Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
The victims Of the rx.n.a. war.

The Missouri Republican of yesterday, thus
speaks of the victims of the Kansa war;
"The misguided emigrants who crowded to
Kansas early in the spring, continue to leave
that Territory in all directions. They are to be
met in scattering companies, looking half star
we'd, sickly, and miserable. Many of them hav.
ing spent all their money, have gathered up their
little effects, and crossed the river to Iowa, on
their way to their homes, or 20 locate in some
secluded corner Of the wilderness, or patcd of
prairie, where they will be at peace.
Every boat which comes from the Missouri,
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 hundreds;
they had family circles, and looked happy; they
took quarters in the cabins of steamboats,, and
partook of the luxury of rcpose and plenteous
table. They were thrifty looking emigrants,
who would do honor to any new country.
We now see them in squads of tens and TWEEN.
ties-crippled, sckly and apparently poverty
stricken-crowded upon the decks of steam.
| boats, almost begging their way back to the
homes they left but a 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 ofhundreds more
| whose pteous stories the world will never know.
| The steamer New Lucy, from st. Joseph, last
evening brought down three or four families of
| these people, natives of Kentucky They had
travelled from Kansas to Jefferson City on foot,
having left the Territory to save their lives, and
being afraid to approach the river at a nearer
| landing, lest their progress should be intercep
| ted.--They were destitute when they reached
Jefferson City, having scarcely any clothing, and
not the wherewithal to buy food. One woman
/ had nothing on her person but tattered under
garment and blanket, and several others Of
4 the company were in little better condition
They all looked sickly and dispirited, and made
. touching tableaux of misery and despair.
True, every word oft true. Instead OF hay
ing been welcome of peace and plenty to the
energetic and thrifty emigrants who, year OF
two ago. thronged to its iviting plains, from thu
Northern and Southern States, Kansas, like Z
cruel and heartless mother, refused = home t.
her adopted children, and sent them, poor, DIES
ltitute and wretched, from her bosom. As, aftel
q disastrous war abroad, the country is file.
with tho crippled famed and mutilated victims
. SO now after this Kansas war, almost ever.
: neishborhood numbers its returned emigran
who has some sad story to tell of cruelty, rapin
and violence in the Territory. Free State mel
and Pro-Slayery men have alike experienced
these safferings. Men from Massachusetts, an
men from Kentucky-resolute, industrious an
lhopeful emigrants, who, II allowed to live in tn
/ TERRITORY in peace, would. in q few years, hav
made its Wild praries blossom with the fruits {
dilieent hnsbandry-have been compelled I
Iabandon their log cabins and young farms, an
! Hee, hoaseless and helpless, before the ferc
i flames Of . civil strife.
!. On whose shoulders rests the responsibility {
all this. On whose, but those OF the Democr'
tic partys Admitting-which we are far frol
beReving-that the present Democratic adm
7. nissrasion did not, by its positive acts. and I
culpablc imheciity, casse the Kansas war--cs
sny reasonable man deny that it could ha,
Il >syensed iss Gov. Geary arrested the strugg
p. = days after his arrival in the Territory, an
in Nv when the feeling was most intense, Al
that TOO q post threatening. Could not Il
! the aspec have been done, just Is easily, lol
sgoY lno ~ pro-slAvery and the Free s..
ee.s :.s. nave Ia ~ pse,ented by the prompt
- scsSs i. On the had sf the presen. Dem
s...sc .dniuistraaion, whose pchcy, IFou' y
! S..,herd.ent Of Gray town TO the Kansas -
. ~ heen cordially endo -sed ana appsoveu
S ~ vhoIe Democratic pafty, rests sne lespou
. h;aity Of this Border warfare. ana me nuto
= - hat has Aoxed from it. And yer IN
60 az this fact, re are asked 70 pace the sai
pemocraey in power again '-lst. Seas 'n'e''