Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-01-03

SlarlnS outrage, IMAM tiiat py WHICH ''h"n
non and his minions have sought to over
awe and crush portion of the people OF
Kansas, by introducing gang OF lawlcss
desperadoes upon their soil, armed TO the
teeth with weapons obtained by breaking
open United States Arsenal? Has the
civilized world ever beheld more disgrace
full, barbarous and savage spectacle?
Next to this indignity is that of defend
ing these men on the ground that they are
Missourians; making the whole State,
large majority of whose citizens utterly re-
pudia.e such unheard Of violation of all
right and decency, responsible for the enor-
mites of handful of fiHibusters. Nilsson
ri is not to be held accountable for the ac-
ton of horde of unprincipled cu;-:hroats
wLo, having spor.e1 with human life and
property in their own State, now follow
their notorious ring-leader into Kansas, and
pant To Undue their hands in the blood OF
its rightful and peaceful citizens.
Il retributicn is coming for all this. 1t
will come upon Gov. Shannon with VEN
geance. The sober second thought of the
people of Kansas of all parties, and the
voice of an indignant public Reproduction re-
sounding throughout the country, will COW
er him with an infamy as deep and ineffa-
cable as was the blood-spot upon the hand
of Lady Macbeth If there is in that low
est hell Of desperate politicians lower deep.
snch as Milton saw with the eve of magma
ton, that abyss which human plumblinc
never sounded, is reserved for Davy Atch-
ison and those of his faction who have sided
and sympathised with this foul wrong and
disgrace. Now that peace has taken the
pl3ce of turbulence and imminent blood
shed for the present, one might think that
the whole was wisely ordered to confound,
put to flight and pulverize an inhuenc.
which has long been an incubus upon the
rising greatness of Missouri, and which,
should it ever rise to a commanding posi-
tion-which God forbid-would make her
cover her face for very shame.
We have shown that there was no cause
for the proclamation of war issued by Gov
Shannon. So far from the Free Sellers Of
Lawrence making any armed Instruction,
the whole affair arose from the murder of \
Free State man, Dow, by pro-slavery man,
! - No nt 10
! ish Coleman by the Free State men, but
the pro-slavery men were determined to
put to death another free State man, Bran
son. This was resisted, and this resistance
was the prctext for Shannon's procla-
nation; ana because tie people Of Lawreace
prepared for the war proclaimed against
| them, Atchison al tls bandi.1 :.val.ed
+ themselves of the p:et-xt u rush over lnto
Kansas, 10 massacre the damned Yankees.
/ They would doubtless have put their inien-
ton into execution If they had found the
lie pple of Lawrence unprepared. If they
had found Lawrence undefended they would
have left it smoking ruin, or quenched its
fire with the blood of men unresisling, and
perhaps of women and children But they
found The men of Lawrence in arms, and rs
q matter of course such braggadocois as
Stringfellow, and such doughfices as Shan
non backed square out, and came back t.
Missouri with lie to cover their coward
ice, that the people of Lawrence had sur
rendered, just as the same men had cover
ed their invasion and intention to commit
murder, with the lie that the people Of Law
renee were In state of instruction, when
the only outrage committed was the killing
of a frcesoiler by pro-slavery man. In
proof that We hare exaggerated nothing,
we give extracts from the papers in the in
terest OF Atchison and his banditti; we give
their own account of the difficulty. The
different dispatches sent from one Missou-
ri town to another, calling upon the peo-
pie of Missouri to invade neighboring
Territory for the purpose of interfering
with its concerns, with which our people
had no business to interfere. 1t is clear
that Shannon's force consisted entirely of
Missourians; that he made a pretext when
no cause Of disturbance really existed; that
the pretext was seized upon by Atchison
and his banditti with an avidity which
showed it to be preconcerted; that the whole
affair was intended to arouse feeling in
the Missouri Legislature which was to car
ny Atchison into the Senate of the United
States, and tina. as soon as Atchison foand
he had armed men; and not unresisting naeh
and defenceless women to contend with, he
showed more alaerity 70 retire than he had
done to advance upon the town &c taw--
renee, The Legislature Of Missouri have
shown their appreciation of Atehison's at
tempt 10 enlist them in his favor. Ii pass
ed him and his Kansas Nebraska bin BY in
silent contempt. Those who were elected
as his friends became ashamed of him.