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LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
EATDESAY LlOame, MARCH , 1859.
TEEMS S.0 FEB ANXCM.IH AwVASCE
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JX) vVnan til term for which subscriber re
eti'inr. their papers by mail or at the l'ot-ffioe
is out or nearly so, we ennvey the intelligent by
a eroe at the end of their name like the one
at the commencement of this notiee. This will
(ire all a fair pnportanity to know when their
. time is ot. and serve as aa Invitation to renew
their subscriptions.
JO" Extra eopios of the Herald of Freedom
lot no in wrapnrrs for mailing if deeired, ean
be bad at the 02:e. Price. Five Cents each.
The Oirjr Oovsmmen
An animated election was held on Satur
day last in this city, on the new city
charter recently enacted by the Territorial
Legislature. We are pleased to announce
that it was defeated by fifty-eight major
ity, the vote standing 102 for the new
charter, aud ICO agaiast it. This is the
first time the voters of Lawrence have
had a direct and legal opportunity to vote
upon their charters, though, as we stated
last week, each regular session of the
Legislature has enacted a new one for our
government. The defeat of this shows
what would have been the fate of the
others, had each been submitted to a legal
vote of the citizens of Lawrence only.
Kansas Is the only country we are ac
quainted with, where State Constitutions
and charters for cities are made to govern
a people vithout even submitting them
in some form to a vote of those who are
to be governed by thorn. Louis Napoleon,
when besought the throne of France, went
through the farce of an election to gain
the Pre: ideney; and when he changed the
Republic into a monarchy, ho did it under
the pretence that the people had decided
in ff.vor of it. And England, though a
monarchy, never dreams of changing the
charters of her c'ties, or incorporated
town, without first requiring a vote of
the parties interested, on the new instru
ment. Ia the States the act of incorpora
' tion of villages and boroughs is first sub
mitted to a vote of the peoplo for their
ratification or rejection, as are amendments
to tho Bam"; and banking companies, and
incorporated bodies generally, when an
amendment is made to their charters, are
required to take a vote of the members of
tho incorporation, and if not indorsed by a
majority cf the stockholders of such in
corporation, it has no legal effect. But in
Lawrence, as we hare before remarked,
we are absolutely living under a city gov
ernment on which the voice of the people
baa never been expressed, aud no oppor
tunity has Lesugiveu them to say whether
they desired it as their fundamental law,
or otherwise. We opine there are some
who will not feel like "yielding obedience
. to tho constituted authorities" until this
privilege is givon them.
We have been anxious to see a thorough
city government in Lawrence, and have
been willing to pay our quota to defray
its expenses; but we are not willing to
contribute of our means any longer to aid
id sustaining a government based upon
tyranny and usurpation, when do earthly
good can grow out of it, and which is only
used to support a few men in doing that
for which the ci'y would be better off if
not dons at all.
The great argument in Kansas, and in
Congrats, against the Lecompton swindle,
was the fact that it was never submitted
to a fair and impartial vote of those who
were to be effected by it that it was an
usurpation, and we all declared, that if we
or-anized under it, it should only be to
inaugurate, in the shortest possible period,
a legitimate State Constitution, which
should be fairly submitted to a vote of
the people, and indorsed by a majority of
them. Last year, when the city govern
ment was imposed upon us by the Legis
lature without expressed consent of the
voter of Lawrence, we felt like making
war upon it ; but as it was understood
' thai it had passed into the hands of
officers who would take immediate steps
to got up a proper government, we re
mained silent, and to prevent them from
saying that we had labored to prevent
tueui from accomplishing what they de.
tired, wo paid the tines imposed upon us;
hut. we bow givo public notice that we
cannot consent to do this any longer, and
(hall look to the courts for protection
' against any invasion of our rights in this
- direction, as we presume the people gen
rally will do.
Te Claimant,
- Tow Commissioners to audit claims,
hare appointed Cot Sfesceb, Loxo
worth. Powers and Gcilfobd Dudley,
Ess .clerks of their board, and Caleb S.
Pbatt, of Lawrence, Central Clerk, to
whom communications can be addressed.
G. F. Wabbex has beer, appointed 8ei-geant-at-Arms,
and Johx Kkxdall, Bai
liff. Claimants must remember that the
labor of the commission will close on the
first of July, that every claim roust be re.
proven before this commission, and that
there is so time to lose in getting cases
ready for their action. We would cau
tion parties against employing attorney,
and giving away a large part, or auy con
iderablepart of their claims, in order to
get them attended to before the Commis
sioners. The committee appointed at the
; "Sufferer's Convention" last fall, have
takca this matter into consideration, and
bare engaged an attorney to attend to all
the claims, by which he will be able to
do so at a greatly reduced cost. Bv hav-
ing a general charge of all the claims, he
Is better enabled to give bis entire atten
tion to the subject, and to fo better jus
tice to all parties.
,(KrJu&fc printed at this office,' blank
proposals for carrying the mails in Kan
sas Territory. Persona wishing copies
, can obtain 'them by application at this
office. . Price ten coats each, or sixty
- cents 1 doxen, .-
-JL Cawxxdlr A sisal I. -. ..
