The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-15
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RoBEnr J. WALKEa appears to be the
counterpart Of SHAsxOs; only mWe 70. HE
peculiar weakness sosnss to be proclama-
lions; . weakness, however, which evident
IL has companions, and II not likely to suf-
fer from solitude. Since his splurge with
the dracoons. he has lost the respect OF the
people Of kansas, who having found the
weak places in his armor, are tantalizing
him with sharp sticks and other annoyacces.
The following capital hits we find in the ST.
Louis Democrat. They touch the little
Governor on the rsw !:
55 s; PROCLAMATION NO. g. tsi
To mn re6ellioas subjects at Laurence. (.
BIG SrRASGER, July II, lS5T---3 4. NJ.
| have now approached to within q few
miles Of your city. Anxious still, If possi-
bic, to prevent the ehusion Of blood, and to
win you back 10 allegiance to the laws Of
the land, have condescended once more to
address you. l am at the head Of eight
companies Of Uaitsd States troops, and
shall soon be in your midst. "A scout whom
l had sent out to reconnoiter, informs me
that your mayor and common council have
already had the audacity to assemble in a
private room. Gentlemen, this il the first
overt act in your programme Of treason.-
Once more appeal to you to desist. The
territorial government and laws give you
no power to- assemble in private room;
and it is evident that if you are allowedthus
to proceed, other localities may follow your
example, and tho territorial government be
oyerthrown.
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 owner
neglecting to remove him, your mayor has
even gone SO far as to order the dead horse
to be removed beyond the limits Of the city,
and has paid man for performing the
work. Here is another act Of usurpation
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 allowed
thus to proceed. The weather is extremely
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 COM
mon thing all over the territory, and FOR all
practical purposes, in many important par
ticulars, the territorial government will be
overthrown. The territory will thus be in
volved in inextricabls confusion and litiga-
ton; the value of your property will be
greatly deprecated; your titles, transfers
and transactions will be subjected to dis
putes, and all will suffer from this insurrec-
ton, except the men who are so fortunate
as to get the jobs of removing the deceased
animals aforesaid.
appeal once more, as did day before
yesterday, and have done on various ocea-
sions, to your reason and patriotism. ask
you in the name of Our country, in the
name Of the constitution and union, to de-
sist from this rebellion. If dead animals
are offensive to you, the ballot box is opeL
for your redress; rally, rally, then, my
loved fellow citizens, and in peaceful anu
legal method get rid of them.
But as all my appeal. to you hitherto
have been in vain; as you will persist in
such infamous acts of open rebellion; as |
can reach neither your patriotism nor your
love Of our blessed Union, l shall soon be
in 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 omit that, under the constitution of the
United States, have no right to quarter
them upon any mans premises without his
consent Ishall, probably, be in Lawrence
this evening, about 8 o'clock. -.sg---
Until then, affectionately 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 am informed, your were guilty
yesterday. r. j. W.
p. s. No. 2.-I am just informed by a
messenger who has come from Lawrence
with great haste, that, in the infatuation Of
their reasonable designs, your mayor and
alderman have resolved upon the enorm,ty
Of sprinkling Massachusetts, street with wa
ter from the kaw river three times i'll each
day, and that they have already made a
contract with certain drayman for that
purpose. | have carefully examined the
organic act and tho laws OF this territory,
and | cannot fnd tina. 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
legls slature refused to allow you to sprinkle
Massachusetts street with water, and now
warn you that if you continue in this trea-
sonable business, shall be obliged to arrest
your proceedings with my faithful soldiery-
if possible without the efusion 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 a peaceful and
constitutional method Of doing it?. BY the
love you bear your wives and children,
cease these reasonable practices!
May that good providence who sendeth
rain upon the just and unjust, upon the
rebellious and loyal, upon Lawrence and
Lecompton, incline yor hears unto peace
and submission. X. J. W.