New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-28
Kansas, the same paper, commenting on a report
that some were coming, said

Kansas, the same paper, commenting on report
that some were coming, said:
"E sny of the 10000 Abolitionists spoken Of by
Holly should be so unlucky to Get foot in that Terri
tory rsrious 10 the adoption Of its CONSTITUTION NO
raj oT.Box AT ANY PREcIscr WITHIN ITS BoRDEhs
WOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE POLLUTED BIZ The isrho-
pucTIos OF A NIGER VOTE.
ON the Goth of July. 1854, mot two months after
the Nebraska bill was passed, and still before any
Eastern immigrants had reached Kansas, meeting
If citizens Of Platte Senator Atchison's) County
was held, pursuant to q call in The Platte argus
.i0ped "A Know Nothing At this meeting,
.The Platte County Sefdefensiye Association
v,s formed-B. f. StriDgfeliow, Secretary. One
thousand men signed the roll of this Association, by
which it was resolved, among other things, that all
free negroes should be expelled from the country,
and all Abolitionsts tried and punished. The fol-
lowing are some of its operations as detailed By the
Rev. Mr.. Starr:
1.-THE first week of the existence of this Association
,bev seized resident of Weston, late Sheriff in
lows. Mr. Thomas A. Mirard He was building q
honse In Kansas. He had day over in the Terri
tow ssd be should vote to have Kaosas Free STATE
he was arrested-was tried-~as condemned au
Aboorisi-was ordered to leqre he c0untryin ttcea.
f..fur h7urs or RECEIVE FIFTY LAsHEs on THE BARE
rACKl
"He wns q man worth thousands of dollars; no
Kansas Aid Society sold tickets to him he helped
elect the present Administration, and was once an ad.
mir.r of the Kansas-NetrasEa bill With wife aud
two children all sick-Onc expected 10 d,e-he went
lot, Ksrsss his house being just begun, with no
shelter for them
"An olA citizen Of Weston, named Osborn was
tried; wbs without proof, except a negros testimony
unlawful testimony condemned as an AbollilOhst;
he hair was shaved off the right half of his he i'd and
he was ordoIed to leave the country in FORTY EIGHT
HOURS or receive ONE HUNDRED LAsHEs on the BARE
BACK! lie lett.
We pause here for we desire only to show what
was the coarse Of the Border Rufiians before
anu Fnt-State emigrants reached Kansas. Up to
this tine, we have no evidence that the Missouri
propagandists of Slavery ever knew that such
paper as The TRIBUNE existed, or cared what it
said or thought about Kansas. They were ami
mated by single impulse-a fixed resolve to make
Kansas a Slave State at all hazards-by intimida-
tion and buster if that would suffice, by the rifle
ard bowe-kniCe if the use of these should become
necessary.
We, on the other hand, while we had resisted
TO the utmost the passage of the Nebraska bill,
wee simply urging those who could to emf crate
10 Kansas, to save that Territory from Slavery by
peaceful industry and homes voting We had re.
sisted to the last the passage of the Nebrask, bill;
but il had passed nevertheless; and We were now
striving to Kansas from Sasery by such peaceful
ard unobeciionable insrumentalities as were still
open to our acceptance. We challenge rigid
scrutiny Of our files, and defy The Union to make
good lis atrocous calumnies. Will the organ of
the Federal Executive venture to attempt it!