Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-10-03
To the Inhabitants Of the Free States.

| AZ tAe AAAa0ltautS oI the .free states
FRIENDS The cause of Freedom
and Humanity in Kansas is in a critical
but by no means a desperate condition
The Committee have recent and most re
liable information, by letters and by spe
cial messenger $, from the Territory, ant
they assure you that they have goot
ground for hope. They beseech you no
to heed the boastings of enemies nor tn,
counsels Of faint-hearted friends, wht
think that, because the Administration
has raised the militarytarm to crush ou
Freedom, it is therefore useless to per
sist in sustaining it.
The real frecsoil inhabitants in Kan
sas now number according to the bes
information not less than 10000 souls
while the real permanent pro-slavery
settlers do not number 5000. Between
these there was not and could not be ;
question of prcponderan nee in arms or il
votes.
| The Free State inhabitants, coming
as they did from great distances, were by
the very necessities of the case pcrma-
nent settlers, expecting to live and die
upon the soil.
Not so with the other party. Missou-
ri, whose manifest and public policy is
to plant SHAREHOLDERS and expel Free
State men from Kansas-Missonri. act
ing dc facto as State, and backed up by
many Southern States, could at any mo-
ment throw in hundreds and thousands
Of marauders into the Territory, and
make it too like hell for peaceful and
aw-abiding Northern men to inhabit
with their tamllles.
1t was between these maraud RS and
the Free State settlers, and not between
the latter and proslavery settlers, that
the contests of last month took place
All who are posted as to the real facts Of
those engagements know that the move
mcnt on the part of our friends WAS as
polite and justitiable as their proceed.
lngs were moderate, though determined
and successful. The proofs of an organ
lied conspiracy to blot them out were
becoming daily more open, alarming and
formidable. A letter dated at Franklin,
X. T., as long back as the 22d of July,
and published in the Mobile Daily Tri-
bunc of Aug. ii, some days before the
coup efat of our people, thus discioses
the bloody plot Of these foreign conspi-
rators;
I'VE intend to build tort in the
town (Franklin) and in a few hours we
shall start for NJ ssour, and Fort Leav
cnworth for money, men, arms, ammuni-
ton, and then FOR VENGEANCE South
erness, come and help US !. Bring each
of you double barrel gun, a brace of
Colts repcaters, and trusty knife
Come to this place. You will find plen-
ty of soldi,rs, provisions, and an ORGAN
lied company &c.
The writer of the above, according
to the editor of the Mobile Tribune,
sis entirely worthy of conf lenec.' The
fact of the conspiracy is thus put be-
yond a doubt by the confession of the
parties themselves. 1t was between
these marauders, who at Franklin and
other points had dotted the Territory
with their forts" and who were wait
ing but the hour and the signal for a
general and indiscriminate massacre OF
our poor people, women and children in
cludcd, that tie Free State men of Kan
sas flew to arms. The Nandals, beaten
at various points, would have soon been
driven forever from the Territory, and
permanent peace conquered, but for the
vigorous in reference Of the Administra-
ton, as it has often before interfered
when the slavery propagandists were
getting worsted.
While our Free State men will not
contend with United States troops, they
will nevertheless maintain their consti-
tutional right to bear. and their God
given right to use their arms in defend
ing their own and the lives of their fam
lies against murderous rutfians, in what
ever guise they may appear.
In the maintenance of these rights
they must leave and neglect all their or
dinary business, as long as the present
fearful crisis lasts. They must be sus-
tanned by others while they are sustain
ing at their own dear cost and peril the
cause of freedom and humanity.
By express and confidential messengers
they have explained to the Committee in
what way important and effectual aid
may reach them in time to save the
cause.
With these facts before them, the Com
mittee most urgently appeal to the tree
men of the North for the means to send
these brave men the aid they so earnest
ly implore. In due season we promise
that a proper account of your trusts
shall be rendered.
Friends of freedom, wait not for fur
ther news trust not alone in the ldes
Of November, but send in aid now-To-
DAY
BY order of the Committee.
THADDEUS HYATT, President.
September Is, 1856. II. B. HURD,
Secretary.
DIRIGo, DIRECT. This is the mot
to on the arms Of the State of Maine. 1t
is motto full Of good omen. Many a
State will follow where Maine directs. -
Pror. Journal.
ORIGIN OF "a RRICK '-When Won