Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-05
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llarty, that our border robbers do not simplv
levy black mail and drive off few cattle, like
those who acted under the inspiration of the
douglas OF other days; that they do not seize
O. lew persons, and sweep them away into cap
tvity, like the African slave-traders whom we
brand as pirates; but that they commit sue
cesslon OF acts in which all border sorrows and
all African wrongs are revived together on
American soil, and which, for the time being,
annuls all protection of all kinds and enslaves
the whole territory
Private griefs mingle their poignancy with
public wrongs. | do not dwell on the anxieties
uen assault, and obliged to lie down to rest with
the alarms of war ringing in their ears, not
knowing that another day might be spared to
them Throughout this bitter winter, with the
thermometer at 80 degrees below zero, the citi-
zens OF Lawrence have been constrained to sleep
under arms, with sentinels treadng their con-
stant watch against surprise. But our souls
are wrung by individual instances In vain do
we condemn the crueties Of another age-the
refnements of torture to which men have been
doomed-the rack and thumb-screw of the In
QUESTION, the last agonies of the regcide Ra-
vaillae-" Luke's iron crown, and Daimen' bed
of steel for kindred outragos have disgraced
these borders. Murder has stalked-assassina-
tlon has skulked in the tall grass of the prairie,
and the vindictiyeness of man has assumed un-
wonted forms. A preacher of the Gospel Of the
Savior has been ridden on rail, and then
thrown into the Missouri, fastened to a log, and
LETT TO drift down its muddy tortuous current.
And lately we have had the tidings Of that
enormity without precedent-a deed without
name-where a candidate for the Legislature,
was most brutaly gashed with knives and
hatchcts, and then, after weltering in his blood
on the snow clad earth, was trundled along with
gaping wounds to fall dead in the face of his
wife. 1t is common to drop tear of sympathy
over the trembling solictudes of our ea.ly fa-
thers, exposed to the stealthy assault of the saw
age foe; and an eminent American artist has
pictured this scene in marble group of rare
beauty, on the front of the National Capitol,
where the uplilted tomahawk is arrested by the
strong arm and generous countenance Of the
pioneer, while his wife and children find shelter
at his feet but now the tear must be dropped
over the trembling solictudcs of fellow citizens,
seeking to build new State in Kansas, and
exposed to the perpetual assault of murderous
robbers from Missouri. Hirelings picked from
the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civil
zation-in the form of men
Aye in the catalogue ye 90 for men;
As hounds and grcyhoulds mongrels, spaniels, curs
| ShJughs, water-rugs, and dem-woyes, are called
| All by the name Of dogs
lcashed together by secret signs and lodges, have
renewed the incredible atrocities of the Assas
sins and of the Thugs; showing the blind sub
mission of the Assassns to the old Man of the
Mountains, in robbng Christians on the road to
Jerusalem, and showing tho heartlessness of the
Thugs, who, avowing that murder was their re-
ligion, waylaid travellers on the great road from
Agra to Delhi with the more deadly bowie.
knife for the dagger of the Assassin, and the
more deadly revolver for the moose Of the Thug.
In these nyasions, attended by the entire sub
version Of all security in this territory, with tho
plumber of the ballotbox, and the pollution OF
the electoral franchise, show simply the pro-
cess in unprecedented crime. If that be the
best government, where an injury to singe
citizen is resented as an injury to the whole
state, then must our government forfeit all
claim to any such elninence, while it leaves its
citizens thus exposed. In the outrage upon the
ballot-box, even without the illicit fruits which
shall soon expose, there is a peculiar crime OF
the deepest dye, though subordinate to the final
crime, which should be promptly avenged
In countries wher5 royalty is upheld, it spe-
clal offence to rob the crown Jewels, which are
the embems OF that sovereignty before which
the loyal subject bows, and it is treason to bo
found in adultery with the Queen, for in this
way may false heir be imposed upon the state;
but in our republic the baot-box is the single
priceless Jewel Of that sovereignty which we re-
Ispect, and the elective franchise, out Of which
are born the rulers Of free people, is the Queen
whom wc are to guard against pollution. In
this plain presentment, whether as regards secu-
rity or as regards elections, there is enough,
surely, without proceeding further, 10 justify
the intervention Of Congress, most promptly and
completely, to throw over this oppressed people
the impenetrable shield of the constitution and
laws But the half is not yet told.
AS every point in widespread horizon radi-
ate from common centre, so everything said
OF done i'll this vast circle OF crime radates from
the one idea, that Kanses, at all hazards, must
be made slave state. In all the manifold wick
edness that have occurred, and every successive
invasion, this one idea has ever been present, as
the Satan-tempter--the motive power-the cdus-
ing cause. To accomplish this result, three
things were attempted: first, by outrages OF all
!. kinds to drive the friends of freedom already
there out of the territory. secondly, to deter
Others from comming; and, thirdly. to obtain
the complete control of the government ne
process Of driving out, and also OF deterrlng, has
failed. On the contrary, the friends OF freedom
lHerc DecalIl0 more HN6u III lHelT TeSulNes
and fight the battle, which they had never sought,
but from which they disdained to retreat while
the friends of freedom else@here were to be
aroused to the duty of timely succors, men and
MUNITIONS, OF just self defence.
But, while defeated in the first two processes
propose1 the conspirators succeeded in the last.
by the violence already portrayed at the election
of the 3Olh March, when the polls were occupied
s by the armed hordes from Missouri, they Imposed
= Legislature upon the Territory, and thus, under
: the iron mask of law, established a Usurapatlon
5 not less complete than any in history. lhat
Il this was conc, proceed TO prove. Here is the
: evidence
Il |. Only in this way can this extraordinary
= expedtion be adequately explained. In the
words of Moliere, once employed by John quincy
/ Adams in the House, Que dabte diId'ens as td,re
D dams cell galere What did they go into the
u Territory forl If their purpose were peaceful
! as has been suggested, why cannons, arms, nags'
/ Numbers and ali this violence As simple citizens
II nroceednp TO the honest exercise OF the eectofa
7 franchise they might have gone with no'hns
! IS more than prllgrims staff, Philosophy always
IS socks a sufficient cause, and only IN the One
&c Inca. already presented, can cause be iound ~
!. any degree commensurate with TINS of'h'o anI
II his becomes so only when we consider the mao
:, fanaticism of Slavery.
o Q. Public notoriety steps forward TO conhTn
the suggestion of reason, In every place Mne,d nd
Truth can freely travel, it has been asserted ",u
. undersiood that the Legislature was imPosea NJ, dP
is on Kansas by foreigners from Missouri anS
:. univers.l voice is now received as undeniaole
10 verify. a..
ID It is also attested by The harangTes ol o;S siS
10 conspirators. Here is what otr'ngie''o" ''
rs before the invasion: r onscience as
"a tbs y;ois,;oc % laws. State or National the time