New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-25
KANSAS DELIVERED.
morning

At last, authentic accounts are beginning to ar
rive of the iDglOriOus retreat of the Border. Ruff
fan invaders from Kansas. The courage and pru-
dence of the Lawrence men have carried them
through the alarming crisis with safety and honor.
Beleaguered by a set of blOodthirsty invaders
who flocked iUto Kansas with the avowed intention
of compelling the Inhabitants Of Lawrence to give
up their arms, or else to burn the town to the
ground and to cut the thrOats of the inhabitants
the Governor appointed by the President to pre-
serve " law and order" in the Territory cheering
these desperadOes by proclamation in which the
men of Lawrence were denounced as rebels the
Preside NJ of the United Sates-f0rgetful of his
pretended zeal for the doctrine of Squatter Sow
ereignty, and anxious, it would seem, to have the
Lawrence men murdered-encouragin Shannon
and the rufisns he had collected together by prom
ising to back them with al the power Of the
General Government; Winter setting in, naviga
ton obstrucied, and their intercourse with the
East cut eff; with nothing to rely upon but their
good cause, their Sharp's rifles, and their Own
pdomitabe spirit, the little band of Prostate
men have rolled back the tide of barbaric invasion
and have secured for Freedom yet another breath
Ing space
The discounted and lop cared invaders pretend
that against their wish they were kept from fight
il by the pusil ,nimity of Governor Sham IN. The
truth seems to be that when to the wholesome
terror which the shsrp's rifles inspired WAS added
the discomfort of tempestuous night-the first Of
the kind during the csmpaign-these murderous
scoundrels we're seized with unc ontr Jllsbe home
sickness, and without waiting for Orders, or even
stopping to say good bye to each other hurried OIL
homewaId in the greatest haste and confusion and
disorgsDzat.on, and with great loss OF horses and
even of arms As the Invasion began, so it eIded
with murder. 1t began by the murder of Dow ;
it sIdeo with the murder OF q Mr. Barber whom
Clark, the United States Indisn Agent ruthlessly
shot down Lear his own house, which had been
attacked by a marauding party of the Rufhsns un.
der the command Of one Major Richardson. Mr.
Barber lived about four miles from Lawrence.
Though President Pierce waited so quietly, pre-
tending want of power to Interfere, to let the
Lawrence people be murdered, we trust he
hos power, and that he will nav feel himself
called upon to exercise it, to investigate in a
legal manner the high handed Outrsges recently per-
petrated in Kansas; or, if he has not Pc Yer,
OF is restrained BY his respect for the doctrine Of
Squatter Sovereignty from exercising it, we hope
tie House of Representatives, if ever organized,
will come to his assistance In the frat place, there
is the murder of Dow to be Investigated, and the
murderer to be punished secondly, the murder of
B,Iber; thirdly, the lying proclamation Of Gov
Shannon; fourthly, the assumption of authority to
put the executive of the laws OF Kansas into the
bands of an army of volunteers collected in Mis-
souri filthy, the lying attempt Of Shannon to
obtain authority to back up she Missouri invaders
by the United States troops at Fort Leaven worth
sixthly, The stealing of cannon and munitions from
the United States Arsenal in Clay County; and,
s.ventbly, the thousand and one outrages upon
peaceabe individuals, Travellers and others, perpe-
tfated by the Border Ruffisns during their weeks
fray. So far IS these outrages fall under the
jurisdiction of the Territorial Government Of
Kansas, Shannon and his officials will now have
an opportunity to show whether they are able or
not to punish the criminals. II they are not able,
let them stand aside at once, and make room for
TIE new Government to be organized uader the
State Constitution.
The following extract from printed slip for
wsIded on the 10th inst from the Office of The In
dependence (Mo) Express, will show by what
sort of lies tie retreatipg rufiaus attempted to
plaster over their disgrace 1t also contains their