Minnesota weekly times., 1856-10-25
kausus Affairs-G0v Geary Hnrrying ny the Work
,f9f Of Making KauSss Sisve STATE. -.Ia

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Mr.. John NJ. Geary, the new Governor appoint
ed under the direction Of jefferson Davis for
Kansas, is pushing on his work of making that
Territory Slave State with great energy. He
does not muce matters. He makes no pretences
to neutrality between the claims of conflicting
of Border Rufians and Free State settlers. He
understands his instructions and knows what he
is expected to do.
The Administration Border RuHans had a will
ling, but very poor instrument, in Governor
Shannan. His late iong-winded manifesto is a
precious confession Of ;mbecity, indecision, per-
p.exity, and iucompeiency. Ii it proves more
| than this, It proves that poor Pierce attempted to
shelter himself under the wings of poor Shannon,
| while Shannon considered himself entitled to the
sheltering wings of Pierce. f., Gov. Geary, on the
| other hand, having received his orders, has gone
out to Kansas to fulfil them, and without any
| squeamish fears Of public opinion he seems to
have entered boldly upon tnc tasS OF making
| Kansas substantially Slave State before the
| Presidential election. Il ,,s ,.., .-9s-tL ~
Our latest advices from Kansas show that Gov.
Geary is perfect Napoleon in the modern dem
| Ocra.ic art OF making Slave State out Of Free
Territory. First, with the United States dra-
goons at dis service, he dismisses the armed BOr-
| der Ruflians, with the complimentary discharge
of a volunteer militia fo-ce, no longer needed !;
then with his Dragons he forcibly cxpels Gen.
Lane and mis- armed defenders of the Free State
settlements and thirdly, he proceeds to arrest
| the unarmcd Free State Settlers remaining 10 the
Territory on charges of treason. Onr readers
! understand very weil villa. constitutes high trea-
| son in Kansas. A fraudulent legislature has en-
acted code of laws of the most infamous, cruel,
bloody, savage, shameless and lawless cnaracter-
code full Of unconstitutional oaths, pains and
penalties and the free born white American cit-
izens Of that Territory, who prefer tue Constitu-
tion and their rights under it to these spurious
and atrocIous laws, are slaughtered or denounced,
| hunted, arrested and imprisoned, on these admin
istrafion charges of high treason. ,So9sib %
According to tho latest accounts from Kansas
lin addition to wholesale arrests for high trsason)
a hundred Free State men were confined at Le-
compton on still another trumpery charge Of mur-
der, in having defended themselves, Their families,
and their property, against our democratic Pres
| ident.s robbing marau1crs. These prisoners werc
| strictly gaardcd by United States troops, in
| small log house, with a loaded feld-p piece near
| the door to serve as reminder that they must
| not rise against Their masters. OF course the
| wives and childred of these prisoners must take
| care of themselves. The ruihans remain in the
Territory--some Of them yagabondizing and
plundering what little subsistence of the people
| has been left by the United States army,--othe.s
enlisting as three months 20 nnteers II the u S.
service Under this pressure numbers cf the Free
State settlers, from impesding starvation, arc
leaving the Territory; and many of those that
remain-men, women, and children-have sub
sisted upon green corn and squashes- neither
-Four, meal, nor meat of any kind being left them.
10 the settlers of q new country their horses are
invaluable. 1t is taking away the righs arm of
frontier settler to rob him Of his horse, He is
robbed at once of the faithfu! servant upon whose
| services he had depended for raising the neces-
| saries of life. The administration Ruffans in
Kansas understand this veil; and, accordingly,
| prominent feature OF their system of operations
| has been the wholesale stealing or taxing Of the
horses of the Free State settlers, according 70 the
Official democratic doctril le of the Ostend mani
festos The Missouri Border Rufhans have only
applied 70 the horses of their Free State neioii-
bors OF Kansas, the Identical doctrine which Nj.
Buchanan is pledged to apply to the isIafid Of
Cuba-the good old buccaaees.ug doctrine of
| wrestling it from Spain il We lave the power.''
There is nothing, therefore, remaining 70 pre-
vent the erection Of Kansas into Slave State,
through the system of terrorism, blood, robbery,
and fraud adopted by Pierce and the rotten DEM
ocracy, except the election OF Fremont as our
nsxt President. His election, however, will put
. peremptory stop to this policy of terrorism,
and restore the Constitution, the laws and the
sovereign rights Of tho poodle to Kansas and the
South, where the Constitution is almost 40 much
dead letter az in Kansas. -Iaa. s.1sga4q 10
q The Female Medical College ia BoStbi
has now thisty-eight students.