Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-19
FROM OUR KANSAS CORRESPONDENT.

LAWRENCE, Kansas, june &c, 1856.
DEAR MARIUs: You see by the public print how
things are progressing in the Territory. Now
many a friend says to me, are you safe? Is there
any real danger2 d. you fight? Are you armed?
| am not armed. l never carried any, Of any kind,
either offensive or defensive. / do not fight, and
have never apprehended any personal danger, and
my family have never felt any danger. Whether
| am safe or not l do not know. l feel as safe rs
| ever did. / had rather die, than fear to die.
For fear hath torment. There has been Q pretty
strong collision on the borders, and about as many
killed, as are ordinarily killed on a railroad smash
up. Sixty yiles back from the border there has
been no disturbance and everything is as quiet as
in Ohio. 1t would be so all over the territory if
there were no one to make n disturbance but ac:u-
al settlers. Emigrants are coming ir freely nearly
all from Free States. 1t has been very interesting
to LOOK ON and witness the working of things
here.
When the pro-slavery party first began - plum
der. burn and murder, no official notice was taken
of it. Governor Shannon gave his drunken con.
sent. Col. Sumner was tied hand and foot by
orders, or want of orders, | don't know which,
After the sacking IF Lawrence, the rufians were
emholdened by their success. And the actual
rro.slavery settlers aroused hy their fears of free
State vengeance, assembled in great numbers tn
to make a clean sweep of every id abolitiOnist
there was in the territory. This is the common
name for any man from a Free State. Finding
how things were going the Free State men began
to assemble in small parties and retaliate. They
stole horses, 7lundered houses, took money and
arms and provisions wherever they could FIND
,hem and ordered the people to leave the territory
Blows began to he returned. This raised n how
from tie den of Slavery most truly terrific. Then
the cry was, where is Gov. shannon? Where is
Col. Sumner? Where are the U. S. troops? ac
companied 10y II distortion of facts, and pictures
of the imagina,ions exceeding in horrors an ything
of savage life ur slnvehUlding bariarity. All MIS-
souri was in commotion, vomiting forth threaten
iLgs and slaughter.
Their white slaves had risen in rebellion. Col.
Sumner telegraphed to Washington that if thing.
were allowed to go on fer ten days longer all the
military force of the United States could not put Il
stop to it. Before he received his reply, oui
would lie Representative, Gen. Whitfield, marched
into KANSAS mt the head Of several hundred Mis-
souiians to chastise his constituency. and tame
their refractory natures. Nine Free State men
took, in actual fight, 2G rufians prisoners. Men
were dispatched by both parties to scour the coun'
try and solicit aid. At last orders came, and Col
Sumner was ordered to disperse every armed body
of men found in the territory. The Free State
men obeyed Immediately. But there was consid'
cradle resistance IN infested by the r%ufians. They
could not believe that they, dear souls, were to De
deprived of their amusement. All they wanted Of
the Government troops was to disarm the free soil
ers, and then allow them the agreeable occu'
patton Of shooting them.
The resistance was so formidable for n few days
near Missouri, that Col. Sumner was obliged to
send to Fl. Riley for 800 additional dragoons.-
But the the Fourth of July the State Legislature
will assemble again Mt Topeka, to complete their
code of laws, and it is expected that several thou.
sand people will be there to protect them if neccs'
sary and enforce the laws when passed.