SEC. 11. If any person print, write, introduce into, the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act republish or circulate, or cause to be brought into, specting fugitives from justice and persona escaping from printed, written, published or circulated, or shall the service of their masters." app oved Feb. 12, 1798, or knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, printing, of an act to amend and supplementary to said Act, ap publishing or circulating within this Territory, any proved Sept. 18, 1850; whether suck conviction were by book,papor, pamphlet, magazine, handbill, or circular, criminal proceeding or by civil action for the recovery of containing any statements, arguments, opinion, sen- any pen lty prescribed by either of said Acts. in any timent, doctrine, advice or intendo, calculated to pro- Courts of the United States, or of any State or Territory, duce a disorderly, dangerous, or rebellious disaffection of any offense deemed infamous, shall be entitled to vote among the slaves in this Territory, or to induce such at any election, or to hold any office in this Territory: And provided. further. That if any person offering to vote shall slaves to escape from the service of their masters, or be challenged and be required to take an oath or affirmato resist their authority, he shall be guilty of felony, tren, to be administered by one of the Judges of the Elecand be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a ton that he will sustain the provisions of the above-recited term not less than five years. Acts of Congress, and of the act entitled "An Act to orSEC. 12. If any free person, by speaking or writing,ganize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas," approved assert or maintain that persons have not the right to May 30. 1864. and shall refuse to take such oath or affirmhold slaves in this Territory, or shall introduce into ation, the vote of such person shall be rejected, this Territory, print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be introduced into this Territory, written, printed, published or circulated in this Territory, any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, or circular, containing any denial of the right of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felo ny, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for term of not less than two years. SEC. 13. No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall sit as a Juror on the trial of any prosecution for any violation of any of the sections of this act. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the 15th day of September, A. D. 1855. J. H. STRINGFELLOW, Speaker of the House. Attest, J. M. LYLE, Clerk. THOMAS JOHNSON, President of the Council. Attest, J. A. HALDERMAN, Clerk. AN ACT to punish persons Decoying Slaves from their masters. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative SECTION 1. If any person shall entice, decoy, or carry away out of this Territory, any slave belonging to another, with intent to deprive the owner thereof of the services of such slave, or with intent to effect or procure the freedom of such slaves, he shall be-adjudged guilty of grand larceny, and on conviction thereofs hall suffer death, tion of the Revenue AN AUT supplemental to an Act to provide for the collec Be it enacted, &c SEOTION 1. That. in addition to the provisions of an act entitled An Act for the Collection of the Revenue" the Sheriff of each and every county shall, on or before the first Monday of October, A. D. 1855. collett the sum of one dollar as a poll tax from each person in the said Territory of Kansas who is or may be entitled to vote in said Territory, as provided in said Act, to which this is supplementary. An act designating Lecompton as the capital of the Territory. An act appointing but one voting district_for each precinct. An act decreeing that aliens desirous of becoming citizens shall take an oath to support the Constitution, Organic Act, and Fugitive Slave Law. Numerous other acts, principally of a local character, were passed. The Legislature closed its proceedings in the early part of September, having appointed their friends and themselves to all the offices provided for by Act of Congress for two years. SLAVERY EXTENSION OUTRAGES. Several of the Missouri ruffians waited on the Governor in person soon after the spring election SEC 2. If any person shall aid or assist in enticing, of 1855, and threatened to hang him unless he decoying, or persuading, or carrying away, or send-would give the pro-slavery candidates certificates ing out of this Territory, any slave belonging to an- of election. His reply was: "Gentlemen, two or other, with intent to procure or effect the freedom of three of you can assassinate me, but a legion cansuch slave, or with intent to deprive the owner thereof of the services of such slave he shall be not compel me to do that which my conscience