St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-12-04
Kansas.

AhS '1outHcAH papers dlC, oiilIc liic
evidence of the election of Mr.. Buchan-
. an, urging with a hot zeal for final
and crushing crusade into Kansas with
the object Of bringing the population
of that Territory at once up to the
mark for State, and bringing it head
long into the Union las q Slave State.
The New Orleans Delta is especially
rampant. 1t. having been suggested
that Gen. Walker had offered Col. Ii
tus, of Kansas, strong inducements to
emigrate' to Nicaragua, the Delta
says
| No Southern man can be spared
| from Kansas. Governor Geary de-
serves praise for the vigor he has dis
played in coping with the Abolition
hordes, but he has not yet proved that
he is General Walker. Such man
as the latterwitka stern irdn will and
an ihvincible faith in tic future of
Southern institutions is wanted Kan
4 sas:. We cannot entertain the notion
that our victory in Nicaragua is to be
won at the expense of our cause in
Kansas. The day for mean, faithless
expediency doctrines has passed away;
our rights and the determination to
maintain them, no matter whether in
or out of the Union, must be our watch
word and when the hubbub attend
ing the Presidential election shall have
passed away, the cause of the South
in Kansas must be advocated with
more earnestness than ever"
ALawrencc correspondent of the st.
Louis Democrat, dating the 18th, ult,
writes -] Ei.1at i -.
As soon as Gov. Gcary learned that
Hays, the murderer of Buff'um, had
gone, he had Judge Lecomptc and Mar
|shal Donaldson both suspended sent
Titus after Hays, and called for new
reaue, where the Circuit Court could
hold forth without molestation. Te-,
cumseh was agreed upon, and Judge
Cato is to preside. Preparatory to this
new order of Lecompton jurisprudence,
one Capt Donaldson, whom the Gov
ernor appointed over a company of
Missonrians, to protect Lecompton,
tried his hand at the judgeship. In or
der to assist his friend Hays to make
his escape, he took part of, his COM
mand into the Court room, and; was
crier, judge and jury at the same time.
The Court that had been accustomed
to decide after due reelection, made
quick decisions, and decided in favor
of the side that had the window up
In short, they scattered before the APP
preaching soldiery, and Donaldson ad-
ljourned the Court sine de- Butthe Lee
compton officers, at the suggestion Of
Gov. Geary, finally arrested him, and
put him under guard, where he will
/ probably remain for trial, unless some
of his friends should think best to take
him out. .g....-...., Excess, ..+,.ty, ..f,
The, Lecomptonites are disposed to
disregard Gov. Geary about as much
as they did Shannon, Notwithstanding,
he wishes it emphatically understood
that he occupies a more responsible
position than the President of the Uni
| ted States. Does not the last weeks
work prove to a mathematical demon
stration that it is of no use for Free
State men to complain before pro-sla-
very officers :? Geary's cry has, been
Enter complaints and. have. them ar
. rested" But as soon as one Of their
parity is arrested, who lis. known to
have murdered without any pretext
whatever, a border ruflian steps in and
disperses the Court the culprit is re-
leased on bail, and will never. be
brought to justice, any more than the
murderers of Dow, Barber, Philips and
others, who are we'll known, and boast
of the honor of killing an abolition
list. The twenty prisoners sentenced
| to five years Imprisonment at hard la
Dor, have not been set at work yet.
A letter from one of the Free State
prisoners at Lccompton, says that Col.
Titus, the border ruffian leader, who
has charge of them, and who is drum
ming up recruits for Walker, :" has of
fered any one his liberty and a free
passage to join Gen. Walker in Nicar-
aqua" r. l...,u. g.s II
A letter in the St Louis Democrat,
dated Lawrence, 10th ult., says -
last Saturday, thirty prisoners ta-
ken at Hickory Point, under Col. Har-
yey, have been found guilty Of man
slaughter and sentenced to five years.
imprisonment and hard labor" 9 81
| The Kansas Legislature, recently
elected, meets on the second Monday
in January, 1851. Active preparations
are being made for the accommoda-
ton of the members and visitors at
Lecompton. "a
The Grand Jury have INDICTED nine
ty of the Free State prisoners confined
at Lecompton for murder in the first
degree. 2 ~, a.1'." '..'' -. 49, E = 5l'
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