The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-12-29

or exterminate portion of the American
people. appealing 10 the United States
offers and laws for protection.
Either good sense or that discretion
which is the '.better part of valor,' pre-
vailed among the Missourins those
who were most agitated by the kansas
rebellion and they have stopped short
of the melancholy and fratricidal work
that the passionate and senseless Shan
non invited them to.
There is something ludicrous in read
ing. now, the Western dispatches, and
seeing how the reckless foray that was
threatened Kansas persisted, partly by
innate weakness and partly by being
brought against the rock of common
sense-an abundant article in every An
glo-Saxon community. A dispatch that
the Republican presented yesterday will
serve admirably to illustrate all the points
we have made in this article. We place
the numerous suggestive expressions In
small capitals:
INDEPENDENCE, Dec. 3.
owe have just received reliable intelli-
gence from Kansas Territory, wHIcg IN
foREAsEs THE EXCITEMENT HERE.e You are
doubtless apprised of the origin of the
dificulty-that of the rescue of pris-
oner n the hands of the sheriff, by a
party of fourteen to twenty of the citizens
Of Lawrence and its vicinity, and their
refusal to deliver any concerned up to
the officers of the Territory, unless it be
the GOVERNOR or to those of the GENE
RAJ GOVERNMENT. This determination
is strengthened by Lane, (late Presi-
dent of the Revolutionary Convention,
and also the editor of the paper at Law
renee, and few of a similar stripe, who
are constantly making harrangues to the
populace, and urging immediate prepar-
alton.
"On Saturday night, Lane delivered a
speech of this character, which was re-
ceived with enthusiasm. The Governor
seeing such a state of things existing,
very properly ordered out the militia of
the Territory, WHO DID NOT RESPOND VERY
READILY TO HIS WISHES, and many OF the
CITIZENS OF THE WESTERN BORDER, will
ling to quell the disturbance at this point,
OFFERED THEIR ASSISTANCE, and are now
IN READINESS TO MOVE at moments
warning. Many have already gone from
Lafayette and the adjoining counties,
prepared for the emergency. The Gov
ernor's party, numbering from ESQ TO
800 MEN, are at Franklin, few miles
distant, AWAITING GREATER FORCE.
"ReportS reach us that there are ELEVEN
HUNDRED MEN organized and ready for
resistance i'll Lawrence, armed with
SHARP's RIFLES, and that they are EN-
TRENcHING themselves as fast as they
can. From another source | learn, that
the better men in the place say they are
willing to give up all concerned in the
affair, if the legally authorized persons
ask it; otherwise they will resist to des-
peration. The Governor responds, why
not deliver them to the sheriff or to the
United States Marshal, who have already
demanded them? Trouble no doubt
will result from it, as much excitement
exists on both sides.
ga NETTING Is BEING HELD now, to see
if some measures cannot be adopted to
TERMINATE THE MATTER, Peaceabiy, if
possible, forcibiy if they must On
Saturday, the Governor, by telegraph,
asked the President for the assistance of
troops from Fort Leavenworth. He is
said to have represented that ONE THOU
SAND men were under arms at Lawrence !;
that they have rescued prisoner from
the custody Of the sheriff or Marshal of
Douglas county; that they defed the
Government TO retake him (; aud that,
UNLESS U. S. TROOPS WERE FURNISHED,
the laws of the Territory could not be
executed and that he demanded the aid
of the U. s. troops. UNTIL THIS Is GRANT
ED NOTHING WILL BE DONE, unless the ex-
element of parties concerned should
bring it On before, and, if SO, many val
liable lives will be lost. Of what trans
pires further | will try to keep you ad-
yised.''
There are significant facts here, that
give assurance that there will be no
''war" in Kansas. Let US note them:
l. The extreme excitement is in Mis-
souri-not in kanSas-the. truth being,
as we have said, that it is no new posi-
ton in Kansas for the Territorial sherifs
to be repudiated.
G. The Free State men are willing to
be governed by the U. S. officers and to
submit to them.
3. The militia of KANSAS did not Gre
spond" when Gov. Shannon called them
This is remarkable fact. The ques-
ton is, why? Did they sympathise
with the Free State men? If so, then
all Kansas is against those Territorial
laws-conclusive proof that the people of
Kansas did not make and do not approve
them.
q. The MIssoURIANs that were precip-
itated thoughtlessly into volunteering to
march into Kansas, only hold them
selves In readiness to move" After
they think a little, they will conclude it
is their duty to move HOME.
5. Gov. Shannon has only 1880 to
800 men, to back him, drawn from all
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