adjudged guilty of grand larceny, and on conviction does not approve." thereof shall suffer death. On Saturday, April 14th, 1855, 200 citizens of SEC. 3. If any person shall entice, decoy, or carry Platte Co., Mo., assembled at Parkville, Mo., and away out of any State or other Territory of the United States, any slave belonging to another, with intent attacked the office of The Luminary, which to procure or effect the freedom of such slave. or to they had charged with Free State proclivities on deprive the owner thereof of the services of such the Kansas question. They destroyed the fixtures slave, and shall bring such slave into this Territory, and threw the press into the river. The editors, he shall be adjudged guilty of grand larceny, in the J. S. Park and Wm. J. Patterson, were absent at same manner as if such slave had been enticed, de- the time, or they would have been violently dealt coyed, or carried away out of this Territory; in such case the larceny may be charged to have been committed in any county of this Territory into or through which such slave shall have been brought by such person, and, on conviction thereof, the person offending shall suffer death. AN AOT to regulate Elections. Be it enacted &c SECTION 1. Every free white male eitizen of the United States and every free male Indian who is made a citizen by treaty or otherwise, and over the age of twenty-one years, who shall be an inhabitant of this Territory, and of the county or district in which he offers to vote, and shall heve paid a Territorial tax. shit he a qualified elector for all elective officers, and all Indiane who a e inhabitants of this Territory, and who may have adopted the custom- of the white man, and who are liable to pay taxes, shall be deemed citizens; Provided. That no soldier, peaman or mariner in the regular ormy or navy of the United States shall be entitled to vote hy rearon of being on service the ein: And provided further. That no person who she have been convicted of any violation of any of with. On the 80th of April, there was a political gathering at Leavenworth City, when Malcolm Clark, a prominent pro-slavery politician, cried out, after a question had been put by the chair, "We have the majority." To this a lawyer, named McCrea, replied, "It's a lie," whereupon Clark struck him with a club, which sent him stunned and staggering against a wall. As soon as he recov. ered, McCrea drew a revolver and shot Clark, killing him instantly. McCrea was hotly pursued by Clark's friends, but escaped the shots fired at him. He ran into the river and was sheltered behind the bank, where his friends found him and delivered him to the authorities at the fort for protection. On the 17th of May, 1855, fourteen of the Mis sourian ruffians crossed the river at Leavenworth, $40. In a good season it would not be more than and seized Mr. William Phillips, one of the most $20. The best route is through Iowa, crossing intelligent and respectable citizens, a lawyer, who the Missouri at any convenient point, and striking had contested the election in his district (the 16th), south-west to Lawrence or Fort Riley, or any on which account a new election was ordered. other point the emigrant may have in view. The They carried him across the river before the people of Iowa do not take advantage of Eastera people of the place had collected to determine settlers, nor regard them with suspicion, nor en what to do, and then it was too late to rescue deavor to impose upon them, as some of the peo him. Phillips was taken several miles into Mis-ple of Missouri do. souri, one side of his head shaved, and all his One of the great features of Kansas trade is clothes stripped off. He was then tarred and that resulting from the Mormon, Oregon, and feathered. They next rode him on a rail a mile Santa Fé emigration, which produces a local deand a half, put him up at auction, and sold him mand for produce; so that an industrious and at one dollar as an insult to such as are opposed energetic farmer can hardly fail to do well there. to the sale of slaves. He was then taken home SETTLEMENTS. by his purchaser. Mr. Phillips was partner to M'Crea, who was at that time confined at the fort for killing Clark. Phillips maintained his ground Leavenworth, l'awnee, Topeka, Osawatamie, The principal towns in Kansas are, Lawrence. as a Free Soiler and Free State man through this trying ordeal. Although threatened with still Boston, and Grasshopper Falls. These, except greater violence if he did not leave the Territory, Northern men, and are chiefly composed of inLeavenworth, have sprung from the efforts of he insisted that he would remain at Leavenworth.dustrious mechanics, farmers, etc., with mills, He afterward returned safely to that place. churches, and newspapers. If the elections in On the 20th of May, 1855, several members of the precincts where these towns are located, the Blue Lodge Missourians visited