An order of removal by the President followed the report. Had we
been subjects of a despotic government and bowed our necks like
serfs, the matter would have ended in immediate compliance with the
order. But we prided ourselves on our liberties as Americans, and
an appeal was to be made to the first citizen of the land, the
President of the United States. A committee of Western men were
appointed, which would be augmented by others at the national
capital, and it was proposed to lay the bare facts in the chief
executive's hands and at least ask for a modification of the order.
The latter was ignorant in its conception, brutal and inhuman in
its intent, ending in the threat to use the military arm of the
government, unless the terms and conditions were complied with
within a giv