One of those dastardly acts for which
Lawrence la becoming somewhat famous,
was enacted in our streets last Monday
morning. Doct. Chaeles Robissos, who
lives about a mile south of town, drove
into the place, and wee about getting out
of his carriage at the post office, when be
was assaulted by Martin F. Conway, who
struck him over the head with a bludgeon,
inflicting a severe blow, which, probably,
would bave fractured bis scull but for bis
hat. The Doctor had not dreamed that
he had so effectually annihilated Conway
in his letter last week, as the actions of
that gentleman show was the case, hence
was unprepared for the attack ; but re
covering himself he pursued the cowardly
Judge until a brother and another man
had caught the Doctor by the arm, when
Conway returned and commenced dealing
upon his opponent additional blows. The
Doctor was unarmed, but he caught the
villain by the throat, and but for the inter
ference of others, it is probable the res
piratory organs of the Judge would not
have been in working condition at this
time. Some person was kind enough to
arrest Conway, and hold him, hence the
matter was ended.
On two other occasions Conway has de
ported himself in a somewhat similar man
ner towards our townsmen once upon the
person of Col. Elbbidgb, and once on Rev.
Mr.NuTE. Our personal friendship for Con
way has prevented us, on each of those
occasions, from speaking of those acts as
they merited. Though our political dif
ferences have been very great, yet.socially,
we have been on pleasant terms, and in
the two former cases we apologized for
the Judge, supposing he was moved by
sudden passion which he could not con
trol; but in this case there can be no such
excuse for him. Ee saw the letter of Dr.
Robinson, replying to his own assaults
upon that gentleman, on Friday last, and
time enough had intervened for him to
have "cooled off," but instead of this, we
learn that ho called at one of our business
houses and left his overcoat some time
before the occurrence, making a remark
showing that he was premeditating the
assault.
Conway came to Kansas from the South,
in the fall of 1854, and we believe is a
native of South Carolina. He was a
Democrat when be came here, and a
printer by trade; but discarding his trade
he threw himself into the dirty pool of
politics and soon anpired to be a leader of
the Free State party. Desirous of acces
sions to the party, ho was placed in a
front position, and though destitute of
legal ability and wholly unqualified for
iha post, was elected, under the Topeka
Constitution, Judge of the Supreme Court
This event seemed to addle his brain, and
from that time nothing but the best offices
in the gift of the people have been in his
mind. For a long time he ha3 desired to
represent the people of Kansas in Con
gress, and was elected by the few sup
porters of the Leavenworth Constitution
a Representative in that body under that
instrument. That event added still more
to his importance, until the poor simple
ton really thought he had an indefeasable
right to the honors and the emoluments
of a seat in the next Congress. Indeed,
we are assured that be had the assent of
Jim Lane and John C. Vaughan, our first
United States Senators in prospective, (in
a horn) for that place. Robinson's letter
dinpelled all his hopes, and the poor fellow,
since he could not imitate gentlemen
any longer, thought be would try his band
at imitating Butty Brooks, and the result
is before the country.
Conway mistakes the people of Kansas
if he supposes they will sustain him in
his rowdyism. On the contrary, he will
learn that they detest such men, and they
will show it in their votes, if ad oppor
tunity is ever allowed them to do so. We
advise him to seek a place of retirement,
and learn to govern himself ere he aspires
to a post where La will be called upon to
aid in enactiog laws for the government
of others.
Papers Interrupted.
We have failed to receive most of our
Northern exchanses for the past mouth.
The "Herald of Freedom" and "Leaven
worth Journal" have not arrived for three
weeks. The "Lawrence Republican comes
regularly. Do the "Jay-Hawkers" know
the reason? We do not like to charge
any one with deliberately robbing the
mails, but surely "something's up."
Fort Scott Democrat.
Yes, "something's up," and we have
discoved where it U, and in due time
shall take occasion to fubmit the facts to
the public ; and if the offence is repeated,
to a Grand Jury. For a year past a sys
tem of espionage has been carried on
through the post offices in southern Kansas,
and the mails have been Jay-Hawked,
probably, nearly as often as individuals.
The General Mail Agent of Kansas, . R.
Smith, Esq., of Wyandott, has kindly
lent us his aid in the premises, and' he
promises to bring every postmaster tin
the route, to summary justice, who shall
allow any further interference with the
Herald of freedom.
, We are conscious that some of those
postmasters will wish to read a picture of
themselves, as exhibited in imaginative
character in. the forthcoming Jay-Ha vi
eb, but we cannot afford to furnish them
for less than our published rates.
Our subscribers will do us the favor to
advise us at once of any failure to receive
our paper regularly, with any information
which they may come in possession of,
in regard to its being seen in the hands
of those who are not subscribers, and we
will investigate the matter at once, and
bring the offenders to speedy justice.
fr We understand that the Commis
sioners, authorized under a late Act of
the Legislature to locate the county seat
of El Paso county, have gona forward to
discharge the duties of their commission,
accompanied by several gentlemen who
will interest themselves in the town, and
take possession of the town site. The
name of the town, EI rVso, was deter
mined upon last fall, and is near the
base of Pike's Peak, in the heart of the
new gold region, and, we understand, was
partly surveyed several months ago. We
expect to hear more of this new town in
ike future, ,:
gsgrtHria Party In Tifas,--;f, l
A call a as maao lis appearance lor a
Republican Convention at Osawatomie,
on the 13th of May next, signed by nu
merous persons from different portions of
the Territory. Whether it was wise or
expedient to issue such a call, it is need
less for'na to inquire at this time, as the
Convention is a fixed fart, and the two
parties, Republican and Democratic, will,
from this forth, labor to control the desti
nies of the Territory. .Perhaps it is well
that it is so, because these parties will be
more equally divided than many suppose,
and the ability of either to impose bad
men upon the country will be less likely
than if parties should remain all on one
side, as formerly.
