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Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Festive days in all

! Festive days in all time past have been the
natural expression of nations touched with
gratitude for benefits received, while days of
public fasting have evinced the deep sorrow
and humiliation which sometimes comes to o
people through calamities suffered and ,drea AIDED
| ills War, with It's cruel relentless blight, is
| abroad in our country. In its grasp, fortunes,
prospects, and hope are ruined. Our bravest
and best young men throughout the land have
offered themselves for defence against the
rushing tide of rebellion. They suffer noon
| day and midnight marches, bearing heroica,ly
the discomforts and perils Of the soldiers life
| in camp and the battles fierce encounter.
As a country, we mourn over the times
which have fallen upon us and pray that this
| terrible infiction may result in our nations
purihcation and redemption. In accordance
with the Proclamation of the President We
have had our day of public sorrow. Yet while
the nation mourns, the dwellers in Kansas
should not forget the mercies which are our
lot. Living upon the border of civilization,
we have been exposed to more and greater
evils than threaten other States. Since early
summer, iumors of invasion have flown upon
every gale like autumn leaves, and fears of the
natives of the wilderness have caused anxious
days to many remote settlers, bringing night
as well as day visions of the cleaning ecalp.
ing knife of so dreaded foe. -ss sst-r.a
Our eastern enemy has hovered along our
border, and with rowing bands of armed men,
given occasion for feeling of insecurity to our
settlements. Although many depradations
have been committed We have cause for graft
tude, that thst much dreaded evil has taken
no more substantial form than our fears-We
have to acknowledge to the Bounteous Giver Of
the sunlight and rain, an abundant increase
which has followed the labor of the husband.
man. The last years drouti and the winters
SHOWS prepared the earth for bounteous har
vest, verifying the proveib that ssmuch bread
is grown in the winter night"
While destitution, disease and civil discord |
aiiiict men Of our sister States, abundance,
health, civil and religious freedom are still |
allotted to US.
l, therefore, in accordance with the custom |
OF our ancestors, appoint
THURSDAY, TIE 2Sth DAY OF NOV. 1861.
AS a day of Thanksgiving TO Almighty God for
the manifold blessings bestowed upon our peo>
Pile, and Recommend that il be observed in
becoming manner, by appropriate religious
services IN the churches, and a generous re-
nembi ance of the needy, as we'll as in the cul.
ivation of peace and good will In the social
rcle.
Given at the Executive Office, Topeka, under
my hand and the Great Seal of the State,
this thirtieth day of October, A. d. one
thousand eight hundred and sixty one
,y the Governor:
C. ROBINSON.
j. W. ROBINSON,
Secretary of State.
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REPLY.


LEAvENwoRTH, Nov. 81, 1861.
DR.. G.. j. PARK:
Dear Sir-Yours of the 2O;h is a,
hand. At the time of the election referred
to in your note | was absent in Missouri
but have been in Lawrence since the elec
tion, and have ascertained the following
facts: .o-is ,..u .s.-. as-s'z
The full extent of the legitimate vote
should have been about four hundred ;
eleven hundred and eighty votes were re-
turned-tllc box was stuffed to the extent
OF seven hundred and eighty votes. The
people of Lawrence as community knew
nothing Of the fraud, and did not partici
pate in it. They repudiate it. This out
rage on the ri ght of free suffrage was per-
petrated BY a set Of sharpers who care
nothing for Lawrence or Kansas, and would
sink both to promote their own interests.
truet that the same course will uuhesi
tatiogly be pursued in regard to this vii
lainy as was pursued in the case of the
Oxford and McGee returns-trample them
under foot. Let as vindicate our manhood
BY denouucing the fraud, and branding the
perpetrators. }. II. LANE.
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Why Peace Is Impossible.


