The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-01
tect your slaves in the freedom they seek.

tect your slaves in the freedom they SEEK. /
have always done il and always shall.
Mr. President: There are thousands OF
men in Kansas anti-slaveTy from conviction.
! With them it is a religious duty 10 help the
slave to freed, The moral sense of our
state sustains them. Its rasi history encour-
ages them. This is the lesson that they
teach. While there is a slave to free in Mis-
souri, there will be men in Kansas TO help
him. There can be no peace till slavery is
abolished I'm Missouri. oil and water will not
. mingle. Freedom and slavery cannot exist
side by side. You know the way 10 promote
> peace. Follow il, and Kansas will be your
Grnest friend
We were advised, friends, not TO come here
to-day. We were told that IL was dangerous.
I said that was a practical peace man. TX
periepce has taught me that the only way TO
deal with such a community as this. is to
conquer it. lCheers.) The bold man need
not fear. Col. Price is the safest man in the
county; and why: Because he is sure to be
reyenged, and his foes know il. Cries, "that's
so.'D ! never saw Col. Moss before to-day. L
do not know but that he may be loyal; but
this do know-that if he had desired to Gre
ate difficulty, 10 bring about b,oodshed, he
could not have taken a surer method than the
one he has adopted. / sent note, asking in
good faith that he attend this meeting with
his men. Wha: is his reply9 He Is afraid
that some imprudent men may create diff
Guilty; afraid of these women and children
and citizens assembled TO discuss an impoE-
tant question in peaceful manner. If his
motives are good. If his men are loyal, If his
action is legal, why should he fearr That
fear shows his unsoundness. He is not only
H.. .l..n., a Jim
self in yonder building from fear of a loyal
meeting, is sufficient proof Of this Look
further at the character of these proceedings.
A letter inviting us here. signed by forty-two
of your citizens, was sent me. Where are the
signers. But four of those gentlemen are
present a. the meeting they asked me TO at
tend. The Others are cooped up in yonder
building. II they asked me in good faith.
why are they there with arms in their hands:
take their absence as an insult but perhaps
they do not know the cOurtesies due from one
gentleman to another. Their conduct is am
Ieevidence of the fraud they sought to prac-
tice-a fraud that has been charged to-day by
Col. Price.
Colonel Anthony continued at some
length, urging the policy of immediate and
personal emancipation; and speaking OF
the local policy, he was enthusiastically
cheered. He was followed by Col. Burnes,
of Weston, and K. J. Hinton, of Leaven-
worth.
The committee on resolutions reported !;
and resolutions in favor of a new conven- |
ton, and immediate emancipation, were
passed and denounced the action of Col.
Moss in the strongest terms, declaring their |
determination to resist, if the proper au-
thorities failed to disarm the rebel sympa- |
thizeis he had organized.
The meeting then adjourned, and the del |
egation returned to this city.
As soon as the Union men left Platte, |
the Copperhead venom began to work. Moss |
and his men are disarming and numbering |
the Union men of Platte county. Else
where in our columns, the reader will find |,
the facts.-Builetin, September %, 1863