The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-09-19

RseSIuHns & tie Haela IsstinG.
WHEaEAs, Our State, slter having con.
tribused q 1900 men Tor Me asnies of The
U1ios, hss ben fepeAeedl9 dtsolated ,sby
+rsSsl bofdes, aud he AouriJhisg towns 81
Lawrence, Ola,he, Garduer, Aubrey, Shaw.
neetown, Lsues6eld and Humboldt laid
waste, and a fH
WHEREAS, The policy which is now
forced upon Missouri and Kansas is one
which gives immunity to secession sympa-
thizers -aad exposes radical loyalists to in-
human massacre, and -..--
WHEREAS, The commander Of this Dis
trict has stigmatized citizens of Kansas as
"piratea Of the border" and a men who
we're /" stealing themselves rich in the name
Of liberty" while be has found no opprobi-
Gus epithets in his copious vocabulary for
the friends who assassinatcd the peaceable
citizens of Lawrence, aud ar @
WHEREAS, The Gamb)e-Scho6cld policy
denounces Republicans as revolutionists "
aud " Jacobins," while it appropriates to
itself ali the Law aud Order and can only
call rebels in arms its " misguided friends" !"
therefore ...---s.....f,
Resolyed, l. That clemency to guerriIlas
aud rebels is cruelty to loyalists, that milk
aud water for traitors is poison to patriots,
and that military commanders can convert
rebel assassins only as civil courts convert
convicted murderers-by killing them.
2. That the loyal people Who furnished
the army. aud the popular power which
sustains it, have legitimate right to
voice in the selections Of the military COM
manders to rule over them. 9sas 1af
3. That the Missouri delegation in the
Cabinet and Congress, which have forced
Gamble and Scho6eld upon that State and
Soho6cld aud Ewing upon Kansas, has
basely betrayed the truest Union men in
the Department of the Missouri, and that
military policy which originates in q
caucus of politicians, can give satisfaction
only to bushwhackers in the field aud dem
agogues 1T home.
4. That the declaration Of martial law BY
Gen. Ewing, in Leavenworsh, . city as
thoroughly loyal as it is profoundly peace.
ful, thus Withdrawing troops from the ex-
posed border to protected city, was an act
Of despotism uncalled for ia itself, hatefnl
to law abiding men and fraught with dan
ger to the rights of citizens. -
s. That the hunting of fugitives from
bondage on the soil Of Kansas, is crime
damnable in atrocity, and that every person
engaged in it should be branded with in.
fanny. 1"r
6. That Kansas will ever stand true to
her martyred dead and her living heroes by
adhering to the principle of freedom for
all, knowing that liberty is divine right
and that human enactments are powerlcss
to abrogate it.
Z. That the re. establishment of the De-
partmeut Of Kansas is imperatively de.
manded, and that We cannot expect peace,
security or success in the field, until the
vast territory embraced in that Department
is placed under the control Of . single
Commander -in- Chief.
8. That the removal of the District
Headquarters from Kansas to Missouri vas
part Of the scheme to foist upon US the
pro slavery policy Of that State; and that
it has resulted in giving renewed confidence
to bushwhackers, and in raids upon Kansas
so wanton aud barbarous as to find no par
allel in history.
9. That the Scho6eld Gamble policy has
for its object the perpetuation Of slavery
in Missouri, and the holding of Kansas IS
a subject province.
10. That although we are fully conscious
of the need of praise due to the one rebel
who returns, We cannot help believe that
some consideration is due the ninety and
nine loyal men who went not astray.
IL. That the pro-slavery conspiracy nov
organized throughout the North, for the
purpose Of carrying the next national elec.
tion, and betrsying the country into the
hands of its enemies, receives its aid in
Kansas only from the advocates Of the
present conservative military policy, poll.
cy which has already allowed hundreds Of
rebels to return to Missouri and permitted
them to ravage our border.
IL. That inasmuch as the people of
Kansas are here to-day. willing and able to
destroy the bushwhaekers, and their ser
vices are aefused BY Scho6eld's order No.
90, which prohibits them from crossing the
line, We ask Of the military authorities in
demnity for the past and security for the
future, and for this purpose demand that
they station in every neighborhood in
Southern Kansas sufficient military force
to ensure their protection.
13. Thst Schofeld's order No. 90 is the
tyrannical act of commander who will
neither destroy rebels himself nor allow
others to do 30, the clear effect Of which is
to protec- guerrillas in Missouri, and to put
Us, the unconditional Union men Of Kan