The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-13
From the New Albany Ledger.
KANSAS AFFAIRS.


We are almost daily called upon to publish accounts Of
collisions between the eeSate OF KRnses and the
proslavery Of that Territory and Missouri resulting
frequently in the death Of numbers both sides There
fact connected with these collisions and their con-
sequences which il would be well for every one TO bear in
mind and that Is that they brought on by the free
State themselves. For long time previous to the
middle Of August everything had been quiet in Kansas
The military had driven the Missourans Of the Terri
tory, and dispersed the armed bands OF aboonsts The
people enjoying peace and quetude attending TO their
regular occupations But the moment it was supposed
that Congress had adjourned would speedily adjourn
without making appropriations for the support of the army
detachment Of Lanes gang of misceans made an rrup
ton into the Territory attacking the prosavery settle
ments at Franklin and other points numbering the inhab
tant burning the houses and driving off the stock The
first given for these damnabe outrages that
the prosavery party making preparations to attack
the party and that vast quantities OF arms and
ammunition were concealed at the places attacked. The
result however showing that there such arms to
be found at these places they then gave reason that
the people at Franklin gang OF horse-theves and
stealers who had robbed the freeSate settlers No
evidence whatever of the truth Of this accusation is given
and we do not believe any can be found.
The truth is have doubt that the whole thing was
poconcered by the back-repubcan party of the North
for the purpose of raising hue and and getting up an
excitement to operate the elections The peace and
quieude which regned in Kansas lily calculated TO
the prospects of Mr. Fremont and his parsans
Something be done to raise excitement and blind
northern eyes the true issues involved in the canvass
The Rev. Mr. Hgginson bright and shining light OF
black repubcansm from ST. Louis to the New York
Tribune that he felt almost like praying to God that his
freeSate brethren in Kansas might be murdered, for il
if that only would awake the people of the north
States true of their duty that is, to the
duty of elecng abolition President The New York
Tribune New York Independent and papers of that class
goaed every act of atrocy pepetated by the
prosavery party and magnfed it fourfod so as to excite
the passions of their readers while similar act
of the eeSae has been excused palliaed smoothed
and represented only act of retrbutve justice
| The back-repubcan leaders have shown during the
tendency of these Kansas difficulties that they place
value the peace of the country value on human life
that of their partisans value truth
sency they carry out their schemes of placing in
the presidential chair and in the State and federal offices
of their own pledged to hostility to the South
and its institutions. While the people of Kansas
peaceaby pursuing their vocatons unconscious of danger
gang of outlaws recruited from the pueus of northern
cities were preciptated upon Them to murder and burn
and destroy The planners of these outrages knew that
they would provoke the part of the
prosavery party and that the innocent eeSae settlers
would be made to suffer for the atrocities of Lane and his
gang But what Greeley and Beecher and their like
that They far away from the of danger and
of difficulty. There probability of any aborderruf
fan" army making attack on the Tribune Build
ngs Plymouth Church Their persons and property
SAFE and from the distance they hiss their poor de-
luded partisans to their destruction
The people, hope will consider this subject well be-
fore permitting themselves to be carried away by the
excitement inaugurated by the outrages of Lanes
outlaws and nshgated by the blackrepublican lead
ers in the States party who thus deliberately plan
murder and outrage for the purpose of advancing the
prospects certainly should not be ntrused with the rens
| of federal or State government.