Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-03-14

DdllON DOAbS ny tiltst ii"i"u'iHt
squads that were prowling over the
country, insulting the people, and
robbing them of their means of de-
Tense. Peaceable, law abiding citi-
zens were hunted down, fred upon,
aud their lives put IN imminent peril,
Some Of them had to flee to Law
renee, as to a city Of refuge, TO save
themselves from the vengeance OF
the prowing asSassins. A party OF
these lawless desperadoes captured
Mr.. Brown-who so bravely rescu-
ed Witherell at Leavenworth-and
several others, robbed them of their
arms, and then with hatchets and
knives, they fendlshly hacked and
cut Brown to pieces, flung him in a
dying condition into carriage, and
bore him to his home to breathe out
his life in the arms of his distracted
wife, another sacrifice to the dark
spirit of slave propaganda.
To-day, sir, unless they are on
their march, there is arming and
organizing in Western Missouri, in
the Blue lodges, in the secret camps,
hosts Of men for another invasion.
Sleepless eyes are upon these move
ments, organized by Atchison and
his subalterns.
General Lane and Robinson sent
to the President, on the 2lst Of Feb
ruary a telegraphic despatch Col.
Lane-a man who trod the battle
field of Buena Vista-a man who
knows something of what war is,
who knows something Of the threats
that have been made, and the prepa-
rations that are now making, on the
borders Of Western Missouri for an
other lawless invasion of Kansas,
has appealed to the President for
protection. He is no fanatic. Sir,
you cannot call him an Abolitlonist,
at least not yet.
Mr.. HALE. He will be one soon.
Mr.. WILSON. The Senator from
New Hampshire says he will be one
soon. The scenes through which
he is passing are calculated to abo-
ltionize men made Of the hardest
natures. John Quincy Adams once
said that a mau has a right to be
an Abolitiouist, and in being an ABB
olitionist, he violates no law, human
or divine" General Lane may be-
come an abolitionist; but, sir, he is
not one now. On the 2lst of Jan
uary he asked the President to send
the Military force stationed at Fort
Leavenworth to protect the people
of Kansas against an invasion which
is "organizing in our border, amply
supplied with artillery, for the avow-
ed purpose ofinvading our territory,
demOishing our towns and butcher
ing our unoffendlng free State citi-
zens.n
Two days after, on January 23d,
General Lane and General Robinson
asked the President to issue his
proclamation forbidding this Iawless
invasion of their Territory. The
Senator from Connecticut flatters
himself that those of us who do
not approve the course of the Adj
ministration will be greatly disap-
pointed to find that the leaders of
the free-State movement in Kansas
have implored the Executive TO is
sue his proclamation. Let not the
Senator from Connecticut lay the
hattering JUNCTION to his soul, that
we are chagrined by the disclosure
Of this correspondence. Robinson
and Lane. in behalf Of the imperied
people of Kansas, asked the Presi-
dent to issue his proclamation i'm
mediately forbidding the invasion,
which, if carried out, as planned
will stand forth without ? parallel
III the worlds history" They did
not ask the President for his procla-
nation against the wronged and
oppressed people of Kansas. They
asked for bread the President gave
them a stone. They asked for a
fish-the President gave them a ser
pent.
The President, sir, has issued his
proclamation, but that proclamation
is chiefly and mainly directed n
gainst Lane and Robinson and the
lIberty-loving, law.abidlng free state
men Of Kansas. Like his annual
message, in which he softly spoke
of the long series Of outrages you
will scarcely find plralIeled in the
history of Christian States, as ir-
regularilies"-lke that special mes
sage in which the aggressive acts OF
the Missouri invaders were covered
over with mild and honeyed phras-
es, and the defensive measures OF
the actual settlers treated as iusur-
reclionary acts demanding exclusive
censure, this proclamation will be
received on the Western borders by
the men who by their votes aud by
their resolves have dictated law TO
Kansas, with shouts of APPROVAL
Sir, this proclamation will carry no
terror into the Blue lodges aud Sc
cret clubs of western Missouri.
But, sir, we were congratulated
yesterday by the Senator from Con,
necticut, that the laws were to be
executed and order preserved.
call the attention of the Senate and
of the country to the way in which
the laws are to be executed and or
der preserved, according to the or
der of the Secretary of War, What
does this order say to Col. Sumner
Does it clearly and expressly com.