Squatter sovereign., 1857-03-03

money.
Much as has been said of the difficulties
in Kansas, yet all the resistance to the
execution of the laws of the territory has
been confined to four counties. and to q
portion only, of the people Of those counties
These counties are Douglas. Shawaee, ,Ly-
kens and Franklin. Ia no other county in
the territory has any organized opposition
been offered TO the laws. The four coun-
ties above named, are the counties where
the Aid Societies have planted all ,her en-
igranis. These four counties do not con-
tain one-fourth of the population, even on
the south side Of Kansas river. In TIVE OF
these counties, Lykens and Franklin. q
large meeting of Free State men was held
last Spring, and resolutions were unani-
mously adopted to sustain the laws and the
organic act. They have done so through
out all difficulties. Ia three Of these four
counties are situated Lawrence, Topeka.
Osawatomie, the head quarters Of the em.
igran.s sent here by the Aid Societies.
An yet with the people of all the territory
on the north side of the Kansas River, and
large majority on the south side Of the
Kansas Rlner have had the address to
make their Black Republican friends in all
the Northern States believe that they (the
emigranss sent here by Aid Societies.
are THE PEOPLE of tie territory, and are
oppressed by the Border Ruffians" of
Missouri. The fraud consists in this
that Rseder, Lane andtheir abolition asso-
ciates claim that all the free state men in
the territory are Black Republicans, when
a most decided majority of them are dem
ocrats, and no more likely to act with
Black Republican here than in Illinois or
Pennsylvania. The men sent here by
the Aid Societies. and some few misguid-
ed democrats who were led astray by
Reeder and Lane, constitute the party
that resist the luws-,hat got up the To-
p,ka Convention, and that modestly claim
that they are "the people, Of Kansas
In one sense they are "the. people" of
Kansas and most peculiar people. They
are of that great body of people, found in
the Northern States, known as the ene-
mics of law, the resisters of law, the en-
acters of law making it a criminal offence
to aid in the execution of a law of Con-
gress. They are of "the people" who q,
Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, and in
most of the Northern cities, conclude tina,
they are doing God service, when they
fight for the negro against the white man.
and they have exhibited themselves here
in all the peculiar qualities belonging to
their party. This faction of the people
of the territory it is, who encouraged and
stimulated by Black Republican leaders
at the North, have caused all the difficult
ties in the territory, by planting themselves
against the laws Of the territory, and in
open, armed, traitorous resistance to the
properly constituted authorities thereof
These Aid Society emigrants came here
to make Kansas Black Republican ol
abolition State. Their purpose would be
as much thwarted by it being a democrat
ic State as slave State. Their opposi
ton and hostility extends to all men wht
Uphold the organic act and the laws o
the territory. Martin White. and hi.
neighbors in Lykens and Franklin coun
ties, in public meeting of the people o
| for those counties, declared that they wer,
a free state, and determined to sustain th,
organic act and the laws passed by th,
territorial legislature. A more bitter am
yindictive warfare was Immediately mad.
upon these men by the Black republican
than was ever made against any of th,
pro-slavery men of the territory; MI
Whites house was attacked by a larg
force, in the night, and though successful
iy resisted, some thousands of dollar
worth of his property was carried off,
So malignant have been their assaults up
on Mr.. White, that to this day he ha
been compelled TO keep his family in Mis-
souri,; and since .order" has been resto.
ed to the territory. more than thousan
dollars worth Of his crop of corn has bee
: carried off by his Black Republican neigh
bors, and he is threatened that his life
will be taken if he returns. The poir
insisted upon by these Aid Society me
in Kansas. Is the point which distinguish
es Black Republicanisn everywhere =
resistance. open. armed resistance tc ali
laws which interfere with their views
These men were sent here for that pul
pose. They prepared themselves for tiie
: conflict by bringing Sharpe's rifles. bulk
inghfortifcasions. and forming secret mi
itary organizations. II none of thes
Preparations had boen made, if these me
had come hare rs other emigrants hay'
Gomez simply 10 make fos shersseIvt