Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-09-19


airocious-and remain in Kansas, be-
cause he knows the enaclments were
passed tor the express purpose of de-
grading, prescribing, aud driving a
way all persons not favorable TO the
establishment Of Slavery in Kansas.
It's, therefore, plain, that the prece-
dent has originated, aud is now To-
menl,ng, a civil war, waged for the
flagranily unconstitutional purpose
Of closing Territory Of the United
States against the Free population of
more than one half Of the Union
and, also, Of exterminatiue that por-
ton Of il which has already gone
fhither.
This last charge is a very serious
one and ought Mt to be lightly made.
Let us see if IT is not true. Here is
the ptoof:-During the whole Of the
last year, the disorderly spirits Of the
Pro-Slavery party have been commit
ting murders aud every species Of
oulrage upun the peaceable citizens
whom they suspect or pretend 10 sus-
pect Of being favorable 10 the Free
State policy. These maefaclors go
about in bands protesting to be Ter
ritoriai militia, oiganzed under Ter
ritorial laws. Ia no single Instance
have these criminals been brought to
justice in no case has any Free I
State man been able TO obtain re-
dress from the civil authorities Of the /
Territory. The course OF this ban
dItll has been me,hudical, and has
been regularly exposed to and prac- /
tically approved by the President Of
the United States They murder
the Free State men when found
moving about upon the highways
They next close all the avenues Of
lngress for emigrants from the North
into the Territory. Thus all means
OF aid or supply are cut of They
then proceed to destroy the crops Of
the settlers, aud rob then Of their
cattle and horses. They thus ehec-
tually deprive their victims Of the
means of subsistence or of escape
from their ferocity. Ii is obvious
that this system of extirpaiion must
succeed. unless the Free State ciii-
zens are allowed TO defend themselves
against their assallanls 10y arms, or to
receive relief from without. The
President has from the beginning
steadily supported their enemies in
this system of persecution, and as il
is impossible that he should not know
oil the consequences of it, the con-
viclion canDot be resisted that he
has deliberately adopted course Of
procredlng, having for lis object the
destruction Of The lives Of large
portion Of the Free State residents
IN Kansas, and the expulsion of all
he remainder This conclusion is {
by many facts as notorious t
Is deplorable. Thus, the President
Suew that the INVASION from Nilsson a
I ol last N0ven her and December. g
vas caused by HE wanlon and crul
murder OF peaceful Free Slnte sell :
Ter by Pro Slavery desperate aud G
ct he approved the calling out and Y
rmlng ut the expense of the Fed T.
raj Government. of large force.
eported To exceed 1000 in number. .,
If infatuated Missouuhns, IN the l.
curse of which ioIay six lives were Il
osl. Again, IN May last, although 4.
he Free Stale men had submitted ,
o the atroclouS and degrading acts, 3
'ailed laws. passed by a mob assem-
olage calling themselves a Legisa- +,
lure, the President permitted, and oil v
course, having the power to prevent. {
procured the seizu,e If Lawrence,
the burning and demolition of dwell
llngs. aud the destruction of printing /
presses. or these last specific acts
he prolessed 10 disapprove, but that
he did not d,sappruve Of them, but
on the contrary adopted them MS a
part Of the scheme necessary 10 drive
away the people of Lawrence and
the other Free State inhabitants. is
shown by the fact that he retained
and still retains IN office the miscre-
ants 10y whom those oulruges were
committed, aud allows the so called
militia to keep the United States
arms with which they were enabled
TO perpelrale their crimes, and that
he has summoned those same persons
10 the commission of additional cru
elites upon the objects of their hate.
There is one other very important
fact that ought To be here noticed.
II is that although the Presiden,
knew that SHANNON was the guilty
instrument of lbe men who had pro-
scrlhed the settlers, and commenced
this lnhuman civil war upon them, he
retains him 10 office until his work
has been carried TO that point that the
most honest and just administration
OF The government must fail to re-
store peace TO the territory, or secu-
riiy to those of lis inhabitants who
chance 10 have come from North of
a geographical line
These are some Of the proofs of
the Presidents obstinate persistence
IN wrong, and of his participation in
the conspiracy TO murder aud plum
der the Free State men of Kansas
II appears TO Us clear that this awful
crime should be punished ia a man
ner 81 exemplary as 10 strike terror
INTO the hearts of evil doors, who
may hereafter come into possession
OF power TO commit the like enormi.
ties.
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