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Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-07-30

TIE OLD MANS WISH.
BY II. w. ROCKWELL.
Ny youthful years are sped,
My boon-companions fed,
And l am going fast,
The way that they have passed
To the dead!
The forms / loved are flown,
The lips kissed are gone,
And naught l see but change
In the streets that / range
Through the town
Iwatch my ebbing glass,
And the shadows as they pass;
And / know my life win wend
Very soon to its end
Soon, alas!
Iwould rather have it so;
For Hfe's weary show,
And its vanity and lust
Are unknown in the dust
Whence l 60.
The boys that pass my door
Look in, but shout no more;
Nor do they stop and laugh,
When they see me with my staff,
As before;
For they know that day by day
am wearing fast away:
And 'tis well il is my lot
Itwere strange if it were not
To decay.
With the yellow leaf and sere,
Ihasten to my bier;
For life's twice-told tale,
And me t will not avail
To be here:
For the world is grown unkind,
And no rest therein l find;
Nor therefore shall / grieve,
When it comes my turn to leave
All behind.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-07-30
Startling News from Kan.
SaS.

Below we publish Gov. Walkers procla-
nation to the people Of Lawrence in Kan
sas. 1t states that open defiance to the law
of the territory, must and will be put down
-even by force. If the few dishonest
knaves who are deluding the people Of
Lawrence. and of few other places into
wild schemes of hostility against the gen.
eral government will not desist, but on the
contrary force the Executive Of the Terri
tory to compel the observance Of the law.
we know of no resort to which the Govern.
or can appeal. but the harsh and severe
one of arms. II will be seen that the
Governor has proceeded to Lawrence. ta-
king with him force sufficient to maintain
the laws, and while we earnestly hope that
the acquiescence of the people will render
a resort to violence unnecessary, we have
no doubt that order will be maintained
The following is the Governors proclama-
tom Chicago Times.
PROCLAMATION.
TO THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS:
LEAvrxwoRrH, July 15. 1857.
Ihsve learned that considerable num-
bsr Of the citizens of Lawrence, in thiu
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-07-30

OUR CHIL d II o o D
BY GEO. ID. PRENTICE:

BY GEO. d. PRENTICE:
'Tis sad-yet sweet-to listen
To the soft winds gentle swell,
And think we hear the music
Our childhood knew 30 well;
To gaze out on the even,
And the boundless fields of air,
And feel again our boyhood wish
To roam Ike angels thsre!
There are many dreams of gladness
That cling around the past
And from the torlb of feeling
Old thoughts come thronging fast;
The forms we loved so dearly
In the happy days now gone
The be autiful and lovely,
So fair to look upon!
Those bright and lovely maidens
Who seemed so formed for bliss
Too glorious and too heavenly
For such world as this!
Whose soft dark eyes seemed swimming
In sea of liquidlght,
And whose locks OF gold were streaming
Ger brows so sunny and bright!
Whose smiles were like the sunshine
In the spring time of the year
Like the changeful glooms of April
They followed every tear!
They have passed, like hope, away
All their loveliness has fled
Oh. many heart is mourning
That they are with the dead.
Like the bright buds of summer,
They have fallen from the stem
Yet oh, it is lovely death
To fade from earth like them!
And yet the thought is saddening-
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all are beautiful
Are fast passing away!
That the fair ones whom love
Grow to each loving breast,
Like the tendrils of the clinging vine
Then perish where they rest.
And can we but think of these
In the soft and gentle spring,
When the trees are waving Ger US,
And the flowers are blossoming.
For We know that winters coming
With his cold and stormy sky
And the glorious beauty round US
Is blooming but to die!
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18
CHAPTER TX.