Certain Democratic politicians of ou,
own and other loyal States, who regard
everything from partizan standpoint, are
seduously inculcating the belief that the as
tendency of their party would speedily pu,
an end to the present civil war. Thus the
Albany Argus emblazoned,> for some DAYS
before our recent election, that Democrat
ic triumph in that contest would more con.
duce to peace than the most decided victory
of the National arms. Now if it were dis
tlnctly proclaimed that the Democrats, if
restored to power, would make peace with
the rebels on their own terms, the assertion
would be by no means incredible. But the
impression sought to be made that the Pro-
slavery rebels would lay down their arms
and return to loyalty if their old friends
the Democrats were in power at Washing
ton, is utterly unwarranted by facts. The
Secessionists master-spirits are thorough
believers in what Gov. Seward once felicl.
tously termed the 'irrepressible conflict"
They hold with Mr.. Lincoln in 1858, that
the country cannot permanently remain
half slave and half free. And, despairins
of their ability to master and rule it per-
sistcntly and thoroughly, they have fully
resolved to segregate and tear themselves
what they esteem their half of it complete
ly and forever. Holding themselves gen
tlemen and cavaliers by birth and breeding,
they revolt against democracy not less than
against anti-slavery. They repudiare the
present Administration as a Government of
suobs rather than of fanatics. They never
feared that President Lincoln would med
die with their slaves, but they cannot bear
the thought of being governed by fiat
boatman and rail-spiitter. 1t is that inevi-
table tendency of Northern ideas and insti-
tutions to raise the sons of clodhoppers and
'obblers to the highest places of the land,
hat has plunged the Chivalry of the Rice
swamp and on-field into the gulf of re-
oellion. They mean to make an end of the
rule of "mud-siils." whether Of one or the
'ther party, and will no longer be piacated
~ the utmost servility to the peculiar in.
'titution." Hence, all attempts to coax
hem back into the Union by restoration
If democratic rule, and a prospect of its
are certain to prove illusory.
But present peace on the basis of Dis
lnlon is equally impossible. Even if the
'eople of the loyal States were prepared so
ar to succumb to the rebels as to concede
heir Independence, we should still be very
ar from pcace.--7riJ
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phans throughout our land, are insufficient
to deter you FROM further pursuing this
unholy war, then ponder, I beseech you,
upon the ultimate, but moi; less certain,
result which its further progress must ne
cessarily and naturally entail upon your
once happy and prosperous State. Indeed,
can you pursue this fratricidal war, and
continue to imbrue your hands in the loyal
blood of your countrymen, your friends,
your kinsmen, for no, other object than to
unlawfully disrupt the confsderaey of a
great people-a confederacy established BY
your own hands, in order to set up, were it
possible, an Independent government, under
which you can nerer live in peace, prosper
ity and Quietness. -
"Carolinians We have come among you
as loyal men, fully impressed with our
constitutional obligations to the citizens of
your State; those obligations shall be per-
formed as far as in our power. But be not
deceived; the obligation of suppressing
armed combinations against the constitu.
tional authorities is paramount to all others.
If, in the performance of this duty, other
minor but important Obligations should be
in any way neglected, it must be attributed
to the necessities of the case, because rights
dependent on the laws Of the State must
be necessarily subordinate to military ext
gencies, created by insurrec.ion and rebel
lion. Il. W. SHERMAN. -sil
Brig. Gen Commanding.
"Headquarters, Port Royal, SC, Nov. g."
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should be tolerated in Kansas. Weheartily
indorse the following frou the Leavenw orth
-ConseruatiUe:

