Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-03-29
From Kansns--Gov. nobinson's Message
TO the Free State Legislature.

ans having changed their tactics. The policy
now Is to food the territory with mercenaries,
who are to be hired, paid for their time. and re-
cove a premium in The shape Of 100 acres Of
land. This kind Of emigration is not dreaded
a, all.
The Kansas correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post says that it has been discovered
that the Free State Constitution, 'inslead Of
being at Washington, ready to be offered, is
lying in Col. Lanes pocket until that gentle
man shall be elected Senator. and take !, Oh"
The writer thus sketches the appearance of
the Ftee STATE Legislature, while in session at
Topeka =
'The scene is plain, two-siory stone house
composed of walls, roof and windows only no
such old-fashioned superduites as ceilings aud
easements. Rough board tables, covered with |
cheap muslin, are the desks beneath which are
deposited the muddy boots Of members from the
rural districts The members are nearly all
large, fine, brown-ooking men, the color ofripe
'auis'-(for the President to crack with a pro-
fusion of hair on The head and face, and no lack
of quiet Gre just under the eyelid. ! was pres
enl during all the session OF the late Terriiori-
al Legislature, and the contest between the two
bodies is mos, striking"
The Kansas Herald (pro-slavery) gives the
following account of Governor Shannon's 70 turn
to the Territory
''Goyerum Shannon has returned TO the Ter
riiory. lie has all the troops a, Fort Leaven-
worth and Fort Riley, about 1900, subject TO
his call The laws Of the Territory will be
sustained at all hazards, and good order main
,ained despite the efforts of the fanatics to ag-
itate and keep up strife. Col. Sumner, al Fort
Leayenworih, has received his instructions to
keep his troops in readiness, subject 10 the call
OF Gov. Shannon"
Governor Robiuson's message TO the Free
State Senate aud House Of Representatives OF
Kansas has reached us in the Herald of Free
dom Of tho 9Th inst. 1t is very lengthy and
able document. The first subject taken up is
the duty and necessity Of providing educational
facilities; and as 10 new country many nee
essarily suffer from sickness and poverty, he al
so urges the erection Of general State hospi-
tai. The militia should be pu, at once on an
effective footing, "exPosed as the citizens are
to the scalping-knife of the savage on the West
and to the revolver and Ratchet Of the assassin
on the East The Governor next takes up
the sph;ec, of nuhl q lands and na;,,a;ns ,ha,
The Motley of The General Government, usipp
them for the purposes Of revenue lis at eas, ques
tionable. The message afterwards proceeds
at will be remembered that skeleton gov.
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ou,rases and crime to be perpe,ra,ed bv The in.
vaders and their friends with impuuity. Not
one oil the whole number has been brought to
JUSTICE and not one Will be by the Territorial
oihcers.
WINE the marauders are thus in open viola
"on 'oi all law' nine-'enihs OF the people scorn
10 recognize as law the enactmen's OF foreign
oooy o. men, and would sooner lose their right
a''na .haa os'hg az ac.ion IN one Of their mis-
named courts. Americans can suffer death bat
NOT oishonor and sooner than the people will
consent 10 recognize liie edicts OF iawiess inva-
gers as laws their blood wili mlngie with the
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