The Both of March, 1855, finally ar
rived, and with it the first serious efforts
of party to overthrow the American
Government, and destroy popular liberty.
The plans of Southern statesmen, which
had been maturing for the last quarter OF
a century, for making Kansas slave
State, had now conyerged to point. The
day, the men, the deed, are all before us;
and the curses of the world will rest upon
them now, hencerorth and forever.
The day advanced, beautiful spring
morning; the men appeared-armed, reck.
less and violent; the deed Of wrestling from
the actual residents of new and feeble
Territory the right of ofself-government, was
consummated. The incidents connected
with this election of the first Legislature
of Kansas, and the openness and violence
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by the organization of National Demo-
cratic party. Tell it not in Gath, publish
it not in the streets of Askelon, that q
Democratic party will endanger the
| Union.
But this horrid Democratic party will
do more still. The result will be, that it
will divide the pro-slavery Wings from
the Democrats, and weaken the dear old
| Wing party under its new name, one
half; for upon the success of that dear
party, the perpetuity of the Union de-
pends. In the language of Falstaff, "Great
God how this world is given to lying !''
I.reeellect in 1874, in the good old State
/ OF Pennsylvania, to have heard one OF
these same gentry, (Giddings, of 0hio,)
holding forth to his friends, say that in
voting for Mr.. Polk, the National Dem
ocratic candidate, they were riveting the
chains on the poor, down-trodden, oppress-
ed negro slave; there TO drag out misera-
bic existence beneath the rays of a burning
sun, and the lash of Southern task mas
ter, But in voting for Mr.. Clay, theWhig
candidate, they would sustain the Consti-
tuition of their country, and the peipetuity
of the UIaion The same language pre-
cisely, but the party have changed. Then
in the language of Whig orators and ora
cles, the Democratic party were the slave
oppressors, now they are the allies of abo-
litionism. But the Democrats of Kansas
could not always be hoodwinked by the
honeyed words in their preamble, nor
driven from their purpose by the lash con-
4o,, a. nl1rtI hn aI.o rs
which was abolitionism.
Now let us see what called forth the
above preamble and resolution Some
time previous lot of hand-bills was cir
culated calling meeting of Old Line
Democrats in this place; the meeting was
held, and several good National Demo-
Gratis participated in discussing the pro-
priety of organizing the National Demo-
cratic party, among whom was Col. JAMES
H. LANE, member of Congress from Indi-
ana, a sound old liner; DIR. John 2. Wood,
formerly from Illinois; Edward Chapman,
member of the Council elect; G. w.
Babcock, ESQ.,; Hugh Cameron, Esq. ;
James S. Emery, Esq, and others this
was the first attempt to organize the DEM
ocratic party in Kansas, and the meeting
took "high National grounds" 1t was
like the bread cast upon the waters. 1t
is now being (stuck) and gathered many
days hence; and may the seeds of that
meeting take deep root in the hearts OF
this people, and may it continue to ''grow
until the whole earth shall be filled with
its heayen-born fruits and the praises of
Democracy be sung in every land.
A NATIONAL DEMOCRAT.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18
CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