Conservatives: s.
j "THE " Es1ERS LIBER A7oR-In the listof vim
dictive and partisan presses We know none equal
to the st. Louis Republican. For weeks and
months 1t has been venting its spleen upon Gen
Lane and hrs heroic little Spartan cosnmandL
They have been represented as thieves and out
laws, knowing no watchword but plunder, and
Ihesitating at no crime which might inure to their
material profit Justice to General Lane and
his Brigade. .dema I'D that these wicked idefama-
tions and unfounded falsehoods be hurled in the
fteeth of their characterless authors. The march
lof General Lane through Missouri was a tri-
u:nphal progress. From Kansas City to Green
field he was presented with three flags-evidenc-
ing the confidence and devotion of the people
| With less than twelve hundred men General
Lane marched eight hundred miles through an
enemy's country. And the shout Of ioy ever
greeted his coming. AT Springfield, where a
grand junction Of the Federal forces took place
under Fremont, to meet the combined hosts of
the Rebels, no name aroused such unbounded en-.
thusiasm among the different divisions of our
Grand Western Army. The rank and file were
wild in expressing their adulation, and the air
was vocal with cheers for Jim Lane, THE LIB
ERAToR,'
Everywhere the loyal citizens rallied around
his standard, and hailed his approach as the
coming OF mailed warrior, battling for Liberty
and their deliverance from the oppression of an
unholy usurpation. He relieved the poor, sus
tanned and strengthened whole communities. and
scattered the necessities and comforts of life
amongst those who had been robbed of their lit
tie all. His. name was clothed with no terror
save to those whose guilty hands sought their
country,s ruin. go 081,Tf
And now that the record of a brief cam
Palgn stands before the country we challenge
any command to show equality Of service on be.
half OF. the Union with that of the Kansas Bri- |
gade: Poorly equipped and armed, they have
marched hundreds of miles through the enemy's |
country, fronted any danger that threatened,
known no reverse in their Humberless engage |
ments, and inaugurated principle on which |
alone this war can be carried to successful |
issue. -esag ss 3 -"
g In the organization and movements of the
kansas Brigade, General Lane has been the moy-
ing spirit and the ralIying cry The devotion
OF his men is without parallel, and they but rep
resent feeling which is universal in our new
Department. And when the defamers Of Gener-
al Lane and his Brigade pour out their vile Sian
ders let the sentiment of the people of the Unit
ed States (which is almost united in support of
the GeneraD be held up to their view-a senti-
ment which will yet make itself heard and felt
throughout the nation, and demand that those
alone must wear the laurel to whom Justice and
Merit point -as -
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A 'set of sha.pe1.'' rha, Need 1ookinr Af,er

A "set Of sharpers' That Need Looking After
E We always had an idea that Lawrence
vas "izht smart chance of town.
From its earliest inception down to the
present time it has never failed to add to
its established reputation as the literary
tempcfium of Kansas" or for political ras-
cality-more particularly the latter. We
we'll remember the virtuous indignation
with which the people of Lawrence treated
all attempts upon the purity of the ballot
box in the dark days of '56-7; but that
Oxford, kickapoo, and Delaware Crossing,
should be so completely thrown in the
shade By the "point which has furnished
all the Chaplains" is something which is
beyond our comprehension. When will
the record Of villanies in our young Com
monwealth cease? When will the good
work Of ferreting out villains, and melting
out to them their just deserts, begin !?
We give no opinion in the matter, but
merely base what We have said upon the
following correspondence, which we place
before our readers as an item Of news. We
trust that legal investigation Of the affair
may be had, and if it appears that the box
4" has been stuffed to the extent of seven
hundred and eighty votes" that the vii
IaiDy be trampIed under foot, and the
perpetrators made an example of.
LEAyEswoRrH, Nov. 90, 1861.
Sir-As devoted member of the
Republican party Of the State, l am con-
cerned for Its integrity and honor and am
therefore prompted to submit to you an
inquiry concerning q matter which is made
the, ground Of frequent reproach on the
part Of our opponents.
1t is alleged by our political adyersaries
that fraudulent votes were cast, in the late |
election, in the city of Lawrence, through |
The agency Of men claiming to be R-publi-
cans, TO an extent cqualled only by the
Infamous frauds of Oxford and KicSapoo,
aud that by means of this fraud it is in
ended to defeat the expressed will of the
people on the question of the location of
he State Capital and in the election of
Members of the Senate aud House for that
District.
You arc. citizen of Lawrence, inter
'sted in her welfare, and cognizant of the
'xtent Of her voting population. You have
een and felt the evils Of ballot-box stufing
g practised against the rights of the people
y Border Ruffians in the darker days of
Kansas history. You are the proper per-
on, therefore, to acquaint the public with
he truth or falsity Of the charges of fraud
'hich have been made against the vote in
.awrence. If the charges are well founded,
he people should be informed SO that a
borough legal investigation may be had,
nd the participants in the outrage exposed
f no frauds have been pcrpetrated The
7orld .should know it, SO that Republicans
nay no longer be reproached for crimes
hat have not been committed
Respectfully, &C., g. J. PARK.
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1.-THE NOTORIOUS JIM LANE,
j. W. ROBINSON,
Secretary of State.

