The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-10-17
Origin of the Conspiracy to make Kan.
sas q Slave State. Startling History!

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The plot by which Kansas was to be made
g Slave State, by violence and fraud If nee
tsary, originated, We repeat, in the wicked
heart of d. R. Atchison, at time uhsn he
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In the iall OF $685. public meeting was
held IN Platte County In which MI Atehi.
son was the presiding spirit. IL was called
Tor tho purpose oil taking into consideration
the affairs OF Kansas, then not named and
almost year before the passage OF the Ne
braska bill, when the population was made
up only OF Indians and Indian tradcn'-
Mr. Afehison addressed the needing, and
pro'a'Iy wroie the re'ofuf'on'' The hrst oil
these expressed an opinion adverse to the
propriety oil opening the Territory to settle
mcnt. The second declared that II 1t were
opened, the Missouri Compromise should be
repealed. The language OF another rcsolu.
ton we give ..r.Fl .F
Resolred, That If the Territory shall be
opened to settlement, we pledge ourselves 70
eaUn o.nc n ~. ~ 1 T .no ,i,'.uo.s VI We;
Gee Of blood or treasure. -
This, be it remembered, pa, long before
The project of repealng The Missouri Com.
promise was agitaied, and while Mr.. Douglas
yet believed that the, Compromise was q "a-
cred thing, which no ruthless hand would
disturb" At this same meeting plot was
elaborated, by which Kansas, If opened,
,cas 10 Be conquered 10 slavery in any event,
and Il is remarkable that The plan is almost
identical ,eith that shteh he PuRans hare
carried out. The nature of it was this: IF
the Compromise were not repealed, and the
Territory were opened to settlement under
it, State government was to be carly Or
gained, as were the governments, respect
ly, of Arkansas, Michigan, and Tennessee,
and the Missourians were, ut whatever Sac
rifcc of blood and treasure to control, as
they have done, the Convention and the Leg
stature The proceedings of this meeting
at that time attracted little attention and
but for the significance given them by sub
sequcnt events, thoy would have beon forgot
ten. g .e .r
After this demonstration, we lost night of
the intention to introduce slavery into Kan
sas, but the probabilities are that this meet
ing was the origin of the Blue Lodges in
Missouri and tho South, about which wo
have since heard 30 much. Mr.. Atchison
went to tho South, and when Mr.. Douglas
brought forward his measure for organizing
the Territory, without clause repeating tho
Compromise, he compelled tie Illinois Seno-
ortor 10 come to his terms. We hear no
more of him. his of;co-President of the
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We next find tho Blue Lodge organised
and in full blast. Before tho passage Of the
Douglas bill, which became law Juno 30,
1854; before tho organization of the Emil
grant Aid Society which held its first meet
ing July 30. 1884, Mr.. Jordan Danison, q
Missourian and Border Ruihan, swore before
the Kansas Congressional Committee that
he ,cas in a Blue Lodge at Pleasant Hill,
Missouri, in February, 1854, and that the
,B;ect of the Society was 10 make Kansa, a
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Nex, we have the resolution. Of . meet.
parkyillc Luminary, June 10, 1854, before