Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-10-10
PLATTE County, Mo-, Sept. 10th, ISIS

Editors Of Richmond Wig:
send YOU n few facts in writing believing tina, YOU
know very little Of what is daily Transporting in the great
West What information you virginins get coming from
some little papers in Kansas aud the borders thereof is
be relied What those papers contain is false
in parts false in send you printed sample
have lived long in Richmond but am nov here in thi~
goodly land-tte platte Purchase" "a farer land than
this viewed in his wide career lovely spot
for all that life ask. Salubrou- mild"
The settlers OF Kansas from almost every State in
the Coieiefacy but chiefly from the free SnIe- the rct
mostly Ms-ourans IL is doubtless known u YOU that
the hsSonriaus have made repeated inv ,sions Kansas
When tile election off, 1.-THE first particularly
hundreds Of wagons loaded with provisions arms of every
cabre and name, ammunition and barrels OF whisky were
driven 10 within half mile VI the polls there the
eacamped; and such shouting, swearing drinking firing
halOong roaring, damng, &C. this world never saw be-
fore Next morning they marched TO the polls aud gave
Democratic vote. After voting they returned TO their
camp renewed their Bcchanalan o. es aud the ne.t
day crossed over 10 Missouri. This any re-
cord in the United Staic. IL would require many sheets
OF iooiscap TO contain he OF the barbares robberics
and murders that have been committed in Kansas You
know the Mi+sourians have thrown every printing press
into the Missouri river that dad hoist the negro g-
IL u thus hear pdTe testimony aud ghts of
that - fabrication. majority OF the people in Kansas
and for making it free State. They are not
aOohtioni,ts but free State The Mssourians know
ing this, have had To various expedients The
last dericr resort expel them About
days ago, the Nssourans invested eayenworth CITY
the largest town ia Kna aud gave peremptory orders
every man in the CITY, whom they suspected OF Tree State
sentiments, TO leave in hour aud half or DE One
hundred pcaceabe orderly artisans merchants &c we're
thus compelled 10 leave their houses furniture shop-
toOs, stores &c. TO the honesty and mercy OF -
One OF the number had in his store s2u,pOJ worth oi
goods, n per invoices. II hav- idea what were
the feelings OF the Aheas Nheu they ab ,ndoned Athens
aud Cnon took with him only part OF his horses urni.
ur then may form opinion OF the great calan-
10y that fell these hundred families They left
their hones-their all. One might have bought hou-c-
Hnd lots worth thousands Of dollars for IS 20 $40; might
have bought wagon load Of furniture rich aud costly
cloths cssmere- aud silks tor $40 to go. From what
hear might have bought enough to load fifty wagons
for two hundred dollars less Many did buy W.
gon loads for mere pittance. The great bulk left
have INV iniornttOn from reliable sOurue-lron a
highly respectable Missouri merchant You will ask why
this cruetyY Why this great njusticeY IL il because
the Msspurans have either heard, they suspect the
heads OF these 100 families actually prefer living free
State TO that OF slave State they peaceabg order
", welbehaved people; rich becoming 80 rapidy
They go ahead people. They are not abolitonist.
To add 10 the above, the Missourans make frcauen,
excursions in the Territory, aud they will shoot do~n
Tree State just they would deer and soon
er to-. Nor i this all. They have right a. a pcrqu
sites in or out of the cabin. Mercul God This may
vice
free State man found eight days ago murdered
ana scapcd The supposed murderer and per lives IN
my county (Pittel aud heard to say the d,y prey
ousy that he determined to have scalp and he WI.
seen after that IN the Territory and near the dead BODY
have hvelong IN Richil nd own .lyes; bur do not
Ike, nor can like aboitionis fee-soiler do moi
hate nor blame. He has right wish aud To pray too
II he chooses that Kansas be made free State legally
cOustitutionay
The truth Is the nation should Immediately cause IN,
little giant con cracker Douglass old Cas-. Pierce. and
ha dozen more lgitOrs to be arrested carried 70 th,
Potomac, and there, right opposite a. the CAPITOL esc
one should have milestone fastened about III. neck will
IN iron cable aud then into the middle Of that stream,
These Squter Sovereign should not be permitted {,
live another Eeek, 20 die natural death
] am no cfoaker but believe human endurance ha
been carried 10 ts utmost tension and that long cre
aud bloody civil war - about 20 commence
! God save tue Commonwealth
! Yours truly, Verify