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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
To the PaonIa of Kansas.

We have, at the late election, carried
every county in Kansas by the legal vote.
Every scheme that malignant ingenuity
could invent, has been resorted to by our
opponents, to defeat the expressed wish of
the people. Fraudulent returns have
been manufactured at different points and
returned to the Secretary's Office, so glar-
ing, that the authors of the vile forgery
dare not openly sustain them. Gov.
WALKER and Secretary STANTON have re-
fused to allow them certificates, although
corrupt Judiciary has endeavored, by
writ of mandamus, to compel them to do
SO. If these officers stand firm, as we
have every assurance they will, in the po-
sition they have taken, you will have the
Delegate to Congress and majority of
both branches of the Territorial Legisla-
ture.
But this victory, great as it is, does not
free Kansas. The battle is not yet fought
nor is the victory won. A body of usur-
pers are now assembled at Lecompton,
under the guard of the q. S. army, con-
cocting scheme to perpetuate the slavery
oligarchy in Kansas To their action we
respectfully call your attention; hold
meetings in every locality and denounce
them; persevere and perfect your military
organization at every point; be prepared
to march at a moments warning, that when
your cause and your country calls, you
may promptly respond. By participating
in the late election, you have shown to
the world your earnest desire to settle
the Kansas difficulties peaceably; by
that vote you have proven that the free
State party are in the ascendeney in every
county in Kansas. The election frauds,
actually perpetrated to defeat the wishes
of that majority-the hellish scheme now
being concocted at Leeompton, evidencing
that resort to force may be necessary,
and having exhausted every peaceable
measure, it is believed that the world will
justify you in resortiug to arms. Be ready
then, fellow freemen of Kansas; you will
not be called upon until that call is abso-
lutely indispensable, and when made, let
all, without regard to age, respond; that
the enemies of American institutions may
know and feel, that an American people,
when once aroused, are as irresistible as
the great ocean when moved by the NIGH
ty storm.
BY order of the Territorial Executive
Committee. G. w. SMITH. Prsst.
G. W. HUTCHINSON, Secretary.
Lawrence, Oct 23d, 1857.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
The U. s. Court at Lecompton.

We stated few weeks ago the stabbing
of Bailey at Lecompton, and Brockets es-
cape.
Ford was arrested and put under bonds
to appear at the recent term of the United
States Court held by Judge Cato at lie
compton. He was given to understand
that he might remain with safety, as he
would have no trial, Judge Cato refused to
call Grand Jury, and SO suffered the case
to go by default, as it was only Free
State man who was stabbed.
A charitable friend suggests that the
neglect of Judge Cato to call Grand Ju-
ry was because he was beastly drunk and
unable to attend to his business.
This is getting to be so common thing
with the Judge that lawyers of both par
ties, as we'll as the mass of the people, are
loudly complaining of it. Lawyers often
have ten or twenty suits pending, when
the Judge will be too drunk for whole
day to attend to any of them.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

OF Clubs begin to arrive for the Herald
Of Freedom from the States, in response to
the invitation to our friends to go to work.
Subscriptions are about expiring to large
number of clubs raised last fall. We
trust all of our old subscribers viii renew,
and host Of new ones subscribe. We
cannot stop with a list below 10000 the
ensuing year, and hope to see it double
that number There is a great work for
our paper to do both in Kansas and OUT
side of il, and it viii labor 70 do that work
regardless of consequences All we ask
is for the friends of free Kansas to hold
up our arms with the aeaafM until the
contest. already protracted, shall have
closed.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
was shmaa, whs. of the Night.

