Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10


published, and we have been unable to get
even sight of the manuscript, yet suffi-
cient is known to establish the fact that
at wM not be submitted to vote of the
people, and that the people aCM not sub
init to 1T!
A large and enthusiastic meeting, irres-
peetive of party, was held in this city
Saturday night last, TO consider what should
be done by the people of Kansas to pro-
tect themselves from this outrageous fraud.
Geo. H. Shotwell, Esq, presided. A COM
mittee was appointed, and reported in favor
of calling Grand Mass Convention of
the people of Kansas, irrespective of party,
to be held in Leavenworth City. Friday.
the 9th of November. "Gen. Jim Lane, !"
was then called upon to address the meet
ing. l give you portion of his speech
verbatim ct literatim, which was received
with great applause. Indeed, the people
are so enraged they are ready for the most
desperate acts. Lane said:
"Gantleman of Leavenworth City, we
have come 20 the last move on the chess
board of Kansas politics, 1t is tile last
move, and the greatest move on the great
political board. This last act of the pro-
slavery party is consistent with all their
former acts, only it is altogether the most
desperate. 1t stirs up all our blood, and
we hardly know what to do in this trying
time. have stood here, Gentleman, on
Kansas soil, and seen fraudulent Legisla-
ture thrown upon US by neighboring
State! I have seen invasion pouring in
upon us-I have seen crime in every shape
committed upon the settlers of Kansas soil,
but this last act crowns them all in vii
lainy and fraud! And l say it here, and
am personally responsible for what l say,
that these villains haze forfeited their lives
to an injured peoplel (The applause
here was deafening, and it was some min
utes before it subsidized sufficient for the
speaker to proceed.) That crime is so he'll
Hsh that these outlaws have forfeited all
claims upon the American people.
That Constitution, heaped and forced
upon us, is awful, disgraceful, and damna-
bic in all its forms. Kansas is a Slave
State to-day and forever, unless you con-
trive some means to defeat this Constitu-
ton, made by these bloodhounds at Le-
compton. l say hele tonight that these
men who have made this Constitution,
blacker set you cannot find out of HE'LL
Commence at John Calhoun, President of
the Convention, and go down to Bat Jones,
the hero of Oxford, and blacker set Of
internal villains cannot be found! Zap
plause.) Truth-they don't know what it
means! Honesty-they don't know it
has existencei say the President of that
Convention, John Calhoun, should have
written upon his tombstone (if he ever
dies) Felon! Fslon!! Felonii! (Vocif-
erous cheering.) These men who framed
that Constitution have separated them
selves from all honesty and from all honor
which existed in that party. There are
honest pro-Slavery men before me who
left that party in disgust when they
saw the poisonous fruits Of that Con-
vention. Calhoun and his party number,
to-day, less then two Numbered msn-men
did I says No, .fsnds! (Cheers.)
told member of that Convention last
night, that We would head them or o.
head! CA laugh.) lam not a-golng TO
advise war or bloodshead here tonight, for
perhaps there is no need Of that We !