The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-29
Kansas Meeting.

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Independent.
Kansas Meeting.
In pursuance of a printed call, meet
ing of the citizens of New Castle, Pa,
AID the region round about, assembled
inthe Public School Hall, on the even
lIg of the 23d ult., to take into consider
aion the present social and political con-
dion of the people of Kansas Territory
ard their duty in relation to them.
The meeting organized by calling DR..
AT. Davis to the Chair, and appointing
joseph Kissick, David Emery, DR.. VIM.
SIaw, Sam'l Vanhorn and Hon. John
Reynolds. Vice Presidents, and VIM. H.
Shaw and VIM. M'Clymonds. as Secre-
aries.
! AT the request of the Chairman, Rev.
Robert A. Brown, stated in lucid and
Satisfactory manner the objects had in
Niew in thus. coming together, when q
committee composed of DR.. D. Leasure,
Rev. R. A. Brown, Hon. John Reynolds.
csc. Morgan, Esq, and Rev. A. B.
Bradford, was appointed to prepare busi-
hess for the meeting. After 3 brief ab-
sence, during which Ehe Convention was
instructed by remarks on the subject in
hand, from Messrs. J. N. Euwer, and S.
Vanhorn, the committee reported the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, The repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, aEd the passage of the
Kansas-Nebrasla bill by the thirty third
Congress, has directly brought about
the long anticipated and much dreaded
collision between the conflicting and op-
posite intereas of free and slave labor in
the United States; and whereas, the
field ofcenaiet has been transferred
from Congress- to the Territory Of Kan.
sas, where the law-niaking and laW-re-
psaling power decided that its settlement
should be left to the decision of fairly
as,ertained majority of the actual set
tiers. And whereas, large numbers of
our friends and brethren in the North,
as we'll as equal, and possibly superior
numbers from the South, have emigrated
to Kansas, with the honest intention of
making it their future home, carrying
with them their families, their fortunes,
and their household gods. And whereas,
a very large majority of them. without
resPect 10 former party ties or locality of
birth place, were, and are, evidently in
favor of making Kansas a free State,
without wishing to interfere in the least
With the institution of slavery where it
already exists by statute law or usage,
being only anxious to give to themselves
and posterity the fair fields of Kansas
pgade pa sacred to free labor and whereas,
tba slavery psopagandists of Missouri,
well aware of these facts, and not will
ing to trust the real citizens of the Terri
tory with the organization of Terrific
rial government, imported thousands of
armed and desperate ruffians to over
come the peaceable squatters, and force
upon them pro-slsvery legislature. by
casting illegal votes, and preventing
those legally qualified from having access
to the baIlot-box, thus violating in the
most outrageous manner, the SO much
vaunted principle of squatter sovereign
ty, as it was set forth in Congress by the
advocates of the Kansas Nebraska bill.
And whereas the citizens of Kansas feel
ing themselves agrieved and outraged
by those hordes of lawless strangers,
who usurped their frsnchises-and be-
Ilieving it was their right to institute laws
and government for themselves, subject
to the Constitutional guarantees, and for
that end peaceably called an election sf-
ter due preliminary steps, at which elee-
tioh every real citizen of the Territory
had an equal chance to be heard, thus
giving fair and explicit expression of
the viii of the people; and whereas. a
3 forcibis invasion of their country was
made by armed and desperate men, who
we're lashed into fury by the exparte and
false representations of artful and de-
signing demagogues until they vowed to
drive the free State men from the Terri
tory or carry death and destruction to
their hearths and homes, and in at least
three instances putting their threats to
bloody execution, numbering three citi.
zens in cold blood, under circumstances
of revolving atrocisy. thus kindling the
horrible fire of civil war amongst pee
pie already sufficiently burdened by the
hbors and anxieties incident to the set
clement of the wilderness, and diyerting
them from their peaceful avocations. to
dsfend the hesrthstone from violence and
bloodshed. Therefore, be it
Resolved. That our deepest sympa,
hies als with the free squattsrs of Kan
IS. and that We honor them for braysly
sanding up Cor. and defending. their
sights against the crusadss OF Border
kuHians. who threassaad 10 exterminste
hem or drive them from their clsims.
Resolved, That fund Be established
by contributions Of citizens Of New
Castle and vicinity, to defrsy the szpeu.
ses of actual settlers who may desire to