It is evidently the intention and ex
pectation of Lane, Conway, Thacher,
Vaughan & Co., to control the Osawatomie
Convention, and foist themselves into
offices under its organization. Indeed,
the whole thing was concocted in Lane'
office, and we have the most positive as
surances that the officers under the new
Constitution that is to be, were all farmed
out by him and his cohorts, and that they
fcwill labor unitedly to carry into execution
their programme. Lane opened the ball
in Leavenworth, as we mentioned several
weeks ago, and is following it up with his
peculiar earnestness. It is said be has
arranged to canvass the entire Territory ,to
pave the way for the election of delegates
who will labor to advance bis interest at
t!-at Convention. We have heard but
one expression from the Free State men
thus far, and that is, that they will not be
transferred to Lane's support by any such
arrangement Though earnest Republi
cans, yet if he is to lead the Republican forces
they cannot, will not, wotk in the party.
We say this for ourself, to all the world,
and wo speak the determination of a large
number of other persons, as good anti
slavery men as there are in Kansas, at the
same time. James H. Lane still seeks a
position in the United States Senate, and
he labors to use the Republican organiza
tion as a stepping stone to his ambition.
Shall he succeed ?
The Jar-Hawker.
There are now nearly two hundred
manuscript pages ready for the press, of
this thrillingly interesting work. We delay
the commencement or its publication a
short time, until it is completed, and in
order that subscribers may have time to
send in their orders, and be able to com'
mence with the beginning of the tale. It
is a work cf rare merit and artistic skill.
Legendary in its character, its compass
ranges from tho ludicrous to the sublime,
and blends tho beautiful and the terrible
with startling and unrivaled power. The
reader will feel inclined to alternately
laugh and weep, as he follows the author
in his masterly portrayal of the life-like,
mirth moving, and melancholy scenes
with which the story abounds. Even the
Jay-Hawkers will pay it the tribute of a
broad grin, as its incidents revive in their
minds recollections of past events. A vein
of pleasantry, peculiar to the author, runs
through and pervades the body of the
work. For variety of incident and power
of delineation, the work is almost without
a rival. It is the lone star of Kansas
literature, and is destined to shine forever.
We bespeak for it an extensive and world
wide popularity.
Measures are now being taken to have
the work dramatized, and brought out
uppn the stage.
Another Correspondent in the Oold Region.
On Tuesday last Mr. E. Ropes, a young
man about twenty-two years of age, set
out on foot, and alone, we believe, for the
gold region. He carried his necessary
supplies in a hand cart, and will take the
Santa Fe route, deeming that the best at
this season of the year, in his unprotected
position. The article on the Geologv of
Eastern Kansas, in another column, is
from his pen. He has promised to write
us weekly whilo on Lis way to, aud during
his stay at the mines, and he pledges us
that not a representation of any character
shall be made in his letters which he does
not know from personal observation to be
strictly true. As his mother, in Massachu
setts, is a reader of the Herald of Freedom,
he expects to write such articles as he
will be pleased to have her read.
With the correspondence of Mr. Ropes,
frequent letters from Mr. Cussons, and
such occasional correspondence as we shall
expect from others who visit that region,
we are confident we shall be able to give
the most reliable and "interesting intel
ligence from that quarter, of any of our
temporaries.
Some seem apprehensive that the gold
mines are a myth, and the large stories of
gold being found there is a mere chimera
of the imagination ; but if so, it is one
of the most magnificent conspiracies ever
known in tb.e history of the world. Hun
dreds of men, writing from different points,
most of them describing what they profess
to bave seen, aid all urging their own
relatives and friends to come to the mines,
shows that if there is deception,tbe parties
are practising it upon those they would be
the least likely to impose upon.
C3r Our friends from all parts of tBe
Territory will again accept our thanks for
their exertions in behalf of the Herald of
Freedom, largely increasing our list of sub
scribers during the last few weeks, and
particularly within the last few days.
Every mail brings ns an armful of letters,
and nearly all of them contain remit
tances. Who sns the Herald of Freedom
is breaking down ?
OCT We learn that a Mr. Stoxb has
been getting subscribers for the Herald of
Freedom in Leavenworth. We presume
he is acting in good faith towards all par
ties, but as we have received several let
ters from different persona, in regard to
those subscriptions, it is just to state that
we know nothing about him, and that
neither the money nor names have been
sent us.
03r A gentleman writes ns from Linn
county : "I bave been a voter for eighteen
years, and never voted for a Democrat, but
I can and will vote for anything, before I
will for Jim Lane, or in a manner to place
him in office in Kansas.
We published last week the result of
the first county election held in this Ter
ritory, since the organisation among ns of
the Democratic and Republican parties.
