The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-01

On motion OF COl. WoodSon, COM
mittee of six, one from each township IN
the county was appointed by the Chair
to solicit stock for said Association.
For Blue Township. S. II. Woodson |
Fort Usage, A. G. Garrison: Kaw, Jas. |
B. Davenport Snia Bar, Jacob Gregg |
Washington, SamH Grant; Van Buren,,
Warham Easley.
On motionlof ]. w. Reid the follow
ing resolution was adopted
Resolued, That this meeting recon-
mend that convention of such delegates
as may represent all the county associa-
tons in this State, be held at Lexington
on the 21st day of March next, to delib-
crate upon and mature complete system
of operations for the purpose in view
and that we recommend to the Directory
of this Society. that they shall forthwith
appoint some suitable persons to repre-
sent this society in such Convention.
This meeting was presided over by
Col. James Chiles, N. r. McMurry act
ing as Secretary. Prominent among the
actors was S. III. Woodson, whose name,
it will be recollected, was appended to
most of the telegraphic dispatches from
Independence to Lexington, st. Louis,
&C., urging forward persons to come to
Kansas and aid in the subjugation of the
id Yankees His dispatches were
mistaken in the East for those of the Sec
retary ofour Territory, DANIEL WooDsoN.
McMurry is presumed to be DR.. McMur-
ry of Independence who also figured con-
spicuously in that campaign. Whether
this man CHILEs, who was President of
the meeting, was the man (?) who brut-
ally maltreated Rev. VIM. C. Clark on
the Missouri river last autumn or
whether he was the person who joined
with others in sending dispatches over
the wires during our late war, of which
the following is a verbatim copy, We are
not informed, but presume it is the same
which the dispatch of the Sd of Dec.
calls Col Chiles. The dispatch alluded
to, was as follows:
"There is no doubt in regard to hav-
ing a fight, and we all know that great
many have complained because they
were disappointed heretofore in regard
to fight. Say to them now is the time
to show game, and if we are defeated this
time, the Territory is lost to the South. !"
Whilst the above mentioned meeting,
at which Col. Chiles presided, DIR. Nc
Hurry was Secretary, and Woodson was
prominent actor, was in session, Col.
Nc Carly, who undoubtedly was also con-
nected with the late outrages, offered the
following resolutions, which were unan;-
naously adopted:
| WHEREAS, Information having been
received through the public papers, that
the President of the United States had
received information that armed organi-
cations had been raised in the Territory
of Kansas, and without the Territory in
the neighboring States, for the purpose of
resisting the laws of the Territory, clear
ly implying that the border counties of
the State of Missouri contemplated such
armed resistance, and has issued proc
lamation based thereon;
Resolped, At a ass-meeting of the
citizens of Jackson county, State of Mis-
souri,, held at the city of Independence
on the 18th day of February, 1856, that
as no such armed resistance to the laws
of the Territory of Kansas, as stated in
the proclamation of the President, is, OF
ever was contemplated by the citizens OF
Jackson county; nor do they believe
that any such armed resistance ever was
contemplated by any portion of the citi-
zens of any county in the State of Mis-
: souri,.
Resolped, That we believe that said
proclamation was founded upon testimo-
ny of the abolition fanatics of the Terri
tory, and not upon the information of the
law abiding portion of its citizens, wheth-
er of the North or South.
Resolved, That the citizens of Jack
son county, lying upon the border
ofKansas Territory, ever have been law
abiding, as its history will show for the
last thirty years.
| ResotUed, That we offer to the Presi-
dent our assistance in suppressing any
armed resistance to the laws of Kansas
Territory, whether it be from the North
or South.
Resotued, That we call upon all the
counties of the State to express their SEN
timents in regard to such proclamation.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this
meeting forward copy of these resolu-
tions to the President of the United States
signed by the Chairman and the Secre-
iary.
| On motion the meeting adjourned un-
til the FIRST Monday in March.
JAMES CHILES, Chm.
N. Il. McMURRY. Sec'g.
The idea evidently intended to be con-
veyed in the above resolutions, was that
the people of Jackson county had ever
been loyal TO our institutions; that they
had never invaded our Territory in any
form and they closed by profering their
assistance 10 the President to aid in SUBJ
ijugating the people of the Territory
If they were not concerned in those out
RACES. why did they feel called upon to