The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-05

have the whole matter fully tested. We
believe that the appointment is good
one; but we join with large numbers of citl-
zeDs in requesting that the matter may be
fairly settled by the courts, in order to avoid
the same difficulty hereafter. Either of the
gentlemen would, we doubt not, wear the judi
cial ermine with grace, dignity, ability and
impartiality; but it seems to us that Mr.. Davies
has right to be heard in the matter.
Had News from Kansas-Civil War Mt Last
limited State Troops Ordered to Assist the
Executive.
We give this morning some very bad news
from Kansas Territory. The exciting ques-
tions which have made that Territory have at
last brought about civil war, and the aboli-
ZIONIST factions have taken up arms against the
constituted authorities, appointed under the
act Of Congress which erected Territorial
government.
The story, as we receive it through the st.
Louis papers, and the dispatches of our cores
pondent at that point, is as follows
1t seems that q man named Coleman, who lives
in part of the Territory chiefly inhabited by
members Of the free State party, was ordered
off his claim by three abolitionists. He resisted;
the assaulters were armed; Coleman shot one
of them, and then gave himself up for trial.
His house was then burned, and his wife and
children driven out of the Territory. The
Sheriff of the county was resisted in his en-
deavors to arrest the guilty parties-the
free State people rose in open rebel
lion and deied the law. They were arm
ed with rifles and had five pieces of cannon.
The Sheriff's posse was in danger, and the Go.
vernon Of the Territory was called upon. He
issued a proclamation calling on the people to
assist the Sheriff in the execution of his duty.
The posse was unable to take the assaulters of
Coleman, and the Governor called on tho Pre-
sident of the United States for aid. The
Washington papers of yesterday say that the
President has ordered the United States troops
vernon Shannon. Many persons had been
frightened out of the Territory. Companies of
outlaws were being drilled daily on the prai-
ries.
The next intelligence from Kansas will pro-
baby be that of desperate conflict, and
much bloodshed, for when those frontiersmen
shoot they shoot to kill. Our previous insur-
rections, such as they were, were generally
bloodless battles. Of such a character was
Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts,, in 1886; the
Pennsylvania whiskey insurrection, in 1794
and the notification excitement in South
Carolina, in 1882. In all these cases.
except Shay's rebellion, the United
States troops were ordered to the
support of the authorities; but their bayonets
were, happily, unnecessary. Recently, at Bos-
ton, where some of these same free State men
ened to rescue him "with the last drop of their
blood" the would-be rioters were frightened
off by one company Of artillery. We have no
doubt that the effect of two or three cQmpa-
MES Of regular troops would be salutary in
this Kansas business, but we are at a loss to
see where they are to come from. General
Harvey has drawn off nearly all the troops
from Fort Leavenworth for the Indian war,
and there cannot be more than corporal's
guard within reasonable distance from the
scene of the disturbance. It is, therefore, pro-
bable that the quarrel will be family one
(and, of course, very ierce) between the New
England Aid Society's squatters on one side,
and the border ruffans" on the other 1t
would be well to inquire now which are the
rufians-the men who, armed with rifles and
revolvers sent from Boston and Worcester, are
resisting the law, or the friends of Governor
Shannon, who are supporting the legal authori-
ties of the Territory as appointed by the Presi-
dent under the act of Congress.
The abolitionists have some fighting men
among their number-men who are gulled by
the Seward papers at the Mortified by the
nose by Garrison, Greeley, Raymond, and
others of the same set, who are alone respon-
sible for the blood which will yet flow in this
Territory. These Northern journalists, lee
turers and orators are too careful of their
precious lives to engage in what they call the
contest for freedom on the prairies of Kansas;
but they are never so happy as when stirring
up their dupes to murder, rebellion and trea-
son. Arms and ammunition have been sent to
the men of Kansas, who are excited to fury by
the high sounding pronuncamentos of the
abolition press. The men who fire the shots
who burn the houses who point the artillery
who defy the constitution and the laws--are
only instruments in the hands of Northern po-
liticians, who skulk behind false names and at
tempt to make capital for the arch.agitator,
Seward, by melting their gulls to treason,
rapine and murder
Well, the war has begun. We have said
that Congress must settle the question; bat the
people, it seems, have taken it into their own
hands. The men of Kansas have divided
themselves into two parties, and their mani
festos have been placed before the public.
The original settlers-chiefy Southern men
charge that the abolitionists in New England
have formed aid societies for the purpose of
sending men and arms to control the affairs of
Kansas. The aid societies answer equivocally
by saying that they did not send men, they