The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-07
ILLINOIS ALIVE AND AwAKRl
10000 Fr.ensn i. Council .. Chicago.
.ls,eoe svRscRIsEp rea KANSAS
IMMENSE ENTHUSIASMy!!

J nominations OF the State Anti-Ncbrask
Convention at Bloomington, and to TAX
some immediate action for affording relief t
the rufian-ridden Free-State men of Kansas
u The great features of the meeting asid
from the enthusiasm, music, banners, &c.
was the speech of Colonel j. H. Lane, o
Kansas, and the subscription, on the spot, o
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS il
money and about $1,000 in arms, for tn.
aid of the Free State men of Kansas. 1t il
stated that this subscription of money would
be swelled to 1926, 900 on Monday. This is
indeed glorious for the great commercial EN-.
porium of the North-West-the home OIL
the traitor Douglas.
Col. Lanes speech was a telling one
portraying in strong language and facts the
murderous outrages suffered by the people
of Kansas at the hands of the Missouri
mob, backed by the official power of the ad-
ministration.
We make an extract from the proceedings
as we find them in the Chicago Tribune:
During Colonel Lanes address, he was
often interrupted by the widest applause, or
by deep groans for Pierce, Douglas, Atchison
and the doughfaces and ruffians who had OBJ
pressed Kansas, and by cheers for Sumner,
Robinson and other noble men who have
dared and suffered for liberty. Mr.. Human
was introduced to the meeting and described
the sacking and burning of Lawrence. He
had witnessed scenes on that never-to-be
forgotten occasion which might have moved
the heart of the lowest fiend. He appeared
in part on behalf of the women of Law
renee. They ask you for help, for protec-
ton, and shall they be disappointed :?
(Cries of never, never, and three tremen-
dous cheers were given for the women of
Lawrencel The speaker exhibite so1..e
pieces of the press upon WHICH the Herald Of
Freedom at Lawrence was printed.
Mr.. Human was listene to with marked
attention, and his address loudly applauded
Mr.. Upper of New York, made short
address. He had given money to the cause
of Free Kansas, and was not there to solicit
money or to give it, but he was on his way
to Kansas to settle, and fight for his right if
need be.
1t would be impossible in the limits al
lotted us to describe the enthusiasm and de-
termination of the crowd that listened to the
appeals of the earnest impassioned speakers.
No words can convey an idea Of the cheers
with which popular favorites and popular
sentiments were received, nor of the groans
that were given for the enemies of Freedom
and the oppressors of Kansas. Language is
inadequate to give the reader conception of
the effect of the recital of that tale of wee
which men from Kansas had to tell the
flashing eyes, the rigid muscles, and the
frowning brows told story to the locker
on that types cannot repeat. From the fact
that the immense crowd kept their feet from
8 till IL o'clock, that even then they were
unwilling that the speakers should cease, or
that the contributions should stop from the
fact that working-men, who have only the
wages of the day for the purchase Of the
days bread, emptied the contents of their
pockets into the general fund; that sailors
threw in their earnings; that widows sent
up their savings that boys contributed their
pence that those who had no money gave
what they had to spare that those who had
nothing to give offered to 60 as settlers and
do their duty to Freedom on that new con-
secrated soil; that every bold declaration
for Liberty, every aiuson to the Revolution
|
of that period were to be fought over again
in Kansas, was received as those things most
to be esred,-something of the tone and
temper of the meeting may be imagined.
| Among the most gratifying features of the
assemblage was the presence of large num-
bers of men who have, under a mistaken
notion of its real purposes, acted with the
Pro-Slavery party, the names of many figure
with round sums attached, in the list Of
givers to the cause. They were there to ex-
plate the deeds of folly INTO WHICH the mad
ness of party and the lieing assurances Of
leaders have betrayed them. Besides those
who occupied the speakers's stand, there
were hundreds,-we may better say thou.
sands-scattered through the crowd. Upon
them the damning facts adduced from the
history of the Kansas troubles, the inhuman
code of that Missouri-Kansas Legislature
the murder and rapine which have stalked
through the land. fell like Goals of fire.
When Lane charged and proved the compli.
city Of the Administration and the so-called
Democracy in the outrages which have dis
graced the American name and which were
consummated in the destruction of Lawrence
and the murder of her citizens, his words
came home to the former friends of Douglass
with tremendous force, hich carried con-
viction to the hearts of all.
Take it with it's attending circumstances
THE shortness of the notice, the character
of the assembled multitude and the work
which was accomplished, it gas the most re-
markable meeting ever held in the State
We believe it will inaugurate new era il
Illinois. We believe it is the precursor O
the liberation of Kansas from the hand Of thu
oppressor, and of an all pervading politica
revolution at home.
New York Aroused.
The Rer ublcans of New York held