Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-19

levied war upon the people he was sent 10
protect In camp with. him was the original
Catilne of the conspiracy, While by his side
was the docile Chief Justice and the docile
Judges. But this s not the first instance
in which an unjust Governor has found tools
where he ought TO have found justice In
the great impeachment of Warren Hastings,
the British orator, by whom 1t was con-
duc,ed. exclairns, in words strictly appl'ca-
BILE to the misdeed / now arraign, "Had he
not the Chief Justice, the tanned and domes-
ticatpd Chief Justice, who waited on him
like familiar spirit!" Thus was this in
vasion countenanced by those who should
have stood in the breach against it. For
more than week it continued. while dead
Iy conflict seemed imminent. do not dwell
on the herUism by which it was encounter
ed, or the mean retreat TO which it was com-
PEELED; for that IS not necessary TO exhibit
the Crime which you are TO judge. But
cannot forbear TO add other additional
fesiures. furnished in the letter Of a clergy
man, written at the time, who saw and was
a part of what he describes:
'.Dur citizens havr been shot nj, and IN f~o m
stances murdered. our honses invnded, hay -ncks
burnt, corn and other provisions Plundered' catue
driven off all cominunica ,iOn cut I'll between Us
and the States wagons on the way TO US with pro-
visions stopped and piunderrd, and the drivers
taken Prisoners and in hourly expectation oil an
attack laarLy euerg MN has ben arms IN fse
rilH.c FoigiticaiiOiis have been thrown mp, by
incrssant labor night and day. line sound of thr
drum and the tramp OF armed men rcsountieo
through streets. tdnlies fleeing ruth fh'ir house
hold gOcfs tor SAFETY. Day before yeserday,the re
port cannon was heard al our mouse, from Inc
dir &C iDn ot Lie IN Jton. Last Thursday, one o
oar n.iIhburs-- one OF the most p1 icci0lG an eA
crlient Of 'noH, from OliD--bl MS way hpms wi'
sci up IN by n gang OF Twelve men on horseh1ck
and Shot down Over eight hundred men are gath
cred under arms at Lawrence. As yet. no act o.
violence has been ptrp-trated 10y those on our side
No blood Of rctqiiafi1n slams our hands We stanH
and are ready 10 act purely an the defence q o"
homes and LUeS.
But the catalogue is not yet complete
On the 18th Of D,cember. when the people
assembled to vote on the Constitution then
submitted Tor adoption-only few days al
ter the Treaty Of Peace between the Cover
nor on the one side and the town of Law
renee on the other-aDother and fifth irrup-
ton was made But leave all this untold.
Enough of these tails has been given.
Five severaltimes and more have these
invaders entered Kansas in armed array, and
thus FIVE several times ard more have they
trumpIed upon the organic law Of the Ter.
riiory. But these extraordinary expeditions
are simply the extraordinary Witnesses to
successive uninterrupted violence. They
stand out conspicuous, but net alone. The
spirit of evil, in which they had their origin
was wakeiul and incessant. From the be-
ginning, it hung upon the skirts of this in
ieresting Territory, narrowing lis peace
disturbing its posterity, and keeping its in
habitants under the painful alarms ofwar.-
Thus was all Security of person, of properly
and of labor, ovcrthrowp; and when urge
this incontrovertible fact, set forth wrong
which is small only by the side Of the giant
wrong. for the cnnsummation Of which all
this was done. Sir, what is man-what is
government-withouts security; in the ab-
sence Of which, nor man nor government
can proceed in development or enjoy the
fruits of existence! Without security
civilizati is cramped and dwarfed. With.
out security, there can be no true Freedom
Nor shall say too much, when | declare
that security, guarded of course ty its off
spring, Freedom, is the true end and aim oil
government. OF this indispensable boon
the people of Kansas have thus far beer
des spoiled-absolutely totally. All this i:
aggravated by the nature of their pursuits
rendering the~ p cuiarly sensitive 20 in.
terruption, and at the same time attestins
their innocence. They are for the mos
part engaged in the cultivation of the soil
which from time immemorial has been tht
sweet employment of undis.urbed industry
Contented in the returns Of bounieous nature
and the shade of his own trees, the husband
man is not aggressive, accustomed to pro
Juce, and not to destroy, he is essential,
peaceful, unless his home is invaded, wher
his arm derives vigor from the soil he treads
and his soul inspiration from the heavens
beneath whose canopy he daily tolls. AM
such are,the people OF Kansas, whose Sccu
ritv has been overthrown. Scenes from
which civilization averls her countenanct
have been part Of their daily life. Tn,
border incursons, which, in barbarous age:
Of barbarous lands, have fretted and char
ried" an exposed people, have been her,
renewed, with this pecu 'iariiy, that our Dor
der robbers do not simply levy black mai
and drive off few cattle, like those whc
acted under the inspiration Of the Douglas o
other days; that they do not seize few per
sons, and sweep them away into captivity
like the African slave-traders whom WI
brand as pirates; but that they commit sue
cession of acts. in which all border sorrow.
and all African wrongs are revived togethe
on American soil, and which for the tim,
being ANIMALS all protection of all kinds, ant
enslsves the whole Territory.
Private grief mingled their poignancy
with public wrongs. do not dwell on thu
anxieties which families have undergone
exposed to sudden assault, and obliged Il
lie down to rest with the alarms of wa
ringing in their ears, not knowing that a no
ther day might be spared to them. Through
out this bitter winter, with the ihermomete
at 80 degree below zero, the citizens of Law
renee have been constrained to sleep unde
arms, with sentinels treading their constan
watch against surprise. But our souls ar,
wrung by individual instances. In vain d,
we condemn the cruelties of another age
the refEemnts Of torture to which men hav,
been doomed-the rack and thumb-screw O
the Inq"isition, the last agonies of the regi
eide Ravaillac-"Luke's iron crown, ami,
Dam'e'.'s bed of Steel'-for kindred out
rages have disgraced these borders, Murde
has stalked--assassination has skulked il
the tall grass of the prairie, and the vindic
tiveness of man has assumed unwontec
forms. A preacher of the Gospel of tn,
Savior has been ridden on a rail, and ther
thrown into The NJ ;s>ouri, fastened 10 a log
and left to drift down its muddy, tnrtuou.
current. And lately we have had the ii
dngs of that enormity without precedent;
deed without a name-where a candidate
for the Legislature was most brutally gashec
with kniyPd and hatchets and tbep afte