Reader, we have just been engaged in
an important election, have triumphed,
and our friends. all over the country, are
rejoicing at our success. We have elected
Delegate to Congress: have a atwo-thirds
majority in both branches of the Legisla-
ture; have secured nearly every county
and township officer in the Territory; and
our friends feel that our victory is scomplete.
Startie not readeri but it is nevertheless
true, that there has been no period in the
history of Kansas when her destiny seemed
so perilous as at this moment! The in
telligence which has reached us during
the last few hours of the schemes of the
enemies of freedom to work our enslaye-
ment, has filled us with alarm, The con-
test, though to the superficial observer
seems settled, has just openedi A long,
dark pathway, beset with numberless
dangers, is still before us, through which
we must pass!
We deem it not expedient noa0 to detail
the new dangers, which have just been dis
covered. Suffice it to say that every hon.
orable means will be employed to defeat
the movement, and the most energetic ac-
ton will be required. There is no time
for divisions, for personal strife, for pulling
down of one person and putting up an
other; but with an eye steadily and singly
directed to the great purpose of making
Kansas free, we must work night and day
from this forth.
We are no alarmest, and viii not will
ingly do anything to excite apprehensions
of danger when none are near; but again,
we repeat: We have evidence conclusive
ia its character, that our enemies have a
plan to perpetuate power in this Territory
which will require more energy, more
union of purpose, and more sacrifices to
defeat it, than any which has previously
been made publici
IL oA1iA 10 Otll piOSIiCO W SApOo6 IuelI
triekery in time to defeat their schemes if
possible; and we go to work with more
zeal, than we have ever commanded in
the past, because we consider the danger
more imminent, and the probabilities of a
defeat greater than at any other period in
our Territorial history.
Kansas reader, now is your time to stand
firm and entrench yourself for siege!-
We do not apprehend war nor revolution!
but political trickery and knavery which
will startle the country with its boldness!
Congress will be employed to do what
fraud and violence in Kansas thus far has
failed to do! Let us remonstfate, petition,
memoralize, and bring every influence to
bear in our favor which united effort can
command to defeat our enemies, and Sc
cure the final triumph of the right! Let
us take counsel of each other in the crisis,
and "with no friends to reward, or enemies
to punish," guard our future from the
dangers to which we are exposed!
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

@ The news indicate that the Repub-
iican party is defeated both in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, though the Cincinnati COM
mereial says that Gov. CHASE is certainly
reelected. We hope he is, for we be-
lieve him to be one of the best statesmen
ofthe State, and withal an honest man.
If he, or DAVID WILAoT in Pennsylvania,
is defeated the fault is chargable to those
Kansas letter-writers and journals which
have pursued such an unworthy course in
regard to our Territorial affairs-which
have published falsehood for truth, and
by the basest of calumnies attempted to
write down and put down our staunehest
and ablest defenders of freedom.
LATER.-Chase is reelected by a ma
jority ranging from 800 to LOCO.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
The Government, and The Indians.

Our Government has been generous to
a fault with the Indians. 1t has given
them money by thousands and tens of thou
sands of dollars, which has done them no
more good than it would do the same
number of loafers in New York or Cincin-
natl. Generally, Immediately after pay
ment is received, q majority of the Indi-
ans, set down and gamble as long as their
money lasts, and then spend their time as
other loafers do. The small tribes in our
midsts who have become citizens, are
partial exception to this, and are some
what industrious.
Stories which are told of the immorali-
ties of some of our Indian agents is heart
sickening.
Ifthe half is true, many of the Indians
are their superiors in every respect. The
whole system of Indian agencies needs
revising, and agents should be appointed
VIM a . AutSlCotcQ III tuO 0icbdlIOu Ol GQo
Indians and who will teach them agricul-
ture and the mechanic arts. A large part
of their annuities should be given out as
premiums, to those who have made some
progress in the arts of civilization. Indus
try and virtue should be rewarded, while
idleness and vice should be left to their
own support.
1t is stated that a new feature of this
kind is introduced into the treaty with
the Pawnees. Congress may not be aware
that $4,000, appointed by them for agri-
cultural purposes amongst the Pottowat-
tonnes, was filched from them by the a.
gents and not one dollar oft was used as
originally designed. Yet such is the fact.
Will Congress look to this matter.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
II Wont Work.