The result is just what was expected, and
just what we firmly believe will be the
ease in three-fourths of the counties of
this Territory, unless party tactics are im
mediately changed; not that the people
sympathize with the Democratic party,
but they utterly despise those who bave
forced themselves into the position of
leaders in the Republican party. We have
entered our protest, time and time again,
against the organization of the Republican
party until Kansas was a State, aud bave
begged, importuned, and reasoned with the
advocates of the other policy until we were
wearied with the effort, but all to no
purpose. "Rule or ruin" was their motto,
and the latter is before them. With the
exception of Douglas, Shawnee, and prob
ably Breckenridge counties, we do not
believe there is hardly another county in
Kansas which will elect a Republican
ticket with Jim Lane, Vaughan, Conway,
Thacher, and Montgomery in the lead.
If we wished to disgrace the Republican
party, and damn it eternally, we could
employ no more successful instrumentality
than allow these men to direct it. Again
and again we enter our solemn warning
against the policy which is being pursued,
and again we say to Republicans in the
States, that the programme must be
changed immediately or Kansas will be a
Democratic State with Democratic Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress. This
charging the staunchest Anti-Slavery men
in Kansas, and those who have borne the
flag of freedom aloft in the darkest hour
of her history, with being Democrats,
because they will not sustain murderers,
bullies, and dictators for office, and re
ceive to their embraces persons who came
here to organize the Democratic party, and
whose every effort has been to bring Re
publicanism into disrepute, is only tending
to accomplish what they pretend most to
deprecate.
Job Printing.
Those in want of job work in the shape
of handbills, circulars, certificates of town
stock, business cards, blanks of any kind,
bookwork, whether of pamphlets or the
largest class of books, should know that
better work can be done at the Herald of
Freedom office, and in a more satisfactory
manner, than at any other office in the
Territory. We added to the office, dur
ing the winter, a new press, designed ex
pressly for card, label and circular work,
and recently have ordered another, de
signed for the larger class of legal, blanks,
posters, &c. We are also adding con
stantly to our almost endless variety of
type, such new letter as the ingenuity of
the type manufacturer brings before the
public. We are now making arrange
ments to add a book-bindery, which we
hope to have in operation in a few weeks,
and if the present encouragementcontinues
through the spring months, it is probable
we shall add a stereotype foundry.
Though desirous of retiring from business,
and determined to do so when the first
favorable opportunity to sell out occurs,
yet we are equally determined to keep up
a good establishment while we remain
connected with the office, and to defy all
competition west of St. Louis.
Hopeful Indications.
Lexington, K. T.)
Feb. 26th, 1859.
G. W. Bbows Dkab Sib : A gentle
man desired me. to-day, to address a let
ter to the Lawrence Republican, enclosing
one dollar for six months subscription,
but, being a subscriber to the Herald my
self, I have induced him to forward the
money to you, for which you will please
send him the Herald six months. The
ultra nature of the Republican renders it
obnoxious to those who desire peace in
the country. Yours in haste,
JOHNSON.
Our friend will accept our thanks for
his irflaeuce in behalf of the Herald cf
Freedom. If the lovers of peace, general
ly, shall exert their efforts in the same
direction with him, the time is not dis
tant when ourcirculation will again equal
that of 1857, when the energies of the ad
vocates of war, civil discord, and falsehood
were combined to crush the paper and its
influence in the Territory, and out of it
We are gratified with the present striking
indication that our motto : "Truth crush
ed to earth shall live again," is strictly
true.
(7" We learn with great pleasure that
our esteemed friend, Richabd G. Wait,
Esq., of this city, formerly of Dedham,
Mass., has been commissioned by his Ex
cellency, Gov. Medart, a Notary Public
for the county of Douglas. Mr. Wait
has been engaged for many years in pub
lic life, is very correot in his business hab
its, and as his age precludes him from en
gaging in active business life, we bespeak
for him a share of the notarial business of
this city.
Mr. Wait was, for many years, Clerk
of the City Council of Boston, and as such,
became familiar with public life, and.
learned to discharge its duties , with
promptness and fidelity. He is a large
property holder in this city, a permanent
resident, yet rather retiring in his habits.
We have sometimes thought that if he
was generally known to our people, it is
probable, in filling some of the many offi
ces in the city or county, they would give
him a place where he could serve the
people with his large experience.
A Card.
Lawbexcb, March 27, 1859.
G. W. Baows, Esq. Due Sib: In
the Herald of Freedom of last week I
notice my election as Attorney for the
claimants, under the recent Act of the
Legislature, "providing for the auditing
of claims for damages growing ont of the
disturbances in the Territory during the
year of 1856-7," by the committee ap
pointed at the meeting of the sufferers in
Nov., 1858. The circumstances beyond
my control compel me to decline the
trust so generously proffered.
I beg yon to make to the committee
my hearty acknowledgments for their
testimony of confidence and esteem. :
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
- E. 8. LOWMAN.
.r.-r--,-Far (A BereM sffrmttm,
Defeat of BepnbUsmltnQn Wyandott
.'..'. Qctsdabo, Feb. 23, 1359.
G. W. Bbows, Esq.: Yesterday was
held the special election- for county of
ficers in the new county of Wyandott, and
the "gel-lorious Democracy" triumphed.
J. W. Johnson, of Wyandott, a lawyer,
said to be well read, but of the most noted
intemperate and dissolute habits, was
elected Probate Judge by 38 majority
over Chas. Chadwick, Esq., of this place,
a gentleman of fine legal attainments and
unquestioned integrity.
