St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-09-25

at the Shawnee Mission in Kansas be
such as one-half of the members of
the U. S. Senate openly declare, and
the other half tactily acknowledge it to
be, can it be wondered at that there is
no peace in the territory, as long as it is
inhabited by men educated under free
institutions and accustomed to the
privileges of freemen, which these
laws take away? Can it be wonder
ed at that there arises a conflict be-
tween those who, acting by usurp-
ed authority, seek to enforce them,
and those who, protesting against this
authority, deny the obligation of obe-
dience to such enactments When
the character of the laws is given in
the Senate as infamous, oppressive,
abominable, atrocious, tyrannical, un-
just, and outrageous for all these
epithets have been applied to them in
the Senate by some of the warmest
friends of the Nebraska bill-the Sc
cret of the disorders and the anarchy
which prevail in Kansas is fully re-
vealed. No country, SO frightfully
misgoverned, with the examples Of a
better and freer government around it
to excite the envy and discomfort Of
its inhabitants, can possibly enjoy
tranquility. The true remedy is to
do away with these laws, to put an
end to this misgovernment, to with
draw the military force by which it is
sought to compel obedience to enact
ments SO iniquitous and despotic.
While the territory concerning
which we have all this controversy
is thus made a scene of bloodshed, we
hear the President and his friends
boasting of the success with which he
has employed the army to restore the
tranquility Of the territory. At the
very time of the debate in which the
disparaging epithets, which we have
quoted, were applied in the Senate to
Kansas Legislation, the Washington
Union made it's appearance with an
article in which, speaking Of the Pres
ident, it says:
"He is made commander-in-chief of the
army of the United States. In discharge of
these duties, and in accordance with his oath
of Office, he has made use of that army to sup
press hostilities in Kansas, and to protect the
lives and property of the people in that terri
tory. He has treated all alike, whether the
settler came from the North OF the South, the
East or the West. If peacable, he was protec-
ted if found with arms in his hands, max
ing hostile demonstrations aginst his neigh
bors, he was disarmed. In pursuing this
policy the President restored peace and quiet
to that unfortunate territoty, and the popula-
ton resumed their ordinary industrial par-
suits. -
/ tits pleasant to be told all this in the
face Of all the news which we are dai-
ly receiving from Kansas. The Mis-
sourians have attacked the Quaker
Mission in Kansas, driven of it's in
habitants and robbed them Of their
horses. This is one of the cases spok-
en- of in the Union Of "the population
resuming their ordinary industrial
pursuits. Mr.. Hops, Kentuckian,
who probably happened to be a free
state man, is killed and scalped. This
is the "peace and quietness which
the Union boasts that the President
has restored. The pro-slavery men
are building block houses at various
points in the territory and collecting
ammunition and men to drive out the
lfree-state settlers, This is another
case Of the people engaged in their or
J dinary industrial pursuits. The free
state party have attacked one or two
of these garrisons and forced them to
. surrender. Another case of peace and
} quietness,
With such Misrepresentation the
Union seeks to justify the employment
Of the army to enforce the tyrannical
! Icodc enacted at the Shwncc Mission