1t is the fashion among charlatans o.
small calibre and disloyal instincts to in
dulge in illnatured carpings at Genera
Lane, and the gallant men composing his
Brigade. Nothing that he or they can dc
suits these halfdeveloped traitors, whilst
every act of theirs to cripple and destroy
the enemies Of the country is carped at,
criticised, and denounced as outrages CON-
mitted upon peaceful citizens, and that they
deserve the seyercst punishment. These
sweet-scented semi-traitors affect to forget
that General Lane and his Brigade have
stood for nearly the whole of the past
summer and fall upou our South eastern
border, like an impregnable rampant, de-
Tending the soil of Kansas, and the homes
Of our people, from the foul tread and
desolation of rampant traitors, and that
Kansas to-day owes her peace and quiet
more largely to Lane and his men than to
any other single cause. These halffedged
traitors forget also that these gallant men
have done as much hard marching and hard
fighting as any other soldiers in the field ;
that they have, endured as much priyatiou,
suffered as many hardships, encountered
and ovdrcome as many dangers and OBJ |
stacles as any other men in defence of the
Government; and that they have extended |
more protection to the hunted and bounded |
oyal citizens of Missouri than aay other
equal number of men; and have done quite
Is much, if not more, to crush this unholy
1t is time that this slanderine
Kansas soldiers, especially by Kansas edi-
ors and Kansas residents, were stopped.
t is shame that it has ever been tol-
rated. 1t would not have been but for the
olitical animosity which has been kept L
live against General Lane BY a set of Il
politicians, who would ruin any
ause, or any thing, to compass the rmn of Is
ane. These scamps ought to be taught !
stter mannets No civilian, who is true
atriot, will indulge in .traducipg and ,slan-
sring soldiers who are risking everything b
defence of the. country; and in these i
mes the criticisms of none but patriots E
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THE NAVAL EXPEDITION,

BY the successful attack of the Nava
Expedition upon Port Royal, the Govern
ment has achieved its first decided victor,
against the rebels. The effects of this sue
cess are not susceptible of calculation, } ant
can scarcely be oyer-estimated. Not only
has the best cotton port of the Atlantic
been opened to our ships and commerce
but blow has been struck the rebellion
from the effects of which it will be impossi
BILE for the rebels to recover. It demon
strates to them the power and efficiency Of
the naval arm of the Government, and
shows them how utterly worthless and inef-
ficient must be any efforts which they may
ppt forth to defend the vast sea coast which
they impudently pretend to control.
1t is surmised by some, the next move
inent of the army by land and the navy by
sea-for it is taken for granted that further
important movements will soon he made
will be directed to the re.opening of the
port of the pes'iferous city of Charle ston
We hope that such will not be the case
We trust that the next session Of Congress
will repeal the law. making Charleston. a.
port of entry, and that no child now living,
will ever see the day when it will be restor-
ed as a port Of entry. 1t has always been
hot bed Of tories and rebels, and now is
the time to annihilate it. Let it be, like
The cities of the plain. utterly destroyed,
and its name and memory blotted from the
political and commercial annals of the
Government. The point conquered by our
gallant navy is magnificent site for al
great commercial city. Towards building
one there, we trust all the energies Of the
Government will be at once directed
Such an enterprise would not only justly !
punish the citizens of Charleston for their
past disloyalty, but it would go far towards
securing reliable and loyal seaport in the
event of another rebellion. But that is
lot all. The utter ruin of Charleston, the
eader in this most unrighteous rebellion,
vould operate as q most salutary admoni7
ion to the rebels in the future. I
1t is to be hoped that the next naval
will be upon New Orleans. I'll
5 very desirable that that Port should be
pened, not only on account of cotton, but
n account Of the thousands of loyal citi-
ems who are suffering martyrdom for their ,
dhesion to the Union in and about the 8
lty. At the same time, we want the Mis-
ssippi opened, that the pork, corn and '
our Of the West may follow its natural 3
,annel to market All these are bound !,
follow the capture of Port Royal, per- '
aps not speedily, but as certain as night
llows morning. - = II
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THE PorrAwAToM1H TREATY.

