The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-06-13
Public Sentiment on Kansas.

If thereport turns out to be true, there
will not be shadow Of defence to be offered
at the North in favor of the men who have
thus violated the principles Of State rights
and of personal and political freedom. If
these accounts are true,-and we hope they
are not, the people of Lawrence will
hold the same place in history which is oc-
cupied by the Huguenots in France and the
martyrs of st. Bartholomew, and there will
be an end to all party feeling at the North,
except that Of indignation against the South.
- Boston Courier.
All sense Of Justice must be lost, all gen.
erous sympathy e1tinguished, all manly
courage departed, and the American char
acter hopelessly degenerate, If such pro
ceedings rs these do not rouse the people Of
the United States to wrest tho power from
the hands of those who now hold 1t to the
disgrace of our country.-M Y. Evening
Post.
Bad and reprehensible as has been the
conduct Of the Missouri bordercrs and the
pro-slavcry party in Kansas generally; en-
couragcd as they have been In violence by
the Governor of the Territory and the I'D.
ministration at Washington, we are not
disposed to believe, on the anonymous as
sertions of telegraph reporters, that any
thing 50 disgraceful, and 80 suicidal to the
cause sought to be upheld, has been perpe-
trated as the deliberate destruction Of de-
fenceless town, and the massacre Of Its in.
habitants, who, at the eleventh hour, had
lain down their arms, and after sending
overtures of peace and allegiance, were fec
ing from their homes in terror.
If such however, be the fact, we have
only to say that where Mr.. Brooks brutal
attack upon Mr.. Sumner has made hum
dreds of sectional men and determined an
tagonists of the slave power, the attack up
ON Lawrence, and the slaughter Of any Of
its inhabitants, will make thousands and
tens Of thousands.-N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
The story Of Kansas, in short, isjust this !:
every means to make II q slave State SEEM
ing to be fruitless, except by driving free
State men from the territory, Shannon and
Marshal Donaldson have, on the strength Of
Reeder's refusal to waive his exemption
from arrest, enrolled oil the rufhans from
the Slave States as 80 much militia under
pay. These assassin soldiery boast that
fourteen days service entities them to 100
acres of land, besides their pay and rations.
Thus an army of pro-slaycry men isquarter-
ed upon Kansas to eat out its substance,
destroy business, and free the territory from
the free State men. This, too, when o
force Of government troops, sufficient for
every purpose Of arrest and protection, is
within call. ....... .....
This world affords no case which has its
parallel in vileness. Not o man has re-
sisted, even to the waving Of his hand, the
acts Of Col. Summers troops are not called
upon, but cut-throat robbers and murderers
are armed by Shannon with United States
guns, and their expenses paid with United
States money! .-..
This last scheme, concocted by the agents
of this administration for the purpose o'
fastening slavery upon Kansas, will proba'
bly, be succcssfal.-Clepeiand Herald.