Causes are followed by effects, in the
political no less than in the physical world,
and this result is a perfectly legitimate
sequence to the causes which produced it.
The country for more than a year past
has been deeply agitated by the outrages
committed by bands of outlaws and rob
bers in Southern Kansas, who have been
guilty of almost every crime known to our
laws. The people prayed for and demanded
statutory enactments for their protection,
and at last obtained what they demanded,
and as soon as there seemed to be a likeli
hood of Montgomery and others, who
have been engaged in the perpetration of
thete crimes.being brought to punishment,
lo! .the Legislature throws over them the
protection of the "Amnesty Liw." When
Republican Legislatures openly wink at
the violation of United States laws, and
spend their time in legislating for their
own interests and the interests of certain
localities, loosing sight of and entirely
ignoring the rights and interests of the
people at large, whose servants they are;
when men who head street mobs, shoot
down unarmed Free State men, flood the
Republican press at home and abroad with
libellous letters, concerning the purest and
best men the Free State party of Kansas
has ever known ; when such men assume
to speak for and direct the movements of
the Republican party, is it to be wondered
at that just such Democratic victories as
we have witnessed in this county, should
happen? Is it not enough to paralyze
the hopes and exertions of the honest
Republicans of the Territory ?
It is a little suggestive that this result
followed so closely upon the issue from a
prominent Free State and Republican
press, of a long article lauding James
Montgomery as a hero and patriot purer
4ud better than is known in the historv of
ancient or modern times. In plain Eng
lish, if such politicians as Jim Lane, Con
way & Co., and such fanatical prints as
the Leavenworth limes and Lawrence Re
publican continue to scandalize and bring
into disrepute the good name of the Repub
lican party, its hopes of success, of life
even, will be lost baj ond redemption.
PRO PATRIA.
Fbr ;Ai Herald of Freedom.
Another Fizzle.
Lnrj County, Feb. 24th, '59.
G. W. Bboww, Esq. LIeab Sib : Pur
suant to a call of the would-be Republican
party, by the chairman of their Central
Committe, the Jay-Hawkers of Paris
township met in mass convention to-day,
eight in number, to appoint delegates to
attend a county convention for the purpose
of selecting suitable persons for their can
didates for such officers as are to be elect
ed under the late law, and for the pur
pose, also, of nominating suitable persons
for township officers. This they attempt
ed to do, but, unfortunately, they had not
posted themselves, and nobody would tell
them what offices were to be filled in Paris
township, and after considerable confu
sion they concluded to wait for informa
tion. They then proceeded to appoint dele
gates to the county convention six in
number. This they were at some trouble
to do, for the lack of suitable material,
They even suggested the names of Dem
ocrats, but could find but one man outside
the Jay-Hawkers, who would consent to
act in the capacity of delegate to their
county convention, and I don't think he
will mnke big .ppparanee in a convention
of Jay-Hawkers, if they do claim to be the
Republican party of Linn county. The
speakers on this occasion, boldly pro
claimed the doctrine of Negro equality,
and indorsed Negro stealing and Jay
Hawking in general, and condemned all
officers who attempted to enforce the law.
The Marshal's posse, in particular, was the
subject most dwelt upon, and curses with
out number were heaped upon them, al
though the chairman was a minister of
the Gospel.
Tho Free State men of Linn county are
not going to participate with this self
styled Republican party, who have been
the means of keeping up the disturbances
iu southern Kansas so long, hut with clean
hands will go to the ballot-box, and there
proclaim their strength by electing good,
honest, Free State men to fill the various
offices in this county.
Judging from the past, I predict this a
prelude to a grander fizzle when they
hold their county convention, and a sig
nal defeat at the ballot-box. Very truly
yonrn. " . W. M. MORROW.
Qr- Wo are daily interrogated in re
gard to the laws passed at the last session
of the Legislature. Once for all, let us
say : Such as have been placed in our
hands, have been already published in
the col urns of our paper, and others will
be published as soon as they reach us.
As soon as we get a complete list of the
titles of all the Acts passed, we shall pub
lish the same.
Qserr.
Is it just for those newspapers of Kan
sis which copy the laws, passed at the
recent session of the Legislature, from the
Herald of Freedom, to do so without giving
credit for the same? Some of those laws
which we see going the rounds of the
press, we paid for transcribing, and all of
them have cost ns much labor to obtain.
We shall leave it with the press to do
what is right in the premises.
ft"7" The Journals of the late Legisla
ture are not quite ready for delivery, and
may not be for several days, owing to the
fct that we turned all our strength noon
the pamphlet containing the election and
other important law bow in force. The
pamphlet is printed, as are the Journals,
and, as soon as folded and stitched, will
be ready for delivery : the former, how
ever, will be first looked slier,
1 u Issuer Hum VrrHobisson. 1
Lawbekcx, March, 1th, 1859.
Ed. Hebald of Fbeedok : Deab
Si : Yesterday I received a reply to
my letter, published in your paper of last
week, which I don't know exactly how to
answer.' It has been a rule with me to
use the same weapon in kind, in repelling
an attack that is used in making it. If
attacked by the tongue, and I make any
defence at all, it is with the tongue ; if
attacked by the pen, then the pen is my
defence, or nothing. But yesterday I
alighted from my wagon near the post
office, and engaged in conversation with
an acquaintance in front of the building.
