Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-09-03
NEW SERIES, No. ss.
TERMS SSI,5O strictly Ina advance.
AGltNIN S2.O0 at the years. end.

ed, ne will make permanent residence, as in
bis opiaien Mrs. Carroll needs son.in-ldU 10
take care of the estate
Young Melville finds Oakland day by day
growing more attractive, while Clara Montague
is often heard to express II very favorable opin-
Ion OF Northerners. OF Mr. Melville we have
only to say that he still resides where we found
MN at The commencement Of our sturys doing
what is within his power to do to check the az
gresslo of the Slave Power.
Maitland's overseer eventually recovered, and
remains an earnest champion for the peculiar
IDS tuition, laboring, both by deeds and words,
TO establish it upon the virgin soil Of Kansas.
Many an afternoon is spent by Han at Oak
land, where he anuses the servants with his
marvellous stories.
few words more, reader, and our tale is
ended; would that we might say as much of
the struggle Tor Freedom in Kansas A ray Of
light dispelled for moment the gloom which
was slowly settling over the Territory, and
many heart was inspired with hope, when
John W. Geary ASSUMED the sway of her gov
ernment. But it was only Tor time A noble
and upright administration Of justice to all,
and the protection Of both Northern and South
ern settlers in the exercise of their rights and
| and privileges as citizens marked his acts Men
were no longer stricken down by the hand of an
assas sin, and the murderer received into the
confidence Of those high in power His was
mind governed less by popular opinion than by
the convictions of conscience which dscrimi-
mated between justice and niustce-freedom
and oppression. Startled and dismayed. the
soul drivers and dealers in human flesh, hitherto
supreme in governing the Territory, saw the
prospect Of the extension Of tAer uRgodly traffic
slowly yet surely waning. They had not
Shannon now to deal with they had no weak
minded tool which few leaders of the pro-
slavery party could mould to suit their wishes
Something must be DONE There were but two
alternatives before them: They must see right
and justice triumph and witness the blasting of
the hopes they had fondly cherished of making
bHe plainS 0I hanSdS feS0unu 10 the crack oil the
: slave-driyer's whip, or get Gov. Geary removed.
He had "a soul, and must be put out of power
Then came ca'umny and threats treacherV
aud faId hut all i9r vfurs-Vy as,- -y,..sv--.-,
paerile Administration wished to .aast . few
rays of light around its remaining acts, to il
possible relieve the backness of its career. The
North must be prOpiliated, aud Geary sus-
tained.
Bafled, the olgarchy resorted to, threats Of
personal violence, u at last the life Of him
who ruled the destinies Of Kansas was unsafe.
He asked for aid. 1t was promised, but never
given. A Presidential election was now APP
proaching; the South must be propitiated
no troops could be furnished to sustain the
Governor of Kansas A resignation was the
only resource left him, and once more the pros
pect for Slavery in Kansas looked bright.
And still the struggle is going on, while up
from millions of anxious hearts, in which the
altar-fres of Freedom have not wholly died
comes the great question, VIII Kansas be
Free