| It is reported that negro, who abseoa-
ded some time ago from Lecompton, VA
seen few days ago at Topeka, and tAa
the citizens at the latter place prevents
the lnan-hunter from taking his I'0-
perty back into servitude. 1t is also u
ported that Mr.. Butcher has gone to Ie-
peka to serve some kind of process O
somebody there, but the nature OF the a.
fair is unknown to us. We give It as 0S'
opinion that negro-hunting in Kansas Q
residents of Kansas, viii be a poor BUS
ness, and viii never pay. 1t IS the Save
holders and their miniohs who have a.
tempted to force slavery by fraud and 'l0-
lence upon the people Of Kansas and Gu
population are resolved that the meh T.
sponsible for such frauds shall denFe I"
advantage from their own villainy.
When the people of Kansas came nee
they were loyal to the institutions oi ~
country; but, one by one, they have iOc4-
their love for laws, which derive all taeH
authority from legislative enactmehA
fading out. The more they have been'i-
pressed the more they have hated the "
pressor, and sympathized with those w
were oppressed, though they were o.
darker skin.
The policy continued towards the p
ple of Kansas would have converter =
of us into the most active OF opersiOi' :
an underground railroad; indeed. we LIE
ly believe that every dwelling wOuid AZ.
been converted into depot, and eve;
highway leading towards the NORTH So--
have supplied the bed for track.
souri, having changed her policy tow
US, our policy towards them saoair
changed; but, with these wretches II n
sas, who have attempted by irana .
wickedncss to fasten that curse up0H =
we have no sympathy; and would as -
every person they hold and brano :
slave, would take up his line Oi ~1
from the country. and we would h'sn1
a villain that man who would lend h0 :
sistance to cid such person in resA'A
his slave.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

It is reported that Secretary STANTON
was set upon the other day by S. J. Jones,
who used to write himself ''Sheriff of
Douglas County" He was accompanied
by friend, each of whom was armed
with bowie knife and revolver, the han
dies of which were projecting from their
bosoms, apparently for immediate use.
Jones demanded to know the reason that
the Secretary did not issue his certificate
of election. The latter stated that his
reasons were contained in the Proclama-
ton of himself and the Governor, which
were public. ''Then," said Jones with
an oath, 81 undertake to say that every
word in that proclamation is false, You
may take this as political and personal,
too, if you please" Mr.. S. looked around
for something with which to chastise the
insolence of the contemplate Jones, but
nothing was in - reach. 1t is well it
was so, for when Jones commenced his
abusive language his associate, with his
knife and revolver, stepped in the rear of
Mr.. S. evidently designing to give him a
mortal blow in the back if the Secretary
attempted to deal justly by the coaoart
and Jragadocio who had attacked him.
Subsequently, We understand, Jones
was telling, in Lecompton, that he had
sent Secretary Stanton challenge to fight
duel with him.
Jones' friends have claimed that he
was a gentleman, but every publeact of
his which has come to our knowledge, has
shown him to be one of the basest men in
Kansas. We have not doubt but he is
the author of the Oxford frauds, and as
such, he deserves death.
Those wretches who have been laboring
to rob people of their freedom are guilty
of crime, greater, in our opinion, than any
known to human laws. Treason seeks to
overthrow an established government. aud
murder is generally hut a single crime,
but the effort to prevent people from
establishing a government of their own
contemplates all the moral guilt embraced
in treason, murder, arson, and every other
wrong which follows in the train of war,
and civil commotion. If We have no laws
which designate crime so abhorrent to
Justice the PEOPLE in their sovereign capa-
city, in our honest opinion, would be JUS
tilted in passing one, and in infiicting upon
each transgressor an appropriate punish
ment.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
Anxious for she Returns.

