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Quindaro Chindowan.
A Free-State Paper.
Vol. I. Quindaro, Kanzas, Saturday, August 8, 1857. No. 13
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LAND AGENTS.
Kanzas Land Agency.
BLOOD, BASSETT & BRACKETT,
General Land Agents,
Surveyors and Civil Engineers,
Quindaro & Lawrence, Kanzas.
Prompt attention given to all business en-
trusted to our care.
Information given concerning every im-
portant locality in the Territory.
Refer to
Henn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield, Iowa.
A. J. Stevens & Co., Bankers, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Coolbaugh & Brooks, Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
White, Cook & Co., Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
Col. T. A. Walker, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Col. C. Bassett, Kewanee, Ill.
Hon. G. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
C. Gerrish, Groton, Mass.
L. F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 4th, 1857. 1tf
E. D. Ladd,
S. B. Prentiss.
LADD & PRENTISS,
Real Estate Brokers and General,
Land Agents.
E. D. Ladd,
Notary Public, Reg’r of Deeds, & Commissioner,
Will take acknowledgments of deeds and oth-
er papers.
Office, No. 18 Massachusetts St.,
Lawrence, Kanzas.
May 13, 1857. 1y.
R. P. Gray.
J. M. Walden.
R. P. GRAY & CO.,
Real Estate & Land Agents,
No. 76, Levee, Quindaro, Kanzas,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
their care.
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M. B. Newman.
R. M. Ainsworth.
Newman & Ainsworth,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Quindaro, K. T.,
Will attend Promptly to all Business in their line.
Office, No. 10, Kanzas Avenue.
References:
Hon. M. H. Nichols, M. C.- - - - - - - Lima, O.
Hon. Wm. Lawrence, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Hon. Wm. White, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Dunlevy, Drake & Co., Bankers, Cincinnati, O.
Henry Kip, Supt. U. S. Express, Buffalo, N. Y.
J. F. Ritcherdson, Mo. Express, St. Louis, Mo.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
Chas. Chadwick.
H. J. Bliss.
Chadwick & Bliss,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
City and Town Lots, and all kinds of Real
Estate bought and sold.
Office – On Kanzas Avenue, near the Quin-
daro House. 1tf
S. N. WOOD & CO.,
General Land Agents,
Lawrence, Kanzas,
Will invest money, and locate Land Warrants
In all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee from 50 to
100 per cent. on investment.
Letters of enquiry promptly answered.
S. N. WOOD,
Commissioner of Deeds for Ohio.
Office, No. 27 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kanzas.
PHYSICIANS,
DR. GEO. E. BUDDINGTON,
Offers his
professional services to the citizens of Quindaro
and vicinity.
Boards at the Quindaro Hotel.
Office, No. 1 Kanzas Avenue. 1tf
DR. R. M. AINSWORTH,
Office
No. 10 Kanzas Avenue.
1tf.
J. B. WELLBORN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his professional services to the citi-
zens of Quindaro and vicinity. The Doctor has
spent several years in practice in the West, and
flatters himself that he is thoroughly posted in
the modifications of disease in this climate.
Also, special attention paid to diseases of the
Eye.
Office, No. 38 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
HOTELS.
WYANDOTT HOUSE,
No. 2, Kanzas Avenue, Quidnaro,
E. O. Zane, - - Proprietor.
The above House is now open for the accom-
modation of the traveling public.
May 4. 1tf.
CARVEY HOUSE,
Corner Kanzas and Fifth Avenue,
Topeka, K. T.
C. C. Tuttle, - - - Proprietor.
Board:
Per Day, . . . . . . . $1,50
Per Week, . . . . . . . 6,00
Single Meals, . . . . . 50 cts.
QUINDARO HOUSE,
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Kanzas Avenue,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
Colby & Parker, - - Proprietors.
A line of Hacks starts every morning for Law-
rence, connecting there with routes to every part
of the Territory.
May 4, 1857.
Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
Saturday, August 8, 1857.
NEVER.
By G. W. Citter.
“I may be asked, as I have been asked, when I am for the dissolution of the Union? I answer: Never – never – never!” – HENRY CLAY.
You ask me when I’d rend the scroll
Our fathers’ names are written o’er;
When I would see our flag unroll
Its mingled stars and stripes no more;
When with a worse than felon band
Or felon-counsel, I would sever
The Union of this glorious land;
I answer: Never – never – never!
Think ye that I could brook to see
The banner I have loved so long,
Borne piecemeal o’er the distant sea,
Torn, trampled by a frenzied throng;
Divided, measured, parcell’d out;
Tamely surrender’d up for ever,
To gratify a soulless route
Of traitors? Never – never – never!
Give up this land to lawless might
To selfish fraud and villain sway;
Obscure those hopes with endless night
That now are rising like the day;
Write one more page of burning shame
To prove the useless, vain endeavor
Our race from rain to reclaim,
And close the volume? Never – never.
On yonder lone and lonely steep;
The sculptor’s art, the builder’s power,
A landmark o’er the soldier’s sleep,
Have rear’d a lofty funeral tower;
There it will stand until the river
That rolls beneath shall cease to flow,
Aye, till that hill itself shall quiver
With nature’s last convulsive throe.
Upon that column’s marble base,
That shaft that soars into the sky,
There still is room enough to trace
The countless millions yet to die!
And I would cover all its height
And breadth, before that hour of shame
Till space should fail whereon to write
Even the initials of a name.
Dissolve the Union! mar, remove
The last asylum that is known,
Where patriots find a brother’s love,
And truth may shelter from a throne!
Give up the hopes of high renown,
The legacy our fathers will’d!
Tear our victorious eagles down
Before their mission is fulfill’d!
Dissolve the Union — while the earth
Has yet a tyrant to be slain!
Destroy our freedom in its birth,
And give the world to bonds again!
Dissolve the Union! God of Heaven!
We know too well how much it cost
A million bosoms shall be riven
Before one golden link is lost.
Nay, spread aloft our banner folds
High as the heavens they resemble,
That every race this planet holds
Beneath their shadow may assemble,
And with the rainbow’s dazzling pride
Or clouds that burn along the skies,
Inscribe upon its margins wide,
HOPE, FREEDOM, UNION, COMPROMISE.
