Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-12-12

KANsAs.-The telegraphic news which we
published yesterday, states that Gov. SHAN
NON had telegraphed to President PIERCE
tor United States troops, to aid him in quell-
ing the disturbance which, it is alleged, the
Free State men have originated in Kansas,
and the President Immediately telegraphed
an order for the transfer of troops at all the
nearest points for his assistance. According
10 the accounts, the Free State men in this
instance, are in the wrong. But we have
learned to place very little reliance upon any
first report concerning the affairs of that Ter
ritory. The excitement is high on both sides,
and all accounts hitherto received from there,
have been colored according to the peculiar
bias of the writer We must therefore wait
the arrival Of the mail before the real facts
can be known. We sincerely sympathize
with the Free State men as body, for we
know that they are the victims of series of
most grevious outrages; and we hope they
have not injured their cause by placing them
selves in the wrong in this affair. We know
it is trying to humanity to peaceably submit,
even for time, to such monstrous wrongs as
those inflicted upon the settlers of Kansas by
the Missouri border ruffians but they must
see that their safest and surest way to obtain
justice is by pursuing peaceful course. They
should remember that the main cause OF their
present difficulties is owing to the error of
their present leader, Gov. REEDER, in giving
certificates of election to the members OF that
disgraceful organization termed Legislature,
and afterwards recognizing them as a legal
body by transmitting to them message. A
most grevious error it was. BY that act he,
so far as it was possible for any one function
airy to do, gave over the Territory for the time
being, into the hands of the Missouri Philis-
tines. They have used the power thus weak
ly Ito use the mildest phrase surrendered
to them in manner to disgust the whole
country, South as we'll as North. The COM
plant of Atchison, that he and his compan-
ions had received no sympathy or aid from
any of the Southern States, proves this All
the Free State men then have to do in order
to insure an early redress of their grievances,
is to bide their time peaceably. TO arouse
disturbance, or to attempt a forcible resist
ance to the laws, such as rescuing prisoner,
which it is reported they have done, can only
injure their cause and postpone the time Of
emancipation from their present embarrass-
ments We can find no language adequate
to express the deep indignation which we
feel towards Atkinson, Stringfellow, and
their rufian followers, and the members of
that bogus Legislature. 1t makes our very
blood boil to read of their disgraceful pro-
ceedings; and yet we cannot see how Gov.
Shannon can do any other way than to use
his utmost power to sustain law and order in
that Territory, so long as he is its duly COM
missioned Governor.
We do not fancy some of Gov. Shannon's
performances since he became the Executive
of that Territory. His presiding at meet
ing in which Stringfellow, citizen of Mis-
souri,, took an active part, for instance. New
ertheless, he is Governor, and we do not be-
lieve it is competent for him to repudiate and
deny the authority of Legislature which his
predecessor had duly commissioned and re-
cognized, and which the courts of the country
had acknowledged. Of course, then, he
must act in case of disturbance, or resist
ance to the laws, and President Pierce can
do no other way than sustain his own officer
while in the performance of plain duty.
How great soevei may be the. wrong, and
however strong the temptation to resist either
real or imaginary wrongs, with violence, it
should never be forgotten that this is a coun-
try of Law and Order and of peaceful rene
dies, also. There is a remedy for every evil.
The movement of the political wheel is rap
id, and oppression and wrong cannot long
maintain without the proper remedy being
applied; and those who resort to violence,
even to correct an admitted wrong, are not
justified, and only injure their own cause in
so doing.
The free-state men of Kansas now have the
sympathies of nine tenths of the whole ma
ton, and we sincerely hope they will not COM
init the deplorable error of undertaking to
right their wrongs with the hand of violence.
Grand Rapids Daily Enquirer.
The Chicago Daily Tribune, of Dec. 4th,
under the head of Marine Intelligence, states
that the Schr. Windham," owned by her
Captain, Munroe, and others at Grand Rap
ids, went ashore last Tuesday, on deaths
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