We noticed briefly last week the conclu
sion Of treaty between the General Gov
ernment and the Pottawatomie Indians
By this treaty the Pottawatomies, afte,
reserving one hundred and sixty acres ol
laod for each head of a family and eighty
acres for each child, agree to sell the residue
of their land to the Leavenworth and Fort
Riley Railroad Company at s1.25 per acre,
upon condition Of the Company building
their road through the reservation within
six years from the date of the treaty. There
are in the Reservation $4,000 acres, of
which the Indians retain $4,000, leaving
352, ,OOA for RailrOad purposes. That this
land will nett she Company s2,00O,O0O
with the prospect Of Railroad through it,
no one acquainted with the tract will doubt.
This treaty, and the treaty with the Della
ware Indians, gives this Company basis
for operations which will insure the speedy
Of this road to this point. To
he dwellers in the vallies Of the Kansas
his news is in the highest degree crafty
ng. With Railroad at our. doors, NO
,eople, any Where, will be better of. To-
be epterprisiDg gsstlenen composing the
leavenworth and Fort Riley Company We |
Il acknowledge ourselves deeply indebted. |
The only drawback to this most epcour- |
ging prospect is this internal rebellion. |
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Proclamation to the People of South Carolina

"1o the People Of South Carolina: In
obedience to the orders of the President OF
these United States of America, have
landed on your shores with small force of
National troops. The dictates of duty
which, under the Constitution, | owe to a
great sovereign State, and to proud and
hospitable people, among whom | have
passed some of the pleasantest days of nv
life, prompt me to proclaim that we have
come among you with no feelings of per-
sonal anlmosity-no desire to harm your
citizens, destroy your property, or interfere
with any of your lawful laws, rights, or
Your social and local institutions, beyond
what the causes herein briefly alluded to
may render unavoidable.
Citizens of South Carolina: The civ.
ilrzed world stands appalled, at the course
you are pursuing APPALLED, at the crime
You are committing against Your own
mether-the best, the most enlightened.
and heretofore the most prosperous of ma
lions. lou are in state Of active rebel |
hon against the laws Of your country. You
have lawlessly seized upon the forts. arse |
nails, and other property belonging to our
common country, and within your borders.
with this property, you a,e in arms. and |
waging a ruthless war against your consti-
tutional Goyeyment. and thus threatening
the existence Government which YOU
are bound, by tin terms of the solemn com.
pact, to live ander\ \pd faithfully support
In doing this You ar3 not only underming
and preparing the way Epr totally ignoring
your own political and 4 eisl existence, but
you are threatening the civilized world
with the odious sentiment that self-govern-
ment is impossible with ely fized men.
"Fellow citizens /: inn 1ore you to pause
and reflect upon the tenor Snd consequences /
Of your acts. If the awydl sacrifices made a
BY the devastation of Our property, the q
of fraiernal fblood in battle, the a
aud wailisg Of widows and or.
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The Last from Parson Brownlow,

Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville
'ihtg, has been tried by Grand Jury for
treason to the Confederate Government, and
is doubtless now in prison. In; his last
paper, which was issued October Goth, he
pays the following delicate compliment to
certain villains who had threatened his life:
"These unmitigated towards, God for
saken scoundrels, hell deserving villains,
and black hearted assassins, murderers, and
Imps of the Devil, seek to induce strangers
in the army to take up quarrels, and fight
battles which they are too cowardly to fight.
For years We have held up portion of these
unprinciple dastards, dishonest, lying, swim
ding scoundrels, aud revolving hypocrites,
to the scorn, contempt and hatred of honest
men, passing and re. passing them, day BY
lay, and it never occurred to the loathsome
'illains thatihey ought to resent it, until
IN opportunity offered TO hide behind some
nfuriated troops, made drunk for the occa,
ion. Some of them. are white, !ivered
owards, who live by lying and swindling;
thers are cloaking their deceit, adultery, |
nd numerous acts of baseness, in one or
mother of the churches, under pretense of
elng religious; and Others Of them are
citing for pay, as the tools of men of posi-
on and property. The superiors of many
these men in honor are in the peniten-
entiary, and the superiors of others of
lem In morals and piety are in He'll
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Its existence may retard for time the
commencement and completion. But tba.
is all. 1t cannot defeat it. With the
Delaware and Pottawatomie lands il is
bound to 60 ahead. Three cheers, then, for
the Pacific Railway, for that is the true
designation of the enterprise,