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KANSAS. 
authorities of the land. Let come what will, show that you are 
determined to rally around the bulwarks of the constitution, and 
maintain the laws. Let every county in the territory be fully 
represented. 
“ Andrew J. Isaacs, 
John A. Halderman, 
D. J. Johnson, 
Wm. G. Mathias, 
By order of 
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Some of these men are President Pierce’s appointees in the ter¬ 
ritory. A part of these were connected in the mobbing of Phil¬ 
lips, while others were of the invading horde who trampled upon 
the constitution, and all the rights it ensures to freemen, at the 
election of the 30th of March. This talk of rallying around the 
constitution, and maintaining the laws, sounds well coming from 
such men ! At this meeting Gov. Shannon presided, committing 
himself wholly to the partisan movement. He declared that the 
iniquitous laws passed by men from, and chosen by, Missouri, 
“ shall be enforced.” He entered into a league with these men 
that he would do all in his power to oppress the other party. He 
called the free-state party a “ faction,” although he knew that the 
convention at Topeka was elected by votes of at least three fourths 
of the residents of the territory, and was comprised of men of all 
political opinions. He yet rushed on recklessly, led by blind lead¬ 
ers, and desiring nothing but that free Kansas shall bear the gall¬ 
ing yoke of slavery. 
Gen. Calhoun addressed the meeting. Among other choice tit¬ 
bits, he said : Shall abolitionists rule you? No, never ! Give 
them all they demand, and abolitionism becomes the law of the 
land. You yield, and you have the most infernal government that 
ever cursed a land. I w r ould rather be a painted slave over in 
Missouri, or a serf to the czar of Russia, than have the abolition¬ 
ists in power. (Tremendous cheers.) Look at the outrages men¬ 
tioned in their journals, of babies shot through the sides of houses, 
etc. There is nothing so low or mean but abolition papers are 
found to tell it. We, the Union-loving and State-rights party, 
of Kansas, have kept too still, and allowed the nullifies to pro- 
