Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-08-27
AFFAIRS IN KANSAS.
LAwRENcE, K 7. July q

LA hE-NNEy IN L - VI ~
Just now there is lull in the storm,
but active preparations are going on, on
the part of the Rufian party to renew
the conflict They seem determined TO
carry on their measures and to kill out
or drive out the Free State sentiment
Since the "4lh'' the U. s. troops have
mostly been called into the Fort, except
two detachments, one of which now
guards Gov. Robinson stationed at Le-
compton, and the other, six miles south
of Lawrence, guarding and protecting a
Rufian by the name of Lahay, whose
house was the depot of the arms stolen
from the Free State men at the sacking
Of our town, until said depot was "clean-
ed OUT some ten days since by cer-
tain gentl, man to me unknown. Within
the past two weeks the remnants of Buff
ford's party together with MissCurians,
have been collecting in one camp in the
southern portion of the Territory, and in
another camp on the Big Blue, near the
Nebraska line, where it is expected
Northern emigrants will pass. Col.
Sumner has left the Territory and Gen.
Smith is now in command, and appears
TO wink at these preparations making for
the avowed purpose Of stopping all emf
grafton into Kansas via Iowa and Ne
braska, as has been done up the Mis-
souri River. The number of Missourians
now congregated along the Northern line
of Kansas at best accounts amount to
several hundred, and is being daily aug
mented. They have cannon and other
arms, together with all the ammunition
needed. While parties of Northern emil
grants have of late been 1isarmed, these
preparations of the other party have been
allowed to go on. 1t is easy to see how
the army is helping the free sentiment
of Kansas.
Notice has just been given that taxes
under Territorial laws viii be assessed
and collected at once, and this at all
hazards. 1t will require no great de-
gree of forecast TO tell what will be the
of that measure. Two
things l regard as certain, and these are,
that there will soon be a conflict between
the Northern emigrants and the Ruffians,
which will settle the question whether
Kansas is to remain open to free emigra-
ton or not, and the other is, that there
will be big fight over the collection of
taxes by the bogus officers. Their own
men have hitherto refused to pay, and !
now for them to attempt to force these !
taxes from the Free State men, will be
The signal for a general uprising. Let
US wait few days and see how the at
tempt will succeed.
1 said there WAS lull in the storm,
bit do not understand that life or prop
erty is all safe. We have had no such |
ull as this since we have lived in Kan
;as. Let me recite a few facts for the
ruth OF which l can personally vouch.
There has been enlisted into the regu-
ar service quite a number of these men.
They joined the company stationed
iouth of us, and hardly night has since
passed but these fellows have somehow
rot out of quarters and gone prowling
bout the neighborhood, stealing from,
insulting. and terrifying Free State fam
lies.
Last Sunday, the 9th inst, three
antilles passed through town on their
way to Iowa. They were formerly from
illinois, and told us that they had been
through depredatiOns COM
nitted upon them, to abandon their
laims, actually leave their corn crops
growing, and get away for safety. They
lad their cattle with them, and families
.lso. They report that large prO-Sla-
-ery force is concentrated in Southern
Kansas, and they openly avow their in
ention TO be, to make it so Lot that no
Free State family can stay there.