THE FIRST ELECTION — FI 1ST INVASION. 
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who, from mercenary motives, are calling upon the pro-slavery- 
party to submit without further action. 
“ Resolved , That, in order to secure peace and harmony to the 
community, we now solemnly declare that the pro-slavery party 
will stand firmly by and carry out the resolutions reported by the 
committee appointed for that purpose on the memorable 30th.” 
“ This meeting was eloquently addressed by Judge Lecompte.” 
Thus, Judge Lecompte, and the men elected by force and fraud, 
not “ inhabitants of” the district for which they were elected, as 
the organic act requires (this act declaring that “ the true intent 
and meaning of this act is to leave the people there perfectly free 
to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way* 
subject to the constitution of the United States ”), are the leaders 
and instigators to a series of lawless acts, whose end we cannot 
even foresee, against the peaceable and order-loving citizens of the 
territory, exposing them to imminent peril from drunken mobs, 
and death by fiendish violence, if this judge and these law¬ 
makers so desire. In such hands, and at the mercy of such men, 
are our lives and safety. 
No other country than this witnesses so terrible a ’espotism. 