Mr. Clay’s very words, as he pointed to the monument that stands upon the height near Frank-fort, above the plain of Buena Vista, including the remains of his own son.
ASHLAND AS IT WAS AND IS.
The accompanying picture represents Ashland as it was. The identical house occupied by HENRY CLAY has been torn down since his death, and a new and more elegant edifice erected upon the same spot, and with but slight modifications of the same plan. The venerated edifice of the father had become insecure, threatening the safety and comfort of his family, (Mrs. Clay stated to me that the children had been endangered by the falling plastering) and his son James deemed that the associations to be kept permanent could be better attained by the visitor and pilgrim to this shrine, observing that care had been taken to enclose the interesting mementoes of the Patriot in an edifice which would defy the storm and the fast approaching ravages of decay.
The result is, that while the form and character of the old building, planned by Latrobe, has been preserved, all that taste and improvement in architecture, without being gaudy, could suggest, has secured to the resident within the walls, and to the visitor, one of the most bijou retreats, independent of its hallowed associations, which I have ever entered.
MEMENTOES.
Mrs. James B. Clay, an estimable and accomplished lady, daughter of the wealthy Mr. Jacobs, of Louisville, gave me every opportunity to view the parlors and library, and permitted me to see many of the memorials of her father-in-law, with which the room sof Ashland abound. Among the paintings which adorn the walls of the right hand parlor is an old Flemish piece, which Mr. CLAY brought from Ghent. It is an aged matron’s face. On a rosewood sideboard of modern elegance, is the pair of passive silver pitchers, duly inscribed the memorial of an affectionate remembrance of the Yong Men of Boston to HENRY CLAY, October 31, 1833.
Also, two Silver Pitchers and Salver, of great dimensions, presented to HENRY CLAY by the Whig ladies of Norwich, Connecticut, March 4th, 1845.
In one of the rarest pieces of workmanship of ebony and ivory, is contained, on parchment, the Resolutions adopted by the Clay Festival Association of New York, July 2, 1852, communicated to the family on the occasion of the decease of the Patriot and Statesman.
On a center table, in a case of substantial finish, is a rare memento, enclosed in papier machie covering and inlaid with costly pearls, being artistic designings, with pen sketched pictorial national views, by David Stanton, conveying condolence to the family, by the City Council of New York, signed by Mayor Kingsland. The pen picture of “Union,” the grouping of distinguished statesmen who, as leaders, united in the compromise measures, is almost as delicately done as an engraving on steel.
In the next parlor, in a glass case, is the giant silver vase of rare elegance of workmanship, surmounted by a solid silver eagle with extended wings, presented to HENRY CLAY in 1845, by the Gold and Silver Artizans of New York.
On the east wall is a Sully’s portrait of “The Old Man Eloquent” — President John Q. Adams. But the chef d’ouvre of this apartment is Inman’s Washington Family, of cabinet size. The serene and majestic Father of his Country appears as the chief, not of the armies, but the chief of a family group, of which Mrs. Washington and her two sons, with the colored servant, give a historical scene of Mount Vernon, that every generation will gaze on with renewed respect and well nigh reverence. This painting was a gift from Mr. James C. Johnson, of North Carolina, to Mrs. James Brown, sister of Mrs. Clay, whose husband so long represented our country at the French Court.
I entered the study — HENRY CLAY’s library, studded with memorials of him — with feelings almost of awe. I sat on the old, well preserved, old-fashioned chair, sat in often by him, handled the paper folder, which Mrs. Clay said she could almost fancy retained the delicate touchings of his long, lithe fingers, examined his writing and dressing case, inscribed “H. Clay, American Minister, Ghent,” lifted his ink-stand, so long the fountain into which his pen was dipped when conducting his correspondence and compositions, which have been the models of taste and elegance, and will long be prized as mementoes by those who received them.
Compactly around the ash-faced library shelves are a portion of the books retained of the division among the three sons. Here are old tables and sofas as they were used by the Ashland sage.
A notable piece of furniture by its inscription on a silver plate, is a worktable made by H. & J. F. White, made in the Whig procession of 1844, and presented to Mrs. HENRY CLAY. On the music stand is a large copy of a splendid work of Hogarth. The Statesman wisely thought with the Poet:
“Dulce est desipere in loce.”
I handled the plated seal, with a set of white cornelian, with his crest, presented to him in England on his way to Ghent, used so much that his fingers had worn the plating – it was his constant right-hand companion.
Also, a seal carved with the crest, made a portion of the door step of the house of Christopher Columbus, surmounted by a horse head chased in platina.
Also, his Diplomatic suit, and a gold star attached to a ribbon worn at the European courts. On the front among the ornaments I trace the Masonic emblem of crossed square and compass, on the obverse, stamped 24 July, 1760.
Also, his Russian box of gold and platina elegantly chased.
A tortoise case containing his gold spectacles.
A circular gold snuff box containing a lock of HENRY CLAY’s hair and a lock of Mrs. Clay’s.
A gold ring with a setting of the filings of the bell of Independence, inscribed inside, “This signet is from the bell that proclaimed American Independence, July 4, 1775.”
A diamond ring of great brilliance, on his finger when he died, which by will was presented to Lucy, a daughter of his son James. Many other valuable tokens of Mr. Clay have been divided to the other sons.
HIS CAREER.
HENRY CLAY, in a speech made at Lexington, June 9, 1847, on his retirement to private life, thus spoke of himself:
“In looking back upon my origin and progress through life, I have great reason to be thankful. My father died in 1781, leaving me an infant of too tender years to retain any recollection of his smiles or endearments. My surviving parent removed to this State in 1792, leaving me, a boy of fifteen years of age, in the office of the High Court of Chancery, in the city of Richmond, without guardian, without pecuniary means of support, to steer my course as I might or could. A neglected education was improved by my own irregular exertions, without the benefit of systematic instruction.
“I studied law principally in the office of a lamented friend, the late Governor Brooke, then Attorney General of Virginia, and also under the auspices of the venerable and lamented Chancellor Wythe for whom I had acted as an amanuensis. I obtained a license to practice the profession from the Judges of the Court of Virginia, and established myself in Lexington in 1797, without patrons, without the favor or countenance of the great or opulent, without the means of paying my weekly bond, and in the midst of a bar uncommonly distinguished by eminent members.