Osawatomie, were without the interference of Missourians, and seized a Mr. Baker. They took his rifle and they would, without question, carry Freebroke it over a stump, mounted him on a mule, State tickets by large majorities; and although and carried him some distance into the woods. the Atchison invaders have carried the elections They then took measures to hang him, without hitherto, prior to that held by the Free-State men Judge or jury, and upon his suggesting to them on the 9th of October last, they have not really that he should have the privilege of speaking for built one town. Their voters, having fulfilled the himself, he was allowed to do so. After he had purpose for which they were hired, have returned made his statement the company were about to their homes in Missouri, leaving the labor of equally divided; one half sided with Baker, and erecting towns, improving lands, and building the other half with Kirby, the leader of the gang, public works, to the industry and enterprise of At this instant one of the Missourians handed Northern settlers. Lawrence, on the 22d of May, Baker a revolver, cocked and capped, upon which 1855, elected, by a majority of 288 against 20, a Kirby held his peace. Baker was finally released, Free-State delegation to the Legislature. Boston but gave up his claim, intending to prosecute it, however, at a more favorable time. EMIGRATION. elected a Free-State Councilor and three FreeState delegates, in the teeth of an opposition of braggart hirelings imported from Missouri. While Douglas and other towns, commenced by From the time of the organization of the Terri- the Pro-Slavery politicians, have fallen into detory emigrants have been proceeding thither. cay, the towns which we have named, and many The following companies have been and still others, are in a flourishing condition, and exare in active operation in assisting persons to hibit all the evidences of prosperity, which invasettle in Kansas Territory: riably accompany Northern industry and enterAMERICAN SETTLEMENT COMPANY, N. Y. CITY.-prise. These facts indicate what will be the reSecretary, Theo. Dwight, 110 Broadway. This Com-sult when the permanent settlers of the country pany has founded the Council City settlement. are permitted to do their own voting and make their own laws. EMIGRANT AID COMPANY OF MASSACHUSETTS.Conducted by Eli Thayer, General Pomroy, A. Hadrend, and John S. Willians. Secretary, Thomas H. Webb, Tremont street, Boston. This Company has afforded considerable aid to emigrants to Kansas, and has promoted the erection of several towns. NEW-YORK KANSAS LEAGUE.-Many persons have been sent to Kansas through the instrumentality of this League. Conducted by Geo. Walter, 110 BroadFay, N. Y. City. OCTAGON SETTLEMENT COMPANY.--This Company on the Temperance and Joint stock principles. Stock purchasable by money or labor. Settlement the Octagon Plan. Secretary, HENKY S. CLUBB, 5. Y. City. NEWSPAPERS. BANNER: Published by T. C. Conner & Co., FREE-STATE: Published at Lawrence. very. HERALD OF FREEDOM: Published by G. W. Brown & Co., at Lawrence-Free-State. INQUIRER: Published at Pawnee--Democratic. PIONEER: Published at Kickapoo-Pro-Slavery. TERRITORIAL REGISTER: Published at Leaven. worth by M. Sevier-Neutral. TRIBUNE Published at Lawrence-Free-State. VEGETARIAN SETTLEMENT COMPANY.-This Com- FREE-STATE MOVEMENT. A strong organization has been formed of deThe expense of moving eight persons and teams termined and energetic men to secure for Kansas agons) a distance of 700 miles was less than a Constitution protective of personal liberty. On Arst arriving in the country, the Eastern emi-shall be held at Topeka on the fourth Tuesday of grants had to erect their cabins and attend to October next. The twelfth, that if at the time of holding the their new farms, and could not do much in poli- The seventh to the eleventh make necessary tics. The Pro-Slavery party, living on the Mis-provision for practical operations. souri borders, had the advantage of new settlers, and consequently overcame them by superior election "it shall be inconvenient, on account of numbers, organization, and violence. But a Indian hostilities or any other cause whatchange is rapidly taking place in favor of Free- ever," to proceed with said election peaceably dom, and all the Eastern men are united on the and undisturbed, the Judges of election are auone great issue the establishment of Freedom in thorized to adjourn the election to any other the Territory. time or place. On the sixth of March, 1855, a meeting of the The thirteenth and last for contesting seats, &c. Free-State party was held at Pawnee, when reso- An address to the people of the Territory and of lutions were adopted declaring the right of popu- the civilized world was authorized, and a comlar sovereignty, aversion to the attempt to im-mittee of nineteen appointed to prepare the same, pose upon the citizens of Kansas by the