Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-30
CLEARPIELD. Pa, APRIL 80, 1856.
KANSAS.

KANSAS
Our contemporary of the Republican has COM
-nsaced the publication of Judge Douglass
Report report ought to contain fair
statement Of the facts respecting the matters
on which the report is made. Bat such a state
rnent IL nowhere to be found in the report of
Judge Douglass. Il is in reality an elaborate
lvwrittsn speech, setting forth one side, and
only one side of the case. Like many other
one-sided arguments, it may appear plausible
enough till the whole truth is told. It.object
seems to be to justify the Border Ruffians who
invaded Kansas, and to form a kind OF manual
or textbook for all the faithful followers of
Pierce. Douglass & Co. ft-zi1g
The author of the report leaves altogether
out ofview the most important facts that make
against him, nisrepresents others, and dwelIs
largely upon such statements as he believes
can be turned to his advantage. Those lawless
Missourians who inTaded Kansas in armed
bands, took possession Of the ballOt-boxcs, and
undertook to elect Legislature to make laws
for the people of the Territory, endeavored to
Justify their outrages by saying that the peo-
pie Of Massachusetts, did wrong They pre-
tended TO consider themselves as innocent as
lambs, 1t appears that Douglass uses the
same logic and follows in the same track He
may be considered their favorite champion.
But what grave offence is it that these men
ofHassachusettsh OF have committed9 Itamounts
slmply TO this that some OF them chose to en-
igrste and settle in Kansas, and that some of
the friends of the emigrants formed an Emil
grant Aid Society or company which afforded
facilities for emigrating and settling. Will |
any one pretend that northern men had no !
right to go to Kansas as settlers! Why, the |
very fact of forming the territory was an invi- I
tation 10 all who chose to enter in and settle. |
All who went in as settlers were doing what |
they had perfect right to do, and what the I
laws of the land invited them TO do Their
act was pFaiseworthy and lawful; aud those
y~ho furnished them facilities for emigrating.
merely assisted them in doing what was per /
fectly lawful and right.
are told 10 the report Of Mr. Douglass /
that immediate steps were taken BY the peo- /
pie OF the western counties OF Missouri 20 slim
ulate, organize and carry into effect system
of emigration similar to that Of the Maszachu-
astts Emigrsnt Aid Company There is then /
Missourians to have been very much the same I
as that of the emigrants from Massachusetts, !
except that the MissoHrians were not near so I
bad CT worthy of blame as those persons from
Massachusetts,. lst7 al u,. l I
~ .its,cas.read ,s' 80 -n'':~'ss'.~ya
Now are such Representations just Are I
they true Every one who knows the course |
of affairs in Kansas knows them to he untrue. |
There was'in fact no similarity between the !
conduct OF the two parties. The men from the I
eastern States pursued a system OF Emigra- +
ton they went 10 KaHsas,as settlers, and I
this they had a right to do. The system pur-
rsued by the Iissourians was not system Of I
emigration but of invasion they went to /
Kansas as invaders, and this they had no right I
to do. Those y no assisted in emigration from /
Massachusetts and elsewhere were assisting in /
lawful act, but those who assisted in the in
aston from Missouri were assisting in what |
WAS unlawful. .-
In Kansas there we're Is election districts
On the day Of election faarch go, 1850 the |
MiesouriaRs in armed and organized bands ap !
psared in nearly every district, took posses
sion of the polls, and, by violence, intimda- /
ton and superior force carried everything their |
own way. After the election they returned a
ain TO Missouri. et \
Every sensible man knows that such an cleo
On vas ausurpation and fraud. II would
-e fraud in any event, no matter whether the
charges against the eastern emigrantswere true
or false. Representatives thus elected were
no. the Representatives of the people of Kan
sas but of the Missouri mob that elected them.
II such an election can be sustained aud pro-
ounced legal IL makes Kansas conquered
g under the eontrolof men elected and
,bo.ss, by a lawless mob from neigh 1
ssWhy,n sal,-
npppv in your bbsitants of Kansas may
---n the outrage that
A BoARDINd-seHoohS-;r lights; some
IT ungenteel TO say she ~a;sh the inva-
planned Of being Hiiliamoussnce be-
days OF refinement, sifest
FouR LADIES were .sembraced' int
uating class of the Cleveland Medical
1t its recent commencement.