“I remember how comfortable I thought I should be if I could make one hundred pounds Virginia money per year, and with what delight I received the first fifteen shillings fee. My hopes were more than realized. I immediately rushed into a successful and lucrative practice.”
HIS GENIUS.
Perhaps the most truthful analysis of the character of CLAY and the most glowing and graphic picture was drawn by the master hand of Hon. Thomas A. Marshall, who though personally an enemy of Mr. CLAY, defiantly hurled back the charge made in the Kentucky Legislature during the exciting canvass between Dixon and Crittenden, both Whigs, that Mr. CLAY was indebted to Mr. Crittenden for distinction and success as a statesman. Marshall thus burst forth:
“Mr. CLAY stands in towering and barbaric grandeur, in all the hardihood and rudeness of perfect originality; independent of the polish and beyond the reach of art; his vast outline and grand but wild and undefined proportions, liken him to a huge mass of granite, torn in some convulsion of nature from a mountain side, which any effort of the chisel would only disfigure, and which no instrument in the Sculptor’s studio can grasp or comprehend. I have studied his life, his character, his speeches, his actions – I have heard him at the bar, and in the Senate – I have seen him in contests with other men when all the stormy passions of his tempestuous soul were lashed by disappointment and opposition, to the raging foam of ocean, when winds all unchained and sweeping in full career over the free and bounding bosom of the deep. He owed less of his greatness to education or to art, than any man living – he owed less of his commanding influence to other men, than any other leader I!
have ever seen or of whom I have ever read. He consulted nobody; he leaned upon nobody; he feared nobody. He wore Nature’s patent of nobility forever on his brow – he stalked among men with an unanswerable and never doubting air of command.”
BULWER ON THE WEED AND WOMEN. – In his new work, now in course of publication, “What he will do with it?” Bulwer thus moralizes on the “weed” and women:
He who doth not smoke hath either known no grief or refuseth himself the softest consolation next to that which comes from heaven. What, softer than women? whispers the young reader. – Young reader, woman teases as well as consoles. Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to soothe. Woman consoles, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then woman in this scale, the weed in that, Jupiter, hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O, Jupiter, try the weed.”
“OLD BELLION” was somewhat surprised at the fact of the printers announcing him as the “Hon. T. Benton.” His soliloquy, thereupon may be imagined: “Hon. T. Benton!” No such man, sir. Thomas Hart Benton is my name, sir. Never use it otherwise. “Hon. T. Benton” will not be found in my “Thirty Years View” or in the Bible: Thomas Hart Benton, sir, always, without exception, sir.
GOOD COMPANY. – I saw a rose tree surrounded by a tuft of grass, and was going to pull the tuft, when it humbly said: “Spare me! I am no rose, it is true, but by my scent you may know at least I have lived among roses.”
TALENT. – To gain the name of having great talent, throw away the little you have. Let a clever fellow get drunk every little while and make a fool of himself, and he is the best doctor, the best lawyer, or what not, “if he would only keep sober.”
YOUNG LADIES are like arrows – they are all in a quiver till the beaux comes, and can’t get off without them.
The Raid upon Lawrence – Opinions of the Press – How Walker is Regarded.
We have collected from a few Eastern journals, the articles which Walker’s recent movement elicited, believing that it will be interesting to see what impression the Statesman and Warrior is making by his operations. The selections will exhibit the tone of nearly the entire Republican Press. A few papers may be more bitter, a few more mild. All however agree that ye Governor has made a fool of himself:
From the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye, July 20.
“There is a diversity of opinion on this subject. Some claim that this calling of troops into service and hostile demonstration towards Lawrence is a new tub to a whale, an excuse to keep the troops in Kanzas for the defense of Walker himself against the pro-slavery party. Fudge!
For our part we regard it as a move, initiatory, it is true, but having for its end and object the bringing of Kanzas into the Union as a Slave State. Walker hears the mutterings of the Fire-Eaters, and knows their power. Unless he makes Kanzas a slave State Buchanan’s administration will be crushed between the Free Soil party on the one hand and the pro-slavery propagandists on the other, having the cordial support of neither. Mr. Buchanan has sold himself and his party, and there is no safety save in fulfilling the terms, the exact terms of the contract. He has but to follow wherever the mullifiers lead.”
From the Detroit (Mich.) Tribune, July 28.
“Two objects are assigned for the prompt and sudden movements of Walker, who goes to negotiate with the Free-State men with federal troops at his back. One is, that his ultimate intention is to collect the taxes levied by the bogus legislature, and this is evidently what the people of Lawrence apprehend, if we may judge from what we have already heard of their action. The other, that he is making this public exhibition to appease the south, and convince the fire-eaters that he is not coquetting with the Free-State men. Speculation upon his motives can however avail little, for we shall soon have opportunity to judge him by his acts.”
In another article the Tribune says:
“The Free Press charges the recent disturbance in Kanzas upon “the eastern engineers of black republicanism” – a charge evidently made to divert public attention from the fact that ORR, BIGLER, and other locofoco leaders, have just left Kanzas, and that the difficulties arise immediately upon their departure – a circumstance which gives Walker’s entire conduct the look of plot and premeditation. The people of Lawrence had always refused to obey or recognize the bogus laws, and Walker knows it. They had already warned a bogus tax-gatherer from their town – an act as overt and decided as their municipal election, but Walker took no notice of it. It was only when his attempt to make capital for himself and his party at the North, had exasperated the South into almost universal denunciation, that he saw the dangerous treason of the Lawrence free-men, and in order to propitiate the southern democracy, rushed down upon with a windy proclamation and government troops. This i!
s the whole secret of wicked attempt to make political reputation at the expense of public order, and there is good reason to believe that the wretched coup d’etat was deliberately planned by Orr, Bigler & Co. as a political movement. It is intended both to confirm Walker’s strength at the South, and to keep a sly Know Nothing or two from triumphing at the approaching elections in that section.”
From the Providence (R. I.) Journal.
“Taking the Democratic view of the nature and importance of the disturbances at Lawrence, what do they amount to? Simply to this – that in that half organized Territory, where all authority except the direct authority of the general government is disputed, where a majority of the people hold that the legislature was imposed upon them by foreign voted, and not by foreign votes alone, but by foreign violence; where many of the laws are admitted to be in direct violation of the plainest provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and the only defense offered for them is that their enforcement had never been attempted, the people of Lawrence have gone through the form of organizing a government for themselves, without asking the consent of the Legislature.
