The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-01-03
Correspondence of the St. Louis Intelligence
Latest from Kansas--rhe Treaty of Peace.

LAWRENCE. X T.. Dec. 10. 1854.
The threatened struggle seems 10 be over.
and the differences which caused the armng
and mastering of the large bodies Of men OH
both sides. in and around Lawre appear
lobe either settled. or at least overlooked for
the time bein. The matter had assumed the
most serious aspect Heavy reinforcements
had been pouring into the camp on the Waka
rusa and although many left indignant, sus-
pecting themselves TO have been duped by
the reports of outrage. or who were secretly
afraid Ct the desperate struggle that was about
to ensue, still there was a large force in camp;
some companies had arrived from As far down
As Howard county. In the camp at the Wa
karusa. they boosted of having fifteen hun
dred men on Saturday. and there were really
rations served for twelve hundred men There
must have been at least a thousand there and
at Lecompton and other camps at least four
hundred more. There cannot have been
much fewer than two thousand of these in
vaders on Kansas soil. although do not think
there WAS ever more than fourteen hundred at
any one time.
In Lawrence there were some four hundred
men well armed. and nearly As many more
inditferently armed not armed at all =
These were bold and reSolute. and the men
wonld have fought desperately in the attack.
had i; been made and that desperate resistance
would only have made the affair more bloody
Some halt a dozen earthworks were built
last week. Previous 10 that time there had
been no fortications about the place The
imminent peril suggested their construction
and the besieged worked night and day in
the trenches; and as there Is not the same
motive 10 destroy and undo as 10 build, the
likelihood is that these memorials OF these
"arhse times viii remain some time. Moth
ing but the prudence and saLacitv of Dr. or
now Gen Robinson; aad the intelligent char
acer of the people here. prevented a bloody
war; and those who know the character OF a
civil CONFUSION. and the peculiar character
OF the quarrel on which all this was really
predicaed will feel grateful to the sa.acity of
Ten Robinson and the intelligence of the
peopieof Lawrence, for averting civil war
ina might have involved the people OF the
.hion IN terrible struggle. The first bloody
oA'ie wouit' have been but a signal. and the
friends Of either party would have hurried to
hsnSaS, to make 1t a bloody i, baiablr ground:
ana woe woe, woe, would have followed ev-
cry step IN that unnatural warfare
ueteral Il 'biu>on was first careful TO as
saaie correct position. and then 10 guard il
carefully. The sentries Were given strict or
uers nnl 10 return fire, unless in imminent
peril ~ hie and although these brave fellows
were fired on At their posts, bv parties Of
horse. tina; woa'i gallop up near them every
night. and discharge their pieces at them
tiey reserved their fire with a heroism and
ad'Sotion II the orders Of their leaders. that
mas rarely ii ever been paraeled Well did
"a leader q the Free State people Of Kan AS
KNOW, that the bssttle must begin with some
such aggression. and he was determined 10
make his men endure these petty attacks.
without retaliation. even it some of them
should 'ali, and wait until the invaders. with
out provocation. should march up to accom-
push their real object-the expulsion of the
isee ate people. BY destroying their towns,
ana iynehing their leaders. This position
was strong me. AMI it was the palens persis-
teace IN 1t that has brought out the free Safe
men con9uerorS. and saved our country from,
The scandal and disgrace Of bloody ana civil
discord. Ii first brought Governor shannon
I" h'S knees. lie found tina, without p-,v,
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