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Letters about Kansas.

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. ., Letters about Kansas.
.s-.. w ..t For the Messenger
! INDEPENDENCE, Mo-,
..d Sept. 20, 1856. .-
Mr.. EDrroR.-As some misapprehension
exists concerning the result of the late Expe-
dition against a Band of Marauders, who in
Tested The neighboring territory, l ask Of
you the publication Of the annexed letter, as
perhaps sufficient Explanation of the rea-
sons Governing me in my agency therein:
L have not asked of Gov. Geary his con-
sent TO this publication, but feel sure he
will have no objection, that all the world
shall know the honorable motives actuating
both himself and us, in this whole affair.
1t is well known that when our expedi-
ton started, lis object was to redress the
wrongs, of our own recent fellow-citizens
and brethren, then in daily preparation
against them upon the soil of common ter
ritory, where, to say the least, they had
as good claim TO settle as any other people.
That this mode Of redress was only resorted
to, after il became apparent, that all the or
dinary and usual means of relief against
wrong had, utterly failed, and that to the
strong arms Of their friends alone, they
could look for any efficient aid. When the
Coutts and Laws had been set at defiance,
and the civil authorities. overawed by a
bold, organized and desperate bandilti, act
ing npon the pretext of political sentiment
but whose purposes, corresponding with
their deeds, were tapine, plumber and mur-
der.
1t was only under these circumstances
when we were daily and hourly reminded
Of their atrocious outrages upon our breth-
ren, by constant tide of returning families
stripped of every thing and driven from
their homes, by these femorseless robbers
TO find protection within our borders,-
And when the protecting arm of the Gov
ernment itself was paralized by the factious
course Of the promptors Of these evil deeds,
who, for the time, disgraced majority Of
seats of one house of Congress; that with
one voice, our people, who were witnesses
of these things, determined 10 take into their
own hands their redress-never questioning
for moment, though grieved at the neces-
sity, that if the Law of might was TO be the
Law of Kansas, Missouri had as good right
to measure her strength upon that theatre,
as any adversary who had impudently inva-
ded it, panoplied for war, from any other
quarter.
And this was the state of things when in
the late expedition, Missouri entered the
Lists to expel in their turn, from its bor-
ders or exterminaie the murderous band,
who were desolating Kansas. ltnever was,
so far as know or believe, a war, waged
on our part. against any citizen or any part
Of the citizens of Kansas, for their opinions,
or on account of their origin.
| II never was as believe The intention Of
any respectable man, connected with the
expedition, to place it upon the footing oi
Lanes or Browns marauders, by any M
discriminate pllage or persecution Of pri-
vate citizens, whatever shades of opinion
they may have held, or by retaliating upon
harmless people the bad deeds of others
1t was against the organized murderers and
their ring leaders, wherever found, that we
waged war, and ii was because there seemed
to be no other remedy, that we felt justified
and impelled IN our purpose.
The arrival Of Gov. Gsary with fill pow
er and ample instructions from the Govern
ment to do all, that we had thought it need
ful to do, not only superseded the necessi
ty for our action; but the prompt measures
taken BY him TO suppress the wrongs com
plained Of and TO bring the wrong doers L
Justice, took from us the justification W,
before had, for taking redress into ir owl
hands. To have persisted in this changed
state. of the case in, our FIRST inteniiOts
would have placed us in the very attitude o
those we condemned, and made us as liabl,
rs Lane and his party 10 the penalties Q
violating Law and deiyipgahe civil authOri
ty.i Lawl then for the first time in Kansas
asserting its shpremaey,in in the person Q
an Executive, who i is. apparent has th
will and determination 70 maintain its ma
jesty. - :, :, ~ ',,,,.y' ',e '.
Therewere some honorable men know
who at the time, controlled BY their feeling