Grant that all this is technically wrong, that the government thus organized possesses no legal validity, no power beyond the voluntary consent of those who adopt it and submit to it, that any attempt to enforce its ordinances would be an invasion of individual right, and would subject the offender to the penalties of the laws, the laws of the bogus legislature, if you please; what then? Is this a case to call out an army? Is this one of those offenses so dangerous and so enormous, that only blood can wash them out?”
From the Chicago Tribune.
“Gov. Walker’s extraordinary demonstration against the city of Lawrence, has changed its character. He set out from Lecompton with the intention of breaking up the city government, about which he had heard some newspaper talk, and of arresting and imprisoning all traitorous constables, pound masters, (???), etc., found exercising their authority upon man or beast in defiance of what he and other Border Ruffians call the Territorial Legislature. Arriving at the seat of war, the Government finds nobody to fight. Lawrence is as empty of traitors as was the treasury of the Rock
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QUINDARO CHIN-DO-WAN.
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Saturday, August 8, 1857.
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Street.
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we are kept posted in Eastern news.
-Thanks to Messrs. COLBY and AINSWORTH for the fine supply of ice with which
they have furnished us through Mr. HODGES.
-D. N. GREENLEAF, Esq., the Clerk of the fast Lightening Line steamer
Polar Star, has placed us under obligations by many favors during recent
trips upon the route. Mr. GREENLEAF’S universal popularity along the river, is
no mystery to those who have had facilities for observing his unvarying courtesy
to all.
-Our readers will find on the first and fourth pages of this paper, extracts
from several journals, showing the spirit in which Walker’s raid upon Lawrence
is regarded by sensible people in the States.
-The lynching at Leavenworth City, a full report of which will be found in
another column, may be regarded as the legitimate results of the Bogus dominion.
The Bogus laws, invalid in se on account of their origin, have, because
of the partial manner in which they have been executed, lost the modicum of
respect doled out to them in the past. The people feel no security under them;
they know that Bogus courts and bogus juries will not mete out even so much
justice as might be attained through the fraudulently enacted laws; they are
conscious of being as virtually without law as though every bogus statute were
given to the flames as it ought to be; they feel the necessity of taking such
action as will keep crime at bay until the strong arm of recognized and
righteous law can be wielded to crush it out.
The Free-State Election.
We can present our readers with but meagre
returns from the election last Monday. The few precincts we have heard from give
the Topeka Constitution 2500 votes, more than half of which were cast in
Leavenworth County, so that in this county alone our constitution got nearly a
many votes as did the delegates to the Bogus Convention, throughout Kanzas. The
Free-State men can poll a larger vote than they have at this election, but
considering that there was but about a fortnight to canvass the State in, the
vote is a good one, enough to demonstrate to the world that the people of Kanzas
want to be admitted into the Union under the Topeka Constitution.
Another Fraud.
The apportionment for members of the Territorial
Legislature has been made. We gather from it the fact that every member of the
council, excepting one, is to be voted for in the counties bordering on
Missouri. The House consists of thirty-nine members, twenty-nine of whom are to
be elected from districts bordering on the Missouri line. “I do not despair,”
said Davy Atchison in his letter to a friend in South Carolina, and well he may
not. The reason for this apportionment is to enable the Pro-Slavery party by
invasion to secure the Territorial Legislature. It is useless to talk of a free
and pure ballot-box. No such thing can exist in Kanzas under Territorial rule.
It is useless to talk of any protection to the ballot-box by Gov. Walker. The
man who believes that Walker desires to protect the ballot-box, is entirely too
verdant to reside in Kanzas, and he who believes that he could do so, if so
desirous is still more verdant.
We should admire the generalship of that Governor who with less than 8000
troops at his disposal could so dispose of them as to protect the ballot-boxes
in a region of territory reaching from the northern to the southern boundary
line of Missouri and extending westward to the Rocky Mountains. Supposing he
could do so - what then? How are the ballot-boxes to be protected? The Judges of
election will be Pro-Slavery men, and they are not to decide who shall, and who
shall not vote. They are to decide when it is necessary that the
ballot-box is to be protected. Is any man in Kanzas credulous enough to believe
that the Judges of election will refuse a Pro-Slavery vote, even if it comes
from Missouri? Is any one so foolish as to believe that the Judges will refuse
any but the votes of Free State men, and that if Free State men insist on their
right to vote, the Territorial officers will call on the army to quell the
disturbance, and that army thus become a protection, not to the ballot-box, but
to the fraud?
It is useless for the Free State men to mingle in the Territorial election.
The enemy are in possession of the power which is to decide, who is and who is
not elected to the Legislature. That power they will use, hesitating at no
fraud, however great to accomplish their purposes. Our only hope is to rally
round the Topeka Constitution, infuse into its organization the necessary
vitality and pledging to each other “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor,” launch the ship of State out on the troubled sea, and leave for time and
a just people to vindicate the justice and necessity of our action.
Respect the Bogus Laws?
The only law that is binding upon a people
is their own sentiment fully and fairly expressed. Such law alone possesses the
elements of validity, and so long as it is a fair expression of the sentiments
of the people it will be endued with a full vitality. On the contrary no law,
however just it may be, is binding upon a people who had no voice in its
enactment; they ever must be justified by the world for refusing to acknowledge
its validity; they can be regarded as willing serfs if they acquiesce in its
enforcement. This embraces the ground upon which the Free-State men of Kanzas
has based their refusal to recognize the Bogus laws.
For more than two years the people of Kanzas have been under mob rule - under
an alien government. The Territorial laws have emanated from a body of nominal
legislators who received their authority directly from the hands of a mob - a
mob composed of persons foreign to the soil; every appointee of that
despotically-imposed legislature is simply the instrument of a mob. It is
degrading to pay deference to such legislature; it is unmanly to give assent to
such laws; it is cowardly to yield obedience to such officers. To enact such
laws is usurpation; to enforce them is tyranny. No one will gain-say that the
Bogus legislature was a body of usurpers; no one will dare to deny that the man
who will attempt to carry its enactments into effect is a despot.
