Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-04-30
Kansas.
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LEooMpToN, TX. T.,) April s, 1857.
Fresh cause for pro-slavery agitation has
again been sent to Kansas from Washington.
The appointments of the new administration
for Kansas has inspired new courage into those
who wish to make Kansas slave state
Stock in the pro-slavery towns is rising A
spirit of violent and reckless lawlessness is
again beginning to be exhibited. 1t is now
considered sure thing that the power of gov.
eminent at Washington will be used to make
Kansas a slave state.
The appointments of the leaders of law.
and-order ruthans to offices give great encour.
agement to all who would follow in their
footsteps. W. Z. Murphy, of Leavepworth,
a noted ringleader in the pro-slavery difficult
ties, has been appointed agent to the Pottowa-
tonne Indians. Captain Emory, who led on
the gang that plundered and burned houses in
Leavenworth last September, and murdered
Mr. Philips, besides driving out industrious
and useful citizens because they happened to
be free state men, has been rewarded by an
appointment in the land office, instead of being
put on trial for his crimes, as he deserves
The government can hardly be ignorant of the
frauds on the Shawnee lands, under which
actual settlers are defrauded, and false census
list has been made to carry the delegate
elections. So far from putting stop to this,
the government has become responsible for it,
and has placed the fraud beyond the reach of
cure, by appointing johnson, who lives near
Westport. and who is reported as being actively
engaged in the same fraud, as Shawnee agent.
Other appointments of the same kind have
been made j. G. Anderson, of Lexington, a
member of the bogus territoritorial legislature,
has been appointed to one of the new land
offices. Even Mr.. Babcock, postmaster of
Lawrence, has been removed, and Mr.. Chris
tan, pro-slavery and member of the bogus
council, has been appointed in his place.
This is the kind of democracy that is being
inaugerated in Kansas. Men Of stern Jeffer-
sonian democracy are being sacrificed because
they will not worship the niger. The desire
to advance the interests of property-slave
property at that's backing our government
to discard every principle of republicanism
and democracy. The men of Kansas can
have no security unless they worship the
niger interest" Those who murder men
for their devotion to the policy of free state
are rewarded with Office.
The news Of Walkers Appointment has
reached this place. 1t gives great dssatis-
faction, The rumor that he comes instructed
to carry out the census act rouses Indignation
Kansas was beginning to be quiet and prosper
when this firebrand is thrown into it from
Washington. The question is asked every
where, "Do the President and his cabinet
want civil war I"
A man named Kline has been shot at Grass
hopper Falls. A person claiming to be
deputy sheriff took several other persons with
him and proceeded to arrest Mr.. Kline at
place of public worship on Sunday. Mr..
Kline refused to go with them, but said he
would go next day. They ordered him to
come with them, and on his still declining
they commenced shooting at him in the house.
,, Mr.. Kline has several wounds, and at last
accounts was not expected to live. No others
were hurt.
The following extract is from the Washing
ton correspondent of the Journal of Com.
merce. 1t would seem that Southern politi-
+ clans are becoming convinced that Kansas is
destined to become Free State, and that
their game is about played out:
E There is some talk here of compromise
! to be made, with the prior assent of the Adj
: ministration, of the Kansas question: by pro-
viding, in the State Constitution, for a limita-
ton to the existence of slavery in the State,
and its future exclusion. Private rights
existing, will, by this mode, be respected
The owners of the few slaves in the territory
: will thus be enabled to remove them, in con-
formity with the example of the Northern
! States, which, when they abolished slavery,
' did it by fixing future day for the enforce
ment Of the act, and thus enable the Northern
proprietors of slaves to sell them to Southern
If planters-which they did, as was fully shown
/ in the Missouri discussions, in Congress, in
e 1920,