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JK .... ' . LI .J- Trv.- X"H2?W' ! ' ' ' 1 , ..VtkflKt iW'V ..... .... "..st r.a iA w iss a'. jmiii Tolume 1 Number 1G. PRAIRIE CITY, KANZAS, FEB. 25, 1858. Terms---$2 Per Annum, , '.I'll . . I, " t. " ' .'"'"' '"' 7"".'"'". . :ni.Mi 1 ft.' -s' vs.-, iit.i;. v.i v ',;-',,' f. H. r ri II. F: L,.:OT-:-m::i2!S r!V. V ... n .i 1 -iii....f . ;i .!; -'Vi i V '1 1 IS PUBLIBHKD EVERY TUUB8DAY AT PRAIRIE OITY, KANZA8, By PROUTY & WILLETT. i.raowr o. r. willett, TERMS, OF SUBSCRIPTION: i Hni finnirmwtviMiH 40 00 'Throe copies ono yuftr, , . 5 00 Ten , . 15 00 Fayment required in all cases in ftd , 'Vance. All pupora diHeontinuud at the time for which payment is received. TERMS OF AD VERTISLVG: First inHcrtion, per linn, , 10 eta. .... .. Each gubnequent insertion, per line, ft " CTAdvanoe payment will be required for Advertisements from a distance Moneys, propurly registered with pont I musters, may be forwarded by mail at our risk. 1 WW politics &e. ' To the People of Kanzas, Tho pub 1 10 ara already conscious that at tho session of tho Legislative i ii a rr - fn .... l . - Ainnrnn iv or ivaaztiH i Rsrir.ni v n inw vide for the election of Uologates to ,o Convention to framo a State Con stitution." That act contemplates our early admission into tho Union as a sovereign Stato. The brief pe riod intervening between tho pas- sage of tho act and the timo fixed for I . me election oi aeiegaics, requires vigilant action on the part of the people to secure a full representation ' in that Convention. As sevoral com ) mitteos claimed the right to speak for and represent the iroe btate parly in the coming oanvass, a move ment was made to harmonize these committees, by forming a temporary union of all of them. The iollowing olhcial proceedings of thoso commit tees will show the result ol their ac tion in this diroction : At a joint convention of tho Terri torial Executive Committee appoint ed at Grasshopper Falls, on the 2Gth of August last; of a portion of the (Statu Central Committee appointed .at Lawrence on tho 23d of December last, hold at Odd Fellows' Hall, in Lawronco, on the evening of tho 14th inst., P. C. Schuyler was chosen Chairman, and Win. Hutchinson and D. II. Weir were electod Seer; ta llies. It was, on motion, unani mously Resolved, That each of tha above mentioned committees bo requested to select live persons from thoir re spective committees, who shall con stitute a special Freo Stato Union Committee, who shall havo full pow der lo take all needful action for se curing a full vote of tho Free Stato .party, in tho elections which shall .take place under the new Constitu tional movement, both for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and tha officers under that Consti tution. , Tho several committees retired to tsoparate rooms, each of which had a .quorum for business, and after full .consultation, reportad through their irespectivo Chairmen the following gentlemen, as representatives of their several comniitteos, to wit : Ex. Territorial Committee. 0. W. Smith, P.C. Schuyler, 0. W.Brown, G. W. Hutchinson, J. II. Lane. Statt Central Committee. J amos Blood, Wm. Hutchinson, Henry liar, vey, E. S. Nash, W. F. M. Amy, 'Free State Central Committee D. II. Weir,-Itobort Morrow, S. 0. Pom roy,' E; Heath, S. N, Wood, The: report was received and the naraoa submitted were unanimously adopted as tho Union Committeo of the Free State Party, to act for the purposes expressed in the first reso lution .copied above. JIq committee continued in sos jflion, with tho officers elected at the organization of tho meeting still in he chair by general consent. Oa motion of Uen. Lane, tho fol lowing was unanimously adoptod. Resolved, That G. W. Smith be ;JPbsjdent of this committeo; Wm. Hutchinson, Vice President; D. II. Weir, Secretary; and Jas, Blood, Treasurer; arid that all calls bo sign ed by tho President, Yio e President, and Secretary. ' Resolved, That a oommittoe of fiva be appointed to draw up a circular to the peoplo of the Territory in regard to the forthcoming election; and G. W. Smith, 8. if. Wood, G. W. Brown, Wm. Hutchinson, and W. F. M. Amy be such committeo. A committee of one from, each of the original committees, as follows: S. N. Wood, W. F. M. Amy and Q. E. Loarnard, wero appointed on finance. ' Resolved, That the proceeding j of