As I turned to enter the office, a blow
was received on my head from some per
son nnseen by me. On turning to
learn the cause, behold there was his
honor, M. F. Conway, with club uplifted,
pale and ghastly and with the look of a
maniac. Having just read that his inti
mate friend and eulogiser Mr. King, had
become insane from disappointment and
committed suicide, my first thought was
that Mr. C. was affected in like manner,
from a like cause, and had turned assassin.
Accordingly, thinking if left "in that con
dition be might hurt somebody, I seized
him as soon as I could overtake him, and
was about applying a small dose of as
phyxia to his wind apparatus, which is an
excellent remedy for certain kinds cf ma
nia, when bis brother interfered and re
leased him. Mr. C. then, for the first time,
spoke, and I found, to my surprise, that
this free use of his cudgel was only in
tended as an answer to my letter in the
Hebald of Fbeedom. Now the question
with me is : how am I to reply to this
answer? If I steal upon him unawares
and break in his skull with a club, tcltich
I could not avoid if J struck him, every
body would call me a cowardly assassin,
and it would be true. Should I give him
notice of my intention to answer, that he
might be provided with his shillalah, his
physique is such, that it would be but little
less cowardly to touch him. Believing
as I do, that all resort to physical force,
except purely in self-defence, is low-lived
and cowardly, I fear I shall be unable to
give the chivalric gentleman a suitable
reply to his last demonstration and must
acknowledge myself beat, used up, "op
set" Mr. C. said ho would not permit me to
speak of him as I have done. Now this
U very big language for a small finite be
ing to use. I have said nothing of the
gentleman that cannot be proved to be
true; he ought to have learned by this
time, that Yankees will talk what they
know or think is true, wlOiout permission,
if necessary. In Yankeedom, people
have a notion that truth is omnipotent,
and ask no favor of any one. The man
who utters it may be struck down, but the
truth remains the same nevertheless.
This attempt to crush out free speech by
southern chivalry is nothing new. About
a quarter of a century since the Baltimo
reans concluded they would not permit a
certain Wm. Lloyd Garrison to tell some
unpalatable truths about their domestic
institutions, and they thrust him in jail,
Moreover, the truth told by him remained,
and has since been proclaimed by him
and others to the utmost bounds of civiliza
tion. A certain Mr. Brooks, at one time
concluded that he would not permit Mr.
Sumner to tell some welcome truths, but
his striking down Mr. Sumner a la Con
way.only'served to stamp ineffacibly those
truths upon the page of history. In the
early settlement of Kansas, some gentle
men said they would not permit free speech
upon the subject of slavery, but free
speech was indulged in, nevertheless.
Now a gentleman belonging to the chiv
alry of the assassin order, says : he will
not permit free speech in self defence.
Well, I am sorry, but I think I must use
it notwithstanding. Now, valient Mr. C,
do you not know that we Yankees regard
any man who will exchange his pen for a
cuagiil us a coward, and auy mac who
will lie ru wait and strike his opponent
unawares, as a cowardly assassin? . I am
sorry to inform you that such is the fact,
and it will remain a fact even, thongh you
do not permit it to be said, or assassinate
me for saying it. It is impossible for a
man of true courage to shoot down an
unarmed man, or strike him with any
weapon, and no truly brave man can be
a murderer, assassin, robber or thief.
Mr. Editor, where are we and whither
are we drifting? The next day after my
return from' the East, I saw a company of
peacible law abiding, and well disposed
citizens,Free State men, guilty of no crime,
so far as it is known, set upon in the
streets of Lawrence, shouted at, brick
batted, stoned, fired at and robbed. After
the robbery had been finished, the affair
was claimed by the leader of the mob, to
be a brilliant Republican manouver, in
accordance with Republican "principles,"
and all the mob shouted amen,
i A - few days afterwards, I was in the
street relating what had been told me by
others, and was told, by a peace officer, that
I was in danger of being mobbed, if I did
not leave. I was given to understand
that free speech was not tolerated is Law
rence, except for certain persons. Lastly,
Mr. Conway, who is an Apollo with the
pen, drops that weapon and resorts to the
bludgeon, where a boy is bis equal, if not
superior. Are such proceedings indorsed
by the people of Lawrence and of Kan
sas? If So, Border Ruffian rule would be
an improvement, fbr in their palmiest
days, they were never able to strike down
free speech. I am told that these Repub
lican Ruffians originated the Call fbr a
Republican Convention at Osawatomie,
and that it is their intention to make that
convention endorse mob rule in the past,
and mob laws in the future. If such be
the fact, if to be a Republican I must
indorse theft, robbery, mar jer and assi
nation, I prefer to be something else, than
a Republican. If no other Republican
organization offers, I will calmly look on
as did large numbers of the Democrats
while the Border Ruffi ins were rnnning
their party to destruction. My motto has
been for years Fret Soil. Fret Men, Fbeb
Speech, and law, order and good govern
ment, and I am not y-t prepared to ex
change it for "rapine, murder and assassi
nation. Truly yours, a ROBINSON. ;
"Tr'0Bnid'of'lrmlom,
Defeat in Wraadort.
Wtasdott Cm, K. T.,)
Feb. 23, 1859.
G. W. Bbows, Esq. Dxab Sib: The
election of officers for the new county of
Wyandott, came off yesterday and resulted
in the election of the entire Democratic
ticket. ' .. . ' j
The highest vote on the Democratic
ticket was, in
Wyandott City, - - -
Quindaro, : - ..- .
