Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-11
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT 8, 1856.
Battle in Kansas.

Battle in Kansas.
BY a Geographic dispatch received yesterday
afternoon, it appears that the Missourians, IF
teen hundred strong, under General Atkinson
attacked Lawrence, on Sunday last, and met .
decisive repulse. 1t is very probable that
fight has taken place, but we think il very
likely the loss has been exaggerated. The frs
news that COM from Kansas must come through
Border Rufian hands, and if they have met
defeat, they will, of course, magnify it for the
purpose of exciting sympathy in the States. II
General Atkinson has led his band OF %ruffians
into Kansas, and attacked Lawrence, we hops
most earnestly that he and every scoundrsl tha
followed him, have been made bait for Kansa!
buzzards. They had no business in Kansas
If there were troubles between free and slave
State parties of the Territory, it was no bust
ness OF the Missourians, and as the President
would hot prevent the Eruption of these men
avowedly and boastfully interfering in the af
fairs of the Territory, the citizens were most
right in doing il themselves. These Nilsson
rians go with the avowed purpose of making
Kansas a slave State, and killing or driving GU
the free State m~en.-JOurnal.
True or false as the statements of the ir.
ruption Of AToHINsoN and his band of ruff
fans into Kansas, may be. it has afforded the
Journal another chance for the display of its
usual honesty and consistency. For two
weeks or more it has been ccngratulsting its
readers upon the entrance of JIM LANE an
his band of ~ruffians into Kansas, and gloating
over the scenes of violence and outrage that
have marked his bloody footsteps. 1t il
right for that desperate outlaw to enter a
peaceful territory with a band of desperadoes
ished up from the stews and kennels o
the eastern cities, armed to the teeth for tn,
work of death, and with the avowed purpos,
of overthrowing the established government
and expelling Southern emigrants. 1t il
right for him to raise the standard of insur,
rection and civil war; but the moment thes,
movements are met by ATcHINsoN and hi
band Of Ruffians, the Journal becomes ex
ceedingly indignant, and expresses tho very
christian hope that "he and every scoundre
hat followed him, have been made bait TO
Kansas buzzards." "They haze no business Il
Kansas" No-but LANE and his band o
~rufians had, though they went there t.
consummate the very work that has beer
going on since his appearance in Kansas
1t is not at all strange that the conduct of tn,
LANE rufians should produce excitemen
and action among the ATCHINsoN rufians o.
Missouri. 1t is impossible that it should b,
otherwise. The Missourians have old neigh.
bors, friends and relatives in Kansas, and i
is not in human nature for them to stand by
and see them robbed, plundered and muir
dered in cold blood. If the pro-slavery res
idents of Kansas are calling upon their friend
in Missouri for aid, so are the free State resi-
dents of Kansas calling, in the same way
upon their friends throughout the North fo
aid. The actions of the former are not tc
be condemned and those of the latter ap
plauded.
The Abolition leaders and agitators are re
sponsible for the renewal of disturbances il
Kansas. Perfect peace and coed order pre-
vailed there for weeks previous to the en-
trance of LANE and his fighting, thievins
~vagabonds. Since then, anarchy and ~violenc.
have been the order of .the day. If the piou'
editor of the Journal had prayed that 'h,
and every scoundrel that followed him int
Kansas had been made bait for Kansas buz.
cards." ard if Heaven had vouchsafed to an
swer the prayer of this newborn father il
Israeli" he might have been saved the trouble
of repeating it for the especial benefit of ATCH
INsoN and his worthy crew.
Whatever may come out of the insured
ton and civil war which LANE 'and thu
scoundrels who followed him" have stirred
up in Kansas, the Black Republican leaders
and agitators are responsible for it. They
planned the expedition and furnished the
material aid" necessary for its execution
They would not scruple to offer up as q holo.
caust, the mangled body of every man, wo-
man and child in Kansas, at the shrine o.
their mad ambition and ~insatiate lust for pow.
er. So long as it is the bleeding people Of
Kansas alone who iced, little do these polit,
zeal Ay-es care. If they can accomplish theil
ends in no other way, they are willing thai
the soil of Kansas should drink up the last
drop of the last remaining victim among bel
citizens. Such is the philanthropy, the pa.
triotism, the humanity of Black Republican.
ism.