this oonveniion be published aWlength in all , the ; Frog State papeti of the -Territory, ;,, .. .,.;.. ,, , On motion, adjournod, subject to tho call ot tho proper omoors. P. C. SCHUYLER Cli'n. Wm. Hutchinson,) D. II. Weir, Secretaries To every Free Stato man, thi Union will be a source of gratification, as it gives sure indication of , united action and a harmonious result. It is urgently requested mac tne same liberal spirit which has characterized the several committoos will prevail with the people, and that laying aside all personal considerations, they unite us one man in socuring a great moral and political triumph for the' Free Stato cause. Ib is expected that every man will do his whole duty; that to make the work successful, as large a vote as possible will bo polled for delegates, and that care be taken in the solection of thoso delegates, that they faithfully reflect the popular will. To this end, lot county, township and precinct organizations be made by thopooplo with the loast possible do- lay. Where those organizations have been thus perfected, they ara expect ed to lose no time in presenting the issues in their true character to their constituents, The act calling for tho Convention will be published in the papers of tho Territory, and generally circulated in circular form, a copy of which you are expocted to secure and study with care, and see that elections are hold in strict conformity with law. By the organic act, mombers of tha late Territorial Legislature are believ ed by legal gentlemen to be prohibited from holding any offices under tho Convention law. To prevent vacan cies on this account, or the introduc-1 tion of a question in regard to it,! other reliable Free fcHato men should be selected as delegates. One copy of tho returns from the various precincts should be directed to Messrs. Babcock & Deitzler, at Lawrence, who aro authorized by law to receive them the other to lion J. W. Denver, at Lecompton, , , Again wo urgdour friends to aini ted elfort, and trust that the result will bo nuchas to relloct crodit upon tho individual actors in tho movement, as well as to advance the cause of I raedom in Kinzan, and the princi pies of civil liberty throughout tho world. G. W. Smith, W. F. M. Auny, . Wm. Hutchinsox, G. W. Buown, 8. N. Wood. A Kanzas Portrait Painter. " II.," the Kanzos correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat, has lately given the following description of of those Ruffian 'notabilities, Cal houn, McLean and Cuto. The picturos aro accurately portrayed. We can testify to this fact, from personal knowledge : , ' " Kanzas pol itics aud troubles havo kept tho nation in a state of t-irmoil for years. At presotit thore appears to be no solution of the problem, but tho (lillicultios seem to be complicated the wickod portinacity with which this and tho tormer administration havo endeavorod to force obnoxious institutions on a free people, calls forth our sympathies, and arouses our indignation. The loading idea Of tne government to make Kanzas a democratic slavo state, havinir been so signally rebukod in the failure oi' tho policy of tho soveral incumbents of the gubernatorial office, ought to bo a warning to desist from this dis astrous policy. But "whom tho gOds wish to destroy, they first make mad," and now wo find the President of tho United States in the tooth of his own explicit declaration on assuming of fice, aud with that' insincorlty which has characterized all his public1 'acts, exerting all tho ' influence and 'power of his high office to subvert the great and fundamental principle which has uphold our government. The opin ions and dicta of a few reckless and unprincipled men are made 'to' out weigh the potent voice of tho ballot box, and did wo not see in their ne farious policy tho tutor disruption and dissolution of the party,' thore would be serious cause for every freemen to mourn. A fow desperate and wicked men uphold by the government, have brought things to this deplorable is sue, not one poaso&sing any quality of the statesman ; but by low cunning and unprincipled management ari ving at their unholy ends. -1 Calhoun is generally recognized as tho 'lioadof this clique ; he is well known by name now thoughout tho Union fur his daring effrontery and boldness; at home he is the terror of his own po litical partisans (for ho allows no