intro- and to provide lecturers and speakers to visit duction of negro slavery, pledging support to no every portion of the Territory, give notice of man for a seat in the Legislature who is not election, &c. clearly against the introduction of slavery, branding as an iniquitous outrage the violation of the ballot-box at the fall election by the Missourians, sustaining Governor Reeder, and electing a committee to nominate candidates for the Legislature. This meeting was an enthusiastic ore, and was followed by others in various parts of the Territory. The Convention adjourned with three tremendous cheers for the new Government. The election for a Delegate to Congress, ordered by the fraudulent Legislature sitting at Shawnee Mission, was held as directed, on the 1st of October, and was conducted as usual. The voters had mainly come aver from Missouri on purpose; they did not seem to be so numerous as on On the 5th of September, 1855, a Free-State Con- former occasions, but made up the deficiency by vention was held at Big Springs. It was numer-voting oftener. When they had polled as many ously and respectably attended, being composed of men of standing and position from every district in the Territory, numbering in all one hundred delegates. votes as they deemed sufficient for Whitfield, they varied the performance by putting in a few for Reeder, supposing that would give the affair a better look at a distance. Altogether they polled This Convention, among other resolutions re- some 2,800 votes for Whitfield, and might easily solved to repudiate all the acts of the so-called have made it 5,000, or any other number. VotLegislature of Kansas; to take no part in the ing once more around would have done that. election of a delegate to Congress which that But an election held on or about the same day body had appointed; but to appoint an election to fix the county seat of the county including to take place one week after that appointed by Leavenworth, Delaware, and Kickapoo, drew out the Legislature. Ex-Governor Reeder was agreed some twenty-eight hundred votes, of which upon as the candidate of the Free-State party. Delaware obtained a plurality--the whole numIt was expected that he would be elected on the ber of rightful voters in the county not exceedoccasion without opposition; and as General ing seven hundred. The result elicited a most Whitfield would be elected by the Missourians, pathetic remonstrance from the Pro-Slavery the effect would be to bring the question of popu- Leavenworth Herald, which insisted that the lar rights in Kansas before the House of Repre- Missourians had no right to come over in regisentatives at Washington, ments, under the stimulus of free rifles, free dinners, and free grog, to vote in a mere local election. The distinction here insinuated seems rather ingenious than well founded. A convention assembled at Topeka, on the 19th of September, to consider the expediency of the immediate formation of a State Government. Ten districts were represented by thirty-nine delegates. President-WM. Y. ROBERTS of Washington. Numerous resolutions were adopted The first, "By the people of Kansas Territory, in Delegate Convention assembled," authorizes the holding an election on the second Tuesday of October, in the several precincts of the Territory, for members of a Convention to form a State Constitution, preparatory to application for admission into the Union. The second apportions the Delegates and fixes their number at 52-twice the number of Representatives in the Legislature. The third provides for an "Executive Committee of Kansas Territory" of seven members, who shall have the general superintendence of the affairs of the Territory, so far as regards the organization of a State Government. On the 9th of October, pursuant to notice, the Free-State men held their election.. They allowed no non-resident to vote, and no resident who l.ad not been such for at least thirty days; they had regular inspectors, opened their polls, closed them, and counted the ballots with due regularity, returning some 2400 votes cast-nearly all for Gov. Reeder as Delegate. They also elected delegates from the several districts to a Constitutional Convention to assemble at Topeka on the fourth Tuesday of the month, as aforesaid, and form a State Constitution. That Convention assembled accordingly, and chose Col. James H. Lane its President. Col. Lane was a member of the last Congress from Indiana, warmly supported the Nebraska bill, and is still a National Democrat. Many other members are of similar political stripe, and much time was consumed in an attempt to obtain from the Convention an indorsement of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. This, it was confidently stated by several of the members, would secure the support of Dougias, Cass, and other leading squatter-sovThe sixth, that the Constitutional Conventionereignty members of Congress, for the