Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-05-22
GFrom the Cincinnati Enquirer.l

How Kansas Stories are Manufactured.
The following, contained in the last intel
ligence from Kansas, is going the rounds Of
all the papers: -a -- aa
BLOODY AFFRAY-Two MEN KILLED.
''It is credibly reported that a fatal affray
took place last week on Crooked Creek, one OF
the tributaries OF the Stranger The circum-
stances, as related to us, are these
''Two men living in Missouri had marked out
claims about year ago, but had not made suffi-
cient improvement upon them. Two other
yeung slen, finding the claims unoccupied, 10
Gated upon them two weeks ago, and com
menced improvements The first claimants, in
company with four others, come and attempted
to dispossess them by force. They offered re-
sistance, and in the affray the two claimants
from Missouri were shot. The names of any
Of the parties, or any further particulars, We
have been unable to learn. When will the
bloody catalogue be full 2"
Here is excellent material to manufacture
into several editions of a tragedy OF the most
awful character. Two Missourians have
been killed by two claimants to the property
which the Missourians had marked out; and,
undoubtedly, the killers were Sharpe-riile,
Free-State men, and the two men killed
were Slavery -propagandists
The New York Tribune will doubtless hear
the following version OF the affair:
GALLANT DEFENSE OF FREE SOIL
SLAVERY PRoPAGANDIsTsl
'sMADE TO BITE TEkE DUST!
'fOur special and reliable correspondent in
Kansas, COMMUNICATES to us the facts relative
TO the heroic aud successful defense of the free
soil of Kansas, by two worthy sons of the fathers
of &c, against four Border Ruffians, who had
gone into the Territory for the purpose of plant
ing the black tanner and imposing upon this
young Territors the deep damnation of slavery
The rufians have received n check which they
will long remember.
The same facts, when they passit through the
crucible of the opposite side, will have some
what this character:
"BLOODY MASSACRE.
1.-TWO SOUTHERN MEN BAsELY MURDERED DY
"AB0LITI0N RUFFIANS.
eve give today the particulars of one OF
the greatest outrages which has yet stained the
soil Of Kansas. Two Pro-slavery men. who
had secured good title to certain land claims
were attacked on their property by two blood
thirsty Abolitionists and cowardly slain.
"Rise, Southerners, and avenge the slaughter
of your brethernl 40
We think this is not an unfair specimen OF
the nsoduS operandi of the pestlent factionists
and agitators to keep alive the passions and
mislead the Judgment and opinions of ON
people on both sides of this unhappy strife
Two men quarrel about conflicting claims tc
land, or any other subject of private conten.
ton, and such was precisely the case in the af-
fairs of Dow and Clark, and in the quarrel
above referred to-and one is slain. If he hap
pens TO be pro-SlGUery man, he is a martyr to
Southern institutions, if he is in communion
with the Lawrence party, he has been sacrifi-
ced in the great cause of human freedom. On
one side the killing is all right-on the other
it is all wrong.
On the Pro-slavery side the following per-
sons have been shot: Clark, Jones and the
two men mentioned above. On the Free
State side, Dow, Barber and Brown are
named as the martyrs. This would give bal
ance against the Free State party, and yet to
read the papers in the North and West you
would imagine that all the violence, mur-
der and bloodshed were confined to the Pro-
slavery party, and the Free State men were
meek, pious, long suffering Christians, who
could not be induced even to defend their
own rights, much less to invade those OF
others.
Such facts should admonish all good citi-
zens of their duty to examine we'll both sides
of all these occurrences, before they allow
their feelings to be enlisted and their iudg-
ments forestalled and perverted by the mis-
cradle distortions and fabrications of partisan
incandiarias