di vided empire ) and , the abhoroncb of every well wisher of an established government ; his appearance is in dicative of the perversity of nature , his age somewhere near fifty-six ; about the middle size and strongly built ; tho countenance stern and toY bidding ; , his greyish blue eye full o arrogance and cruelty ; tho forehead high, narrow and receding ; thick and protruding lips and massive jaws evincing sensuality in Us strongest form ; and lastly, a complexion v rying with the quantity of his pota Hons- in the mornicg a gentle roseate nuo, at noon it presents the appear? ance of the sun in an eclipse, and a midnight in the midst of his bachan alian orgies it resembles the blue and purple color of tough bull beef in fly tune, He is entirely destitute ot po liticul principle, and although receiv ing an ample salary from tho govern ment, lie is in debt to every store am: grocery in Lecompton. I he dogger les m particular hold him in excrea tion, for ho not only drinks without pay himself, but ho is always attend ed by a number of his sattulites who aro always freo to imbibe at his nom inal expense. He is ably supported by his Lieut, and chief clock, ycelpt Gen, McLean a bonny'Scot from tho wilds of lnverrary. lie left "his country for his country's good." v e next find him on the sou of Kan zas, and the exciting timos brought him into notice and favored his ad vancemout he was a coadjutor ot much importance in thoso wtr-liko times, for his marauding qualities and plundering proclivities wero mvalua ble to an invading force. Ho wa3 at once appointed quarter-master gener al, and truly he moro than realizod tho expectations of his compatriots, for was there a train to be rilled, yoke of oxen to be impressed, or a fat porker to be victimized, ho was then and thore ready tor tho occasion, and the camp literally revelled on beef and whisky during his administration. In such forays no description of val uables ever escaped the vigilant eyes or nimblo fingers of his detestable myrmidonsin f'aot, ho became as no torious and terrible to the affrighted people of Ka zas, as Rob Roy to the peacoable inhabitants of the low-lands. He is a man of largo, but ungainly stature, apparently of groat physical strength, of a stolid countenance, sot off by a peculiar costume which he affects, a brace of rovolvers in his belt, tho handle of a huge knife pro truding from his bosom, in his brawny list a cudgel ot tremendous propor tions, and you have the picture of a man who has dono much to perpetu ate the present unhappy state of af fairs in tho territory. "I shall closo this communication .with tho notice of a man who ought not to bo separated from tho forego ing worthies, and this is that worthy administrator ot tho laws, Judge Oa to. Perhaps he has done more mis' chiof than tne other two, for his of fice allordod In in numerous instances for annoyaneo and oppression, and ho never failod to make the fallout use of it. Freo state mon havo been ta ken up at his suggestion and impris oned, almost without a shadow of le gal proof; warrants havo beon grant ed against obnoxious persons, and without the guarrantce of an oath. Tho records of the court havo been mutilated toshiold sorao reckless par tisan, and silently and secretly iu col lusion with tho prosecuting ofllcor, ma ny a nolle prosequi has boon entered in favor of the most atrocious criminals. Lecompte has boon compared to the infamous Jeffreys, but tho parallel should bo mado betwoenhimandCato, for ho possesses tho ' same brutality, everbearing conduct and drunken hab its of that nicked judgo, It is almost a mockery to call where he presides, court. Go in during the regular term, when you might expect a nu merous audienoe, and you behold a thin-faced rrran, with olongated fea tures and Bardoliphan nose, seated on bench elevated a stop or two above tho level of the floor, ho is evidently in a state of somnolency, from ' the frequent nods and occasional boister ous snorts ; upon looking round you find two other porsons occupying tho same opartmont. Tho one engagod so busily in whittling is the deputy marshal, who eyes with wistful look tho corner houso on tho other side of tko street, The other occupies a small enclosure noar tho bench, and appears bifily employed in assorting papars. You approach this specimen of humanity, and enquire it this is the court and