Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-13

ammunition making their camp the night before
the election near Moorestown, the place OF the
polls, without even pretext OF residence, ana
returning Immediately TO Missouri alter ihelr VOTE
was done, their leader and captain being as
tineuished citizen of Missouri but late the presl'
ding officer of the Senate of the United States:
and who had bowie-knife and revolver belted
around him, apparently ready to shed Inc oioo1
of any man who refused to be enslaved. All
these facts we are prepared TO establish if neces-
sary, BY proof that would be considered compe-
tent in court of justice"
General Pomeroy expresses the opinion,
That not less THAI three Thousand votes were
given by these armed invaders who came organ
lied in bands with officers, and arms, and tents,
and provisions, and munitions Of war, as though
they were marching upon foreign foe, instead
of their own unofendng follow-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 sentres, 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 leaders were
of the most prominent and conspicuous men of
their State"
How very considerate it was Mr. President,
in these prominent and conspicuous men, with
: their baggage wagons, and cannons and rifles,
and drums, and flying flags, TO lead the men of
Western Missouri over into the forest sand prai-
ries Of Kansas, 10 protect the baot-boxes from
those dangerous men. the armed colonisis of
New England
Sir, the gentleman from Connecticut wished to
know why the seats of the legislators elected
by the Missourans wers not contested. ! viii
tell him: Mr.. Phillips, young lawyer of Lea
wentworth, not himself candidate, took measures
to have the seat of the members from the six
eenth district contes ed-and what was the RESULT
He was taken over into Missouri and lynched,
because he dared, simply on patriotic grounds, 10
dispute the right of the member TO his seat, into
r which he had been voted by these armed men
from Missouri
Sir, the whole power and patronage of this
Government, from the time when the Kansas
; and Nebraska act went into operation to this
, hour, has been given to crush out the freeman of
Kansas and to plant the institution of Slavery
upon that virgin soil. Read the papers which
supports the Administration in that Territory,
and what do we find The SYuatter Sourerign
says:
I'VE hope the Thirty fourth Congress will be
! the las Congress that will ever assemble, and
= that the Southern men coming into KsDsas Will
be prepared to range Kansas to the Southern
Republic
The paper which made that declaration re-
ceiyes the patronage and support of this law abb
ding, liberty loving, Union.savi Administra-
8 ton, which the Senator from Connecticut is
: always the most prompt, the frst-and about
u the only Senator here to support Laughter.
u Sir, have before me an extract from another
. 70 those Union loving, law abiding organs of the
u Administration in Kansas, which supports the
Il law and-order party there, OF which we read so
3 much in the correspondence before US. The Alex
: apoo Po'neer-a paper sustained by the friends of
this Adminlstralion-giv ives US the fol owing fine
specimen of its regard for law and order:
+ " The South must be up and doing; Kansas
y must and shall be slave State. Mark what we
+ say Southern freemen! Come along with your
negroes, and plough up every inch of ground that
! is at this time disgraced and defaced by an abo-
u lon plough Send the scoundres back to whence
o they came, or send them 10 hell-it matters not
:" which destination; suit your own convenience.
. Sound the bugIe of war over the length and
ID breadth of the land and leave not an abolitionist
U in the Territory 10 relate their treachorous and
"a COMMUNICATING deeds Strike your piercing rife
IL balls and your gGttenng steel to their black and
u poisonous hearts let the war-cry never cease in
e. Kansas again, until our Territory is Invested of
- the last vestlge of abolltionsn.'
~ The paper which ntters such sentiments is the
supporter of the President, and the organ and
I'll supporter of the policy which meets so warmly
the appreciation Of the Senator from Connecticut.
a The officers of the United States in the Terri
N tory of Kansas the judges, the district attorney,
a. h. eh,l
~ States men, and their influence has been given in
n favor of making Kansas slave State. Govern
70 or Reeder, who undertook to protect the people
in in their legal rights, was stricken down, under
the preence that he had been specializing in the
II public lands. OftYenty one officers of the Fed
al eIal Government in the Territory, nineteen are
h Slaves State men, and one is Free State man;
rs but already he is marked by Atchson, and an
"a other designated for his place. Within the last
y ten days, men from Kansas have called upon the
Executive to demonstrate against this striking
ra down of pnbic officer, simply for the crime of
!; being in favor of free institutions.
~ At this point the honorable Senator yielded 10
20 a motion to adjourn.
rs TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1856.
'h Mr.. WILSON. Mr.. President
VI Mr.. GEYER If the Senator from Massachu-
"a sets will allow me, DESIRE before he proceeds,
y: to ask him question. understood him to state
yesterday, upon the authority of General Pome
y roy, that former presiding officer of this body
(meanng, OF course, my late colleaguel had en-.
I'd tered Kansas Territory for some unlawful pur-
pose, armed with bowie knives and pistols. |
ed desire first to know whether General Pomeroy
is, states that en- his own knowledge and then, at
n, what time it was that he is supposed to have en-
tered that Territory thus arm Will the
ce Senator be good enough to answerl
e, Mr. WILSON Mr.. President, very cheer
of fully answer the questions submitted to me BY
is, the honorable Senator from Missouri Isiated
8, yesterday, on the authority of General Pomeroy,
en- that on The Both of March, 1855 the late prssi-
dent of the Senate entered the eighteenth cleo
of ton district of the Territory of Kansas, near
is, Moorestown, and that he was armed /" with a
- bowie knife and revolver around him, apparently
r ready to shed the blood of any m who refused
he to be ensaved' And this trustworthy author
e. hy adds, Il all these facts We are prepared to
Sc considered competent in any court of justsce."
to Mr.. GEYER. Viii the Senator allow me to
of state my information on that subectl
n Mr.. WILSON. Certainly, sir.
Mr.. GEYER Mr.. President, when that charge
was made yesterday, was no prepared to prove
x negative therefore did not Interrupt the Sem
mi ator have since made inquiries of the Repre-
sr sentative in the other House of the district in
lis which General Atchison resides, to ascertain
he from him whether General Atchison had crossed
of the borders at the time. lie answered, " No;
ar. he was not there" inferred, therefore, that
I'D General Pumeroy had given the information upon
re the authority of some one else, and not of his
We own knowledge The only time so far as have
his been able to learn when General Achison crossed
ID into Kansas at all during the period of any dis
Dr. tnrbancc there, The last one which was men.