6. It is a^ain confirmed by the testimony of Missouri, and thus writes in a letter published in the Hew Haven Register: u Miami, Salixb Co., November 2G, 1S35. “ You ask me to tell you something about the Kansas and Missouri troubles. Of course you know in what they have originated. There w denying that the ^fissourians have det e rmined to control the elections, if possible, and I don’t know that their measures would be justifiable, ex- •ept upon the principle of self-preservation; and that, you know, is the first law of nature.” 7. And it is confirmed still further by the circular of the Emigration Society of Lafayette, in Missouri, dated as late as 25th March, .1856, in which the efforts of Missourians are openly confessed: “The Western counties of Missouri have, for the last two years, been heavily taxed, both in money and time, in fighting the battles of the South. Lafayette county (done has expended more than §100,000, in money and as much and more in time. Up to this time, the border counties of Missouri hare upheld and maintained the rights and interests of the South in this struggle, unassisted, and not unsuccessfully. But the Abolitionists, staking their i d upon the Kansas issue, and hesitating at no means, fair r foul, are moving heaven and earth to render that beautii tl unparalleled in the history of the Ln.on, and worthy 01 of men unfitted for the duties, and regardless of the resp- sibilities of Republicans.” 11. And finally, by the official minut which have been laid on our table by the P sident, the invasion, which ended in the Usui ation, is- clearly established ; but the effect this testimony has been so amply exposed the Senator from Vermont, [Mr. Collamb in his able and indefatigable argument, tha content myself with simply referring to it. On this cumulative, irresistible evidence, concurrence with the antecedent history rest. And yet Senators here have argued tl this cannot be so—precisely as the conspin of Catiline was doubted in the Homan S I Honnulli sunt in hoc ordine, qui aut ea, q imminent, non videant; avt ea, qua vid4 dissimulent; qui spem Catalina mollibus s tentiis aluerunt, conjurationemque nascent non credendo corroborarorunt. As 1 listei to the Senator from Illinois, while he pain! 8. Here, also, is complete admission of the Usurpation, by the Intelligencer, a leading paper of St. Louis, Missouri, made in the ensuing stunmer: “ Atchison and Stringfellow, with their Missouri follower*, overwhelmed the settlers in Kanias, browbeat and bullied them, and took the Government from their hands. Missouri vote* elected the present body of men who insult public intelligence and popular rights by styling themselves ‘the legislature of Kansas.’ This body of men are helping themselves to fat speculations by locating the ‘seat of Government.’ and getting town lots for their votes. They are passing laws disfranchising all the citizens of Kansas who do not believe Negro Slavery to be a Christian institution and a ly strove to show that there was no LT tion, I was reminded of the effort by a < tinguished logician, in a much-admired ar ment, to prove that Napoleon Bonaparte ne existed. And permit me to say, that the 1 of his existence is not placed more complei SUI above doubt than the fact of this Usurpati This I assert on the proofs already present But confirmation comes almost while I spe The columns of the public press are now d filled with testimony, solemnly taken be the Committee of Congress in Kansas, wl shows, in awful light, the violence endin; national blessing. They are proposing to punish with im- ]»risonment the utterance of views inconsistent with their own. And they are trying to perpetuate their preposterous and infernal tyranny by appointing for a term of years •reatures of their own, as commissioners in every county, to Jay and collect taxes, and see that the laws they are passing are faithfully executed. Has this age anything to compare with these acts in audacity?” 9. In harmony with all these is the authoritative declaration of Governor Heeder, in a speech addressed to his neighbors, at Easton, Pennsylvania, at the end of April, 1855, and immediately afterwards published in the Washington Union. Here it is: “ It was, indeed, too true that Kansas had been invaded, conquered, subjugated, by an armed force from beyond her borders, led on by a fanatical spirit, trampling under foot the principles of the Kansas bill and the right of suffrage.” 10. And in similar harmony is the complaint of the people of Kansas, in a public the Usurpation, other occasion. Of this I may speak oust Meanwhile, 1 proceed v the development of the Crime. । The usurping Legislature assembled at appointed place in the interior, and then once, in opposition to the veto of the Govf or, by a majority of two-thirds, the Shawnee Mission, a place in most coi nient proximity to the Missouri borderers! whom it had been constituted, and whose rannical agent it was. The statutes of J removed souri, in all their text, with their divisions subdivisions, were adopted bodily, and a such little local adaptation that lie w . . y—- . • * • . > • • 1 • a V 1 State” in the original is noteven change u Territory,” but is left to be corrected b explanatory act. But, all this general leg’ tion was entirely subordinate to the spJ olfei act, entitled body of men who for the last two momLd have been passing law* lor Ute people of our lerri- firy, m^ved, counselled, and dictated to by the demagogues «f Missouri, are to us a foreign body, representing only the ft W11 invaders who elected them, ami not the people of the i'vnitury—that we repudiate their action, as the monstrous ive Property,” in which the provoked this whole conspirad man Slavery openly recognized on Free » sanction of pretended law act of thirteen sections is in itself a Dand Dea th ednesh But its complex completeness of \\ without a parallel, may be part
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