whsu it will be in ses sion i he turns a lacklustre and fishy eye lirst on you and thon a more lengthy look on tho sleeping dignita ry, and in a puovish and querulous voioi) answers that the business of the oomt will be proceeded with after hit honor wakes tip and takes Some addi- tinnnl rofiouVirvionf i , tional refreshment. A Picture from the Other Side. From the Westport, (Mo.) Star of Empire. , " DON'T GIVE CP THE BHIP." Tho immortal Lawrence, dying up on the deck of his ship, in the hottest of a naval conflict, cries out : " My boys, don't give up the ship ; let tho American flag wave over mo while I live." , May that sentiment sink deep into tho hearts of the Southern peo ple of Kanzas. and the Union! : ,.' ' ' : i Ntot a few are ready to give up the conflict ;' it has been so trying to one's patience, sd annoying to families, at tended with heavy pecuniary losses, to such we say : , Let thy scope, Be one fixt-d mind for all; thvrnrhts approve. To thine own conscience gradually rcuewd; Learn to maU time the fatherof wise hope; Then trust thy cause to tho arm of fortitude, TLe light of knowledge and the warmth of love." Now is the crowning trial of your fidelity, when victory is yours if a little self-denial, with patience, is ex ercised.' Stay in the Territory ; do not raise a hand, except to place it upon tho plow handles. , The only way, at this time, to serve your own interests and the cause of Kansas, is to extend your capital, open and im prove the lands; build up towns, and put your shoulders to the execution of the laws that be. Kanzas is a slave State, with Democratic officers to, start with, and is forced to remain so, by her Constitution, until 1865; in that time, the freedom shrickers will snoak away into Mormondom. As tho sinner enters upon the un known world, so he remains to end- lew ages. If he starts in heaven, up on a career of bliss, so ho remains as ong as the sand is left upon the sea shore. Analogously; if Kanzas en ters the gates of this Union a slave State, sho will always'be so. But we do not sustain our point by the mere force of analogy. ' We ask the old men of the country, to look back to tho day when Missou ri was admitted into the Union. A formidable free soil party peoplod this State, and threatened, if Congress admitted us a slave State,' the tables would bp changed in two 'years. Northern members of Congress pre dicted the same result. At that time there was but a few Blaves in and noar St. Louis', and up the Missouri river ; hot as many as are uow to be found in Kanzas. Yet, in the face of all this, Missouri is a slave State, and is like ly to remain so forever. Frank Blair, backed by the whole Northern press, with his maps and diagrams, tried to demonstrate tho decay of slavery iu Missouri, but only succeeded in im pressing the people with , his igno rance. The act consigned him, along with Dames and his abetters, to ob liquity and disgrace. The people of Missouri were left better satisfied with the institution, and fully convinced that it was impregnable. ',, As to these rebels and disturbors of the public peace, they will soon cool down, Home moving off tof other nowTerritorios, others returning homo in shame. A goodly numbor ot them, as was tne tact in this btate, will oome over to the prevailing sentiment. beli-intorest,' as 1 well as regard for their own case, will make them do it. At the same time, slave-holders will move over, and carry with them a moral force with capital, irrefutable. Many in our State, who are unable to purchase a home at the high price of ands, have been waiting for the' so- ution of this question in Kanzas, ex pecting to lay out their small capital in tho purchase and improvement of homesteads. Settlors from tho South, will be' attracted over, by tho extreme fertilit of tho soil and salubrity of the climate' until this' institution of slavery id founded deep' in the con victions of thopoople. . : i , w . . Benton on Douolas. The follow ing good one is told of "Old Bui- ion.:! , j Speaking of the Douglas de- fectioor ' he lemarkod We ' hoar much said about tha peoplo that Douglas will take off. . He has not taken off the people the peopU have takenoff Douglas, sir." " " 11 ... ' .' ' Hill ! . Jt:iT Tho new phrase of the Demo cracy now is r ihe lactious majori ty," and that deserves to bo put down. .here is' an impudent' coolness in this whjoh Barnura might havo ra- oicod over in his palmiest days. Jtar .ftidgo Elmomc, of Tecumseh, is in Washington, and is wielding His influence against the, passage through CongrbsB of the Lecompton swindled ' i-.