The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-11-01
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
BLOOD?

DLoOD.
We commend the following article to the
Preston Ponds and others of that stamp in the
South, whose tender hearts have been SO sorcly
lacernted by the civil strife in Kansas. 1t is
from the Nebraska City News, published in
Nebraska Territory. is Frccsoil in its tendcn.
cles but the editor has the honesty to lay the
troubles in Kansas to their proper source. He
does not attribute them to the Democratic
party, President Pierce, or the Kansas Ne.
braska act, but to the Abolition scoundrels
who have gained so much sympathy in the
South from the stump and through the Know
Nothing press during the present canvass.
The editor speaks like man and an American
and we commend his language to those men,
toned above. II is worthy of imitation:
1t is our duty to dcnounce alike the disturb.
crs OF the pub ic peace, whether they come
IRON the North or from the South
IN regard to the southern land pirates who
have been committing dcprcdations III Kansas,
we have already expressed our opinion. We
only the laws of dccency and of humanity.
We have no sympathy for them nor for their
course.
We are free state man We would labor
as hard and as faithfully to make Kansas a
free state as any of the myrmidions of Lanes
would, and we would labor in much more
reasonable way
Jim Lane was in Nebraska City one week
last Thursday. He then told us that the war
was probably over. He then said his prayer
was for Peace! Peace!! Pcacc!! And while
he prayed for peace he was bringing powder,
lc d and cannon across the Missouri at this
place with which he intended still to carry on
the war in Kansas. We told him we regard,
ed his army aS vast electioncering machine
a machine which had been wound up to run
until after the election of President in 1856.
Mr. Lane denied that charge with well feigned
indignation. We remarked that if the Re-
publican party failed to keep up the excite
mcnt in kansas-failed to manufacture mar
tyrs to order until after the election, Mr.. Bu-
chanan would undoubtedly be elected. Lime
then said that if the war had closed, the free
state legislature would be called rogether with
in ten days
Now every sane man knows that calling
this self:conStituted Legislative body together
again, would renew the troubles and noursh
new wars. Every man who will for one mo.
ment calmly reflect upon the present state of
affairs in this Union-upon the threatening
excitement that now portcnds civil war and
national suicide, will at once condemn the des-
perate men who feed this cyctement--aye,
who spawn it as rotten carcasc breeds mag.
gots. We say every patriot, be he from the
south or from the north, will condemn the men
who excite this strife who feed and gnt the
rnvcnous NAV of monstrous fanaticism, by
making war, by murder, by sacking towns and
open downright bloody treason in the Terrific
ry of Kansas
The man Lane is one whom political con
tractors and jobhcrs in Office have sent into
Kansas to engineer the machinery for making
Black Republicans votes. He is reckless
man and he heads band of men and brutcs,
who are as reckless as himself.
And so on Tuesday Of this week-notwith
standing his admission that the war was end
Notwithstanding the Proclamation Of the
Governor to the contrary, he has returned
through this place to Kansas. He returned
with an armed escort of traitors like himself
returned taking more cannon with him-more
arms with which to plunder in his trade of
treason and his mission of murder.
This last step taking as it is after the whole
sale and energetic measures of the General
Government have begun to restore harmony
and peace taken with the avowed purpose of
brewing diScord this last step we say is rREA.
son! The men who performed it are traitors,
all traitors! all brewers Of civil wars, all enc
mics of the peace and prosperity of our COM
mon country; they should be hung by the
neck untlllthey are dead And, if we had the
power, we should not hesitate one second be-
fore we should hang every traitor in Kansas,