The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-26

We clip the subjoined from the Star. Of this
city. 1t will explain one of the projects of the
Administration for increasing the Pro.Slsverv
vote in Kansas
1t will be recollected that the Shawnee lands
IN Kansas were reserved from occupation nm.
Ger pre- empuOn claims, by trsa'y. until after
certain portions Of them could be surveyed and
set apart as reservations. or q reservation for
| the benefit OF the tribe. These SURVEYS and Sc.
lectons having been made It is understood that
the Secretary of the Interior has issued direc-
tions to open the balance Of the lands in ones.
ton to settlement.
The now famous county of johnson is
located on these Shawnee lands, and, we appre-
bend, the names Of those recorded impro6ably
as voters at the Oxford precinct, are no others
than those CT Missourians who have initiated
presumption claims on these lands that can and
will now be promptly perfected Certainly be.
fore the Dist proximo, wher, after the decisio,
OF the Convention to frame State Constitu.
ton Tor Kansas, they will be entitled to vote
upon the acceptance or rejection of the. instru.
| ment."
The idea that twelve hundred Missourians
had pre-emption claims on the Shawnee lands,
and voted in Oxford, is amusing.
"Ion," Of the san, learns, from authentic
sources, that the Free State party in Kansas
are organizing q resistance, by force, to the
provisional Government, or any Govern ent
which may be instituted under the Constitution
framed By the Constitutional Convention, and
that they will not recognise that Constitution
in any way. They will not probably vote upon
the question submitted-to wit. Constitution
with and Constitution without Slavery. The
Constitution will nevertheless be submitted to
Congress, and then will commence the most Sc.
rious agitation in that body and in the country
on this subject, that We have ever ye. experience
ed. On both sides, ar appeal TO force in Kansas
will perhaps be made.
" The Administration may take one side or
the other, if there be any side to the controver.
sy which can be recognised as the right side.
The crisis is almost upon US, and how it will
be evaded is the question"
The Mormon War-Proclamation of BRIGHAM
Young.
The following is the proclamation Of Gov.
ernor Young, of Utah. in relation to the United
States troops:
Citizens Of Utah: We are invaded by hos
tile force, who are evidently assailiDg us 10 &C
complsh cur overthrow and destruction. For
the last twenty-five years we have trusted Off.
Gals of the Government, from constables and
justices, to judges, Governors, and Presidents,
only to be scorned, held in derisinn. iDsulted,
and betrayed. Our houses have been plunder.
ed and then burned, our fields laid waste our
principal men butchered while under the pledg.
ed faith of the Government for their safety and
our families driven from their homes to fnd
that shelter in the barren wilderness and that
protection among hostile ssvages which were
denied them in the boosted abodes of Christian
ty and civilization.
The Constitution OF our common country
guarantees unto Us all that we do now or have
ever claimed. II the constitutional rights which
pertain unto us as American citizens we're ex-
tended to Utah according to the spirit and
meaning thereof, and fairly and impartially ad-
ministered, it ia all that we could ask-all that
we have ever asked.
Our opponents have avaied themselves Of
prejudice existing against us, because of our
religious faith, to send out formidable host to
accomplish our destruction. We have had no
privilege nor opportunity of defending ourselves
from the false, foul, aud unjust sspersons
against US before the nation. The Government
n09 hoI cOnuesceuueot 10 cause an investigating
committee or other person to be sent to inquire
into and ascertain the truth, as is customary in
such cases. We know those aspersions to be
false, but that avails US nothing. We are CON
demned unheard, and forced to an issue with
an armed mercenary mob, which has been sent
against us at the instigation of anonymous letter
writer's, ashamed to father the base, slanderous
falsehoods which they have given to the public,
of corrupt officials, who have brought false ac-
cusations against US to screen themselves in
their own infamy, and of hireling priests and
bowling editors who prostitute the truth for
filthy lucre's sake.
The issue which has thus been forced upon
as compsls us to resort TO the great first law of
self preservation, and stand in our own defence
q right guaranteed unto US by the genius of the
institutions of our country, and upon which the