We shall be proud to see the whole people of Kanzas ignore every law passed
by the Territorial Legislature, and proud to know that they regard every minion
appointee with profound contempt. This position which the Free-State men have
taken and generally maintained, we desire to see them maintain unswervingly
until an acceptable and legitimate government is secured. It is the only course
if they would have Kanzas a true Free-State. Because of this we argued
against going into the Delegate election in June; because of this we now hazard
the opprobrium of traitor, by urging a disregard of Bogus laws and Bogus
officers.
“But, for individual security we must have some law!.” we hear some of our
more facile friends exclaim. Very true, but until we secure a government
that is created by the governed, the people can be a law unto themselves. Let
ordinary difficulties be settled by arbitration; let the persons chosen as
arbitrators act as a jury, hearing the evidence and to the best of their
ability, rendering an impartial verdict. In this way, we doubt not, all cases of
disagreement might be satisfactory settled. Such procedure would gain for itself
greater respect than Bogus courts can ever hope to gain and would thus have a
prestige that would tell for good upon society. In towns and villages there
might be organizations entered into voluntarily, through which boards of
arbitrators would be empowered to adjudicate difficulties that might arise. It
should be the sentiment of every town and neighborhood that no man who would
appeal to the Bogus courts or officers for restitution, should be regarded as
being worthy of fellowship or courtesy; that a man who would so bemean himself,
so degrade his manhood, should be treated with the coolest contempt.
We have faith in the people; we believe that whilst the present condition of
things lasts in Kanzas, the people are eminently competent to adjust all their
social affairs without the intervention of Border Ruffian law, and without the
intercession of Border Ruffian officers. - There are in society as there are in
man, dormant capacities which are only called into action by trying exigencies,
but which always prove equal to the demand that is made upon them. The present
crisis will call forth these powers, and they will rule society with majesty,
with dignity, with justice. It will be a grand manifestation of the moral power
of the people; it will vindicate their devotion to justice, their respect for
good order, their desire for peace, their love of liberty, their regard for
their country.
The Mails.
Uncle Sam’s attempts to afford the people of Kanzas mail
facilities are about as futile as the appointment of Governors has been. With an
excellent line of Steamers upon the Missouri, running in connection with
railroads, there should be neither delay or loss of mail matter, but by some
circumlocutory arrangement which we do not comprehend there is much complaint
and good grounds for it. There is no place between this and St. Louis where
papers can be detained. By the Lightning Line Steamers and Pacific Railroad, our
newspaper mail is taken to St. Louis in two days. From there they should reach
the remotest eastern State in three or four days at farthest and yet they were
detained weeks and sometimes never reach their destination. We hope that these
detentions will occur less frequently hereafter.
The two Platforms and their Supporters
An attempt is being made in
certain quarters by persons claiming to be Free State men, to divide and
distract the Free State party. There are but two parties in Kanzas, the Free
State party and the Pro-slavery party, although the latter it is said has
adopted the nom de plume of the “National Democratic Party.”
The Free State party in its Convention
Resolved,That the Topeka
Constitution was the first and only choice of the Free State men in Kanzas; that
they looked to their admission under it as the surest and only method of
regainiug their lost rights, and that all their efforts as a party in whatever
direction should be subservient to that end.
This resolution was the unanimous voice of that Convention; the largest ever
held in Kanzas. Such, then, is the position of the Free State party.
What is the position of the National Democratic party? Their position can be
found in the resolutions passed in their Convention which assembled on the 2d of
July at Lecompton. Among them we find the following:
Resolved, That we have the integrity and talent in this Territory, to
perform all the duties of the various offices in our midst, with usefulness to
the Government and with honor to ourselves, and we claim that these offices in
right ensures to the benefit of our citizens.
Resolved, That the National Democratic party of Kanzas Territory
pledges itself to the support and maintenance of His Excellency Robert J.
Walker, in preserving the peace and harmony of Kanzas, and in executing the laws
of our country.
This is their position: 1st. We the citizens of Kanzas, claim the public
plunder. We can make it useful to the Government; honorable to ourselves, and it
is presumed profitable. 2d. We will maintain and support Walker in preserving
order, and enforcing the laws of his country, i.e. the Bogus Laws.
The position of the Free State party upon the Bogus Laws, is this:
Resolved, That the Free State men now as heretofore utterly deny the
validity of the Terrtorial Legislature; that they still recognize it as the
creature of fraud and violence, and that they acknowledge neither the validity
nor the binding force of its enactments.
No man unless he takes this position, and labors to secure its success can be
a member of the Free State party. There are those claiming to be of the Free
State party who occupy the National Democratic ground. The Herald of
Freedom is the Organ of these men, and G. W. Brown the Organ-grinder. It is
true that he asserts that “the only feature of difference between his platform
and the platform of the Topeka Convention is the platform of the Convention
purposes to keep alive the Topeka organization by voting for it again in August,
and electing a new Legislature and the various State officers.”
This is an essential difference. It is just the difference existing between
the National Democratic Party with Buchanan, Walker & Stringfellow at its
head, and the Free State party. But Brown a few weeks prior to this was in favor
of resuscitating the Topeka movement, and making it something more than a name.
Now when the Free State party propose doing so, the distinguished martyr
discovers a difference between HIS platform and theirs. The great martyr goes
even farther than this. He declares when speaking of the position of the Free
State party in relation to the election of a Territorial Legislature, and their
proposed action thereon, “that such a movement may succeed among
demagogues in want of office, but it will not avail with the people.” We
now have the platform of the martyr:
1st. He is opposed to the Topeka Constitution.
2d. The Free State party consists of Demagogues.
We think this platform must be satisfactory to his employer — Walker. But the
martyr don’t stop here. Not content with the “feature of difference” between HIS
platform and that of Free State party, he must needs throw his huge carcass upon
the platform of the National Democracy of Kanzas. That party resolved that they
wanted the public offices of the Territory; they thought its members could fill
them with honor and we know they would not have them unless they paid. Geo. W.
Brown, the great martyr, says in his last issue, “we are done laboring for
glory and shall now require Cash for our services, in future.” Will the
self-sacrificing martyr explain the difference existing between himself and Rush
Elmore, Stringfellow, Henderson and Fred. Emory? One asks for paying offices -
the other for cash!
