The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-05-29

4. 1t is confirmed by the contemporaneous ad-
mission of the SYuatfer Sovereign, a paper pub
lished at Atchson, and at once the organ of the
President and of these Borderers, which, under
date OF LIST April, thus recounts the victory
"ISDEPESDKNcE [NIIssorRrl March 81, 1855
"Severa hundred emigran from Kansas have Just
tered city They preceded by the Wesport and
Independence brass bands. They came in the
side OF the public square and proceeded entirely around
H. the bands cheering with fine music, and the emf
grants with good news Immediately following the bands
were about two hundred horsemen IN regular orderi fol-
lowing these were one hundred and fifty wagons
Iages &c They gave repeated cheers for Kansas and
Missouri They report that Anii-Slavery will
be in the Legislature Of Kansas w hare made clean
sictsPn
5. 1t is also confirmed by the contemporaneous
testimony of another paper, always faithful TO
Slavery, the New York Herald, in the letter of
correspondent from Brunswick, in Missouri, under
date of Goth April, 1855:
~From i've to thousand men started from Mis-
sour TO attend the election but the
TO return to their families, with Intention if they liked
earliest moment practicable But they intended
The Missourans were, many ofihem Douglas There
were one hundred and fifty voters from this county
hundred and seventy-hve from Howard, hundred
from Cooper Indeed, every county furnished quota
They were armed" And ms there were
no houses in the T6rritoy, they tents Their
stakes for their future homes After the election,
one thousand five hundred Of the a committee
III
the election. He answered that il and said the
lony al an election mast carry the day But is to
be denied that the thousand five hundred appreond
ing iai the Governor might attempt TO play the rani-
since his conduct had already been nsdOus and unjust
wore on their hats punches OF hemp They resolves
ryran attempted to trample upon the rights OF the
sovereign people, 10 hang him.
G. 1t is again confirmed by the testimony of q
lady, who for five years has lived in Western
Missouri, and thus writes in letter published in
the Ne1V HdUen Register:
"MrAsI SALINE Co, Noreys5er e6, 1855
You ask totel YOU something about the Kansas
Missouri troubles OF course you know in what they have
originated IheTs "o dEi'S hd tie M,sSottrfaiS hGrS
drirrVisd 20 control the eLcfoHS u possible and don't
AnoW maj heir measures would be JuSuhable, except
upon the principle OF sefpreservaon; and that, you
know, IL the FIRST law ofnsIure."
Z. And it is confirmed still further by the Cir
cular of the Emigration Society of Lafayette in
Missouri dated as late rs 25th March, 1856, in
which the efforts of Missourians are openly con-
fessed:
"The Western counties of Missouri have for the last
two years been heavily taxed, bot in money and time ia
lighting the battles of the South Lafayette county alone has
eIpsded han S1OOOOO "a Btosy much or ynors
upheld and maintained the Rights and ists Of South
IA tb Struggle undSSsd aud not HHSUocsSftfRy. But the
Abolonists stalking their all upon the Kansas ISSUE and
heSiiauns at no means iar or foul are moving heaven
and earth to render that beautiful Territory Free Sss "
8. Here, also, is complete admission of the
Usurpation, by the LateHgencer, a leading paper
of st. Losis, Missouri, made in the ensuing sum
mer:
'Atchson and SrngfelIow with their Missouri follow
ers. overwhelmed the settlers in kansas broub ana
buied Them and took the Government from their hands
Missouri votes elected the present body who insult
ploiG meiheehce ana popular nights by Wing themselves
the Legislature Of Kansas This body of helping
themselves TO fat speculaons by locating the
eminent and getting town los for their votes. They
passing laws DISTINGUISHING all the citizens of Kansas who
do not believe Negro Slavery be Christian institution
and national blessing They are proposing TO punish wh
imprisonment the utietance with their
own And they trying TO Perpetuaie their preposterous
and Internal tyranny by appointing for 81 yearS
creatures of their commissioners every county
TO lay and collect aHes, and see that the laws they arr
passing faithfully executed Has this age anything
To compare with these acts IN auiaciy ,"
