The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-12-22
The Stringfellow Organist Of St. Paul and the
Kansas Outbreak.

kansas Outbfeak.
The Pioneer and Democrat slouches and
slushes through whole column of words,
words, words " to justify the action of
Shannon, Stringfellow & Co., in their late
attempt to drive the Free State men out of
Kansas. Our neighbor, with characteristic
impertinence, accuses us of withholding Cor
rect information in regard to recent murders
in that Territory, while he himself has
never as yet informed his readers that the
first cause of the present outbreak was the
murder, in cold blood, of the Free State man
Dow, by Coleman, the Pro-Slavery ruflan,
upon whom the Free State men afterwards
administered summary justice. Very con
sistent, indeed, to take us to task for the
identical sin which he, has committed him
self! But it's like the Pioneer. CT.
The Pioneer man insists that the Presi-
dent will send troops to put down Colonel
Lane and his party, if they persist in holding
out, and accuses us of disappearing the
facts. Well, the Pioneer ought to know
(being the organ of the Missouri side of the
question: all about this matter better than
we. If the President does send troops to
enforce a bogus Sheriff's. writ at Lawrence,
all we have to say is, that. we hope Lanes
port fires will be brightly burning at the
time, and that Sharpe's rifles may be well
aimed. But we have no fears that any such
fool-hardy and unwarranted experiment will
be practised by the President, or the troops
of which he is the Commander-in-Chief. II
blood of this character is to be shed, how
ever, it is great pity that Pierce, Douglas.
Shannon, Atchison, Stringfellow and the rest
OF the leading traitors who are at the bot
tom of all this trouble, cannot be placed in
the front ranks.
The Pioneer pirates of claw and Order. 81
and parades the Stringfellow party Of Kansas
before its readers as the claw and Order
Party" Bah Where were the leaders Of
that party when Kansas was Ginyaded and
conquered as that stanch Democrat, Gov
heeder, truthfully characterizes the act
Where was the Pioneers Kansas claw and
Order " party when Parks press was thrown
into the Missouri, and when Phillips was
tarred and feathered2 And where were the
Fioneer's thunders against these outrages at
.tne time OF their occurrence? If any act Of
man Is more mean, more degrading and more
loathsome to his fellows than another. it is
hypocrisy and base duplicity, such as the
Pioneer whines forth in it's Law and Order,
editorials upon Kansas.
we want the Pioneer to understand our
position clearly upon this question. We are
with Col. Jim Lane and his Free State COM
rades, now entrenched at Lawrence. Cal.
Lane was staunch Democratic member or
the last Congress, and voted for the Nebras-
ka Dill he remains a member of the Pion-
GERS party; is not an Abolitionist, and does
not belong to "Seward, Greeley & Co.. as
charged upon all the Free State men by the
Pioneer. But that matters not we are for
the triumph of Lane and his brave band Of
Freemen, who are not afraid to assert those
rights guaranteed them by the Organic Act
OF Kansas and the Constitution-not afraid
to point loaded cannon and rifles at the faces
of Shannon and his Missouri rufians. These
men acknowledge no Territorial law passed
by the Missouri-Kansas Legislature and in
this they are right-even if that right must
be maintained at the point of the bayonet.
This is our position, neighbor.