Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-05-29
Matters in Kama as.

We need not ask the attention of our readers to
the news elsewhere in our columns relative to Kan
sas, for we know they VIII find ii and read il too.
And we know we nced say nothing TO stimulate in
dgnaton because Of matters there disclosed, for it
would be an insult 10 our people to suppose they
could read it without fierce wrath stirring every
bosom to its very depths. Wehave read OF the man
ucr in which the men Of the revolution received the
news of the first shedding OF American blood by the
British in the streets of Boston This news viii be
received that a fierce light will glow in CIV
cry eye, firm aid stern compression will mark cv-
cry lip, every foot will fall with trner more res
olute and more determined tread. And many 4 III
he and musket and shot gun and hlunderbuss and
dog pistol and horse pistol and revolver will receive
a and more careful examination and be put in
readiness for service. The nation is TIE
trink Of n civlwar. We know how our people feel.
They are n magazine which spark VIII kindlc and
explode. Their knapsacks are ready TO be sung.
Let the drum be hrought out beat it, and let the man
come forward qualified TO show the way and lead,
and ;hey viii follow I'LL the last border ruian poi
the fish and poilutcs the mud of the bottom Of
his own muddy Missouri with his cGrcass-swoeter
and more attractive III the putridity Of death than
the atrocty Of lie.
We need say nothing to awaken Indignation. We
fear there will be too much of it. 1t is rather cool
ness calmuess and careful reelection that we would
counsel
This explosion in Kansas is an explosion by mag
nctic battery. TWAS prepared in Washington-the
wires were laid from there, and tie battery which
fires the train is there and worked by those who
have charge of the government. 1t is of no use to
march TO Kansas. The results of the mischief are
tlarO hf,tt IL ok 1ator
mined to take up arms and march, march straight
to the white house at Washington, and if you want
to hang tie chief traitor in this matter take Pierce
Or if there should be division of sentiment among
you, some thinking Douglass to be the chicfcs, com
promise by hanging them both-you cant go alniss
And as no doubt you VIII see an abundance of low
browed, thick headed, hang dog looking men at both
ends of the avenue, take for every life lost in
Kansas and you viii do your country service. We
say if you are determined to march and fight, for
we do not counsel it. If any person is determined
to go and wants gun, and has none, we will sell
our coat, hat, boots, any thing, and furnish him one
but at the same time we think, considering the en-
during interests Of the nation, there is q better way
Our constitution fortunately provides a mode for
peaceful revolution every four years and nthepro
violence of God, Of these periods is so near at
hand that by judicious use of our wrath we MAJ
keep it warm until that time.
Our friends in Kansas are overpowered and sub
dued-thcy must remain so for time Perhaps ono
or two brave fellows will be hung. The time OF lie
is short TO all Of us, and if amy person knows of
more scrYiceablc, more honorable more useful way
of closing life than in defence of freedom at the
hands Of border ruffana we speak for the chance at
once Douglas has raid :" we will subdue YOU" and
like thofc fierce rcy0lutiousts Of France who danced
around the guillotnc cursng its slow motions in ia
king off innoco,t heads, he grows impatient lie
says it is time the hanging Of free state men com
menccd:-wc cannot have peace until the reign of
terror begins. If these mhuencas now in the as
ccudant at Washington, are to continue to prevail
it is manifeaty useless to hope to achieve any pcrna
nert good for Kansas. You cannot contend for four
years ncaust tic power of the general government
and not only (our years, but if four then eight and
for all time 10 come. If The people decide delihcr,
atey 10 maintain in power at Washington the influ
ences now i'll the ascenlcni there uiat, in Heavens
name Is to sustain you tic distant fields of Kan
sCs You from egac;ng the oaks Of the prai-
res with your bodies pendant by hempen cords.
lIcre-richt horc-is the battle ground of Kansas
freedom. The border rufiiaus YOU Will find are not
All III Missouri or in Kansas. There viii he some
not many we hope for the credit of northern human
itybUt nevertheless enough to give YOU trouble at
home, in This stne Turn your energies for the time
IN tLut direction. Crush them out not with bullets
but ballots and next November let the voice OF Wis
cons;n, with her sister northern states 30 up in
yell, il You choose, we don what so it is sufi-
Gent to scare 10 their dcns On holes the miserable
rats at Washington who have been enawing at the
pillars Of the constitution and union till they arc
just ready 10 fail.
And we conceive tnot out Of place hereto inquire
if with these facts before It's, this state of things OK
sting, we are sill 10 have politicians in our midst
protesting to he not of the democracy deriving the
idea # selecting republican candidate for the Pre-
s,dtacy with reference to his availability. With no
hope for Kansas except in a change Of Influences at
Washington, are still qnorrclover distractions,
still 10 build our platforms hy the square and rule and
with tape ana line insist upon measuring every
man who asp;rcs 90 stand on IT, or in any manner 10
help or represent Us. Are we sill to dole and drue
over villa, the old free sol. party did, aud where it
stood and what it resolved to do or not to do. and
how We won't abate iot on ti5;,c of our demands
for freedom, neither in tie abstract o. practical
And arc still to grumhlo over and conjurc up
fears about Know Nothin-s, and have mass meet
mgs and long speeches, and qUarrels and divisions
over these ghosts OF our own raising. In Heavens
name is not the freedom of Kansas under existing
circumstances, platform long enough and broad
enough and deep enough and high enough and i'm
portaut enough 10 enlist the active energies and to
triumph over the previous prciudices of any man
other than border ruilian.
Can any man who is not really or wfulv blind
fail to see that this whole struggle has eliminated in
and on Kansas and that a victory won there is the
beginning Of a complete triumph and a surety of
such triamph. Thank God there are few men in this
latitude with heads or hearts either doranged as
10 look coldy on at tho struggles ard suferngs of
our brethren in Kansas determining to do nothing
until thcy do crerg t1tHc One voice viii 90 up
from this noighborhood. Give us the candidate who
VIII the influence Of the government TO make
Kansas trce and rbo can Be elected He is the man
now wanted
That indignation which Is now swelling in every
breast will grow to a storm before election If these
atrocities are to continue as we presume they are,
and having no vent except in and through the bal
lot box, il will rise. we candidly believe, sufficiently
TO sweep border rtiansm from the face Of the land
And we fear this feeling will not discriminate very
closely between the border rutfiansu which perpe-
rates, uphods, and sus ans directly these attroci
ties IN Kansas, and that nice sdueanishness which
caNlllng over the nlnet vninth part of hair in the
construction OF platform and will be satisfied with