Q. In harmony with all these is tho authorita
tive declaration of Governor Reeder, in a speech
addressed to his neighbors, at Easton, Pennsyl-
vania, at the end Of April, 1855, and Immediately
afterwards published in the Washington Union
Here il is:
1t was indeed too true that Kansas had been inv AIDED
conquered subugatej by an armed force i beyond her
borders led ON by fanaca spirit, irampline under oo
the principles OF the Kansas bill and the right suffrage
10. And in similar harmony is the complaint
of the people of Kansas, in public meeting
Big Springs, on the 9Th September, 1885, embod-
led in these words:
RssOired, That the body Of who for the last two
mouths have been passing laws the people our Ter
rtory moved, counseled, AMI dictated To by the dena
gogues OF Missouri are To foreign body representing
only The awess invaders who elected ihe not the
people OF the Terriiorytha repudaie their action as
ms monstrous consummaon Of violence usurpa-
ton and fraud unparalleled IN the history the Union
worthy only Of untitled for the duties and regardless
OF the responsibilities OF Republicans
IL. And finally, by the official minutes, which
have been laid on cur table by the President. the
invasion, which ended in the Usurpation. is clear
ly established; but the effect of this testimony
has been so amply exposed by the Senator from
Vermont, Mr.. CoLLAMER in his able and indie
Faf al. 10 Il
simply referring to it,
On this cumulative, irresistible evidence in
concurrence with the antecedent history | rest
And yet Senators here have argued that this can
not be sO-precisey as the conspiracy of Gait
line was doubted in the Roman Senate Nom
null sunt an hoe Or,t,he, ga ant ca, guG imminent
non ridedHt; ant e6, qua pSeHt, djssimuleat: ous
peH CGttlRtT DaOliiJS scHtSRtiis dueFuaf eORj,Ta-
ttonemque nasceEtem non credendo c0rro5orarerunf.
As listened to the Senator from Illinois, while
he painfully strove to show that there was no
Usurpation, | was reminded of the effort by n
distinguished lOgician, in a h-admired ar
gument, to prove that Napoleon Bonaparte never
existed. And permit me to say, that the fact of
his existence is not placed more completely above
doubt than the fact of this Usurpation. This |
assert on the proofs already presented But con-
6rmatiOn comes almost while speak. The col
umns of the public press are now daily filed with
testimony, s0lemnly taken before the Committee
of Congress in Kansas, which shows, in awful
light, the violence ending in the Usurpation. OF
this may speak on some other occasion. Mean
while, | proceed with the DEVELOPMENT of the
Crime.
The usurping Legislature assembled at the ap-
pointed place in the interior, and then at once,
in opposition to the veto of the Governor, by
majority of two-thirds, removed TO the Shawnee
Mission. a place in most convenient proximity tn
Che Missouri borderers, by whom it had been con-
stitated, and whose tyrannical agent il was. The
statutes of Missouri, in all their text with their
divisions and subdivisions, were adopted bodily,
and with such little local adaptation that the
word State" in the original is not even changed
to Territory" but is left TO be corrected by an
explanatory act. But, all this general legislation
was entirely subordinate to the special act, en-
titled An Act to punish offences against Slave
Property" in which the One Idea, that provoked
this whole conspiracy, is at last embodied in legis-
iatiye form, and Human Slavery openly recognised
on Free Soil, under the sanction of pretended law.
This act of thirteen sections is in itself Dance
Of DEATH. But its complex completeness of wicked
ness, without a parallel, may he partially con-
ceived, when it is understood that in three sec
tons only If it is the penalty of death denounced
no less than forty weight different times, by as
many changes of language, against the heinous
offence, described in forty-eght different ways,
of interfering with what does not exist in that
under the Constitution cannot
exist there mean property in human flesh.
Thus is Liberty sacrificed to Slavery, and Death
summoned to sit at the gates as guardian Of the
Wrong.
But the work of Usurpation was not perfected
even yet. 1t had already cost too much to be
left at any hazard.
To b, thus was nothing;
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