Elmore, Stringfellow, Emory & Co. declared that they would support His
Excellency, Gov. Walker, in executing the laws of the country - the
Territorial laws. In his last issue the martyr gives to His Excellency the aid
of his profound legal ability by suggesting to him the legal mode of procedure
necessary to be made against his fellow citizens in Lawrence; he also advises
the people outside of Lawrence not to mix themselves up in the matter as Gov.
Walker is a lawyer of large experience and will not act outside of the law.
We will sustain Gov. Walker in executing the law, say Elmore, Emory & Co.
The martyr Brown gives Gov. Walker the benefit of his immense legal experience
by suggesting to him legal modes of procedure, and cautioning people outside not
to mix up in the matter. What more could Elmore, Emory & Co. do? It is true
if their services were needed, they might fight, but the people outside of
Lawrence need not fear that the martyr will do that - he don’t stand on that
plank of the Elmore & Emory platform.
We respectfully suggest to his National Democratic friends, if they wish to
be successful, that they nominate him for some office, as he can perform the
“tallest feats of running” known’ in these regions.
Quindaro, that Abolition Hole!
It would be difficult to estimate
the amount of ill feeling cherished towards our unpretending town. In the minds
of a certain class of people there is a deep and settled prejudice. This
ill-feeling, this prejudice has been inspired by the reputation Quindaro has had
from the first of being a Free-State town. The fact of its origin and the
sentiments of its origin and the sentiments of its people, entitle it to this
Free-State character, which to some of the people of Kanzas, to some of our
neighbors in Missouri, and to the officers of some steamboats, is very
obnoxious. These persons in whose nostrils our town seems to be a stench, are
rabidly Pro-Slavery which will account for their intolerance. It is a maxim with
them that the Free-State sentiment should be prohibited along the Missouri, that
Free-State settlements on this river should be crushed out by some expedient or
other.
Quindaro from the first has attracted their attention and been the subject of
their maledictions. It was founded by leaders in the Free-State party as a point
of landing and access to the Territory when every town in Kanzas on the Missouri
was in possession of Pro-Slavery men and so completely under Pro-Slavery
influence, as to make it dangerous for Free-State men to land at and pass
through them. This fact has made Quindaro a mark of their spleen, a spleen, that
has manifested itself in various ways, every demonstration being designed to
inflict an injury. It is with such a vicious earnestness that Pro-Slavery
propagandists dog those who differ from them in opinion!
They scruple not to misrepresent the character of our citizens; they do not
hesitate to apply to them, without good cause, that most approbrious title
“Abolitionists” in its worst acceptation wherein it is synonymous with
negro-stealers, and do it in that insiduous way which is best calculated to
inflame the minds of Missourians and others against our town. We published an
instance last week where a resolution before a debating society for discussion
was peraded and construed as being the expressed sentiment of our citizens. In
an article which we quoted from the Star of Empire,/i>there was an almost
direct charge that fugitives had been harbored here which was as false as any
untruth ever published in that amiable and modest journal. Some of those
steamers who have Pro-Slavery officers have done all they possibly could to
discourage emigration to our town by misrepresenting it and its citizens.
There are within the borders of Missouri two towns, one of which we know and
the other of which we believe has been making a systematic attempt to injure
Quindaro. The article we quoted last week shows the game that Westport has been
and is playing, and some of her citizens are evidently none too good to do for
neighboring “cities” the dirty work which they deem impolitic to avow. The
motive is apparent. Although they are pro-slavery towns they have grown fat on
the Free-State trade of Kanzas. They are avariciously desirous to retain this
lucrative trade, and hence that the Free-State men will in justice to themselves
patronize a Free-State town if one grows up on the Missouri is a probability
that makes them regard such a point with a bitter and malignant jealousy.
What, we ask, could have impelled the Star of Empire to publish
insinuations that must tend to inflame the Missourians against Quindaro, to that
pitch when they will forcibly “close the Missouri trade entirely from their
benefit,” and when “every steamboat will be commanded not to land at the
Free-State town on the Missouri river, with the penalty of being sunk!”
Because Quindaro offers to Free-State men a more congenial trading place than
they can find at towns where they have been persecuted and from whence invading
hordes once swarmed to destroy their homes, you will labor to attach to her a
character which you claim should shut from her the use of a national highway!
Because Quindaro is guiltless of the charges you have instituted, is a proof
that they have been made, openly and by innuendo, only for the base design we
have indicated.
When we commenced publishing a paper on the border, it was with a hope that
there would be no occasion for accrimonious articles towards any portion of the
inhabitants of Missouri. We are as jealous of those vested rights of the people
of Missouri, which are protected by the ægis of State sovereignty, as any
citizen of that state. They have chosen slavery; it belongs to them, and they
are welcome to retain it until they tire of it themselves, when they will remove
it by their own voluntary action. We have citizens who have even departed
somewhat from a deeply inculcated belief to maintain for Quindaro a reputation
that would defy just complaint. And notwithstanding this there has been, besides
a systematic operation against her, through the medium of business, an open
attack in a manner and through an agency that leaves to us no election but to
repel the charges, to rebuke their authors in less measured terms than we are
wont to use, and present the facts and motives of this pursecution for the
consideration of honorable men generally and those of the Free-State ranks
particularly.
Our turn at a Correspondent.
We hoped that there would be no
occasion for us to infringe upon an exercise through which our highly
respectable cotemporary of the Herald of Freedom has greatly edified his
readers; in fact after witnessing his alternation between curveting and
floundering we have been inclined rather to profit by his example than to follow
it. It is far from our intention to pit ourselves against these correspondents,
for as a class they are a clever set of fellows, engaged in a legitimate
business, and doing their quota of good in their own way.
But it sometimes happens that when a personal friend of some Eastern
publisher determines so come to Kanzas, he proposes to write an occasional “note
by the way” for his friend’s paper, and with no experience as a journalist, no
knowledge of the art of writing a letter for the general reader, instead
transmitting news-matter in an interesting form he stops to argue technical
points; instead of presenting facts without comment leaving the reader to draw
conclusious, he forestalls them by forcing forward his own inferences;
instead of giving simple and impartial accounts of incidents he first looks at
them though his own prejudices until they become sufficiently distorted to suit
his ideas of propriety, and then in that form sends them to his friend, the
publisher, who through grace for their author alone, gives them to the world.
