Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-01

because they had the IuTtnest 70 60 IN return
into their homes; and the Platte county
bows Of Missouri stood aside and allowed thu
CLAY county boys of Missouri to vote first ant
go home.
This memorial declares that
"Hundreds of men came together in thu
sixteenth district, crossing the river from Mis-
souri, the day before election, and encampins
together, armed and provisioned, made thu
fercest threats against the lives of the judges
and during the night called several times al
the house of one of them for the purpose o.
intimidating him, declaring in the presence Of
his wife that rope had been prepared to hare
him; and although we are not prepared II
say that these threats would have been carl
ried out, yet they served to produce his res
ignation, and give these invaders, in the sub
sttution, control of the polls; and on the
morning of the election, steamboat brought
from the town of Weston, Missouri, to LeaV'
enwor h, an accession TO their number oil sew
eral hundred more, who returned IN the same
boat, after depositing their votes. 1neIe were
over nine hundred and fifty votes polled, De-
sides from one hundred to one hundred aud
fftv actual residents who were deferred or
discouraged from voting, while the census re-
turns show but three hundred and eighty
Eve votes in the district a month before. Not
less than six hundred votes were here given
by these non-residents of the Territory, who
voted without being sworn as to their qualiti-
cations, and Immediately after the election re-
turned back TO Missouri, some of them being
the incum bents of important public offices
there"
l will now. sir, quote what Gen. Pomeroy
saws of the election in the 18th district; and
l ask the attention of the Senator from Mis-
souri, to this statement:
SIN the eighteenth election district, where
the population was sparse, land no great amount
of foreign votes was needed to oyerpower 1T,
a detachment from Missouri, from sixty to
one hundred, passed in with a train of wag-
ons, arms, and ammunition, making their
camp the night before the election near
Moorestown, the place of the polls, without
even prelext of residence, and returning
Immediately to Missouri after theiI work was
done, their leader and captain being dstin-
guished citizen of Missouri, but late the pre-
siding officer of the Senate of the United
States. and who had bowie-kn and revolver
belted around him, apparently ready to shed
the blood Of any man who refused TO be
shaved. All these facts we are prepared to
establish, if necessary, by proof that would
be considered competent in court of JUS
tce."
General Pomeroy expresses the opinion,
"That not less than three thousand votes
were given by these armed invaders, who
came organized in bands with officers, and
arms, and tents, and provisions, and NUM-
tons of war, as though they were marching
upon foreign Toe, instead of their own un-
offending fellow citizens. Upon the principal
road leading into our Territory, and passing
several important polls, they numbered not
less than twelve hundred men, and one camp
alone contained not less than six hundred
They arrived at their several destinations the
night before the election, and having pitched
their camps and placed their sentries, waited
for the coming day. Baggage wagons were
there, with arms and ammunition enough for
protracted fight, and among them two brass
field pieces. ready charged. They came with
drums beating and flags flying, and their lead
ers were of the most prominent and conspicu-
Gus men Of their State
How very conslderate it was, Mr.. Presi-
dent, in these "prominent and conspicuous
men" with their baggage wagons, and can
mons, and rifles, and drums, and flying flags,
to lead the men of western Missouri over into
the forests and prairies of Kanzas, to protect
the ballot boxes from those dangerous men,
the armed colonists of New England
Sir, the gentleman from Connecticut wishes
to know why the seats of the Legislators elect.
ed by the Missourians were not contested. l
will tell him: Mr.. Phillips, young lawyer
of Leavenworth, not himself candidate,
took measures to have the seat of the member
from the sixteenth district contested-and
what was the RESULT He was taken over in
to Missouri and lynched, because he dared,
simply on patriotic grounds, to dispute the
right of the member to his seat, into which he
had been voted by these armed men from Mis-
souri,
Sir, the whole power and patronage of this
Government, from the time when the Kanzas
and Nebraska act went into operation to this
hour, has been given to crush out the ireemen
of Kanzas, and to plant the institution of sla-
very upon that virgin soil. Head the papers
which support the administration in that ter
ritory, and what do we inds The Sguatter
Sovereign says:
I'VE hope the Thirty Fourth Congress. will
be the last Congress that will ever assemble,
and that the Southern men coming into Kan
sas will be prepared to range Kansas in the
southern Republic
The paper which made that declaration re-
ceives the patronage and support of this law
abiding, liberty loving, Union saving Admin
istration, which the Senator from Connecticut
is always the most prompt, the frst-and
about the only-Senator here to support
Laughter.
Sir, have before me an extract from an
other of those Union loving, law-abiding or
gans Of the Administration in Kansas, which
supports the law and order party there, of
which we read so much in the correspondence
before us; The Kickapoo Pioneer-a paper
sustained by the friends of the Administra
tion-gives us the following fine specimen of
its regard for law and order.
"The South must be up and doing; Kansas
must and shall be slave State. Mark what
we say. southern freemen Come along with
your negroes, and plow up every inch Of
ground that is at this time disgraced and de-
faced by an abolition pillow. Send the scoun-
drels back to whence they came, or send them
to hell-it matters not which destination
suit your own convenience. Sound the bu-
gle OF war over the length and breadth of the
land, and leave not an Abolitionist in the
Territory to relate their treacherous and con-
Eliminating deeds. Strike your piercing rife.
balls and your glittering steel to their black
and poisonous hearts; let the war-cry never
cease in Kansas again until our Territory is
Invested of the last vestige of abolitionism.'
The paper which utters such sentiments is
the supporter Of the President, and the organ
and supporter of the policy which meets so
warmly the appreciation Of the Senator from
Connecticut.
The officers Of the United States in the
Territory of Kansas-the judges, the district
attorney, the secretary, and the marshal are
all slave State men, and their influence has
been given in favor Of making Kansas slave
State. Governor Reeder, who undertook to
protect the people IN the exercise of their