The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-09-20
From the Pennsyiv anan.
The Plot and the PiO,ter....Civil War
aud I)lsunlon

Kansas troubles been exposed, and tha
| Territory began TO enjoy repose. than tn
Black Republican cause sank under a hope
less paralysis. The Kansas correspondent
| of the New York Tribune have, for the las
few weeks, informed the country that tn,
disutdcts OF last spring and Of the earl,
Summer were actively participated in, if no
solely produced. by the political agitator.
sent thit.,er by the Emigrant Aid and other
! Abolition Associations. They have beer
loudly bcasting through the coum1s of tba
journal, of their own criminal acts of rob
berry, arson and murder-ol their secret ano
armed expeditions against so-caled ''pro
slavery" settlements and settlers, and that
| IN one place. they drove away the unpro
/ tccted farmer, and, another, used Their
SuARPE'S rifles with deadly effect upon un.
suspectng parties or families. Those Black
Republican boasts have been rapidly accom-.
plishiDg wholesome influence among the
deluded followers of SEWARD and GREELEY,
by showing to them that the outrages over
which the New York Times AMI TiiJune
have shed 80 much ink for the purpose OF
exciting Northern Indignation. were to a
large ,ytent, the work OF their coufederates.
We purposely rciraned from noticing those
letters, through fear that they would be
supp esscd ; and were anXious that the an
iidote should follow, through the same
channels whence the poison had been dsse-
nIina:ei.
No one who hn. read the Tribune for the
few past weeks, has failed to be struck at
the overwhelming proofs it has furnished,
that us ronicderatcs in Kansas have sySte-
na,ica!ly stimulated, and taken part in, the
very worst outIages there, for the mere pur-
pose OF creating political excitement which
the troottdes could turn to their advantage.
ithn few days one of the kanSas letter
writers Has stated that, un'esS some new
outbreak ia that new Territory should &C.
cur, the chances of clectinc FKfMoST would
he very much endangered. We looked
therefore, for new scenes of violence and re-
beilOn I" follow that announcement. We
had noticed, for some time, the movements
OF LANES invading army, and the promise
oi month Y contribution, 20 the amount ot
orc hundred thousand dollars. We had
witnessed with ScrlOn- miS.Ivings, the occa-
>IOnal tu!!,tins concerning hIs progress, and
tire bloody threats against the law aud or
der" party III Kansas. and even the neigh
b. ring counties of Missouri, and now the
telegraph has brought an account Of this
trt asOwab.e foray, of its assaults upon
Pcaceabe settlements of unsu>pe,t'nc fam
crs, of It's sscning OF villages, It> capture OF
the Territorial Capitol, it, rcS' nc OF pr son
ers he'd under the United States forces, it.,
attack upon the United States troops, It's
seizure OF United States officers. it, burning
of private and public ediiicus, its murders
and blood>hed-In word, of an armed in
vasion and =, belIion against the laws. not of
the Kansas Legislature alone, but of the Fee
ieral Government. That all was quiet and
ptaceable until this new Abolition move
mcnt was made, that even the ZT3GHH| cor
respondents In ihat territory were compelled
10 admit that there were no more disturb
anceS, either existing or apprehend,d from
the law and order party that those set
tiers who had gone there for harvest pur
pos, were quietly at work on their crops.
IIIH.Uiv,tvd fr,rT any 4uartcT, were facts
known 70 the whole country. The people
werr con -ratulatinG tn, m-elycs that free
dom H. .NlnSas was to be a. un,iI>turbrtl a.
II had been in Ncbraska-that the boHa .Jiie
inhabitants were 20 hc left free 10 govern
themselves. without Interference from out
side or inside fanatics Of any Kind. II wa.
hoped by na!y that the treasonablc designs
concOcicd by the Aid Convention held in
Buffalo last month would prove ahortire--
that irs resolution To raise regiments OF aim
I'd men TO march into that terrific V, rescue
Federal authorities, either by open civil
war, or a. one Speaker desired, by stealing
with cai-like tread" upon the unwarued vic
TINS oi the iili AMI bowie knit, would
prove an u't,r iai a.c.
When LANE abandoned his gathered horde
Of marauders. and they caused il 10 be pro
claimed that they had given over their tres-
sonablc schemes, we thought it possible
4, t,,f hal trin bod
We werr well aware that the action of the
Black Republican m.jority in the United
States House of Representatives had an inc
,itabie tendency To- encourage civil wa and
the uus. rupu Gus conduct of the leaders,
stimulated 10y equally unsciu upulous rarti-
zans outside Of Congress. fcrcboJed some
new scheme 10 str up sectional >tiIfc. The
jud Gun; nj of the country now must he. that
the designed dyfcat of the Army Appropria-
ti"n biil unless the revolutionary condition
was ann, xrd not to use the United States
fore 10 uph"li law and order in Kansas,
and not TO punish those guilty of murder and
had direct reference To- the out
RACES just committed by the Black Republl-
can invaders, which were contemplated and
planned weeks ago. This coincidence Is
certainly remarkable. The refusal TO pass
the Senate Appropriation bill, the meeting
~ Buff 10, with It's insufrrctiOnary r,solu
tionS, the gathering of AN armed force under
Lane, and its halt upon the borders until
news could be heard from the leader TO 1t,
the frequent complaints OF the remaining
Topeka rebels liz Kansas at the good order
anJ peace everywhere prevailing, and their
usgcnt appeals for souic new outbreak as cS-
seutal To secure FREN' MS election, the bold
d, enumeration IN the floor of Congress and in
Fremont journals Of any use toy the Federal
GOV, rnnIcnt o. its forces in order TO uphold
the laws, AMI Of the further detention of ar
rested culpritS the passage by the House of
a proviso e'nbo"ying those revolutionary
plans, a.d the subsequent refusal 20 make
tine necessary appropriations for the F.dcral
facts were followed instantly 10y
the lnroad Of Lanes regiment, the attack
upon the settlement at the Big B.uc, the
capture and burning OF the village OF Frank
lin. the descent upon the city of Lc,omp-
ton, rescue OF prisoners, &c, &c.
Wlre cen doubt tlat the haliing Of the in
vadcrs on the borders of Iowa had Il direct
connection with the scenes at Washington
That i. the latter were successful, then the
Black Republican marauders were TO rush
forward ard begin career 81 violence and
bloodShed Th,y entered the territory and
arrived at their proposed destination unmo-
Tested. Mt content with peace, however,
they at once inaugurated the rebellion and
civil war, for which they were hired To un-
dcrtake that crusade. This is indeed a bold
and despc, ate game Of rec kless partizans.-
Ii is not the Temporary outbreak Of passion
or of iana,icism; it bears all the marks Of
a deliberate plan of excitement for partizan
ends it is to intimately identified with TIE
views proclaimed by the ack Republican
leaders at Washington, not to be part OF
that scheme.
1t is now time for every friend of the
Union, Constitution and good government
10 be aroused The traitors must be eX