Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-08-14
More Lawlessnes in Kansas.

LAWRENCE, X. T., July 80,
! MESSRS. EDITORS About one year ago
! three families of Missourians crossed the kaw
river, at Lawrence, on their way to Washington
creek.-They were Free State men, and came
| INTO the Territory with the intention of improv-
ing claims, and to aid the North in establishing
Freedom upon the soil of Kansas. Yesterday
saw them pass through Lawrence, en- roate Tor
Iowa. Dn their countenances aNyas depicted
| taf&Ai5ps and privations, and it needed no very
close observer to come to the conclusion that
| they had been living pioneer life. They said
their homes had been burned by a party of Mis-
sourians and GeorGiars, their property stolen or
pressed" and they had hardly escaped with
their lives. They left the improvements of a
years hard toll, To-. The consideration that if ever
they returned to tlc Territory, they should be
hung to the nearest tree. This is one more act
OF Southern chivalry, enacted against squatter
sovereignty. These men, sent here TO maintain
the honor and dignity, and to assist the rights
OF the gallant sons OF the South, are daily com
hitting outrages Unparalleled in the history of
France, and it ever Investigated would make a
I jeffrey blush. Let us see upon what basis rests
the peculiar inSttution.-It needs no RETROSPECT
ton; every day portrays it in unmistakeeble
characters 1t depends upon the success of the
midnight assassin, of driving Free State men
fIom Kansas, and pTOstatiug Freedoms abest
men upon the floor Of our Congressional Halls.
/ by the Kansas Commission !--lIave they indis-
crmlnateIy laid it aside for the purpose Of pass
sing Ioom1' S bill, SO they can have the privilege
/ OF scANIng another? For already are the Ruians
crossing the line for the purpose of voting when
that bIllshall have passed the House. The Ter
uioTy is again Hooded with Borderers commit
ting outrageS as freely as ever, living entirely
upon plumber, and what little remuneration they
got from Government, while acting as posse for
shannon
| &. 9. Perkins, from Burlington, Wisconsin,
was brutally assailed, while out walking one
evening last week, by three RUtiians, between
thus place and Franklin. One Of the law and
order party approached him with revolver in
one hand, and laying the other on his shoulder
enqulred where he came from
| he replied taking out his revolver, Lawrence.
! The rutian Immediately fired, but Perkins
eTaded the shot by grasping the pistol causing
hm to shoot on side. Perkins succeededin dis
charging two loads, but with no effect, and was
seized by the three and beaten in a most atroci-
Gus manner, They then robbed him of $40 i'll
money, and lett him laying in the road apparent
| y dead. lie IS unconscious how long he lay
there; but on coming to, started for Lawrence,
where he now lies in a precarious condition.
HE RESULT IN ST. LOUIs.-The Ne,cs of
yesterday protests vehemently against our right
! to rejoice at the election of Mr. +. ?. BLAIR,
Jr, to Congress- from the St. Louis District,
Missouri, and insists that he is for Slavery in
kansas.-Let the St. Louis Democrat, of We'd
nesday, Mr. BLAIR's own paper, answer for him
on this point and silence the Ne,cs;
! ELECTION OF BLAIR To CONGRESS The
battle was fought in great measure against in
dViduals, and against no man was this battle
fought harder than against Francis Z. Blair, Jr.
lie was known and recognized US the advocate
OF the rights Of the working men of st. Louis.
! he was ridiculed as the man who defended the
right OF white labor preference to that of slave
labor, he was abused as the man who desired 10
devote the new Territories Of the United States
to the tlllage and agriculture Of white fre1men
instead OF Slaves, and yet as such he has seen
/ elected. All honor to the noble vindicator OF
tree white labor. and may this be an example to
the nulllhers, that their dark and iuiquitous de-
signs meet with 10 favor in this the great com
mefclal and Industrial centre Of the Mississippi
/ Valley.