The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-07-23
For the Lancaster Lcdgcr.
Kansas Meetinp.

| Aahsas mctVluS,
Pursuant to notice in tho proccedpcs
Of the las, meeting. our citizens assembled
IN the Court House m Monday, 2Ist inst.
The Hon. VIM. McKenna was again called
to the Chair, and w. NJ. Connors acted rs
Secretary. ID was moved and carried, that
the report Of The Committee Of five persons
appointed TO draft the form Of n Kansas As
soci",inE be called for: whercupon Mr.. s.
b. Emmons, Chairman of said Committee.
offered The following;
REPORT OF THE COMsiITTEE.
Your Committee 10 whom WAS referred
the plan for Kansas Association Of Lam
caster District, respectfully submit the fol-
loving Preamble and Resolutions:
| Whereas, III the opinion of your Commit.
tee, the time Is upon us when nothing but
unanIinity of feeling, ana concert Of action,
on the part of The Thoic Souii, can secure
unto us equal rights aud equal liberties upon
the soil o. Kansas,
Therefore Resolved, lat That We. the
people OF Lancaster District, form ourselres
into an association To tc called the .Iancas.
ter k"nsas Association, the object of " hich
Is to send men and means To aid our pairi-
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batting for equal rights with the Northern
at"liIl"nisls on the soil of Kansas
,. Resolved, I hat this Association he
formed by the election of prcsdcLt, Vice
! President, Secretary and Treasurer: and
that any person may become - uvukcr, by
! paying 10 tie Treasurer sum not k..s than
one dollar.
B. Resolved, That il shall be the duty Of
the President I" preside over each meeting
al The Association, (Which will be on the
rst Monday IN each month"; and in the alb
sencc Of the Prc'ident, it shall be the duty
of The Vice President to preside
4. Resolved, That it shall Lc the duty of
the Secretary 10 keep accurate minutes of
the transactions of this Association.
! B. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of
the Treasurer To hold the funds Of this AS.
sociailon, subject to the order and control
OF an Executive Committee Of five persons.
to he appointed BY the President Of the As.
sociation, whose duty il shall be 10 disbur,c
The funds OF the Association among any
who may wish TO cmigrate to Kansas; and
IN The event that no one wishes 10 20 from
TINS District, then aud in that case, the En-
eculI'e Committee can or may forward the
funds raised BY means of .his Association,
10 Col. w. ID. WilSes, or To such other per.
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may zee proper To select, To be by him or
them conveyed to those Southern patriot.
from South Carolina, who have risked their
lives and fortunes for the caus, OF lie South,
upon the soil OF Kansas.
q. Resolved, That tho President aball
nave power to call extra meetings Of the
Association, IL necessary.
z. Resolved, That the Executive Com.
mli!ee have the power of considering aud
determining the fitness Of applicants, who
may wish To avail themselves OF the offer
made by the Association.
All VI which is respectfully submitted.
=. B. EMMONS,
JAMES II. WADE,
w. NJ. CONNORS,
J. ID. HALLE.
The above resolutions were offered sepa.
rately to the meeting. ami adopted as they
stand a. present.
The meeting then proceeded TO elect off.
GERS for the Association; whereupon, the fol.
lowing were unanimously chosen:
Hon. WM. McKENNA, President.
u. II. GOOCH, Vice
w. NJ. CONNORS, Secretary.
NJ. +. CRAWFORD, Treasurer.
The President then proceeded TO appoint
the following persons, who constitute the
Executive Committee:
Messrs. ID. w. Bro wn, John ID. wylie,
J. X. Magil, T.. p. Ballard, and James ID.
Mcllwaia.
The Committee on contributions beng
required to report, stated the sums that each
received, amounting In the aggregate (inclu-
ding the additional sums received mt the
meetiag) 10 i've hundred and th.rty-eigbt
dollars. II was further required Of this
committee that they continue 10 solicit sub
scriptions.
Major J. ID. Wylie stated that lady Of
our District had voluntarily contributed
handsomely TO his list and he suggested
that n committee Of ten persons be appoint
ed, to wait upoL the ladies', as he had no
doubt but that there were many others, whe
would be pleased TO follow this noble and
patriotic example. Tho motion being car.
rei, the President appointed ms this com
mittse: Messrs. J ID. wylie, Joseph Foster,
Heron Belk, Reeves Wade, Robert Nell
vain, c. C. Ballard, J. T. Mellow, Thomas
Bell, a. J. Stuart, and ID. Crockett