Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-18
From the St. Louis Republican, Sept. 2.
AN APPEAL FROM THE PEOPLE
OF KANSAS.

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printed paper, intended as an appeal to thu
people of the United States in relation Il
Kansas affairs. 1t is quito long, and take!
general view of events as they have trans
pired in relation to that Territory since the
passage of the bill for its organization. Il
is not necessary for US to transfer this por
portion of the appeal to our columns, and
we content ourselves with giving the las
half of it: j
To all this we submitted, under tho
promise that the laws should be enforced
our lives and property protected.
What has been the result? The House
of Representatives proceeds with its efforts
to disorganise our government-to set aside
all our laws-to bring anarchy upon us.
The army, falsely represented as our pro.
lection, is required to be disbanded, unless
we are deprived of the protection of the law
Mass meetings are held in every non
slaveholding State, to contribute aid to the
rebels and assassins in our midst-National
Conventions assembled to devise means fol
raising an army to destroy us. Lane-a
traitor-a fugitive from justice-is permit.
ted openly to traverse one-half of our States,
enlisting an army to exterminate US. Not
an effort is made to arrest him.
While the enlistment of handful of aliens
to fight against foreign power calls forth
all the energy of our Government-the zeal
and activity of our Government-the zeal
and activity of every Officer, from the Pres
dent to the City Marshal, to check it's
deemed, unatoned for, fit cause to hazard a
war with the mightiest power or earth; an
army is raised openly and boldly-is march
ed thousands of miles through States and
Territories, under the command of fugi-
tive traitor, to invade our soil, subvert our
government, extorminate our citizens, with
out an effort to stay its progress-without
a word of disapproval.
Troops are enlisted from Boston to Cairo
the army is organized and equipped at
Chicago-is marched through Illinois, Iowa
and Nebraska, into Kansas, and through the
heart of our Territory-its progress is noted
and heralded-its leader stops by the way
to proclaim the war of determination he in
tends to wage against US to gather, with the
promise of spoils, recruits to his forccs.-
The whole government is paralyzed. The
Federal, the State, the Territorial govern
ments, all alike dare not meet the invader.
One branch of thegovernment alone is awake
the House of Representatives is active in
removing obstacles from its path.
Lane with his army enters our territory
His confederates in our midst, heretofore
confning themselves to the assassination Of
individuals, the pillage, the burning Of iso-
lated dwellings, emboldened by his approach,
begin to embody; they strip the country of
horses to mount the invading army, and
chronicle its arrival by sweeping from be-
fore them every law-abiding citizen in the
counties Of Lykins, franklin and Douglas.
They drive whole settlement of unarmed
citizens from the county of Lykins, burning
their houses and destroying their property
they march thence to the town of Franklin,
and attack the house of the Postmaster, with
whom a party of Southern men were board
ing-set fire to the house, drive out the in
mates, abusing helpless women who could
not escape, rob the post Office, and taking a
cannon which had been left there by the
sheriff. With this, and their other arms,
they, march to the attack of another colony
of Southern settlers in Douglas county, COM
pei them to fly and abandon their dwellings
and property-thence they go to attack the
dwelling Of Col. Titus, batterit with cannon
antil he and those HhoHhad gene stokisds.