The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-15
News,

1Hs toHOHflg HOuSi fcteeis -
specimen of the Buchanan intelligence
from Kansas, is a gem in Its way. and
viii be news. in Kansas. We clip it
from the Chicago Iimes, Douglas or
gan in that city. If Democrats believe.
such statements. is it any wonder they
desired to defeat Col. Fremont?
0sAwKEE, jefferson Co., K. T.,l
Oct. Is, 1856.
Late startling events in this ill-fatedz
land. have constrained me to attempt,
through the columns Of your truly
American paper, to administer q kindly.
admonition to some of our brethren in
the Free States, and beseech them for
the future to abandon the mischievous
and cruel designs of distracting and
immolating our. poor people. The late
element heayed In our midst by those
unnatural agencies, have had the direct
tendency to that end. My picture is
not overstrained when | say that no
conduct of party of men claiming to
be civilized, has ever disgraeed ma
tion or an age, so much as that which
has characterized the career of Lanes
men since they crossed the border. =
Their emissaries were dispatched
throughout the country, ia ascertain the
political views of citizens; if reported
fright ON the goose" it was enough
to prescribe him, and subject his goods
to confscation. Many Free State men
not sYmpathizing with the movement
shared the same fate. Suffice it to
say, they have indiscriminately robbed
seventy-fye stores, and two hundred
private dwellings,, and stolen 5000
horses, mules, and cattle, besides pri-
Ivate carriages and wagons In fact,
from horse to chicken, from bed
quilt to pocket handkerchief. One
million dollars will not restore u.s.
Many innocent men have been muir
dered; but most of the pro-slayery men
fed to Missouri at their approach. Men
convicted of the highest crimes known
to the law (stealing. DC. J, were un-
shackled and enrolled with them, and
all the bad men settled in our midst
were invited to unite to "Punish the
hereties," many of whom did, and
would rob their neighbors, with whom
heretofore friendly relations existed ,and
divided the spoil before their faces
These scenes witnessed myself. They
licensed the worst passions of men, and
he was the hero who had stolen the
most. This monstrous system Of plum
dering has been confined to no district,
but has been general, except In the Mis-
souria river counties, where the Mis-
sourians afforded protection. The
Missourians passed through our coun-
ty, en- route to Lawrence, and treated
us all leniently, pressing few of our
horses, but promptly returned them on
their return; but they were unworthy
to loose the shoes" of their competi-
tors. This dim outline will be height
ened by the. testimony before the
Courts now pending; andyou viii find
that have deceived nor misrepresented
no one; | am no politician nor hired
scribbler, but an humble-clad, rail-
mauling farmer; with no negro to help
me: but in this free country an opinion
even costs something (mine 81, 800, J
consisting of seven horses and mules,
one family carriage. provision, male,
female, and bed clothing, guns and
saddles, chickens, &c.
How long shall we be exposed to
these cross-fres?-cannot and will not
the Government protect us? We came
here, not to fight, but to live in peace;
we care not groat about the negro
question. Well settle it to suit all par
ties, if let alone. Tell your Don Quix-
ote belligerents in the North, if they
want to fight, to belabor the Missouri
ans on their own soil; there are no lau-
rels to be won here, and we are too
poor to spare them anything. Tell the
E. a. Committee to outfit their peacable
elnigrants little better. and they II not
need to, steal SO much when they get
here. We have been made to outstrip
them in contributions.
Yours. with great esteem,
a Kansas CITIZEN.