The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
EMPORIA KANZAS, AUGUST l. 1851
Proclamation No. 2.
Bic STRANGER, 8 A. MI
July IL, 1857.


Bic STRANGER, 8 a. NJ,
July II, 1857.
To MY REBELLIous SUBJECTS AT LAW
RENEE II have now approached to within
few miles of your city. Anxious still, if
possible, to prevent the effusion of blood,
and to win you back to allegiance to the
laws of the land, have condescended once
more to address you. am at the head of
EIGHT companies of United States troops. and
lshall soon be in your midst. A scout whom
1 had sent out to reconnoiter, informs me
that your Mayor and Common Council have
already had the audacity to assemble in a
lprivate room. Gentlemen, this is the first
overt act in your programme of treason
Once more appeal TO you to desist. The
Territorial government and laws give you no
spower to assemble in private room, and it
lis evident that if you are allowed thus to
lproceed, other localities may follow your
Example, and the Territorial government be
skyerthrown.
I The same scout also communicates to me
the startling intelligence, that from the eff
fects of the intense heat yesterday, horse
dropped dead In your streets, and the owhE
er neglecting to remove him, your Mayor
has even gone so far as to order that dead
horse to be removed beyond the limits of
| the city, and has paid man for performing
the work. Here is another act of usurpa-
ton which cannot for moment be tolerated.
1t is in opposition to the organic act, and
| to the laws of the Territory. 1t is easy to
see what will be the effect if you are allow
ed thus to proceed. The weather is ex-
tremely warm. Horses are liable to die in
all the cities and villages of the Territory.
Other localities will follow your example,
The removal of dead horses will become a
common thing all over the Territory, and
for all practical purposes in many important
particulars the Territorial Government will
be overthrown. The Territory will thus
be involved in inextricable confusion and
| litigation; the value of your property viii be
greatly depreciated; your titles, transfers
and transactions viii be subjected to dis
putes, and all will suffer from this insurrec-
ton, except the men who are so fortunate
as to obtain the jobs of removing the de-
ceased animals aforesaid.
/ appeal once more, as I did day before
yesterday and have done on various occa-
sions, to your reason and patriotism. Task
you in the name of our common country, in
the name of the Constitution and Union, to
desist from this rebellion. If dead animals
are offensive to you, the ballot box is open
for your redress; rally, rally then my loved
fellow citizens, and in peaceful and legal
method get rid of them.
But, as all my appeals to you hitherto
have been in vain; as you will persist in
such Infamous acts of open rebellion; as l
can reach neither your patriotism nor your
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your midst at the head of the troops, and
hope that you will be prepared to quarter
them upon your claims without money and
without price, though in candor am bound
to admit that, under the Constitution of the
United States, have no right to quarter
them upon any mans premises without his
consent.
shall probably be in Lawrence this eve
ming, about 8 o'clock.
Until then, afectionately farewell.
ROBERTUS J. WALKERUS.
P. S.-Should the weather be as warm
to- day as it was yesterday, shall hasten
forward one company in advance, to prevent
the recurrence of those acts of treason of
which, as I am informed, you were guilty
yesterday. r. J. w.
P. S. No. 9.-I am just informed, by a
messenger who has come from Lawrence
with great haste, that, in the infatuated fury
of their reasonable designs, your Mayor and
Aldermen have resolved upon the enormity
of sprinkling Massachusetts, street with wa
ter from the Kaw river three times In each
day, and that they have already made con
tract with certain drayman for that pur-
pose. l have carefully examined the organ
| ic act and the laws of this Territory, and
cannot find that they confer upon you the
right to thus appropriate the water of the
Kaw river, especially at its present low stage.
have also learned that the Topeka Legis-
lature refused to allow you to sprinkle Mas
sachusetts street with water, and now warn
you that if you continue this reasonable
business shall be obliged to arrest your
proceedings with my faithful soldiery-if
possible without the effusion of blood, but
treason must be punished anyhow. beg
you to pause in your mad career. You are
endangering the peace of the Union. If
your streets need sprinkling, have not, in
my inaugural and In my various stump
speeches, pointed out TO you peaceful and
Constitutional method of doing so? By the
love you bear your wives and children, cease
these reasonable practicesl
May that good Providence who sendeth
rain upon the just and unjust, upon the re-
beIlious and loyal, upon Lawrence and Le-
compton, incline your hearts unto peace and
| submission. r. J. W.
a Novel Mode Of Reaching Assets.
The Urbana Citizen tells the following sto-
ry which we must believe, and yet is very
hard of deplution: