Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-25
KAN s A s

al and suffering, for the result Of tie presidential
election. We can see little that that can do for it
lie. it he decided as it may. But it IL the last hope.
The straw Mt which the drowning thousands Of
iree-state men nre c~lutching. The murders and
other ousragee in the territory have comparatively
ceased. Governor Geary first cheated the people
into the hope that Justice should lie done, and lie
now taking every possible precaution to secure the
quiet permanence of slavery in the territory
Titus, the Florida Brigand, is commander of tho
territorial militia, q company Of %rufians, who with
the United States troops, are enforcing law and
order, that is maintaining tho supremacy of the
laws OF the bogus Legislature, obstructing tho ia.
greSs OF Free State emigrants, arresting or expell.
ing such free State citizens as are deemed danger
Gus to tho interests of slavery. When arrested,
they are taken before pro.slavcry courts and ju.-
RIGS who are sure to convict them Of disobcdience
to the Missouri laws. Thus is Governor Geary
thoroughly doing the work of his masters who
control the Federal Government. And in the mean
time the Free State men in the territory are starv-
ing and almost naked, except at one or two of the
most accessible points to which the succors col.
lectod in the States have penetrated.
An election was held in the territory on the 9th
inst, at which Whitfield was elected to Congress,
huu HIoO meHnucrs OF u now legislature. Tho
Free State men declined to vote, as casting their
votes would De a sanction of the bogus laws. How
the United States Government, through it's agent
Governor Geary, administers justice, mar be learn.
cd from the following:
CHICAGO, Oct. 60.
Intelligence vas received here Saturday evening
by Messenger, via. Nebrasna City, that $50 Kansas
emigrants, including women and children, were
3 ban rIEAnnr Irl II ho-,,- AI--l-I D-.-
and 700 U. S. troops, neal Plymouth. Kansas, on
the 10Th inst. Previous to leaving Nebraska City
MIR. Eldridge, the conductor of the party procured
permission from Gov. Geary to enter the territory
with ordinary arms OF emigrante, having assured
the Governor that their intentions were peaceful.
On arriving at Plymouth they found 700 troops
and Dix pieces Of artillery drawn up to oppose their
progress. The troops acting as pOsse to the Dep
uty Marshal ordered them to halt. and Informed
them that their whole party were prisoners
Search was Immediately instituted. All boxes.
trunks and other baggage weie opened, resulting
in the discovery OF one key of powder, one key Of
cartridges, belonging to the night guard, ten
Sharpe's rifles, one box containing two dozen re.
vOlvers, being ON t. eight to Council City, md a
number Of common rifles belonging to private in.
d~ividuals. The troops then took possession of all
horses, wagons, baggage and farming utensils, to-.
getIcr with a large quantity of provisions. The
whole party were then ordered under guard and
orders were gwen to shoot any who should attempt
to escape. Tho prisoners sent back n state
ment Of the facts with 1874 signatures. The
emigrants are mostly from New York, Indiana, IL.
linOis, Wisconsin and Ohio.
General Richardson, who commanded the last in.
vading army. and which was disbandcd by Cover
nor G"ary, has published a long letter justifying
himself to the rufians for going home without IA
battle. In the following paragraph, he expressed
his entire confidence that Governor Geary will do
for them all and more than could be achieved by
force of arms. And 80 doubtless he will.
Ife says:
The arrival of Gov. Geary. with full power and
ample instructions from the Government to do all
that we had thought it needful to do, not only su-
pcrceded the necessity for our action, but the prompt
measures taken 10y him to suppress the wrongs
complained Of. and to bring the wrong-doers to
justice, took from us the justification We before
had for taking redress into our own hands. To
have persisted, in this changed state of the case.
in our t"st intentions. would have placed us in tho
very attitude Of those we condemned, and made
us as liable as Lane and his party TO the penalties
ot violating law and derying the civil authority
law then Tor the first time in Kansas asserting its
supremacy in tho person of an executive who. it
is apparent. has the will and determination to
maintsin its majesty.