Squatter sovereign., 1856-05-20

I1e Iruf1 6T2Yely GolU-4uS 6uoi1tIon-
lists of Massachusetts, the only true "Ruf-
fans
The outcry raised by the abolitionfaction
here at the North, and re-echoed from
their missionary 4ruffians' in Kansas,
against the citizens of Missouri, is begin
ming to be pretty we'll understood by the
people through out the country. These
vicious intermeddlers. having failed in their
design TO secure the control of the Terri
torial legislature, raised the cry of "border
ruffians," to direct the attention of the
people from their own infamous acts, as
the culpist did, who, TO elude his pursuers,
joined in the cry stop thief The Missou-
rians, it is alledged. were the first aggres-
sors, but we must look nearer home 10 dis
cover who 1t was that threw the first stone;
aye, even at our own doors. We charge
upon the black republicans. the abolition
lists of Massachusetts, that while Missouri
acted on the defensive policy, they took
the first step of aggression.
That false step was taken when the le-
gislature of Massachusetts passed the act
incorporating the Massachusetts Emigrant
Aid Society,"" for, had not this society re-
ceiyed charter which vested it with the
semblance OF authority, at least, the peace
and harmony OF the country would not now
be threatened with the apprehensions of
intestine war. The act incorporating a
powerful moneyed corporation, the plan
and purpose of which was TO force abolition
emigration into Kansas, with the avowed
determination to direct and control the or
ganization of the Territory, in accordance
with their own narrow, illIberal, and Sec
.ional views, regardless of the rights and
wishes of the lawful inhabitants, was re-
garded by the people of Missouri, and the
entire South. as threat that the influence
OF the wealth Of the abolition "ruftians" OF
Massachusetts,, would be used under color
OF legal authority from the legislature, to
invade the Territory Of Kansas, and to
usurp and wrest from the people thereof
the rights guaranteed to them under the
organic law of the Territory to manage
their own domestic concerns in their own
way. 1t could be regarded in no other
light. That such was the design of this
society from its inception cannot be dent
ed. They made no secret Of it, indeed,
their boast was loudly made that, through
the operations of this organization and its
ruffian hirelings, Kansas would be made
free State, at watever cost, even to, the
..boody ISSUE" They have not only Kept
good their promise to the extremity of sfed-
ding blood, but they have gone far beyond
that, even to the COMMISSION OF acts OF
open treason.
This plan of invasion was explicitly
enunciated by the Massachusetts 'ruffian'
Society in a pamphlet published by its Off
GERS, headed by the name Of Amos A.
Lawrence, shortly after its organization,
and it will hardly do now that they have
raised threatning storm about their ears,
to strive to arrest the consequences oil their
crime and folly. The letter and spirit OF
the Kansas-Nebraska act, which left it
free with the people of the Territories to
regulate their domestic institutions in their
own way, subject only TO the constitution of
| the United Stales," did not suit the section
al and unconstitutional views of these in:
termeddIers, and they determined to force
their peculiar institutions-some of which
we would willingly spare-upon the peo-
pie of Kansas without even condescending
to consult their wishes in the premises;
and to this end, by the connivance of our
legislature, fve-million fund was brought
into requisition.
The people of Kansas, however, spurn-
ed their offer, and coolly gave them TO un-
derstand not only that their aid was not
required, but that no oficious intermeddhng
would be tolerated by ''ruffians'' from
Massachusetts or elsewhere: that they could
and would manage their own affairs in
their own way. This they did by electing
and organizing the Territorial Legislature
the only government that rightfully could
be organized in the Territory, and the only
one that now does or can legally exist, or
/ nave legal force therein, until Kansas is
admitted as sovereign State into the Un-
ion, and her constitution approved by Con-
gress. This was not precisely such a re-
suit as the fiye-milion fund 'rufiians coan-
ted upon when they undertook the business
of directing and shaping the political des-
tinies Of the Territory. Fortunately for
Kansas and for the Union, they were
thwarted IN their plans, and hence the
howlings and curses both loud and deep that
are now heard on all sides from the raving
BediamiteS.
Up to the removal of Reeder, however,