THE DEATH OF BARBER — THE TREATY. 
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hardly believe he was a “border ruffian.” While the words, 
“ he came to see if everything was done right,” were repeatedly 
upon his tongue, his inflammatory appeals for men and money to 
aid in this invasion, in which there was no shadow of truth, were 
sent through all the border. He has, beside, never failed to be 
active in these invasions and frauds upon the ballot-box. 
Unless the federal government interposes for the relief of the 
actual settler, there is yet imminent danger that other martyrs for 
liberty will fall beneath the assassin’s blow; that these broad prai¬ 
ries, whose very air breathes life and freedom, consecrated by God 
when fresh from his forming hand, sealed by a sacred compact 
of men, shall again be consecrated by their blood. 
