al their Oplnt"ns;
Do Only Did Il organize with the avowed Obet OF ~
r0dfHP Kansas and es'rOying ffeemeni 1t turtner
all, mJte the Lushess Of the country, aud
La,teh ;be dissolution OF tue Uuni0n.
Read some moe Of t1elr resolutions. Aug. :, 1914:
"Relred l. This time for neutrsls but rs, light to
know WHO for and who again and that We KNOW
Of 10 bnt.i Ie "sy. the rule with bnsseds aud P''e'I
than 10 hold 81. VITO for "a 20 BE- aealnsi Us
q Thai they wto -svehode' have rght to slave
sT, HGsy .@ L.Ls We GEAR e 90 5Ss a. he
let us alone. lOly hey must not come mo Kansas
That ~ feCH mend 20 our mere ha's :" ahe the Pll'
Louisville K-nu'by and bsrnorr Maryland fa5n.h an pie
here can get Their d goods and ""
Orleans Their groceries
4
ions aud co>Dto Of merchants and others win v" pro
pose ST LOUIS snd elsewhere On the slavery que''
ton. fully cary the foregoing resooiions
They sent committee 10 each Of our merchants to
requnt dem TO sigu al agreement not TO purchase,
eAcelt in accordance with tbe.e resOlu'l"nt L. was
too M chs the tyranny comir too co-e the VII lie
con muilty Ia u feIment; StrngieloS's notable
soc, ct vas dong its work aud asudden spontaneous
Uprisng Of Outre. I'd community came suddenly on.
Public hhIdb called the citizens together on the lst
Of :. ptember 1884
Slavebo ers aid Pro Slavery men, who loved honor
ard he edon1 aid Who could not be haDp'ed down by
d.spot leaders ginsted conducted, aud concluded
tLat memorable me- ting They passed the following
preamble and rcsOuons and me haHdref aud sereHty-
tou, citizens + Weston sgned them.
BHeyeos our right. an privileges citizens Of Weston
PLATTE CoUEy Mssc have been isregardei iut1ugei uPon
srd gr"vousy violated within the last few weeks oy certain
members Of the Pae County >tfDfensive Association and
heyt0' tie domestic qe Of families the ed honor o
and daughters the safety of property the security
Of our vngs ana p'sos ne good name our fathers LEFT US
good OF US all and The city adoption each
threatened wh nob rotsnee wbo r,iore it IL upatvey de-
n that il Mas Meeiin. sscbed, this the
and dste defense Of our hts and privileges citizens
OF this glorious Union, Therefore,
Rosoft /. That whose hereuutO aft ed
order.loving and law abioins citizens
love Union better. Our IT, The Union first
Union second, and The Union forever
az 1h disspprove the Bsyi.s resolution az contannz
nullbchiiOD, disubiou, and disorga IL sentiments.
~ That invite and solicit merchants
purchase their the
buy aud consumer
IS That hold erery entitled to equal respect and
q That We under Douglas bin as giving all the
ciztns Of this Conederacy equalshts equal mnunes in
~ That believe III the dignity Of Iabor il does not
sarly d.tract moral intellectual character Of
o. That W are competent to Jndse "ho hGH he ePcHed
from community and who shall make laws for corpora
80 That mere suspicion not ground of guilt; mob law
only be tolerated when all other law falls and then only
TO- And lastly that certain members fine leaders the
Platte County Set Defensive Association have proclaimed and
10 the forespg principles which measures do solemny ds
and dsspproy. utterly dcsm being Numerically
d,urb. well nigh desOyed the order the and the
harmony OF families and community and being but too
well seriously iure property and char
scteI home and abroad We will thus dsyow and
disclsim."
TIE glory of the Platte County SefDefensve Assoc
cia'iOn WAS for season Oh>cured. Three times did
they order the bo Esve free blacks to leave the city
and county, and When at the hrc command, armed
baDO OF outans were coming 10 drfre hcm ont, The cH
gene armed Themselves "M tOadcd RITE. to meet them
snd tie assailants io ebore to enter the town.
The Association fursOok Weston, and for seven
month"; did tot hold public citing there. The citi
stns o PabYlle twenty tuIre miles south Of Weston
also i'll Platte CotLtl) OppOred their meeting in
that town. IL withdrew 10 Platte City, and the Little
in the interior at tn. county 10 hold its meetings
Late i'll ,he seasoD the Northern emigrants began to
enter the Territory but the Association was so trou
bl,d With home difficulties tbs II could not as had
intended Drive out and murder those first Northern
settlers.
The Paite Comfy Association had been open
one hut Stnngtt ow aud Atch,son, despairlng of
CON hshing object, kept 1t alive fJr future service
NJ. a, ~hle they Or, auized the Blue Lodge of Missouri
and Kansas whch had IT. companies, aud officers,
and every man who entered ts darg aud secret EN-
bruce made to swear that he would go any tame,
GHV tchec AMI do any fhing that might be command
cd by the CAPTAIN Of has company
Tie Blue Lodge wa but poorly organized when
necessary 10 begin operatiois but even them
ext.Ldea almost humid cd miles from W eston. Its
han
dir, cIed election for Delegate to Congress 10 No.
yeubtr, ls31.
There was tall, thck-tongued Tenneseean living in
Jackson County lac was an Indian agent his name
was Con. Whitfield (tuar Iieb abound In the South,
rIivaes alc scarcc) This man had just given unms.
taxable evidence of his fitness - to Congress and
repr, sent the South One OF the toW Col Burnses OF
Platte County says that Whitfield, on Missouri RIVER
steamboat had found small and feeble man from the
North, oil Bis way 10 Kansas. Thinking he had for
one q Sc, Lis EYES on rerabe lire A60lHiOa1St, tue
Grnti0i seized the unfortunate, and dragging hun
across the deck, about To precpate hun INTO tue
Tiver when the ,fcers and passengers prevented hi
This was not enough man who loved the Union
RI much that to preserve 1t he would drown North
en- an; one VINO loved Slavery - dearly, and hated
Freedom heartily, that he must lay Nl0en hands on
.y,r> pInn who should come from Free state,
he must be the champion of the SOUTH he must BE- true
to the diyiu institution.
So thought the y, Ople Of jackson County. String
fellow was mad that they had talked OF any candi-
date md let waited for him Ia indicate the proper
man But wishing all things harmonious, he sent
me.,cpg,r from Weston 10 Wes,port forty miles, TO
have the GeReTa come up ana be examined. The day
before ID. nominations were to be made IN Kansas
T,riroIy I'D the Gen. raj came. About ono huadred
of 10. faithful locked themselves into the CourtHo
in Weston ret u guard to key away tue uniathful,
aud there canvsssed the Sringtelow doubted
him but about mlonght yielded TO his friends and put
his marx I'D. d him. AL right Oh the goose question:
Al sbout q clock 1T night they went home.
The next day about huncred and nifty from Platte
County crossed tie river. They rode in riagcr, and
On horseback. They were met by Others from Jack