Now such a correspondent we can only regard as an interloper, an intruder
entitled to none of the amenities of the profession, and from just such a one we
are confident the following emanated:
“I was present at a little election for a town officer, last Saturday night,
in Quindaro, which showed which way the wind blows. The favorite of the
Republicans of the town company was opposed by a Fillmore man, who was backed up
by the working men, among whom were some anti-Republicans. They elected their
man by 66 majority in a vote under 200. I satisfied myself that in this town,
where I openly heard men say they did not care how soon they had some more
disturbance, a majority will go for a Constitution made by a Territorial
Convention – if it is a Free State. This feeling is so general that the Topeka
movement will get the go-by if the Convention will do right.”
We clip this from a letter published in the Cincinnati Times. We know
very well who the author was, and would regard it no very difficult task to
account for this paragraph. He is a professional man, but not of the quil; he is
not a regular, only an amatuer correspondent and hence cannot feel the
responsibilities of the calling. He wrote the above as he has written many other
things since drifting from one part of the Territory to another, without
investigating sufficiently to understand the case, and seeing what few facts he
gathered through a partisan glass. He did not inquire so far as to ascertain
that politics never entered into the above election, that the choice was made
for other and very different reasons. And now after suggesting to “M.” that he
be a little more circumspect in his correspondence, we ask him to compare his
prognostics in regard to the Topeka movement with the lusty vote which our
citizens gave for the Constitution on last Monday-one hundred and
ninety-seven in its favor, not one against it, and assure him that we
appreciate the sentiments of a man who in a crisis like that last fall, would
throw away his vote on a third candidate, and openly declare that he would
rather see Democracy triumphant than Republicanism.
-The poor fellow who, for the edification of the lovers of the “divine
institution,” writes very loose and very coarse articles for Leavenworth
Journal, has been seriously exercised in spirit about the discussion of a
resolution in regard to permitting negro children into schools, which was
recently had by the members of the Quindaro Literary Association. Without
pausing to demonstrate that the people of Quindaro have a right to cherish
whatever sentiments they please, and that their social organization is a matter
for them to determine, we would, with all that deference with which we should
approach so august a personage, inform the editor of the Journal that our
citizens are willing that the young men shall discuss any and every question
which they may deem worthy of investigation, and that from such investigation no
evil results are apprehended.
In the same paper, this circumspect individual devotes a mournful column and
a half to the consideration of the heretofore unsuccessful attempt to make
Kanzas a slave state, and furnishes what he doubtless considers an able
vindication of those chivalric ones who fought and bled, charged and fled, all
for their devotion to Southern rights, therein proving that, to the Moloch his
genuflexions were so devout, that he cheerfully, unscrupulously did all he could
to introduce into Kanzas a social condition where the negro becomes a recognized
member of the household, nursing and often suckling the master’s children, and
exercising a maternal care over them until the young mind receives many
permanent impressions, and where an illicit and shameful intimacy is often
practiced between white owners and black slaves, by far more degrading to the
whites than could possibly be such a social relation as is contemplated in the
resolution that caused our fastidious cotemporary such paroxy! sms.
-We have learned that the crops on the Shawnee Reservation, directly South
from Quindaro, are looking remarkably promising, the best probably of any in the
territory.
Latest From the Siege.
Ye isothermal General has, since our last
issue, been cutting up some queer capers. On Monday morning bright and early the
reveille was sounded with unusual vigor, rousing the dragoons from their dreams
in quick time. Ye General in his dignified and majestic manner issued orders
that the siege should be raised immediately after breakfast. Coffee was drank
smoking hot and tents were struck with alacrity. Where for two weeks the doughty
Governor and his cohorts had quietly sweated and snoozed,
“There were
hurryings to and fro,”
and a commotion such as made the horses snort and the
mules bray.
At length the army filed away towards the west and left the Governor’s
rebellious subjects at Lawrence without any restraint to prevent them from
overthrowing the government. For two long days Lawrence stood “upon the brink of
an awful precipice,” and yet during those two long days did not “take the fatal
leap into the gulf below.” Ye Governor General lead his army beyond Topeka and
then impelled by his solitude for his dear Lawrence he called a halt, wheeled
his van and made a countermarch to the field which had already been endeared by
the recollections of the past few weeks encampment.
He arrived at Lawrence Wednesday morning, and is there engaged in his usual
occupation of eating, drinking and sleeping. At last accounts he was
warning the rebellious in the words of Shakespeare:
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath;
And ready mounted are they to
spit forth
Their iron indignation gainst your walls!
A fool’s mouth is his destruction-Prov. 18:7.
In all the daily walks of life people witness illustrations of the truth of
this declaration. An indiscreet use of the “little member” is often followed by
unlooked for and untoward consequences. We did not quote the above to comment
upon it, but to recommend its consideration to some of our neighbors who have
openly decried Quindaro as a harbor of fugitives, without being select as to who
constituted their auditors. A few of the citizens of Parkville, a very few we
are glad to say, have openly made such denunciations and made them frequently
where black ears heard every word. What the whites proclaim publicly, the blacks
talk about in secret, and they conceive an idea that our town is indeed a refuge
for them. In the only instance of a slave coming here we know this to have been
his impression from his own words. We are sure that the only enticement slaves
will receive must be those encouragements that the denunciations of the whites
against our town may afford. We therefore without asking them to think
differently of Quindaro, insist that they kindle no hopes in the hearts of their
slaves by such declarations as must lead them to believe that they will find a
place of refuge, and a means of protection in Kanzas.
A Modern Munchausen.
We are informed on creditable authority that a
certain Mr. TAYLOR - “DICK” TAYLOR, we believe he is called - of Westport, Mo.,
recently gave in Olathe, a most astonishing report of one of his recent visits
to Quindaro.
According to his version of the affair, he came to this town in pursuit of a
runaway slave; he was informed by the people that the fugitive was here, but
would not be given up; thereupon, he uttered the portentous threat that unless
the chattel was surrendered forthwith he would bring over a crowd from Westport,
and “clean out” the town. The poor Quindarians - so his story went - were
appalled by this threat - fairly frightened out of their boots - and gave him at
once all the desired information and assistance.