Free State
In Wyandott City,
Quindaro, ...
' Majority - -Whole
number in Quindaro,
Whole number in Wyandott,
Aggregate vote
This result will, no doubt, be claimed
all over the Union as a Buchanan victory,
when there' is no truth in it in any respect.
Out of the whole vote cast there are not
fifty men who would defend the Kansas
policy of the President, but who would,
on the other hand, vote and act with any
party to thwart his policy, and to establish
free institutions n Kansas and to support
the right of the people to govern them
selves, and to make and execute their
own laws without Executive on Congres
sional dictation. This I assert without
fear of successful contradiction.
The causes that brought about this
result are few and palpable to the mind
of every one acquainted with the facts.
The negro suffrage feeling that pre
dominated in the Leavenworth Constitu
tional Convention, stained the fair es
cutcheon of the Free State party, and made
that instrument and convention odious to
the great bulk of the people of Kansas.
The itching anxiety manifested, during
the last summer and fall, by many of the
leading men of that party, to abandon the
great living issue, that of establishing a
Free State in Kansas, and to organize the
Republican party, and to link the destinies
of the Territory in entangling alliances
with outside political issues and questions
over which we had no control; and, lastly,
the insane policy of calling a convention
to meet at Ossawattomie for the avowed
purpose of uprooting our old organization
and establishing the Republican party,
have all combined to direct the eye of the
people away from the great object and
aim of the old Free State party, and to
make them look upon that party as about
being disolved, and to seek other com
binations on other issues and platforms of
principles suited to their views and feel
ings on other questions.
In vain did we plead that this tendency
to disolution and to Republicanism, in the
Free State party, was only tbe action of
a few ultra and ambitious men ; the call
for the convention at Osawattomie, with
the comments of tbe Lawrence Republican,
was thrust into our faces; and appended
to that call we found not only the names
of Lane, Vaughan, Conway, Thatcher,
Philips, Hutchison, Larzelere, Canniff, &r.
but along side of them the names of
such men as Charles Robinson.Dr.Danford,
T. R. Roberts, Jas. Blood, and others here
tofore considered reliable, showing that
both wings of ihs Free State party were
about to mount the Philadelphia platform,
to adopt the dogmas and to enter the
lists as a party, on issues other than those
peculiarly Kansean in their character.
The great bulk of the people of Kan,
sas are Free State, sound and unques
tionable; and at the. same time they are
as unanimously and unquestionably in
favor of making Kansas free by their own
act, and without employment of the
meddling band of Executive or Congres
sional power; the right to govern our
selves and to "form and regulate our
domestic institutions in our own way," are
rights that are perhaps dearer to the
people of Kansas than they are to any
other portion of the American people,
from the fact, that we have been basely
robbed of these invaluable rights, and
having once lost them, can better appre
ciate their value than can others who
have always enjoyed them, and hence,
the repugnance of the people of Kansas
and their refusal to espouse the theory
that Congress has the right to govern, and
should govern, the people of the Terri
tories by the iron band of outside power,
regardless of the will of tbe governed.
The doctrine of Congressional Sover
eignty may find friends in the States, bit
in the Territories, and particularly in Kan
sas, this creed will be rejected as unani
mously as is, and as has 'been, the equally
odious and absurd theory and practice of
Executive Sovereignty, and so soon as
tbe Free State party abandon their old
organization and mouot tbe platform of
Congressional dictation, so soon will the
people leave the mould he leaders of the
party and find a place in other organiza
tions more suited to their judgments,
tastes, and feelings. '
The prospect of such an organization
emanating from the Oaawattoinie con
vention, has already distracted the Free
State ranks in other localities than this.
If anticipation will have such an effect
upon the popular mind, what will be
tbe result of its realization ? is a ques
tion that leading men should well consider
before they take the step contemplated.
I bad hoped that the restless spirits
that have for some time threatened the
harmony and strength of the old Free
State organization, that have proscribed,
a far as their power could proscribe, men
of Democratic antecedents and proclivities,
and all those who could not be compelled
to see and believe in all political questions
with them, would finally be overruled by
the council of the better disposed ; but
when we find the name of Gov. Robinson
along side of that of Gen. Lane, Dr. Dan
ford with T. D. Thacher, T. B. Roberta
with Conway, &c, appended to a call for
a "Republican" organization, we are led
to doubt the stability of the one and dis
trust the action of the whole. '
-We have borne proscription without
murmuring, but when new tests of party
orthodoxy are introduced and we are re
quired to swear by a creed that we can
not subscribe to without doing violence to
our judgments, the people will aay, "to
your tents, . 0! ISRAEL!?
293
-426
258
87
335
91 -220
551
771
rorOUOnUofFrteiom
Hew Tort India Lands.
Humboldt, Feb. 22d, 1859.
En. Hebald or Freedom Sib: tv.
settlers upon the lands known as the Ke
lor Indian Lnas wmcn constitute oc
of the richest portions of Kansas hWi
for a long time felt desirous that icm.
decisive action should be taken by our
Government, in regard to the right 0f
settlers npon said lands.