In case any persons shall desire to con-
teStthe election in any District of the Terri
tory, they shall make written statement,
directed to the Governor, setting forth the
particular Precinct or District, they intend
to contest, the candidates whose election
they dispute, and the spacific causes of
complaint in the conduct or return of the
said election; which complaint shall be
signed by not less than ten qualified voters
Of the Territory, and with affidavit of one
or more such voters to the truth of the
facts set forth therein. Such written
statement must be presented to the Gov
e.nor at his Office on or before the fourth
day Of April, A d. 1855; and if it shall
appear that the result of election in any
Council District might be changed by said
contest, day will be fixed for hearing
the same.
If these instructions had been complied
with, the inhabitants of Kansas would
have had no cause of complaint; for they
efectually excluded all non-residents.-
ltwas expected that if the two first in
s'ructions were disregarded, and illegal
votes should be polled, the remedy lay
inthc hands of the Governor, by the con-
ttsted election clause. The defect in this
was, that it required the contestant to ap.
pear within four days, with his protest and
evidence. This rendered it worthless il
all the remote districts, as it was found
impossible to gather the testimony and
Peuom the journey to the Shawnee Mis-
SION, In 50 short time. But in most o
the districts within Fifty miles of the Gov
efnor, the elections were contested and Sc
aside.
1t is impossible for people of common
phtlcal honesty, to see how, under thes.
rules and regulations, oaths and tests, an,
resident of another state could vote. Blu
'ae whole matter is explained by sayin;
mat the slave power had resolved to vot
ana control Kansas at all hazards. The,
= uOOA the position that any person in tn
1efsitoFy, on the day of election, was al
actual inhabitant." A few days befor
Inc election "TAe Sguatter Sovereign is
Sasa the following instructions to those i
missouri who were coming to Kansas t
wt.:
QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS; DISSECTION
~, ME OATH PRESCRIBED By THE GOVERNOR
,ra nc .s only parts which require notice
o".se v nose which attempt to define tn
fs;S 5s;SaAcaaons of voters, and to specify th
'''aenee to be given:
VII: 10 poll no ticket from any persor
M J, i not an actual i,laa6itant and resiidea
ne dag cfMe eleetion.n
e'uaP' means nothing-if an s'inhal
'sAsD at all, he is of course. an .tact,,;
inhabitant.n - ''
s,anabltant and resident, are the sam
t.a al the one is both. Gov. Reeder a
a,aas Ups 10 create the impression that b
inSnh,, is meant something more; |
luce the idea, that voter must hay
{. 1es.deaee'' in the popular sense Of
nss M Ia which he dweIlsi
a., MS Is false and absurd; it is not nece.
o. .. 70, voter to have @heuse, dwellin
s,aeslaenee, in the popular sense. \
Territory y = :
.,a re terms 'inhabitant'. and ..residenl
u'eu N their legal sense, and mean Il
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QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS.

SEC. g. Every white male person, and
every civilized male Indian who has
adopted the habits of the white man, OF
the age of twenty-one years and upward,
who shall be at the time of offering to
vote, a citizen of the United States; who
shall have resided, and had his habitation,
dOmicil, home, and place of permanent
abode in Kansas, for thirty days next pre-
eeding the election, shall be deemed &
qualified elector; provided that no soldier
seaman or marine of the regular army Of
the United States, shall be entitled tt
vote.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18
COPYRIGHT sgcURED.l
,,.n s5Drsssly for the Herald Of freedom
a COMPLETE
HISTORY OF KANSAS.
r,,st discovery by the French, to
the Close OF the Year 1857.
BY THE EDITORS.
CHAPTER vIu.-CoNTINUED
CONEDT ErTlE

CHAPTER vIII.-COgTINUED
,,,ory-yEsT OF GOV. REEDER-HIs ADVENT
tyTo THE TERRITORY-vIsITS THE PEOPLE
IERlSGEs THE DISTRICTS. &C.
The arrangements which Gov. ReedeI
had made to secure the ballot box, and
ueserve it in its purity, and which called
down the curses of the pro-slavery men
mon bis head, were such as are common
IN eyery State and Territory in the Un-
ion. As they have been made subject
Of much complaint in Missouri, and much
public comment everywhere, they are here
inserted complete:-
INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGES.
SEC. 7. The three Judges will provide
for each poll, ballot boxes for depositing
the ballots cast by electors-shall appoint
Two Clerks, all of whom shall be sworn or
affirmed to discharge the duties of their
respective offices impartially and with
6delity: and the Judges and Clerks shall
have power to administer the oath or
Affirmation to each other; and the said
Judge shall open said election at 9 O'Clock,
A. u, at the place designated in each pre-
cinet, and close the same at 6o'clock P. NJ.
10 case any of the officers appointed fail
to attend, the officer or officers in attend
snceshall supply their places, and in the
event of all of them failing to attend, the
qualified voters shall supply their places;
and the said Judges shall make out dupli-
cate returns of said election; seal up and
transmit the same within ten days to the
chairman of the Executive Committee,
one copy Of which is to be laid before the
General Assembly. If at the time of
holding said election it shall be inconve-
nient, from any cause whatever,that would
disturb or prevent the voters of any cleo
ton precinct in the Territory from the
free and peaceable exercise of the elective
franchise, the officers are hereby author
lied to adjourn said election into anyother
precinct in the Territory, and to any other
day they may see proper, of the necessity
of which they shall be the exclusive
judges, at which time and place the quail
ifed voters may cast their ballots.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18

