Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-27
3 The Eii.or Of ,ls Ps!nonf Ch-ouiolt:


personal knowledge statement as to Kan
sas. lie says "he preached in Weston above
fve searf, and until May. 1858. He there
learned that the Missouri Compromise hst
been violated II 1867 by attaching lane
20 u iss,uri nos forming six coCn;ies. Ht
was amazed a. this dishonesty OF the South
10 y hon. he had been partial, but soon foun:
there hsG existed ;nr wears q combinrtior
, 10 overthrow that Compromise. IN 1852 h.
met Senator Seward in New York and fore
warned him OF it. Mr. Seward replied: i
could not be done. Il il too sacred an in
| sirument for thS lovers Of sisvery 10 Ia,
unhallowed haa ads upon" In the Spring @
. 1888 he heard d r AtcI,isvn, Acting Vic,
President Of the United States, IN a speccI
at Weston, stigmstize that honortG cUtnrsc
BY the basest understanding Henry Cls,
As black hearted traitor 10 the South
for having introduced it. H. said il "stasi.
ke repeIied,' but. if not, 'wiil 5un pcrmi
the niger thieves, the cattle. the rermin {.
III North, to toke up those fertile praires!'
Your own RIFLES viii Tree yua ron
such neighbors." The speech wus receis ct
with loud cheers. The allusiun. he md,
TO tie feelings and intentious .! the olheI
Slave States all con frmed the "pio'''
Mr. Starr again me; Nj. Sewsrd IN 1853
and said 10 him: They Will repeal il Q.
sure as that Sun .hines" He snsw cred
Sir, Ihey c4ks.r DO il! Theic leader:
mav dee ire 10 do 20; but this country has
not sunk to that deptG Of GENERALIZATION
Eat thy dare do it," In 1854, while the
repesl bin was still pending. d. Z. .itchi-
son wrote from Washington 10 several nien
in Platte county, urging them 10 60 viii
hsir nfSrOes into Kansas and let no .Iofbeia n
men setiIs near fhea; assuring them that tie
Indians vould make treaties, and tha, he
had csusrED and got enough NOMINEE,
men 10 carry the bill.
When the men whom Atchison had ccuu.
ted had betrayed the North, and by the re.
peal bill invited sgnsttcr soveTegns from al
parts. No sooner wss The Invitation &c.
cepted than the very men who gave The in.
yi.ation gnashed their teeth in rage thu,
any free man siiuuli DARE tt TALK of COM.
ing to Kansas. and every thing was done Il
moke him think it wss dangerous 10 cone
10 that country
The repeal bill was passed late in Nav
1854. In ,wenty-four Ecurs after the news
reached Missouri thousands Of Missuurians
were in Kansas selecting land. On tho
other hand, it sscs late in The year (OelOber)
when the Erst little company of Eastern
men (about lhi!ty) arrived IN the Territory
having come lat reduced fare, on tickets
purchased from the Emigrant Aid Society
being frcm eight to fifteen dollars bc low the
ordinary rates Oh a journey Of two thousand
miles. Now, LOOK AT THE DATES and see
what was done and said before this company
arrived; for some think that man was given
brains for useful purpose.
June 10. 1854, three hundred Missourians 5
held a squatter meeting at Salt Creek, three
miles from Fort Leavenworth They
Resolved 4, That we will aifdi protection 10
no Aboitionists as settlers Of Kansas Territory
Resolved, ., That We recognize the Institution
OF Slavery as already existing In this Territory
and recommend 10 Shareholders 10 introduce their
property as early as Possible.
Thus June 10, 1854, about two weeks af.
ter the passage Of the Kansas Nebraska
Bill We find an Association with salared
Register, anG a Vigilance Committee Of
thirteen to help Pro Slavery men secure
Claims. This is better Aid Society than
one which merely reduces the fare little.
The Argus. of Weston, Atchison's news
paper, SAYS, just after the bill was passed,
calling on Missourians to 60 over and settle:
1.-The Abolitionists will probably not be in
terruptsd if they settle North of the doth
parallel Of North latitude, but South of that
lire they need not set foot. 1t is DEcREED by
the people Who live adjacent that their in
stilutioHs are to be established there" And
from the some paper two luter, They Cab
olitionistsl must be met if need be with the
RIFLE at the very threshold, and scourge
them back to their caverns of darkness.'-
So the idea OF rifles was not original with
Rev. II. w. Beecher. Remember, no East
ern emigrants were yet within THOUSAND
NILES Of Kansas!
Within one month after the passage of
the repeal bill atchison's organ, the Argus,
d;scouTses thus about the men expected from
the free Stsies'
rIf sry nf the twenty thousand Abolition
lists spoken OF by Holly should be SO unlu: ky
as to sc; fcot in tina, Territory previous to
the adoption of its Constitution, no ballot
box at any precinct within its borders would
be dllotred 10 be polluted b. the introduction Of
q nigger rofs." In the same appeared a call
for rrblic meeting. Or the 90 July,
1854, The meeting took place, at which the
Platte County Se'f-Defensive Association
wcs formed, with S,ringfelIow as Secretary
This wHs an immense and powerful Lynch
Court. Its members were 10 search for
evidence against any man SUSPECTED of
loving Fresdam. By resolution 6, they
"mutually pledge themselves, iheil honor,
and their purses to bring to immediate pun
ishment any person guilty. Nearly one
nen set their signatures or marks
and became members.
In he first week Of their existence they
scizrd resident of Weston, M. Thomas
A. Minard, lutte a Sheriff in Iowa He was
building house in Kansas. He had said
he wuuld vote to have Kansas n Free State.
He was TIED and ordered to learethe country
in i1renfy.toGr hours or receive osK HUN
DRFD LASuEs ON THE EAcK! He left.