The election returns from Ohio and
Pennsylvania viii be looked for with deep
interest. The election was held week
ago Tuesday. We hope to have the
pleasure of chroniciing the reelection of
SALMON P. CHASE in the former and DA-
vID WILAoT in the latter State. eThey
have both been long time before the
public; their anti-slavery position has
never been questioned, and whether in
Office or out of it they viii be found doing
yeoman's service for the right
Kansas sends greeting to those States,
with an assurance that we are right side
up euery time from this forth.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
No Good in Others.

In another column we publish Gov.
WALKERS and Secretary STANToN's Proc
lamation relating to the Oxford election
frauds. 1t proves that they are bound to
do, what they have all along promised,
to secure to the honest bona .tGde voters of
the Territory voice in their own govern
ment. Never was revolution so complete
or sudden as in this case with the people.
Many have been looking upon those gen.
tlemen with distrust, all the time claiming
that they were managing to- fasten upon
the people of Kansas the curse of foreign
despotism. 1t was when these complaints
were loudest our Governor and Secretary
showed they were equal to an emergency
by sending out that Proclamation. The
voice of their enemies were sileneed, and
in many instances were changed, and their
curses gave place to compliments; while
the myrmidons of the slave power, who
thought by bald-faced fraud to carry out
their schemes, showed the most bitter
hatred, and by threats and menace at
tempted to accomplish what honorable
action had failed to secure.
We felt the other day, at an instance of
frmness on the Governors and Secretary's
part, which came under our own obServa-
ton, to thank heaven that the day of
small men had passed away from Kansas.
We know how easy it is to censure, and
how easy it is to say that we are governed
by unworthy motives when we thus speak.
But we have long since learned that it is
base men only who see no good in others.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

@ Our friend, JAS. F. WALKER
brought us a mammoth California squash
the other day. It reminded us of old
times to receive that document from him.
JAMES was our first apprentice to the
printing business. ard our first subscriber
to the Herald of Freedom. His anti-slav-
cry and temperance principles have stood
the test in foul weather as well as fair, and
he came to Kansas with his family to
make it his home, and to make that home
free home. Success to James, and
thanks to him for the squash.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

WHY Ii. uHised States Troeps are IN - =,
The Investigating Committee IN a-s ans.
report made to Congress, July H. i''''
says - Il.
aGvi1 war seemed impending II ". -
Territory. Nothing can prevent 50 f-.-s
a calamity but the presence OF . l-
serce of United States troops unND .ri
commander, who will, with prudence = 4
discretion, quiet the excited PasslciS ,ks
both parties. and expei with force W. r.
lawiess hands Of men coming IRON M
sour and elsewhere, who, with CT
persinaeity, infect the Territory"
If the President had not sent them
here recommended. he wculd have nee
lected the duties of bis Office. Bsca',
he has seat them, he is attempting % =
tablish despotism. Some folks are n1'
to please.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

OT Bait Jones was one ofthe judges of
election at the Oxford precinct, and he
certi6es over his own signature that the
fifty feet Of names were polled on the 5th
and 9th inst. Is BAIT Jones any relation
6sEx- x-Sheriff S. j. Jones, the candidate
for the Council, and is heeone of the edi-
tors of the Star Of Empire, published at
Westport, No., and also member of the
Kansas Constitutional Convention. Ifso,
to Fit him for so many and varied pursuits,
and to make him citizen of Missouri
and Kansas at the same time, we would
suggest that slight hanging, say of half
an hour, by the neck on a hempen cord,
would not do his morals any particular
injury.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

T The business men of Leavenworth
have met the boatmen by-counter united
action. The latter resolved they would
take nothing but specie funds in payment
for freights. The former say they will
pay Just such funds as are eunent in the
East, and such as they get from their Gus
toners, and nothing else'
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