State The fourth resolution provides for the manner of conducting the election. The fifth, for proclaiming the names of the Delegates elected to said Convention. organization, and would thus insure its sanction | R. H. Crosby, P. O. Schuyler, C. Robinson, M. F. J. H. LANE, President. ties in this Territory, namely, a Free State and a Pro- As the delegates came originally from various States, there was considerable diversity of sentiment among them, and occasion for compromise, but the Constitution, as finally adopted, was signed by all the members with the greatest appearance of unanimity and enthusiasm. Resolved, That a State Convention be held in the city of Lawrence, on the 22d day of December, to nominate State officers. Presidents, and Dr. Stringfellow as Secretary. The resolutions sustain the Kansas act, assail Reeder, call the Topeka Convention a treasonable assemblage, endorse Governor Shannon, and pledge the law and order loving, State rights loving, Union loving party to the support of the Executive and the laws of the Territory. The Convention then adjourned, the outrages of the Pro-Slavery men going on as before. The St. Louis Republican c ́October 80 pub Though it was provided by the Bill of Rights that "Slavery shall not exist in the State," yet to avoid any charge of ultraism, it was also with strange inconsistency provided that this prohibi-lished a long exposé on the authority of one tion should not go into operation until the 4th of July, 1857, thus giving the slaveholders ample time to remove their slaves. A clause prohibiting the settlement of free negroes in the State, was strongly urged by many members; and it was finally agreed to submit such a provision to the people in a separate article. Patrick Laughlin, an Irishman, who professed to have belonged to it, of a secret_military society formed by the Free State men, to force abolition on Kansas by the argument of Sharp's rifles. Shortly after, Laughlin got into a fight at Doniphan with one Collins, on the subject of this exposé, in the course of which Laughlin shot ColThe boundaries, in accordance with those laid lins dead, for which, as has been the ordinary down in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, extend west to course in cases of outrages and murder committed the summits of the Rocky Mountains. Married by the Pro-Slavery men, no steps were taken to women are to be secured in their right of indi- punish him. On the 22d of Nov., anather brutal vidual property obtained efther before or after murder was committed by one Coleman, at Hickmarriage, and an equal right in the control and ory Point, about twelve miles north of Lawrence. education of the children. In prosecutions for This Coleman waylaid and shot a neighbor of libel, the truth may be given in evidence, and his named Dow, because Dow had complained shall be deemed a justification. A State Univer- of trespasses by Coleman on his claim. The sity and Normal Schools are to be established. murderer and his accomplices fled to Lecompton The civilized and friendly Indians may become to Governor Shannon, and the step taken for citizens of the State. Judges are to be elected by the punishment of this murder was to send a the people. Topeka is to be the capital, tempo- Missouri Postmaster, whom the sham Legislature rarily, until a permanent site is selected by the had made Sheriff of Douglas County, to arrest a Legislature. The project of a free banking sys-man-named Branson, at whose house Dow lodged, tem was submitted to the people in an article by itself. The Convention, having completed its labors, adjourned on the 11th of November. This Constitution was signed, November 11th, by the following persons, members of the Convention by which it was formed: Robert Klotz, M. J. Parrott, M. W. Delahay, W. R. Griffith, G. 8. Hillyer, William Hicks, S. N. Latta, John Landis, H. Burson, C. W. Stewart, J. M. Arther, J. L. Sayle, Caleb May, S. Mewhiny, A. Curtiss, A. Hunting, R. Knight, 0. C. Brown, W. Graham, Morris Hunt, J. H. Nesbitt, C. K. Holliday, David Dodge, J. A. Wakefield, W. Y. Roberts, G. W. Smith, J. G. Thompson, G. A. Cutler, J. K. Goodin, J. M. Tutton, Thomas Bell, and against whom Coleman swore a complaint that he was in fear of his life. Branson was released from arrest by a party of his neighbors and took refuge in Lawrence. The Sheriff gave out that Shannon had promised to back him with 10,000 men, and the people of Lawrence armed and associated for mutual defense. The most extravagant rumors were spread through Missouri, and telegraphed eastward, Shannon even telegraphed to the President for authority to call out the U. S. troops in Fort Leavenworth. Large bodies of Missourians marched to Shannon's assistance, but the rumors of Sharp's rifles at Lawrence appear to have prevented any attack.