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kanzas MISCELLANY.

kanzas MISCELLANY.
The kanzas question is too important to
be lost sight of for any length Of time We
continue our selections of facts and sayings
bearing upon the subject The first extract
we give, it is one of the most odious
things we have yet seen on the subject
is from the national organ of the Know
Nothings, published at Washington. We
would not, however, insult the order in Yer
mont by supposing for a moment that it has
member who would not spurn with loath-
ing such sentiments as tho following.
tFrpm tho American Orgnn.l
/ - t;ovcrhor Errder is to be sent among the
border ruff ans (ls they are styled by him
selD, and the rutiians' are told by the
President that not for single moment has
Governor Reodcr been diverted from the
straightforward path of duty y That the
ruiiuns (and not Gov. Reeder) are wrong
that they have been rufTianly enough to
make n pretext' of the conduct of the Anti
| Slaverymen TO do wrong themselves-that
Governor Reeder has maintained the atti-
tude which General Pierce expected him
to maintain and that he goes back to
.dsG0nTags .r oI9 fyerY % %movemont that will dis
1" Now the President and Col Forney both
know full well that Governor Reeder S reap
| pearance in Kansas will be the signal for
civil war. We do not believe that there
| will be one moments peace in Kansas if he
returns Right or wrong, (and we say not
which) n provisional government will spring
up as suddenly into existence in Kansas as il
did in Paris the people of Kansas will not
allow General Pierce to force Anti-Slnvery-
ism, or an Anti-Slavery Governor upon them,
and he ought to know it and doubtless does
| know it. The country will bear
us witness that we have over and again made
this declaration, that the Forney and the
Pierce men were not worthy of Southern con-
| fdcnce, but we did not expect so soon
formal acknowledgment of the truth We
supposed that it would be postponed till after
the Virginia election. The result in Virginia
! however, is now 80 sure to be adverse to the
views of the Administration, and fh,y 30
clearly see it. that it is not deemed impor-
tant to put of what they cannot evade, and
they have now thrown of the mask and
declared for Governor Reeder and against
| the South
60 It's our judgment shat if he
| (thc Prcsident) even attempts to force Gov.
| Reeder upon them contrary to their will.
and after they have repudiated him, they
will resist. They will not be forced. They
may or they may not throw him into the Mis-
souri, River but we do not believe they will
allow this Administration to impose him
upon them All this may be wrong on the
part of the Missourians. We are simply
! dealing with facts and probabilities, and not
/ discussing what is right or what is wrong, as
! between the Missourians and Gov Reeder.
/" We desire to prevent evil war and fra
| tcrnal hloodshed. Hence We say that since
the MssourianS have literally expelled a
Governor who was not only involved in land
and Indian spcculatiUns (for which he
deserves to be broke az the President knows.
if onc-half of the Indian Bureau Commits
sioncr's report be truc), but who it is also
alleged, interlered with the political rights
otthe people of Kansas will the President
send back such Goxernor at the head of
troops and put him over and maintain him
over free and jealous people by force of
arms -
In contrast with the above, and I show
that the outragcs in Kanzas are too bad even
for Forney to justify-Forney the chief Of
the Kitchen Cabinet, and at once the Presi-
dents tool and tutor,-we give the following
from Forncy's paper,
From the Philadelphia Pennsylvania, May Is.
No one could have felt more regret than
ourselves at the course pursued by the armed
bands OF men who left Missouri, not with q
view to settle in the territory of Kansas
but to overawe the actual residents, and
control the elections there held. We saw
} clearly, that the public opinion. even among
; those who are willing to 60 all lengths tc
protect the South in her Just rights, would
not extenuate, much less sanction, SC
gross violation of every principle of repub
, lican government.
, We have heard southern men denounce the
act as one of Madness which would in tbs
: end, produce its bitter fruits, by alternating
the patriotic men of the middle states from
the South, Or rendering them luke-warm
, Already the effect of Missourian violence
e begins to manifest itself, and Senator Atch
n ison is denounced in q manner which viii
= very much damage his reputation as n publ
t man and good citizen. Some of the paper
not welded to aholitionism, describe him a
Y a rowing bandit, armed with bowie knife
4 revolver. and rifle. and marching at the hea
= of an infuriated mob of misguided men.
n If this description be truthful one. he
e just the man that the government shoul
S arrest, it it has the authority, or sustain
= GOV. Reeder in doing the same thing, if IN
$ power il vested in him. Authority TO pur
1t ish such an offence lies somewhere and /
'e the absence Of any statutory provision, I'll
If common law is adapted to just such an emcl
= gency.
Y The story is current in Philadelphia. tht
II senator Atchison remarked TO number
A. gentlemen in Washington city, " that Il
Is duty of establishing slavery in Kansas ha
it devoyed on him.
,d ale had pledged his word it should be don
in and by all that Wis holy he would do it
Ill every hazard His own salvation depends
he upon the successful execution of his pledge
IN No lair minded man can doubt the right
ne Senator Atchison to legally execute his pu
pose. We hold the territory to be as mu
s. the property of the South of as the North, al
no equally susceptible of receiving their peculi
ch institutions-but their institutions can
- more bo established hy violence than those
ut the most ultra abolitionists.
by tFrom the Mobile Register
te " A. much as we ahbor muh law, we 81
by with our hand on our heart that we rejoi
do that the Missourians have shown, hy SON
ter thing stronger than paper protests and wor
pc respluuons,a purpose to resist the stea
lat aud long continued efforts of ranatical scou
drels to invade their rights and to ieopa
r; their domestic social and political safety
lin The time has gone by for miucing matte
vas These men are our enemies. They wo,
as rejoice to see the ldggot applied to our dive
if ings and the knife to our throlts III
the should be dealt with as such, and if "
the results, let it come. If this is not fight
the question, none ever appealed to the m
sacred sympathy OF the human bosom
lev " We trust that the Missounans will g
ub- tinue the good fight they have begun, and
. is need he, call on their brethren in the Sol
by for helpto put down, by force of arms,
hat internal schemes hatched in northern /
ane beds OF abolition for their injury. The At