L Rev. III. T. RUENELLs, as Mission
ary of the American Sunday School I'm
ion, is about concluding three months
term Of service in this Territory. Twelve
new Sabbath Schools have been organized
by him, most of which will keep up in
some form during the winter, and all will
be renewed in the Spring as they are per-
manently organized with constitution
&c
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

or Col. Summers recent command,
now under Maj. Sedgwick, has been or
dered to Lecompton-we suppose to de-
fend the Constitutional Convention now
assembled in that place,
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

o. Sectional maps of Kansas. oolered,
and put up In embossed covers for the
pocket, for sale at the Herald Of Freedom
Office for 81 copy. They are the most
reliable map yet published, and win be
mailed to any part of the United States
on the receipt of one dollar.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

a A public meeting of the extreme
pro-slavery party, was held at Lecompton
on Tuesday evening last, at which violent
resolutions were adopted against Gov.
WALKER and Sec'y. SrAETox, because Of
their action in the Oxford election frauds.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

Maj. sherman's command of fy-
ing artillery moved from Lawrence on
Monday night last for Leoompton. to de-
fsnd tbs Constitutional Convention. Gov.
Walker having been applied to BY the
members for military defence.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

4 Or At last advices Gov. WALKER was
lying quite i'll at the residence of Seey
STASToa, two miles East of Lecompton,
on the river. The fatigue and excitement
of the last few weeks have been too great
for his age and feeble constitution.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

@ The Lecompton Constitutional
Convention had not quorum on We'd
nesday evening. 1t is believed That they
cannot succeed in getting a majority of
their number together. OR s<f.
LATER.-We have intelligence as we go
to press, that quorum of the Convention
was obtained yesterday, but we have no
news of its action. Il
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

or A meeting of delegates from the
different Lodges of Odd Fellows in Kan
sas, was held Leavenworth on Friday
last, to take action for the organization of
a Grand Lodge. A subordinate Lodge has
been instituted at Atchison, making fFe in
the Territory.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

Or This is the wetsst and most un-
pleasant autumn we have ever seen in
Kansas, and We have seen four of them.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24

hF Col. Sumner is under arrest at Ft.
Leavenworth. He was not considered
sufficiently pliable as the tool of the slave
power in Kansas, and it was therefore de-
termined to disgrace and remove him if
possible. For this reason he was sent out
to the Indian Territory. He how returns
under arrest and is to be tried before a
Court Martial.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
TERRITORY OF KANSAS
Da,t1Ins Go1tnfU sc

6hh1IOhI Or AANoAof
Douglas County, IS.
/, G. w. Brown, Notary Public, in
and for said county, duly commissioned
and sworn, do certify that the names at
tached to the above instrument were sign
ed in my presence, that they made SOL
emn oath that the facts and things there
in set forth are just and true, as they veri-
ly believe and do certify that believe
them to be persons of integrity, and the
persons they represent themselves as be-
ing.
Witness my hand and Official seal, at
Lawrence, in the Territory of
SEAL Kansas, this Goth day of Oc-
S0O tober, A. d. 1857.
6. w. BRowN.
Notary Public.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-09
MIIIERsBURG HOLMES COUNTY. THURSDAY APRIL

the first day of April, the new Governor
will be saved from the trouble of discrimin-
ating between legal and Illegal candidates
for the right of suffrage, and from various
ugly responsibilities which might devolve
upon him while the enumeration of
voters is taken. He will merely be COM
PEELED to enforce the provisions of the
on the third Monday in June-the day
when the sixty delegates to the Constitu-
tional Convention will be chosen
1t will be interesting, after the Conven-
tion shall have formed Constitution
establishing slavery, which is to be sub
mitted to Congress, without the subsequent
ratification of a popular vote, to hear the
Governors testimony as to the fairness with
which the experiment of popular sovereign
ty was tried in imposing that Constitution
on people, three-fourths of whom, at
least, are opposed to its adoption.
Mr.. E. 2. Stanton, the newly appointed
Secretary of State for Kansas, will proceed
at once to Kansas, and exercise the Execu
tive functions until the Governors arrival.