-n.riJi,i ",f ! ""'i'' 6oAROKi--Uohest politicis ' I tt;i hi. ft W, Brdwril'u (III! To the Honorable the Iluui'e of Representa tives of, the United Slates, , ' - ) The undersigned were appointed a Committoe, by' a Delegate Conven tion of tho peoplo of Kanzas, held at the town ot Lawrence on Dc!tft, to memorialize your honorablo body, and to protest, in their name, against the admission of our Territory into the Union, as a sovereign State, un der the instrument' known as the Le compton Constitution. '' . ' ' ' ' - In discharge of the duties thus im posed and accepted,, wejisk you to re ject the Lecompton Constitution. because the Legislative Assembly, by' which the Convention which framed it was called into existence, was electod by armed . companies of Missouri invaders, and did not repre sent, but did constantly and willfully misrepresent, the political and moral sentiments and wishes of the people ot rvanzas. ... i Because aocording to tho opin ions and decisions of eminent judicial authorities ; a Territorial Legislature, even if legally electod, has no con stitutional power to originate a State Government. i .Because this power to initiate or establish a Government, being vested in the people or in Congress alone by thi fraudulent census and iniqui tlous apportionment for the election of delegates : to the Constitutional Convention, tho majority of tho act ual inhabitants of the Territory wero deprived of tho right of representa tion in it. Because the instrument thus ille gaily framed was. not submitted for ratification or rejection to, a vote of the people. Because it establishes in our land, forever, an institution which, in tho opinion of a majority of our poople, is politically and, socially a curse, and morally a crimo against God and man. Because tho ' Constitution itself, apart from its origin and its slavery clause, is imperteut, anti-republican, inconsistent, and in many other re spects justly obnoxious to the people. ' Became as your honorablo body will soon learn from official records a vast and earnest majority of our people have expressed, through tho ballot box, their opposition to it; and in delegate conventions' ami pub lic1 assemblies have'sworn to resort to revolution by civil war, : rather than submit to tho tyranny .which it becks to establish. ! ' From the mahnor' in" which the Territorial Legislature was' elected ; Because it had no right to initiate a State Government;., , .. ;,: - .,;. Because tho poople were unrepre sented and misrepresented in tho Le compton Convention ; 1 ' Because the Constitution framed by it was not submitted, to the popu lar vote;, ' , .;.,: Bocause it is intendod to extend, establish and perpetuate ah organized crime; ' 1 " ' ' ' ' "'' '' " Because the so-callod Constitution is unsuitod to us, obnoxious aud im- porfuot, and in order to prevent a re newal of civil war, we havo the right to expoct, and do, ask your honorable body to rejoct it, and we do most sol emnly protest against its acceptance by the Congress of the United States. And your petitioners will evorpray. , Jas. REDPAT1I, Ch'n. C ROBINSON, W.Y.ROBERTS, ' . i . '.. W. OAKLEY, .: : ,: T.D. Til AC HER, , 8. 0, FOMEROY, , ,"' J. P. ROOT, '" . ' J. II. LANE, :! 8: F:TAPPAN, I B. PLUMB, i :: : j .A.A.JAMESON. , , ; JOSIAII MILLER, 1 13. B. WHITMAN, !'! : ''J. M.' WALDEN,'""1' '"' ; ! WM. A. PHILLIPS, ' The Slave Trade Horrible Details. ' j "i. . mlmm 1 ' " ; v n. A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, writing' from St.1 Helena, records the arrival at that port of a prize schoonor, captured while engagod in the Slave trado. The writer visitod tha schooner and furnishes tho following in relation theroto.' II says s . ''.-'.; " I fonnd a small ; schoonor whoso deck and hold swarmed with the poor creatures ai,thicli; ai they could sit, most of fjhom young tnon very many boys, and about eighty "girls and young woman. They had been stowed in sitting postures in tho hold, and then; ovor, their .heads slave, dtck laic, , fvheroupoa were crowded .th wpman nu nuys, n a spac? high enough1 16 tdmlt of 'tittii baroly ng up- right. ;. ut ' i.'