The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-09-04


five miles, and located in the centre Of
thickly populated country. The Topeka
ties, like those &c Lawrence, are a unit in
the question 81 Free Kansas and when all
remedies have failed---when peaceful means
have been exhausted, and the concentrated
fraud, yillainy and crime has reached it, ut
uIost tension, then will every cabin ON either
side, for ten miles, contribute its quota t.
the guard of Liberty. The country from
here to Topeka Is more low than from Law
renee to Leasenworth, and contains les
timber. tits, however, well supplied with
water, and the timber found ON these water
courses IL very tall aud stately, and heavier
than that found along the stream, IN Iowa
/ Taking the two together, and comparing |
their soil, water course, and timber, think |
/ they are much alike, with thlr difference,
/ that kan.a. La- IL. advantage IA climate.
| Tie winter. here are often intensely cold, |
but ar. generally short. Topeka contains |
| about go inhabitants thriving, active, yig,- |
4 liant. determined. Tie Ballot Guards"
4 " ah'S-as'sHf N"S'~'h Wv
whole terri,nr, and DESIGNED to protect the
ballot bsAs-, scr" ont on parade last csc-
ming two hundred strong. This mihtar,
plan ramifys through all the voting precints,
and will number about eight thousand men.
u the convention, t. assemble at Gra,shop-
per Falls on the 18th of tLi, month deter
mines 10 70 into the election IN October for
members OF Assembly and Council, then
this organization will be- called upon 10 de-
lend the ballot boxes-the squattcrs' rights,
peaceably IL possible, iorcibly IL necessary,
AZ all hazard, and to the last extremity
There are np "ianaiics at tia bottom
of this--no " abolition nccndiaries prc,el
this movement the sosereign- of the
-oll--tha boaa a.it resldrnts--the ,ndepen-
dent citizens II Kansas, driven from pillar
to post" hunted Ly border rafIian hounds
pressed between an atrocious usurpation on
the one hand and federal tyranny on the
other--haye resolved 10 make stand for
their rights, aud t. have them or make
Kansas grave of their libcrtie, pas ui
fhermompyle IL their oppre->ors.
Conc here and travel through this tern
tory--you can tell nothing about II there
examine its people--.alk with them every
where witness their long patience, their
generous pioneer life, their noble per.evcr
ance, their unconquered self reliance and
estecm-their intelligent families their rig
I'd industry their social bravery aud ~pir
Il, aud above all their almost unanimous
opposition to the whole series of laws, voids,
iarces, usarpations inflicted upon them by
the hand of executive or territorial scoun-
,lrels, and then tell me how much more
they mist endure and suffer before they are
permitted '.to form and regulate their do
rn-stic institutions in their own way
before they rise and crush Ia. Medu-a J
The Administration says "suhmi, Ia tia.
regular constituted authorities, when every
man knows that the regular constituted
authorities of the territory are but band
Of lawless usurpers, without authority, and
destitute IL power save what Is given 10
them by Federal hayonets "a fungcnt body
that would not exist day but for tins sup
port, and to he obe,ed or not, as the people
see liz. They have tried to get something
like fairness out of the bods before The
liberty granted them either by the Nation
al Administration 81 thi, Territorial Assem-
bly, is like the lh,rt, melted ou, by the
Jacobin Club To- the French Constitutional
ists, when with tile cry of H. Fsw Lrsyhef-~
lie; him be- set at liberty" two Thousand
heads rolled from the block ia one day blu,
the same game = being played over again.
| The act, lately published, IAN act 60 de
tine aud establish the Council and Legisla-
tive districts is another specimen Of pro
slavery equitt --af . National Democratic
impartialits ami ialrn.s. Fourteen eoun-
ties lying contiguous Ia the Missouri border
ARE entitled hy this act ~ 80 members |
while H. counties, thickly settled, by Free |
State men, arr entitled ~ with NIL |
tins pzlpable frame. with a ia months
evidence qualification, with r. erfestsu u
fy1siga,es who have declared on cath their
intention u he,rine citikens vinlatng the
prpanic act which guarantee this privilege
and which tie Democratic PARTY tried t.
engrait an the Minnrs.,ta Eill.--with all
these dlsabllit.e. ~ the way with all this
cAicancry, | rather think the Gras- Hopper
Falls Convention. will r,s.,lye a. - Ia the /
pols. There Is considerable difference about /
th.. a Int ali
abide its decision whatever that may Le |
They tired their strength AT the late election
| for the Topeka constiiut,on ami ,slled |
about 1900 Nat.s--ii You rccolcet, the Sute
Tor the Bogus delegate convention Wa onl,
Loco The Free State part, think thes
can under the III month. =, -i,lence qualiii
eaton, poll l2.oo votes
nes. Walker remains campcl over On
tue hail. sucking whlske, through straw
he woald sell himself lor paper rags, II be
could find buyer
| A solemn procession l- moving hy pro-
cseied hy bras. band, IL th, . Stubs
gallant free State company, following one
II their number {" Als last resting plse.
Lawrence j. a perfect nec hive. all in Iii.
and animation, ever, bod, moving, OK
teams, mule teams, wagons, horses. catts
farmers, mechanic, artizans, mer, Women
AMI ehlluren all hurrsne iolttng. squeezing
and p,ishine about like an lsraelitr encainp-
ment.
STOPPED Al the Morrow House. don't