Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
The victims Of the kansa. war.

The Missouri Republicans of yesterday thus
speaks of the victims of the kansa war:
1.-THE misguided emigrants who crowded to
Kansas early in the spring, continue to leave
that Territory in all directions. They are to be
met in scattering companies, looking half star
we'd, sickly, and miserable. Many of them hav-
ing spent all their money, have gathered up their
little effects, end crossed the river to Iowa, on
their way to their homes, or 20 locate in some
secluded corner Of the wilderness, or patcd of
prairie, where they will be at peace.
Every boat which comes from the Missouri,
has among her passengers, some of these people.
We say them once before, in the early spring,
when they went up the river, with money in
their pockets, hope in their hearts, health in
their blood and the world before them.
They were then In companies of hundreds;
they had family circles and looked happy; they
took quarters in the cabins Of steamboats,, and
partook of the luxury of repose and plenteous
table. They were thrifty looking emigrants,
who would do honor to any new country.
We now see them in squads of tens and TWEEN.
| tics--crippled, sickly and apparently poverty
stricken-crowded upon the decks Of steam
| boats, almost begging their way back to the
homes they left but few months before. And
civil war in Kansas has wrought all this mischief
doomed many hopeful heart to despair and
death, and embttered the lives ofhundreds more
whose pteous stories the world will never know.
| The steamer New Lucy, from ST. Joseph, last
evening brought down three or four families of
these people, natives of Kentucky. They had
4 travelled from Kansas to Jefferson City on foot,
having left the Territory to save their lives and
being afraid to approach the river at nearer
landing, lest their progress should be intercep
ted.-They were destitute when they reached
4 Jefferson City, having scarcely any clothing, and
not the wherewithal to buy food. One woman
had nothing on her person but q tattered under
garment and blanket, and several others Of
the company were in little better condition
They all looked sickly and dispirited, and made
q touching tableaux of misery and despair
True, every word of it true. Instead of hay
ing been welcome Of peace and plenty to tht
energetic and thrifty emigrants who, year OF
two ago, thronged to its iyiting plains, from thu
Northern and Southern States, Kansas, like I
cruel and heartless mother, refused home t
her adopted children and sent them, poor, des
titu.e and wretched, from her bosom. As, afte
Il q disastrous war abroad, the country is flet
: with the crippled, famed and mutllated victims
} so now after this Kansas war, almost ever,
neirhborhood numbers its returned emigran
/, who has some sad story to tell Of cruelty, rapn
and violence in the Territory. Free State mel
: and Pro-Slayery men have alike experiences
!. these sufferings. Men from Massachusetts, an
men from Kentucky-resolute, industrious an
hopeful emigrants, who, il allowed to live in tn
/ Territory in peace, would. in few years, hav
made its wild prairies blossom with the fruits
dilieent husbandry--have been compelled t
: abandon their log-eabins and young farms, an
r Zee. houseless and helpless, before the ferc
i names of . civil strife.
:. On whose shoulders rests the responsibility {
}all this On whose, but those OF tbs Democr,
tic partys Admitting-which we are far frol