-Such, at the moment that we go to press, is the condition of things in Kansas. THE WAR IN THE EAST. THE year 1854 was eminently one of disaster every day prostrated by sickness, from which but and calamity for Europe. It witnessed the first a very small number recovered; and out of the passages of that mighty struggle which, with all 48,000 dead or sick, not 7,000 were disabled by the the stupendous operations that attend it, now direct action of the enemy. agitates the world. The year 1855 came bringing They wanted food, clothing, shelter, everything; nothing for hope, everything for sorrow-the loss neither medical nor surgical stores were on the of one hundred thousand precious lives-already spot; the sick and wounded either lay on the the profitless expenditure of an immense aggre-cold, wet ground, exposed to the weather, or were gate of property. Seemingly aimless and barren crowded on board ships moored in an open roadof results, the great war had as yet no conclu- stead, without attendance or the simplest requisions to offer, save the storied heroism of con- sites for medical treatment. At first it was said tending soldiers-their steady valor and calm that Government had neglected to send the necesdefiance of death; the painful glories of Alma sary supplies to the scene of action, but soon and Inkermann and Balaklava. Disastrous dil-enough it got to be known that this had been atoriness, the absence from their deliberations only partially true in the beginning, and was by of a spirit of wise statesmanship, the predomi- no means the, case now. Everything had been nance of partisan prejudices and passions, char-furnished, even in profusion; but, unfortunately, acterized the sittings of the Vienna Conference. nothing ever happened to reach the spot where it They had no acceptable terms of peace to prof-was most needed. The medical stores were at fer, because they possessed no persuasive force Varna, while the sick or wounded were in the of harmony in themselves. The most hope-Crimea or at Scutari. The garrison at Varna less incompetency, the saddest poverty of re-enjoyed abundance, while the camp famished. sources, the tamest plodding after the slowest Everybody made himself busy, and yet nobody ideas, on the part of those who should have man- would perform duties which had not devolved aged the British war establishment, disgraced upon him at home in time of peace; so that not their administration in every branch of the ser- a man was to be found to do that business which vice, and promised nothing better than the hor-was created by the very war itself. Chaotic conrors of a Walcheren. With the exception of the fusion, demoralization, despair, were officers of Ministerial organs, which attempted a poor de- the day, And all this while Government was not fense of the blunders and abortions of the Cri- merely waiting for notes and protocols from Vimean expedition, the English press burst out in enna; Government was laying down a submafull chorus against its conductors. The bonds of rine telegraph from Varna to Balaklava to resilence were rudely broken, and sheer and irony port the dead, and constructing a railway from and taunt, bitter sarcasms, bold denunciations, Balaklava to Sevastopol to remove them. But alarming threats, assailed the ears of the Minis- for the French, the miserable remnant of the try. The London Times of Jan. 20, in a leading British army would have been exterminated. The article, declared that in the face of the increasing | admirable management of the French-that manmismanagement in the Crimea, and the helpless-agement which is not the merit of any particular ness of the government at home, it would be administration, but a consequence of the warlike criminal to hide any longer the full truth from spirit of the people; of that other quality in the British public. Another article from the same which they excel, of arranging details in the journal, on Jan. 25, summed up the dreadful facts most harmonious and convenient manner; and, by saying that, at the existing rate of diminution, finally, of twenty-five years' experience in AlLord Raglan and his staff would soon be the only geria-served at this juncture, not merely to presurvivors of the expedition; and Lord John Rus-serve themselves intact, but to cover their sell, in a speech in Parliament explanatory of his exposed allies. Before the first of February, resignation of his seat in the Cabinet, declared almost all the British generals had filed the Crithe accounts from the camp before Sevastopol to mean Golgotha, and England had at last debe "not only painful, but horrible and heart-manded to know on whose heads rested the blood rending." Of more than 60,000 men, sent to the of her bravest. On January 26, Mr. Roebuck, in Crimea in ten months, not more than 17,000 were the House of Commons, moved for a Committee fit for duty in January, 1855; of these, some sixty of Inquiry into the immediate causes of the Crior eighty died daily, and about 200 or 250 were mean disasters, and the conduct of the war gen |