The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-09-19
TnE PAoLA RESOLUTIONS.

oouOUeSS there are some or our reaueFS that
will want to see them. The committee con-
sisted of the following gentlemen: A c.
Wilder, D. T. Mitchell, John t. MODIFY,
Alex. Mcdonald, q. a. Cotton.
WHEREAS, Our State after having contrib
uted fourteen thousand men for the armies
of the Union, has been repeatedly desolated
by rebel hordes. and the hourishing towns
/ of Lawrence, Olsthe, Gardner, Aubrey,
Shawnee, Lanesfeld and Humboldt laid
waste, and ss.-ve
WHEREAS, The policy which is now
forced upon Missouri and Kansas is one
which gives immunity to secession SYM
pathizers and exposes radical loyalists to in
human massacre, and
| WHEREAS, The Commander of this Dis
trict has stigmatized citizens of Kansas as
''pirates of the BORDER and as men "who
were stealing themselves rich in the name
| of Liberty" while he has found no oppro-
brious epithets in his vocabulary for the
fiends who assassinated the peaceful citizens
of Lawrence, and
WHEREAS, The Gamble Schofeld policy
denounces Republicans as ''reyolutionists,
and Jacobins, - while itappropriates to itself
all the Law and Order, and can only call
rebels in arms its misguided friends,'
therefore,
ResoIved, That clemency to guerilIas and
rebels is cruelty to loyalists, that milk and
water for traitors is poison to patriots, and
that military commanders can convert rebel
assassins only as civil courts convert con-
victed murGerers killing them.
2. That the loyal people who furnish the
army, and the popular power which sustains
1t, have Legitimate right to a voice in the
selection ofthe military commanders to rule
over them.
3. That the Missouri delegation in the
Cabinet and Congress which has forced
Gamble and Schofeld upon that State and
Schofeld and Ewing upon Kansas, has base
ly betrayed the truest Union men in the De
partment of the Missouri; and that mill
tary policy which originates in a caucus of
/ politicians can give satisfaction only to bush
whackers in the field and demagogues at
home
4. That the declaration of martial law
! by Gen. Ewing in LeaVenworth, a city as
thoroughly loyal as it is profoundly peaceful,
thus Withdrawing troops from the exposed
border to protected city, was an act of des-
potism unealIed for in itself, hateful to law
abiding men and fraught with danger to the
rights of citizens.
5. That the hunting Of fugitives from
| bondage on the soil of Kansas is a crime
damnable in atrocity, and that every person
engaged in it should be branded with infa-
my.
6. That Kansas will stand ever true to
her martyred dead and her living heroes by
adhering to the principles of Freedom For
All, knowing that Liberty is divine right
and that human enactments are poWerless to
abrogate it.
7. That the re establishment of the De-
partment ofKansas is imperatively demand
ed, 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
6. That the removal of the District Head
quarters from Kansas to Missouri was a
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 and barbarous as to find no parallel
in history. ssf.u
8. That the SchoGeld- Gamble policy has
for lis object the perpetuation of slavery in |
Missouri and the holding of Kansas a sub
ject province.
10. That although we are fully conscious
of the need OF praise due TO the one rebel
who returns we cannot help believing that
some consideration is due to the ninety and
nine loyal men who went .astray.
II. That the pro-slaYery conspiracy now
organizing throughout the North for the pur-
pose of carrying the next national election,
and betraying the country into the hands
ofits enemies, receives its aid in Kansas only
from the advocates of the present conserya-
tive military policy policy which has al.
ready 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 o-day, ready, willing and able to
destroy the bushwhackers, and their services
are refused by Schofield's Order No. 90,
which prohibits them from crossing the line,
we ask of the military authorities indemnify
for the past and security for the future, and
for this purpose demand that they station in
every neighborhood in Southern Kansas
a sufficient military force to ensure their
protection
= IS. That Schofeld's Order No. 02 is the
tyraauical act Of commander who viii
neither destroy rebels himself nor allow
others to do so. the clear effect Of which is
to protect guerillas IN Missouri, and put Us,
the unconditional Union men of Kansas, in4
a falseap position before the country. .H 2lI
IA. That the present conservative policy
which defends Kansas on the soil of Kansas,
is cruelty to our State, and that We can only
be made secure by offensive movements
which shall destroy the murderers in theirF
dens. and that until the true policy IS inau- 4
gurated We demand that the military au
thoTities shall seize three hundred of the
men who are bushwhaekers. to-day and