Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-09-17
Kansas.
From the Kansas letters of theNew York
Times, we extract the following:

From the Kansas letters of theNew York
Times, we extract the following:
LEooMPToN, K. T.. Sept. l., 1857.
| have before me the resolutions adopted
by the Free-State Convention at Grasshopper
Falls last week, and brief but obviously
imperfect, account Of the proceedings. The
tone oil the resolutions strikes me as brief, ex-
ceedingly mild aud sensible, and the proceed
ings, however unsatisfactory given, are re-
ported fully enough 10 enable me, or any other
intelligent reader to gather from them that
large majority of the members composing the
Convention we're animated by moderate sentl-
ments, and Influenced by practical views and
sound reasoning, in determining future plan
of policy for the party. | do not think the
Convention would have resolved to partlci-
pate in the election in October if the general
feeling in regard to the Territorial apportiou-
ment had been in accordance with the views
of the TIMES to wit, that by that apportlon-
ment the people "now find themselves betray-
ed, and virtually stripped of their power
| entertain much higher opinin of the judg
ment and common sense OF the Free-State
leaders than would at all justify me in sup
posing them capable Of the cousummate folly
of urging on the Free-State Party the noces-
sity and propriety Of voting, (and in crisis
where the vote must be final in its effect on
the great questions which have so long agita-
ted the Territory with the ccnciousness that
they are, =" betrayed and virtually stripped Of
their power" Such suicidal policy is not at
alIin keopingwith the geustally received opif-
ions as to the talents, experienced, and tore.
sight of the men who control and dictate the
action Of the Free-State men of Kansas.
Nearly two month ago, | took occasion to
remark apropos of the question as to the rela
tive strength and prospects Of the different po
itcal parties in this Territory, that, "betwcen
these immense extremes 1.-THE ultra men of
both sides D." has sprung up numerous,
powerful, intelligent and determined middle
party--a juste milieu, as the French would
say-not absolutely opposed to either-a party
which will vote against the Pro-Slavery party
for Free-State and beat them, and vote
against the Anti-Slavery party in recognition
of and obedience to the laws, and beat them,
likewise, And this is the party with whom
the settlement of the Kansas question must
ultimately rest
hatter myself that the recent action of
the Grasshopper Falls Convention and the
moderate sentiment which begins to prevail
everywhere, indicates tolerable close APP
Proclamation to my policy and predictions of
a middle party" For that the course of
devised by the Grasshoppcr Falls Convention
is a" middle policy" there can be no man.
ner of doubt. The report of the proceed
ings sufficiently shows it, and the ill-sup-
pressed dissatisfaction and factious murmurs
of the extremist who stuck themselves to
that party, like the barnacles which fasten
themselves to the hull of ship in the trop-
ical seas and only drop off when she gets in
to a temperate latitude, attest it beyond con-
troversy. Let me not be understood as say
ing that the Free-State Party, as it now
stands comedies with my notion of middle
party. Far from it. All I meant to say is,
that its late fiction points very significantly
in the direction indicated by me as being
that in which most likely such middle
party would appear; and am firmly i'm
pressed with the belief that the nearer either
of the now contending parties steers to a
middle course, the more reliable will be its
| prospects of success.
{ While the great mass Of Tx EraesstatO
men OF Kansas are congratulating themselves
on the result Of their mass convention at
Grasshopper Falls, and the nomination of Mr..
PARRorT as candidate for delegate to Con-
gress, the National Democrats are beginning
to awaken to the dangers of their position
and the perils of defeat. All over the Ter
ritory they are aboring to organize meet
ings and elicit demonstrations in favor OF
the Lecompton platform, the Democratic
nominee for Congress, and the policy of Gov.
ernor WALKER. At the town of Delaware
in Leavenworth County, a meeting was held
on Friday evening, at which the resolutions
recently adopted at Wyandott were submit.
ted and passed unanimously. Another meet
ing was held at Leavenworth City on Sat.
urday night which, after some discussion
adopted the same set Of resolutions with but
3 one exception-that one being the first O
the two which | forwarded with my last let
ter-and passed an additional one, pledgine
their support to Gov RANSOM, the democratic
l nominee for delegate to Congress.
o Rumors have been rife in Lecompton, fol-
the last two days of serious collision hav
3 ing occurred on Saturday night between
the troops and the people of Lawrence. A
2 one time the report took the form of an as
sertion that in the fray three soldiers anC
l thirteen citizens had been killed. From al
| can gather it appears that one Of the sol
diers persisted in making free with somebody
l watermelon patch, and got shot for his pains
1t was with difficulty, it is said, that his
3 comrades could be restrained by their officer
from a terrible retaliation; but happily tn
Z affair was QUOTED down without further blood
she'd
On Saturday young man named Edwards
| who at Tecumseh last week. in some disput
l growing out of cards, stabbed his own cous
l in to the heart. was arrested at Lawrenc
and brought to Lecompton, where he is nov
o under the care of an officer Of Justice.
3 THE Press ON THE PRESIDENTS LETTER.
| Many of the journals which h4vs-giyen the
support to the general Kansas policy of th
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