.i "!. '. t , I could not havo believed it possi ble that so many human beings could, be stowed in such a space. .When I visited them,' they of course were not in irons, nor confined in their origi nal positions; for tho deck was alive with them. I cannot find language in which to paint the filth and dis-, gusting -stench of this prison-house of miserable, wretched sufferers. The naked bodies, filth of person, emaciated limbs, to almost skeletons, wan and pitiable fuces upturned, arms, legs', or persons still sore from the fllae-8toaIers fiery marking brand, all presented a scene most sickening.1 1 thought was'it possible that mart could steel his heart so fiercely, and quench out his soul so utterly as to look on such a scene, with the dead and dying piling around him, and yet glOat over his gains as he pressed over the waters beneath God's pure sky and witnepsing stars, on au er rand so diabolical ? Yet it is even so. Soon after the poor wretches wero landed, clothing, blankets, &c, were furnished them, and as cold water or bread was given them, they mutely claspod their hands in gratitude be fore they drank. We learn that about fifteen or twenty 'slavers havo recent ly been captured on the South coast, some with their living freight, but most just prepared to reeeivo them, and some with a large amount of spo-; cio on board. It is thought by offi cers of the men-of-war, that a check has been given the trafio by the se vere losses lately met with but I fear not. Such losses only, make more! grasping the avarice that takes tho. very lifo blood. The Amwrican squad- ( ron on tho Coast is too small for ef-' fective action, and they should' bo' Bteamers, for all tho work has been doiie under the American flag, to its disgrace J but I learn that the present Commodore on the station has fresh instructions, giving groator encour agement an I less restrictions' 'than'1 formerly,, and consequently tho Cum- beiland and Dale are now on the South; Coast, actively employed," . , Facts for Emigrants to Kanzas. ' ' ' 1. Kanzas has an area of one hun dred and fourteen thousand, seven -hundred , and ninety - eight , square) miles. , ; , 2. It is fourtocn times as largo as Massachusetts. ' 3. It is as large as Maine, Ver mont, New Hampshire, Rhodo Island,'! Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachu setts, Maryland 'and South Carolina combined. 1 4. 'Tho land at present open to pro- '' omptioit is largo enough toaccomrno-' date seventy-five thousand families, j or half a million of individuals, ex-'1 elusive of the population of cities,; towns and villagos. 6.' When Kanzas is as densely" populated as England, it will contain a population of thiity-eiglit million, r one hundred and twelve thousand. . nine hundred and thirty-six souls. . (3. 'Kanzas is the garden of tho United States. -''"' ' ' "i; '" 7.i Its olimato is gonial and hoalthy, and its soil is of unsurpassed fertility. '' o, It has wood enough lor all prac ticable purposes. 9. Coal banks' have boen discov ered in soveral districts of this Ter-' ritory, i ,,'..,.. ! . . IU. It is intersocted in every ui rection by running streams : pure Wdtor is found at a moderate dopth, , in every district of thd Torritoify. ' ; J 11. hvery male adult or widaw is entitled, under the laws of Congress,1' ! to pro-ompt ono hundred and sixty., acres ; and they are not required to , pay for it until tho day of public land sale."-'" " -; "'I -" ' '' 12. Those' monFree State men 1 who' cannot raise $200 when their land falls duo, will find no difficulty v.J... !.- :'' ' in uoituwiii ii, ui iu niunagioi , thoir farm. ''' 13.' Thore are at present,' at the' lowest calculation,' six Freo State' mon in Kanuts as for every friond of the domOHtio iniquity , of tho South-', em States. 14.' For1 tho services of respootabla ' young women as teachers, domostio' helps ; and seamstresses, ' thore is a 1 groat demand in every new country ana espociauy so in iv.anr.as. , , , 15. Prairie City is tho best pbint in contral Kansas forpernon of lim itod means to locate in. The proprie ' ' tors of the town offer more liberal in- i ducoiuouts ,to settlers than any athor, town in the lemtoty, ( 6. Tho advertisement of the Prai-' rie City Amooiatioii,' on 'the "fourth'' page of this paper, will give people 1 In tho East a oorrect idea of tho con4 dition ,of tha country, in the yi , viuivjr im iwin viijr.