Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-20

er to do so, nor well be exercise any such power;
and that he will not call on any citizen Of an
other State who may be here In these nego.
tlatlons he agreed TO waive the question of rhe
validity of the laws Of the Territorial Legisla-
tnre. Then he issued an order to Lane and
Robinson TO incorporate into the service OF Kan
sas the militia Of Lawrence and directed them
g to use the enrolled force for the preservation
Of the peace, and the protection Of Lawrence
ind vicinity" against the armed men on the
banks OF the Wakurusa
MIR. President this treaty, which Shannon
signed, with Lane and Robinson, on Sunday,
the 9Th Of December, 1855, will stand Il per-
pctual confession Of his incapacity and folly;
this order giving Lane and Robinson authority
to use the enrolled force with those famed
Sharpe's rifles" for the preservation Of peace,
and the protection Of Lawrence and vicinity"
against the armed bands his fatal proclamation
had summoned will stand living testimony
that the men of Lawrence were the guardians
OF law. Yes, sir, that treaty and that order
Will stand an eternal expression, ut once of err
ror and repentance
After signing those evidences of his own hui
initiation, he returned to the camp on the Wa
karusa, and then, to the leaders Of the crew he
! had drawn together, proclaimed his truce with
Missouri sauntered these batiled bands of lawless
desperadoes, cold sulen dispirited. They came
to the banks Of the Wakarusa, big with threats
Of vengeance upon the Free State men of Law
renee; they returned with bitter curses upon
the imbecile Governor, whose proclamation had
drawn them from their homes. Gen. String
fellow, whose pure taste the Senator from South
, Carolina can v0uch for, denounced the treach-
cry oil Shannon. Captlin Leonard, the leader
of one Of these gangs Of border hundtti, thro'
Y the columns of the st. Joseph GG4ette, declares
j that your Governor {" raises a storm, and then
to quell it, Judas-like, processes his special
e friendship, first for one party, and then, con
lecture, for the other. But, however this may
: be, he descends to the despicablc position Of
! common liar, both to the one party and the
: other,
You may search the records of the country,
r from the settlement Of jamestown to this day,
# and you can find no instance of such iucapacity
c folly, and supcradded criminality, as Wilson
Shannon displayed on that occasion or such
d an utter disregard Of the rights Of the people
as was mani tested by the border settlers of Mis-
n souri,. | commend to the consideration of the
r Senator from Missouri these pregnant questions
e Of the ST. Louis Den1ocrat, II paper Published at
f his own home:
- w lluI ElpHJ UtIu IlcSc HUruUS Ol DOTuer
e banditi to invade the soil of that Territory and
o enlist themselves in the support OF Gov. Shan
$ nom What business had they thercl What
law or what precedent would justify their in
h reference in the affairs of free and sovereign
e Territory! What right had Gov. Shannon and
l. Stringellow to invite, encourage, or counte-
!, nlncc their presence in arms, in Common
!. wealth Of which they were not citizens! Was
IS there ever more gIaring inconsistency, or a
,e more glaring outrage, than that by which Shan
20 non and his minions have sought to overlwC
AZ and crush a portion Of the people Of Kansas
m by introducing a gang Of lawless desperadoes
t. upon their SOIL armed to the teeth with weapons
Of obtained by breaking open II United States ar
It senal Has the civilized world ever known a
ID more disgraceful, barbarous and savage spec
N tace "
he This Administration has now clothed Wilson
ee Shannon-whose incompetcncy has been made
ut manifest to the world-with the civil and mill
in tary authority, and with all the power of the
re Government to execute the laws, and to main
n tain order in the Territory. The duties assign
1e ed this officer, in the present critical condition
in Of affairs your frontiers, of the gravest
or and most weighty character Sir, your Admin
III stration-by the wanton repeal of the Missou-
70 ri prohibition, by the failure to protect the ac
=. tual residents-af Kansas in t heir rights
n the laundering acts and criminal remissness q
We ths official authorties-has brought the nation
IT. to the perious edge OF civil strife. Sir, this
Administration owes it to the country. whose
", peace is in danger this day, to intrust the res
of ponsbe and delicate duties of Governor of Kan.
xt sas to prudent, judcious, sagacious statesman
To- "a man of individual honor and personal char
u acter, in whom the people place the fullest con
10 ti1pDcn w jlSOn Shannon il NOT that man
ne The man who could descend to degrading com
is panionshp around the gaming tables of those
IN saloons OF San francisco, Described by that OK
- perienccd traveller, Madame Ida Peifttr, Ills the
,ts most dissolute she had seen in her tour OF
3D. the gobe,) with Mexican greasers, the escaped
h. conylctS OF the British penal colonies and the
H. desperalloes of the Old World and the New
lit the man who could, while Kansas WIS oyerrur
en- by armed bands, summoned around Lawrence
ey by his reckless letters, dispatches and proc
,ss lamatons while civil war lowered over the poo
,se Pile ntrustDd to lis care-while an honored cit
he izen, stricken down by the assassin, lay cold il
he death, and devoted wife was weeping over his
- mortal remains, make himself the humilatine
H. Object of the derison OF his enemies, and of thu
at pity of his friends, by al exhibition of gros,
ct mtoXicaton-is not tho man to whom thu
N. American people would intrust the affairs o
I'm Kansas,
IN | call the attention Of the Senate. Mr. Presi
ut dent, to another ioray over the borders-to The
rs fifth Missouri invasion. | mean the rruptior
NJ into Kansas ON the 18th of December, when tho
o. people were called upon to vote upon the Con
tie stituton Trained by that Convention the Senator
so from Connecticut is pleased to pronounce 'spur
to ious " Along the Missouri border, the people
Tot in several voting precincts were oyerawed by
~, Of ,,.I,,, - 1
ZEN were not holden. At LeavenWorth, the election
ur many Of whom had been ordered to Leayen
of worth on that day, to be formally discharged
to from service in the Kansas militia, into whicl
ZEN they had been incorporated. At the dime
ho hour, while most of the people were aLsen
ted from the polls, these " border Euiiaps rushe,
IN, upon the officers, broke up tfc meeting bea
ess to the earth Withcrell, the clerk whose life wa
nat saved by the horoic daring Of Brown, sine
1t fouliy murdered, who rushed to his rescue at
Try moment when the uplilted axe Of the aSsassii
was about to descend upon his PROSTATE form
,ed On the 23d OF December, another ioray wa
be made upon Freedom at Leavenworth and tn
to press Of Mr.. Dclahay, which barely escaped OF
the the 18th was destroyed. Mr.. Delhay is Ma
OBJ tive Of Maryland, and has been slayeholde
ru- in his native State, in Alabama and in Nilsson
he ri ; man who has little sympathy with Anti
ON Slavery men. He is simply ono of those mode
.he rate, conservative men, who believe that FREE
he labor is honorable and slave labor is dishonora
the ble," and that the permanent interests of Kan
he sas would be promoted by making it a fire.
yo Commonwealth.
ma On the 18th of January the people of Kan
the sas were called upon to elect officers Under thu
at- Consultation adopted on the 18th of December
ep- Another assault upon the freedom OF the ballot
II; box was made at Easton by armed men. Th'
me- nao,ln ttpnta1 to resist the destruction of thu