The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-09
Sad Condition of the People Of Kansas.
The Intestine war forced on kaAsas by

c@0 0HNOnultAOm Oh the feOple OF hHnSaS.
The Intestine war forced on kalsas by
Pierce and Co., in their madness to make
the fair territory black with negro bon
dage. has reduced the actual settlers to
the most deplorable des:itution of food
and clothing. Many who can get away,
are, leaving the Territory, and the St.
Louis Republican,, (pro- slavery J presents
the following sad picture. 1t says a.sa
The misg ided emigrants who crowded
to Kansas early in the spring, continue to
leave that Territory in al! directions.
They are to be met in scattering compa-
nies, looking half starved, sickly and mis-
cradle. Many of them having spent all
their money, have gathered up their little
effects and crossed the river to Iowa, on
the way to their homes or to locate in
some secluded corner Of the wilderness,
or patch Of prairie, where they will be at
peace. estets1@ llls Iee. e- a ia
Every boat which comes from the Mis-
soun has among her passengers some of
these people. We saw them once before
in the early spring, when they went up
the river. with money in their pockets,
hope in their hearts, health in their blood
and the world before them.
They were then in companies of hun
dreds, they had family circles and looked
happy, they took quarters in the cabins
of steamboats,, and partook of the luxury
of repose and plenteous table. They
were thrifty looking emigrants who would
do honor to any new country.
We now see them in squads oftens and
twenties--cripple'i, sickly. and apparent
ly, poverty -stricken-crowded upon the
decks of steamboats, almost begging their
way back to the homes they had left but
few months before. And civil war in
Kansas has wrought all this mischief
doomed many hopeful heart to despair
and death, and embittered the lives of
hundreds more whose piteous stories the
world will never know.
The Indianapolis Journal daguerreo-
types scene in the Union Depot of that
city. A family of thirteen. ragged, hun
CRY and moneyless. sickly and dishearten-
ed. were begging their way back from
Kansas to Kentucky. The Journal says:
He had been dricen from Kansas, he
said, 5y the Buchanan mem, as SO many
other poor settlers have been and robbed
Of every dollar he had in the world. His
cattle had been stolen by Buford's thieves,
and he expelled from the Terri ory be
cause he would not take arms against the
"traitor Lane as the Sentinel calls him.
He moved from near Lexington, KY, and
his name was Richie. They had no
property, no money, no provisions, no
medicines, though several of them we're
sick, and almost no clothes. So forlorn
and wretched a family we never saw, and
they were made SO by the infamous scoun7
drels whom the Administration hired as
"Kansas Militia" to execute the Kansas
laws. They were one of the productions
Of Democratic policy.
The Springfield Republican learns by
private letters from Lawrence, Sept 10Th,
that the supply of wheat flour had been
exhausted for six weeks, and it was not
yet possible to obtain fresh supplies from
Missouri. The people lived by grating
their new corn for meal, and had besides
abundance of excellent potatoes, beef, and
melons, Wild plums also plenty. Mon
ey very scarce, the resources of the set
tiers having been exhausted in procuring
the means of self defence, and all bust
ness having been suspended for SO long
time during the recent terrible invasion.
The writer says:
Oppression makes good soldiers. Some
of our meekcst men are becoming the
bravest, and many who would have gone
East one year ago if they had had the
means, are now foremost in the fight.
think the Revolutionary times could moi
boast OF a braver or more determined SCI
of men than we have here-but the Ruff
ans, who last year boasted that one O
them could lick dozen Yankees, now rur
at the first fire.