The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-07-22
KANSAS OUTRAGES,

Those who rely on republican authority for their inor
alton as TO affairs in Kansas have heard and lead
m ach about murders assassinaoos robbercs hes and
the like crimes committed by the prosavery "ruians
that they really seem TO labor under the conviction that
their own friends the most peaeeabe innocent for
bearing honest set of that ever lived
they could be induced to read the column Of outagcs
mttcd by the awess portion of the froesae which
we copy from the Lecompton Union they would end hat
they have been grossly imposed upOR and that in reality
the balance is largely against those whom they suppose
be 80 entirely uoIensve and harmless.
The truth Of the matter IT, that IL exclude from the
account those crimes which have been perpeta by
known band Of outaws aud maraudes who actuated
less by political considerations than by their thirst for
plum the ouages 10 Kansas have not been greater than
have occurred in other wysetllcd frontiers The bands
Of puuderers and assassns have avaed themselves OF the
position Of resistance to the laws occupied by the free
State party protection and safeguard against the pun
ihment Of their crimes The freestse leaders pronounce
the laws OF the Territory invalid and their purpose
10 resist their execution This operates invitation TO
the outlaws from all quarters to concentrate in Kanas for
purposes of rapne theft and pluuder They join The free
State party, not that they anything about sa-
very but because the ee-Stae doctrine to the
existence Of law in the Territory adapted to the
cessul and secure pursuit OF their vocatons The free
State party recognise them belonging to their party,
because they desperate men, whose services may be
useful In successfully resisting the constitutional author
ties.
These are the chief perpetrators Of the ouages which
have occurred in Kansas and II they could be expelled
brought to punishment, Kansas would be @ free from
violence and boodshed any other frontier country,
where men of bold adventurous characters constitute the
frat settlers In other frontier settlements this class Of
deaperadoes Is generally hunted and punished by the
combination Of good citizens into vigilance committees"
In Kansas this remedy cannot be applied in consequence
Of the state Of resistance to the laws which makes
cessary for the United States to prevent the
resort TO the extraordinary referred TO- The gov
ernment troops not be expected TO do than pre-
vent as far as the rules Of their organization will allow
the recurrence Of outrages.
The only legal and practicable remedy therefore Is that
proposed by the Senate b which would bring Kansas
into the Union at early day and allow the undsputed
laws OF the State to be faithfully and efficiently executed
So long the republicans prevent the passage Of this bill
just so long will the band 10 the Territory continue to
steal from their hiding places and commit such depreda
lions they perpetrate by ouding the vigilance Of
the officer, and troops In the Territory But the cata
iogue OF ourages which we publish in another column
show, that the feesatc men responsible for their full
share and this was the main fact to which desired
call attention