The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-06-12
From the N. Y. Staats Zeitung, Administra
tion organ.

Robbery and Murder in Kansas.
Lawrence has been destroyed by a
troop of barditti at the order of the Uni
ted States Government. The authorities
furnished weapons for the work of butch |
cry and burning. What species of men
are used for this may be seen by the fol-
lowing letter from member Of the Land
Commission of the Turners-An Sled
lurgsverein. He writes:
"Most of the members of this band
wear flannel shirts, and carry bowie
knives and revolvers openly in their belts.
To all appearance, however, this Nation
al Guard was not sufficiently armed, and
the United States Government (Gov.
Shannon, has supplied their lack by dis
! tributing among them a lot OF United
States rifles The steamer on which l am
at present writing took on board at Leav-
enworth City twenty boxes of these weap-
ons which were sent to Gov. Shannon
under the name Of the Quartermastcr Of
Fort Leavenworth, and distributed on
the way. kept a tolerably sharp look
out on this freight, and noticed that six
boxes were landed at Kickapoo. four at
Atchison, five at Donphan, and FIVE at a
point on the prairie, in the Sacs and Fox
es reserve. Gen, Richardson, a promi
nent Border Rufian, superintended this
distribution, and with the last instalment
he left the boat himself. In the above
named places squads of thirty or forty
from the Southern Companies came drunk
en- and noisy, and tricked in full robber
costume, and took the boxes in charge
with exulting yells.
"When these robbers began their work
and while they were plundering the houses
of peaceful settlers, driving off their cat
tie and destroying settlements, Marshal
Donaldson answered complaints which
came before him by saying that he
could not control the mob and would
not be answerable for their conduct
And this rabble calls the slave breeders
and their newspapers the law and order
partyp
"Within nine days before the destruc-
ton of Lawrence, sixteen Free State men
were shot in the vicinity. The murder
ers belonged to the law and order party.
$50 horrible were the cruelties of the
Slavery banditti toward the free State
men that the dragons exhibited a desire
to interfere, and Colonel Sumner found
it necessary to order them to remain in
quarters.
"All the Germans in the Territory 90
with the Free State party to a man.
Herr Deitzler, who was arrested, is a
German Another German was dragged
through the streets Of Lawrence by the
bandits and most shamefully abused"
To the Members ofthe Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
1O1 NASSAU STREET, New York,
May 80, 1856.
GENrLEMEN: A word spoken in time is
said to be worth more ihan gold, and |
beg to offer you such word, by favor
of the Cincinnati press. You will have
at your door, [ still hope not ON your
benches, delegate from California, Mr..
Herbert on whose hands yet smokes the
blood of poor countryman of mine by
birth, lately murderedin in public Hotel al
Washington. I address you a simple
straightforward question-do you mean
to admit this man to seat in your Con.
vention? hope, sincerely hope, you
; do not. He is now under heavy bonds
to stand his trial for the murder of Thorn
as Heating, and if he has not decency
, enongh to stay away, you, knowing al
! the insulting and unjustifable circum
| stances of the case, ought to have feeling
: enough to keep him out.
am known to several of your number
S and though never personally engaged il
any Presidential canvass, of the three
have witnessed in the United States
there are those with you, who can certi
: fly that all my preferences have hitherto
been Democratic, and my actions accord
S ing ly In 1852 was among the first
the most earnest. and I believe not tn,
!, least efficient in resisting the artful at
tempt to make Mr.. Pierce answerabl,
for the Catholic test in the New Hamp
. shire Constitution The Champaign
j publication of that day issued from the
offices of the Boston Post, Albany Argus
and Washington Union, have recorded
t how ready for the maintenance of grea
/ principle, in common with the citizens t.
=. which I belong, was then found to OBJ
: literate the memory of Individual wrongs
e Precisely in the same spirit, I now asl
: for Mr.. Herbert's exclusion. Since 1876!
/. fierce social war has been made on tht
: adopted citizens. So long as it was con
fined to sectarian presses and midnigh
. mobs, we endeavored to resist it with ;
e firm forbearance. But when Demo
! cratic Member of Congress, and Dele
gate to your Convention, shoots befor,