Lavender-scented theology is still driy-
cling its school-boy rhetoric against every
instrumentality which seeks TO reform the
drunkard, even though they do not wait
until he is converted to Christianity.
This lazy. dainty-kidded, Levitieh feh-
zion would pass by on the other side, and
ma make no effort to save the bondman from
his thraIl. until be is washed, dressed in
fashion, locks perfumed and soul convert
ed. A man must drink, die and be damn
ed unless he first comes under the sickly
fash of these dapper D'Crsays Of pulpit
e,oauence. Alas that 50 many OF the
ablest, really eloquent and distinguished
diyines should have wasted their time II
the vulgar business of toiling IN the ten.
perance organizations for the temporal
saving of drunksrds! And worse stili.
Tens of thousands Of dlunksfas hsyc
been restored TO manhood md sozsfy
who are not members Of any church
Less tinsel and more humsgstz stz--aors
sdsll-in much Of oslr preaching Eplld pe
better for the world --6ays9e tzs,z
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or The Catholics, Methodists and
Congegationalists have already erected
neat and comnodious houses of worship
at the capital of Nebraska The Episco-
palians and Old School Presbyterians are
to erect churches during the season.
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tory, events which will be remembered
for many years to come.
If Missouri desires to quadruple the
natural emigration to Kansas from the
free States during the ensuing season, and
strike death-blow to slavery, not only
here but in Missouri, let them resort to
some act of violence. Our own poor life
is but a minor consideration to that of
freedom for great State, such as Mis-
souri,; and as for our printing Office, afew
thousand dollars, which could be raised
in the Eastern cities in one hour after the
arrival there of a telegraphic despatch an
pouncing the event, would purchase an
,lother equally as good; and a few thou
sand more would entrench it beyond the
reach of the rabble, made crazy by fanat-
icism or intoxication.
The INIoUITY CoNsUNMATED.-From
all the information we can gather, we are
confident there were not less than ten
thousand imported voters in this Terri
tory on Friday last from Missouri, who
came in crowds of several hundred at a
time, and returned in the same manner.
There were not less than ten hundred sent
into this district alone; but finding their
services not wanted here, they were de-
tached to the number of two or three hun
dred, and sent to other points. The road
between this point and Westport, for DAYS
before the election, was filled with covered
wagons, loaded with Missourians, who
made no secret of their purpose of coming
into the Territory and voting, and then
returning. Long before the ballot box
was closed, hundreds of these men were
on the retrograde march from this vicinity.
Such is ''squatter sovereignty" in Kansas.
COwARDLY.-Can anybody tell why the
Missourians, who made such an onslaught
on Lawrence on Friday last, were induced
to bring two cannon here with them?-
They must have been consummate cow
ards to have supposed such weapons ne
cessary, after importing an army four times
as strong as our whole strength united
Besides this, every man of them was pre-
pared with two revOlvers and bowie
knife. Desperate men resort to desperate
measures.
The Weston, Mo-, Reporter, of March
80, 1855, has the following
"Our minds are already made up as to
the result of the election in Kansas to-
morrow. The pro-slavery party will be
triumphant, aoe presume, in nearly every
precinct Should the pro-slavery party
fail in this contest, it will not be because
Missouri has failed to do her duty to assist
friends. 1t is safe calculation that two
thousand squatters have passed over into
the promised land from this part of the
State within four days"
The Platte Argas, published in the same
place, had the following
sit is to be admitted that they-the
Missourians-have conquered Kansas
Our advice is, let them hold it or die in
the attempt"
TO RE COSTISUED
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18