1 The recent telegraphic newt of th
passage of an Act opening these lands for
settlement, has produced, in the mindiof
those occupying said lands, a feeling 0f
relief and satisfaction ; and as many K
great improvements, both of a public and
private character, in the laying oat of
towns, establishing schools and church
es, erecting mills, opening farms, &c, the
passage of said Act will be the came of
renewed enorgy in pushing forward n.m
further improvements upon said lands.
Feeling that many thanks were due to
the energy and zeal of the Hon. Uahcti
J. Pabbott, in urging our claims upon Con.
gress, the citizens of Humboldt and vicin
ity, assembled on the evoning of the 16th
February, amid cheers and bonfires, in
honor of tbe occasion.
Doct L N. Phillips was called npon to
preside over the meeting, and J. U. Sig-
nor was chosen Secretary. On motion, a
committee of five, consisting of Doct G.
A. Miller, J. S. Barboe, S. P. Baud, J.
G. Richard and A. Irwin, were appointed
to draft resolutions expressive of the sense
of the meeting, who reported the follow.
ing resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas . News has been received, that
Congress has passed an Act declaring the
New York Indian Lands open for settle
ment; And, Wltereas, We, as residents npoo
said lands, feel assured that our rights, t
settlers, will be respected by Government;
And, Whereas, We believe our Delegate
in Congress by his influence, aided much
in the passage of said Act ; therefore,
Resolved, That wo do hereby return our
most sincere thanks to the Hon. Makcvi
J. Pabbott, for the prompt and energetic
course pursued by him in our behalf :
Resolved, That the Lawrence papers be
requested to publish these resolutions.
, After which, several of tbe fair sex.
(for which our place is noted,) feeling that
they had been slighted by not receiving a
special invitation to be present npon the
occasion, and determined they would wit
ness the proceedings, came upon the
ground. The enthusiam of the assembly
was greatly increased, when the ladies and
speakers were announced. After silence
was restored, Col. R. T. Thompson, S. P.
Hand, S. W. Clark and Doct G. A Miller
and others, were called out, and after many
brief but pertinent remarks, three checn
were proposed for the Hon. Mabcts J.
Pabbott which were given with a hearty
good will, when the meeting adjourned.
L N. PHILLIPS, President
J. H. Swwob, Sec'y.
Book, Ladder and Backet Company.
According to adjournment the members
of the H., L. and B. Co., met at Ford's
Hall on the 19th ult and organized by
calling George Ford, Esq., to the chair ,and
J. W. Jenkins, Secretary. The Secretary
read the list of names and, on motion, the
company proceeded to the election of offi
cers by ballot, which resulted in the choice
of George Ford, foreman ; D. Clark, first
assistant foreman ; A. V. Edward, second
assistant foreman ; J. W. Jenkins Secre
tary, P. Richmond Brooks, Treasurer.
Messrs, Ford, Clark and Jenkins were
appointed to confer with the committee
from tbe Engine Company in electing
engineers and fire wardens.
B. W. Woodward was called to the
chair, and P. R. Brooks appointed Secre
tary, while the committe retired to per
form their duty.
The committee soon returned with the
following report :
Gehtlemeh Yourcommittee have con
ferred with the committee on the part of
the Engine Company, and have agreed on
the following officers : J. Frank Griswold,
Chief Engineer ; A. L. Reed, Assistant
Engineer ; J. Oldham and B. Johnson,
Fire Wardens ;
On motion, the report of the committee
was adopted.
B. W. Woodward, J. W. Jenkins, and
Oliver Paul, were, on motion, appointed
s committee to draft Constitution and
By-Laws.
The company selected "iEfna" as the
name of their Hook and Ladder Truck.
Ordered, by tbe company, that the pro
ceedings, be published in the city papers
On motion, the company adjourned to
meet on call of the foreman.
GEORGE FORD, Foreman.
J. W. Jehxixs, Clerk.
Low CousTT, Kawsas,)
Feb. ldtb, 185a
Col. M'Cabtt: I understand that Gov.
Medary has sizned the bill wiping out all
the blood that has been shed, (including
that of poor Little,) and forgiving all tbe
robberies that have been committed, and
prohibiting any prosecution for past offen
ces. Now a question arises : a jay-hawker
stole two bones from me, one of which
he now has in possession, and the other
he void ; whoee horses are they? Can L
by any legal means, recover tbem?
J. SMITH.
Aksweb : Of course vou cannot get
your horses back. The Amnesty Act con
firms the thief-title, and the jay-hawker
is not "subject to any prosecution on any
complaint or indictment in any court
whatsoever in tbe Territory." I our case
is a bad one, but yon must grin and bear
it The only way to get even is to steal
as much as you can this year, so that
when tbe next Amnesty Act is passed
yon can take advantage of it at, well a
the jay-hawkers. Border Star. .'.
fj2T The pamphlet laws, embracing the
Acts, list of which we published two
weeks ago, are now ready for delivery at
this office. Tbey will only be delivered
In package directed to tbe proper officer.
A few copies for sale at 25 cents, or mail
ed, postpaid for 30 cents.
ftrAbout one thousand dollars' worth
of town lots in Emporia have changed
hands within the last three or four days,
at prices ranging from twenty to one ban
died and fifty dollars. Emporia Hew.
GSrThe Secretary of the Treasury has
asked Congress for an appropriation of
j ju.uuu; tor taking tbe census ol Kansas,
with a view to ber admission in accor
dance with the recommendations of the
President's Message.
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