Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-05-31
The "civii War" in KANSAS.

The St. Louis pape.s cohtaln yarious
letters from Kansas in relation 10 the trou-
hisu in that 1efriioty, bu; The telegraph has
aacsdy furnished their princlpie contenis,
.sAih are confused and Contradictory. Mr.
Aiarlin F. Conway, Of Baltimore, furnish
ss the 81. Lonls Drmocfa! with the follow
,ng account Of his arrest:
PApKvlLLE, May 18th, 1856.
arrived in kansas Guy, Mo-, IL coin.
psny with Gen Schuyler, on Friday night,
50 four DAYS from St. Louis. We remained
in Kansas City uEn this morning, when
we started in the steamboat for Leayen-
worth Ci,s, K. Z. On our way up tbe
iivct. the boa. stopped at the town Of Park
VILE, in the State OF Missouri We had
no. been at The :'srkyile iandlue longer
thsn few MINUTES. " hen the boa, Was
bearded By some 90 OF 80 men. who were
introduced TO me through .heit leader, ont
Dt. CIardg. Ee informed me that hr bad
reason to believe that WAS a fugitive from
iuesice Fl en- Kansas Territory and demand
ed that should 30 ashore, and wait until
a rcuuisition should be made Tor NE hy the
proper authorities,
answered that was very far from be-
Jag anything OF that kiad-that was
quite anxious Ia face any charge that might
BE brought against mr. mere or ahyN here
aiae--shal / was now on my way 10 KAN
Eas Territory FIRST 10 Leayenworth, then
to Lawrence. then, if neeessasY, to i,e-
compte--that was just up from II. Louis
having travelled from Baltimore city, sons
1900 to assume the responsibility OF any
thing had done in Kansas asked him
how could be fugitive from iastiee,
when ! was on the direct road TO The sea,
OF Justice
lie said, Well, he didn't know any
thing about it--but he was informed, upon
good authority, that was seeking to cvade
an arresi--ehd the crowd insisted that /
should go ashore"
Immediately inquired for the fsp'ain Of
the boat hen some one said that 'the cap
tain made no objection to it," l. however,
persisted IA seeing the captain, br, lie WAS
not 10 be found. Ihe eleik ai the boat
appeared, ard told me This was a matter
which they had NC disposition to interfere
IT.
Regarding 1t altogether ahbecomIng ia
the TO put myself III bodily conflict with
thirty or forty armed tneh' suffeboesea
myself to their charge. and was conducted
10 Il public house in the town, where they
said ample provisions would be mede for
unul such time as tiiey could seHc laF lie
cofnpte, in Kansas, to ascertain whether-i
VI as really fugitive from justice OF nor.
Aad thus the matter stands. Gen. Schuy-
Ter was also subjected to the same outrage,
and disposed OF in the sane way.
il will be seen from this that sort OF
"hiph.t laW,' With vengeance, is new
rsmnant in This region. We are ali al tie
,n,,cy of the mob. Oar lives and liberties
va imneriled aati endangered every hour,
The people OF Ka.. sss are everywhere in
,he territory under the seryeilaoee Of ann
cd maurauders; the town n Lawrence IS
threatened with utter destruction "hiie
tina federal troops. which were - active
service only a few days age, dtagoeAiDg
the people into submission 30 the Vexiag
snactmenls Of The late Legislature, are new
quietly performing their daily drills On the
grounds adjoining Fort Lavenworth A ter
rble responsibility rests upon the Presi-
dent of the United States in this business.
lie ought to be impeached.
ours. truly, NJ. T. CONWAY.