The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12
sIA, KANZAS, SEPTEMBER II, 1851.

their contemplated fraud upon our rights.
| A foray was made upon Atehison, last
Friday, because Gen. Lane was about to
speak; and his voice was silenced, as viii be
the case with the Squatter Sovereign itself,
in October next, if it dare tell of that outrage.
Mr.. @. read from late letter of D. r.
Atchison to gentleman of South Caroli-
ma, and continued: The people of Missouri
are busily engaged in an effort to effect an
organization with the view of invading our
Territory again. They can control our
elections and send every man to the Legisla-
ture, and that without journeying twenty
miles into the Territory from the border.
| It was evident, then, that he was oppos-
ed to voting at the October election. He
would not venture all upon such an uncer-
tain issue. Every man should so to the
polls with musket in his hand, and should
declare that all past legislation In this Ter.
ritory is an outrage, and a violation or law;
and those interlopers holding the election
should be treated as intruders, and driven
back from the Territory with violence. If
we permit them to go on, We are conquer
ed province. Let the Federal Government
come to their aid, if it please, and let the
people be subjected by brute force. Loud
cheers.
Gen. Lane was loudly called for. He
said he would feel, when these resolutions
were adopted, like the prisoner unjustly con-
fined for debt, who saw no means of escape
only through a filthy sluiceway. To avail
himself of this mode of exit, he must lie
down in the filth and crawl through it. He
commenced his journey, was discovered by
the keeper, and pursued, and with the filth
Il
him of his freedom. This is a Convention
of the PEOPLE, not of the Free State party
as such and the party is not responsible
for our action here to-day. He was in favor
of the Topeka movement; he had planted
himself upon it, ard would go all lengths to
set it In motion, when the party say so. In
the Revolution their case was considered
doubtful, and they threw themselves into the
breach, exerted all the means they could
command, and triumphed. 1t was posi-
ton of great responsibility, and had they
| failed, the actors would have been held up
TO the world as worthy of execration, where
as now they are models of imitation. There
are prudent men in this Territory-men
with wives, and children, and property, and
here are their homes and their all. They
are confident they can regain their lost lib
critics by another effort at the ballot box.
They wish TO try their hand at this peaceful
remedy, and we must concede to them the
right to do So If they fail, they viii join
us in sustaining the Topeka Constitution
and Government He made an earnest APP
peal to the people to determine to win sue
cess in October next. Without it, Kansas
will be a slave State Be on hand to carry
the election, prevent illegal voting, or die in
the attempt.
A long colloquy then ensued between
Lane and Gen. Pomeroy, relative to the late
foray on free speech at Atchison.
| Lane them closed by an earnest appeal to
the people to win success if they decided to
90 into the October election. He called
upon them to organize in the forces now be-
ing enrolled, for a thousand disorganized
were in reality no stronger than score of
disorganized men. Strength did not con-
sist in numbers, but in skill and organiza-
ton He advised all to join some company,
and push the work of enrolment on rapidly.
With determined heart and united effort
the result is certain, and the victory will be
complete Then, with the aid of that Leg
islature, we can place the Topeka Constitu
ton in condition that Congress viii cheer
| fully let us into the Union. When it is
known that we have rendered our whole
strength to the Governor to aid in preserv-
ing the purity of the ballot box, the people
of the nation viii everywhere rejoice at the
result.
VIM. A. Phillips was then loudly called
for, and the mention of his name was the
signal for as. rascally an attempt to gag down
free speech as we ever saw perpetrated.
The Leavenworth and other bunker delega-
tons led off by the same man who in Mo-
vember; 1854, headed the Border Ruffian
forces at Leayenworth on the first invasion
of tie Kanzas ballot boxes. 1t is difficult
for such men to completely throw off their
old affiliations, so they have to practice in
Free State meetings the old policy of pre-
venting an opponent from expressing his
opinion. We, of the South, learn les
son from these things, and Leavenworth
viii yet find out that neither that city or
bogus county are by any means the whole
of Kanzas. For time the confusion was
indescribable, and cries of s'Phillips l'' and
Question: i'' were shouted. Finally, by
the perseverance of those who favored free
speech, Mr.. Phillips was allowed to proceed,
and though the force of his remarks were
much lessened by the disturbance, yet he
made some points in his own peculiar, for
chile way. He said he regarded this mode
of determining to go into the election as
alarming. With the most momentous inter-
ests at stake they proposed to hazard them
all on a fraud called an election, IN which
the chances were ten to one against them.
These bogus officers have complete power to
control the election, and they are determined
to carry it for slavery. Did the Free
State men merely propose to legalize the
fraud? That election would fearfuIly COM
NIT them. In determining this policy, they
did not determine TO go into an election
but snare and they would legalize the
bogus usurpation by doing so. Numerous