ELECTION IN THE TEcUMsEH DISTRICT.
On Thursday night last, after it was
satisfactorily ascertained that the number
of persons imported TO this election dis
trict from Missouri was greater than the
occasion demanded, company of two
hundred was detached from the encamp-
ment just west of this city, and between
nine and teno'clock at night took up the
line of march for Tecumseh, with the view
ofoverbalancing the large number of free
voters in that district, majority of whom
are located at Topeka They arrived at
their destination in time to participate in
the fraud practised there upon the ballot
box. When they had accomplished the
objects of their mission, they returned in
a body to their encampment near this
city, where they remained till this-Sat-
urday-morning, when they took theii
final departure for Missouri. Their whole
stay in Kansas cannot exceed four days;
their purposes were declared all along the
route; and they expressed a determine
ton to return to Missouri as soon as the
election was over, and yet they claim
they had as good legal right to the cleo
tive franchise as any person in the Terri
tory.
Mr.. .DooLITTLE, lately from New York
gave us the full particulars of the pro
ceedings at Tecumseh on Friday. HI,
says the polls were opened at the regu
lar period by the Judges appointed by th.
Governor; that all but Dir. BURGESS re
fused to take the oath prescribed; that af
ter numberless threats of violence to Mr.
B. unless he would resign, during which
pistol was three times snapped in hi
! face. and club hotrished over his head
he proclaimed that, in consequence ofth.
mob without, and threats of violence t.
the board, the election was adjourned
The mob then selected new board, witt
two drunken Secretaries, who took posses
sion of the ballot box, and allowed n,
person to approach it unless he was arigh
on the goose question: p slang phras
used among the Missourians, implyin,
they are in favor of extending the inst
, tuition of slavery over Kansas.
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EH,2

haaOsfOs
|igation in the
dessrs. Allen D
i a large assert; i.
Ees, especially OF
Board Breakers
Finest commend
Ed them ; also a
[or old Ground
hid mention the
4 or Eng, cast
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receive the es-
wish TO raise a
made some In,-
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to be used IN
Flows, Cultlya- "a
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low fixtures.
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can confidently
| Eastern States
and work per-
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receive PromP'
HN DEERF
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18

DEsTRUcTIoN OF THE PREss.-It was
only by the most urgent and continued
importunities of the leaders of the mob
who visited us on Friday last. that our
Office was saved from destruction. Vari-
Gus resolves were passed in regard to it,
but the final conclusion was that the worst
strike which the pro-slaveFy party could
make would be to destroy an opposition
printing Office, or to do harm to the editor.
Perhaps they remembered the removal oi
G. M. Glars paper from Lexington, Oh
the numbering of LoyEJoT in Alton-twc
important events in the anti-slayery his
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kansas.

L and only com
! Books yet J"
d Reader, Vat
Eornell's Gesg'
/, Cutters fhy-
(ilosophies,,, ;, &C. g.
Eese into all .ns
achers suppll@ee
krns. Call, p9
Eft 4 FINLEY.
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Ia fine asson
IS for Childre
aphs, Print OF
Wing studies.
| W. 7.
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No questions were asked the voter as to
his citizenship or place of residence; no
oath was administered, OF other test re-
quired, save an assurance of support to the
pro-slavery ticket.
An aged gentleman, who felt disposed
to exercise the privilege conferred upon
him by the laws and constitution, ap-
preached the ballot box, when he was
offered pro-slavery vote. He remarked
that he did not vote that ticket, when
some one knocked off his hat, another
cuffed him, while third applied the boot,
and forced him from the ground, threaten
ing to put bullet though him unless he
left iflstanteT
The friends of freedom, finding them
selves borne down by the invaders, quiz
city retired from the polls; and We are
assured no Free State votes, other than
three or four, were cast in that district,
though that party was largely in the ma
jority; while the pro-slayery marauders
from Missouri polled between four and
five hundred
Governor REEDER cannot give certifi-
cate of election to persons thus fraudu-
lently imposed upon the people for repre-
sentatives; and should majority ofthem
claim seat in our Legislative Assembly,
it is his bounden duty to neglect to con-
vene that body. If mob violence, and all
disregard of law and right in Kansas
is s"the order of the day, let anarchy reign
supreme, provided the absence of legisla-
tiOn produces that condition. We would
rather thousand times that Missourians
would hold the election in their own
State, and then send the elected mem
bers here to make our laws, than to send
the drunken voter, entirely divested of
restraint, with the power, if he sees fit to
exercise it, of electing the vilest of his
associates to frame our laws.
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