Now we seek peace, and ask our rights
even regress and redemption at the hands of
the rulers of this nation; not only our lands
and property in Jackson County but for free
trade with all men and unmolested emigra-
tion to any part of the Union, and for our
inherent right to worship God as we please.
We ask the rights because they have been
taken from us, or abridged by the violence and
usurpation of the inhabitants of Jackson County.
As a people we hold ourselves amenable to
the laws of the land, and while the government
remains as it is, the right to emigrate from
State to State: from Territory to Territory: from
county to county, and from vicinity to vicinity,
is open to all men of whatsoever trade or creed,
without hindrance or molestation; and as
long as we are justifiable and honest in the
eyes of the law, we claim it, whether we remove
by single families or in bodies of hundreds, with
that of carrying the necessary arms and accou-
trements for military duty; and we believe
that all honest men who love their country
and their country's glory and have a wish to
see the law magnified and made honorable,
will not only help perpetuate the great legacy
of freedom that came unimparired from the
Now we seek peace, and ask our rights
even regress and redemption at the hands of
the rulers of this nation; not only our lands
and property in Jackson County but for free
trade with all men and unmolested emigration to any part of the Union, and for our
inherent right to worship God as we please.
We ask the rights because they have been
taken from us, or abridged by the violence and
usurpation of the inhabitants of Jackson County.
As a people we hold ourselves amenable to
the laws of the land, and while the government
remains as it is, the right to emigrate from
State to State: from Territory to Territory: from
county to county, and from vicinity to vicinity,
is open to all men of whatsoever trade or creed,
without hindrance or molestation; and as
long as we are justifiable and honest in the
eyes of the law, we claim it, whether we remove
by single families or in bodies of hundreds, with
that of carrying the necessary arms and accoutrements for military duty; and we believe
that all honest men who love their country
and their country's glory and have a wish to
see the law magnified and made honorable,
will not only help perpetuate the great legacy
of freedom that came unimpaired from the