Now the facts of the case are simply these. Mr. TAYLOR came to
Quindaro in pursuit of an alleged fugitive. So far from any obstructions being
thrown in the way of his recovery, one of our citizens made it his business to
take him through town, to the few houses of the colored people, and to aid him,
by every means in his power, in gaining intelligence of his lost “property.” But
no traces of the fugitive were found, beyond the fact of his having crossed the
Kaw river at Wyandott. So far as threats are concerned, Mr. TAYLOR made
none whatever, in Quindaro, according to all the information we have been able
to obtain. Had he indulged in that line of conversation, he may rest assured he
would have been met in a very different spirit from the one he describes.
The people of Quindaro are unanemously opposed, upon conviction to the
extension of slavery one foot beyond its present limits. But they recognize the
compromises of the Constitution; and they neither entice away slaves, nor
knowingly harbor fugitives. If our neighbors in Missouri are wise and know their
own interests they will meet us in a reciprocal spirit of good faith and good
will. Should they refuse to do so, the consequences will rest with themselves.
Our Westport friend in particular will do well to tell the truth and shame
the - his friend, next time.
-The steamer Tropic which was snagged a few days ago, will be fully
repaired, and take her place in the Lightning Line in a week. We shall be glad
to welcome the Tropic back, and to see her gentlemanly officers again at the
posts which they fill so competently.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Below we give the ticket voted for in Kanzas on
Monday, and the result of the election so far as heard from :
The Free State Ticket
VOTED FOR ON AUGUST 8.
TOPEKA
CONSTITUTION.
Yes. No.
For Member of Congress.
MARCUS J PARROTT.
Of Leavenworth.
For Secretary of State,
P. C. SCHUYLER.
For Auditor of State,
G. A. CUTLER
For Judges of Supreme Court,
M. F. CONWAY, S. N. LATTA.
For Reporter of the Supreme Court,
E. M. THURSTON.
For Clerk of Supreme Court,
A.G. PATRICK.
Vote for the Constitution.
We have heard only from the following
precincts :
Quindaro,. . . . .197 Leavenworth,. . . . .706
Lawrence, . . .
. 652 Washington Cr,. . . . 57
Palmyra,. . . . . 108 Franklin,. . . . . .
.69
Fish’s,. . . . . . 69 Doniphan,. . . . . . 139
Kenekuk,. . . . . .29
Atchison,. . . . . . .79
Wyandott,. . . . .199 Alexandria,. . . . .
.68
Eastmans,. . . . . 53 Delaware,. . . . . . .53
Total of above
precincts,. . . . . . . .2,500
VOTE FOR THE STATE TICKET.
Precincts Parrott Schyler Cutler Conway
Latta Patrick Thurston
Quindaro, 189 189 189 190 189 190 189
Lawrence, 619
610 613 598 617 617 515
Washington, 60 60 60 60 60 60 60
Palmyra, 102 102
102 102 102 102 102
Fish’s, 68 68 68 67 68 67 68
Franklin, 75 75 75 53 74
75 75
Leavenworth, 718 719 719 717 719 719 719
FIRST DISTRICT TICKET.
State Senators.
HENRY J.
ADAMS.
Dr. J.P. ROOT.
State Representatives.
J. C. GREEN,
J. C. HATTERSCHEIDT,
G.
H. KELLER,
J. C. DOUGLASS,
STEPHEN SPARKS,
WM. PENNOCK,
PATRICK
ORR,
R. S. ELLIOT,
J. M. FUNK,
J. M. WALDEN.
Precincts. Adams. Root. Green. Hatterschedt Keller
Douglass
Quindaro, 188 188 188 188 188 188
Leavenworth, 720 719 719 716
721 719
Precincts. Sparks Pennock Orr Elliott Funk Walden
Quindaro. 188 188
188 188 188 188
Leavenworth. 720 719 719 719 719 721
We have full returns only from Quindaro and Leavenworth, which we give above.
The Constitution received 395 votes at Wyandott, Alexandria, Eastmans and
Delaware; if the district ticket received the same it would make the highest
vote 1305.
Missouri Election.
So far as we have heard from Gubernational
election, Rollins is ahead. He carried St. Louis by 1850.
Platte County which has always been strongly Democratic, gave Rollins 64
majority. Clay County also a Democratic county, is reported to have gone for
him.
The Grasshopper Falls Conventions.
Our friends must by no means
forget the Delegate and Mass Conventions to meet at Grasshopper Falls the 26th
inst. These Conventions will be among the most momentous ever held in Kanzas. In
the present complicated state of affairs – with the Federal Governor endeavoring
to crush out the principles of Freedom in Kanzas - with a most barefaced and
villainous fraud just thrust upon us in the shape of the recent re-apportionment
and districting of the Territory - it is of supreme importance that the
Free-Sate men act with wisdom and unanimity. If we are firmly united upon a
wise and proper policy we are sure to triumph. Let every town and inhabited
township in Kanzas be represented at these Conventions, by large delegations of
true men. Let the issues before us be boldly met, and considered in a patient
and conciliatory spirit. Let every man go determined to adopt whatever course
the Conventions shall decide upon, and to adhere to it through every trial and
in the face of every peril.
Quindaro Literary Association.
There was a good attendance on
Thursday night to hear the discussion of the following proposition:
Resolved,That under the present organization of society, Woman is
deprived of many rights to which she is entitled by Justice and by Nature.
The question was argued with spirit and ability by Messrs. S. MERCHANT in the
affirmative, and C. HOWARD CARPENTER is the negative, and was finally postponed
two weeks for further discussion and decision.
The subjoined question was selected for next week:
Resolved,That no Free state man, or lover of Free Territory, can
support the present Administration.
Messrs. S. MERCHANT and S. F. OTIS will be the disputants.
A. D. RICHARDSON, J. COOPER, and C. H. CARPENTER were appointed a Committee
to report a Constitution By-Laws for the Government of the Association.
Adjourned for one week.
QUERY. - If the Governor-General Walker was, by the partial formation of a
city organization, convicted that it was his duty to denounce the citizens of
Lawrence as rebels, and march an army against them, how many men will a mob in
any other town have to lynch to produce a like conviction in his impartial mind?
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