New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FREE-sTATE MEN
From The 81. Louis Daily Democrat, Sept 1.

From The ST. Louis Daily Democrat Sept l.
An editorial article from The Lexington american
Citizen will be found in another part OF to-days DEM
ocrot sustaining very emphatically view Of Kansas
affairs which from the first we have consistently advo
Gated and for which have received share of OBJ
lOQuy and abuse from certain radical and rabd journals
in this State. While holding the Douglas-Perce Adj
minlstratlOn accountable for all the blOOdshed, evil
precedent and lamentabe alienation of feeling prevail
ing more than ever between the North and the
South, in consequence of the Kansas anarchy while
denouncng with all the force of language at com
mand the growing and ultra CalhOunism which thew
have inaugurated fomented and carried 10 n pitch of
extravaganza and fanaclsm which would have startled
the great author of sectonaism himself have
at the time never failed to condemn wanton out
rage in the Territory, entirely without reference TO the
party whence il might proceed, or the interests in
whose behalf II was supposed TO be perpctrated.
1t would be strange if in unsettled state of things
exists in Kansas-nOt merely in the absence OF law,
for that would be comparatively tOlerabe, but in the
presence of laws which are only mighty inustices, and
a disgrace to cviizatiOn-all the excuses should be
confined to one OF the cOntendng parties. course OF
gross persecution occurred before the FreeStae party
could be accused of any hostile demonstration what
ever, that occurring IN justifiabe sedeense If
the latter nave retaliaed when they might otherwise
have been secure in the enjoyment OF their vested and
personal rights, they have neither been wise
mendabe in their action; but surely not To infer
this from the statements which reach from prejudced
and hostile sources and from parties strong in the ill.,
terest of such men Atchson and StringicllOw, but
for whom acting under the direction of their masters
at Washington. terrible crisis III our countrys his
tory would have been averted.
We have constantly maintained, and the evidence
which reaches by every mail more and more confirms
our position that the reports that have to us of
outrages and bostes on the part of the Free-State
men, in the great majority of instances either gross
exaggerations pure inventions, got up to serve
passing purpose; and the article which reprint to-
day from Lexington paper strongly ProSavery in its
goes far toward vindicang the justiess
Of this view Many of the reports prejudicial to the
Free-State party which have appeared from time to
time in The Republican have been VIGOROUSLY dis
proved; as, for instance, that Lecompton had been
taken and sacked, assertion boldly made by TIE
Republicans correspondent and fatty contradicted in
that paper by the very next arrival from the disturbed
district.
We glad to perceive, less from the tone OF the
article to which have referred than from other III
dications of change of temper and policy in various
journals of the State that all the sympathy is not likely
TO be hereafter the side of certain citizens OF Mis-
souri, who without just cause and greatly to the preu-
dice of their own Commonwealth, have invaded a
neghbong sovereign territory interfered in its cleo
tons sought to overawe thdpeaceful population by in
tmidaton and sown the seeds of intestine war the
like of which has been seen since the formation
of the Government Let this spirit be cultivated let
the press Of Missouri speak out in Reproduction OF nus-
tee violence and lawlessness in Kansas irrespective
of the question whence they represent truthiuy
the facts Of the case and scourge with rod OF iron
the perpetrators fairly convicted to have been such,
and much will be done toward the formation Of cor
rect and enlightened public sentiment in the premises
which is of the most essential conditions of the
restoration of peace on our borders.