The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-11-01
THE SUPPORTERS OF THE BOGUS UNION
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We ask the voters to look at them.
Who are they? What are their anteced-
ents First and most prominent are the
men who, in 1856, joined the desperate
effort to expel Free State men from Kan.
sas; who participated in or applauded the
raid of Dave Atchison and Claib. Jackson
from Missouri into Kansas, with their
raeamuftiu hordes,t to seize upon ballot boxes,
stuff them with fraudulent ballots, and to
impose upon the people of Kansas, by
force and violence, Legislature made up
of nonresident thieves, cut-thrcats and
drunkards; the men who united with
Shannon, Jones, Titus and Emory to hunt
down and hound out Free State settlers;
who participated in, or exulted at, the mur-
der of Barber, Phillips, Collins and others,
the destruction Of Free State newspapers,
and the tarring feathering and rafting of
Free State clergymen. Second, the men
who voted for members of the Lecompton
Constitutional Convention, who voted to
ratify their bogus constitution, and subse.
quently voted for the English Bill by which
that constitution, with slavery, vas sought,
By fraud, to be fastened upon the people Of
Kansas for all time. Third, the men who
justified the seizure Of Southern forts,
arsenals, mints, sub-treasuries and ships BY
Southern rebels, who rejoiced at the firing
upon the Star of the West in Charleston
harbor, and who threw up their caps in
exultation at the bombardment of Sumpter.
Fourth, the men who denounce the war for
the defence of the Union and the Ola Flag
as "Abe Lincoln's war;" war for the
"coercion of the States" war for the
abolition of slavery, and war for the
conquest of the South )" who denounce
devotion to the Union as Aboli,innism
who deride patriotism and applaud treason
who rejoice at rebel success and despond at
rebel defeat. Fifth, the men whose i'll
concealed sympathies are with the South,
but who lack the courage to join in the
revolt; who think the South justified in
the rebellion that the war ought to cease;
that the independence of the South ought
to be acknowledged; that the effort to
subdue treason is fratriciial, cruel and
inhuman war, for which the President and
the defenders of the Union are responsible.
Sixth, the Men who deprecate the issuance
of the late proclamation of the President
declaring freedom to the slaves of all per
sons found in rebellion on the first day of
January next; who look upon the procla
nation as unconstitutional and unjusti-
fable, and as certain to result in the
permanent dissolution of the Union.
Go where you will in the State, if you
meet an Atchison, Stringfellow, LIE
compte, Burns, Clarkson, an Emory, or
other adherent of the old time Border
Ruffian party, or an overt or covert traitor,
your sre certain to find them ardently lab
oring for the Wagstaff Parro.t-" Union "(D
ticket, and denouncing, as they always have
denounced, "Jim Lane" as a monstrous,
cruel and bloody tyrant.
Piping feeble chorus to the loud howl
of the b" contingent remainder of the old
Border Rufdan party, can be heard the
cracked and creakiug voices of few vino
have heretofore joined in the songs of Free
dom and Free Kansas. Who are they !!
Let them be looked at, too, and their
antecedents scanned. First, comes the
present Executive Of the State, impeached
(but not convic:ed) of high misdcmeanors
ia Office; second, the impeached (and con
victed Auditor and Secretary of State, and
the repudiated Attorney General; third,
operators in Minneola stock and State bond
swiudles; fourth, discarded aud disap.
pointed ofice-seekers fifth, the venal and
corrupt, who are always at the service of
those who bid highest. And as in the
earlier experience of the Territory, recreant
Free State men were always the most cruel
and relentless Border Ruffians, SO now
are the Republican confederates of the semi.
traitors the most unscrupulous falsiders of
their late associates.
As traitors in the field have frequently
and successfully decoyed Union troops into
ambush and among masked batteries by
donning the Union uniform and hosting
the Union Gag, so these political adventur-
ers hope to decoY honest Union men into