Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-04

wesssy, it gave way 70 The impulse ofshe momes
& - es@nissed atsee;lieA shAs haye brought d
grace sipon their cnuse, aud will bring dow
UPON their deed the condemnation Of every cor
seysaiise and patriotic nsAn q The land. 4
/ sayiug this, too, ne wish % be understood a
i denouncing those only who participated IN II
recent and PAST onfrases which hare made til
short history Of Kansas an eventfuI and disgrace
full a. vel - rlarsicroas one. Had the emigrs
lion 70 that Territory been composed OF sians
holders from the South or from Missouri, no ma,
ter how fanaticai might have been the course Q
Northern men, short OF overt acts Of hostility
we have no idea that any such scenes would hav'
i been ~itnessed. Aess mho ocn such pToptrf
know full well that civil connections, turbulence
collision, bloodshcd, are not the proper foanda
tons upon which to build up securely the inst
tutions OF slave State. But snch was not til,
character or the bands who have recently aocket
| thither--tbe majority Of them from the Souti
are bcardless boys eager for ARRAY, thrifless ant
impoverished partizans who look to civil discort
1 for profit and honors and hot-headed ultra think
ers Of the school of disunion who care little how
soon the bonds OF the confederacy are severed
Can /. be wondered then that such should be ca
silly impclled into outrages, that remind US only
of forays of the Fandals and the yisigoths
into the lower empire. Instances to show thai
this was the kind Of immigration mightbe multi
Piled, but ii is sufficient to note the latest arri
yal--that of Col. Buford's command from the
South, which is now living from hand to mouth
upon money subscriptions raised in Missouri
From this, all can Judge whether such persons are
sny true type Of the slaye-holding and slayeown-
ing population of the Southern and Western
States
Even for such, however, we can make the al
lowances due to education, and exaggerated no.
tons of the Importance Of their mission, coupled
with the excitements necessarily resultant from
the conduct of the Federal authorities. They
have done wrong, foolish, an outrageous
thing in the sacking of Lawrence and the murders
of Free State men for exercising the rights of a
free and equal citizenship. They have brought
deep reproach upon the slave holding States of
the Union, and the slave holding population Of
those States who are true in their devotion to
the Union: and while many may be found who
will acquit them of having purposely and mali
ciously done those deeds-few, very few, viii be
found to justify their actions.
Such are our view in regard to the So called
t'pose' which Marshal Donaldson saw fit to
summon, after the United States dragons, to
whom no resistance had been or would have
been offered, we're sent back to Fort Leaven-
worth. But such are not our views in regard to
the conduct of the administration at Washing
ton and its servile minions and employees in
Kansas. We believe that President Pierce
calmly and with deliberate malice prepared the
way for civil war, and the determination of all
free State settlers from the claims in Kansas,
and we believe that nervously yet with still
blacker malice his official pimp Governor Shan
non, his Federal Judges and his q. S. Marshal,
arranged the details and carried out the work
they were appointed to execute. they did not
want to make arrests, for the U. s. troops ac-
that, but they sought to arouse civil
strife under prctext of which to drive from the
territory all who would not yield to them an
abject submission. To effect this it was neces-
sary to appeal to the excitement of passion, and
so they refused to employ disciplined force I'M
der the command of responsible officers. Resort
was had to a corrupt Judiciary dependent upon
favor, to packed jures and reck-
less officials, to indictments for treason in viola
ton of the Constitution of the United States, to
of nuisance in derogation ofprivate
rights, and to summonses, and all the machinery
OF compulsory attendance in total disregard of
the sacred guarantees of individual freedom
When all was fixed and prepared, the
Marshal's proclamation was spread around, and
the note of civil war trumpcted abroad. Special
couriers were employed to carry the sum-
monses for 'posse" in every direction, and
as might have been expected, their race was
not stopped at the confines of Missouri
We publishedtw two days since the placard of one
of Mr.. Pierce's officials, the Postmaster at West
port, No., A. G. Boone, calling upon the citi-
zens ofCass county, Mo-, to rally to the call.
The invitation was extended likewise to the in
habitants of Platte county Mo-. and company
under the lead ofMr. Bayliss, now candidate
for the Missouri Legislature, is said to have
gone over to the scene of disturbance. At St.
Joseph, in Buchanan county, Mo-, the same pro-
:lamation was made public and volunteers in
vited, but in this instance, thanks to the con-
sentative speech of Willard P. Hale, the people
refused to interfere in the affairs Of the neigh
DO: ing Territory, although urged to do SO by
Baker and others. At Lawrence,
Atchison, who is warm in the bosom of Execu-
i've favor, was prominent actor. The Mar
'has of the United States also were leaders on
he occasion, and after serving their writs de-
ivered their posse" over to the infamed pas
'ions of Sheriff Jones. Judge Lecompte did
his part in the Federal court for the occasion,
while Wilson Shannon stood quietly by and re-
fused protectionto the citizens who called upon
nim to preserve them from the fury of their be-
sicgers. All things show the purpose which an
mated these officials, whilst the course of the
seconded by its dorgh-faced !
squire-at-arms, Mr.. Douglas, gives ample assn
rance that the entire programme was fully sane
toned by the Executive approval, if not by d.
rect instructions from Washington City.
Upon the President, then, and his aiders and |
,bettors, let the full weight of public indigna-
ton fall. Imoecile in the past, infamous in the
present, his name will 60 down to posterity only
Is foul blot upon the record of the nation. In
stigated by a petty ambition, and solictuus only
for the plundercd honors of the Republic, he has
not hesitated to brave the initiation of the direst
,alamities to the country, that he might secure
ew more suilragesin a complimentary vote at
he Cincinnati Convention. In such light should
his whole matter be viewed, and wise men, and
considerable men should be far from making it
matter of sectional grievance, or using it to fan
The passions of the North against the South 1t
is an aggression direct from Washington, and
not from Missouri or Carolina or Alabama. lis
he array of Federal power against the sentiment
md conviction ofhalf the nation, and it should
be felt in like manner by the people aggrieved
and through constitutional modes by consgn.
ing to the lowest places of popular contempt the
authors and their unworthy crew of
followers. The demonstration should be level
ed at the instigator Of all the unhappy dsturban-
ces; the tragedy at Lawrence should be ayeng-
ed upon the occupant of the White House-the
freedom Of speech, Of the press, and of the per-
son, should be indicated by hanishing from pow
er those who have invaded and destroyed them
al, and then and not till then, may we hope to
hear a renewal of the song of the reaper, and
sec the CLEAN Of the plougshare in the peaceful
valley of Kansas. The old Roman used to con-
,lude ever with the expressive sentence Garth
age must be blotted out" Let US in like man
aer conclude all solemn public appeals in the fu-
ture with the needful injunction. ''Pierce and
his tail of servile followers must be hurled from
power" The repose of the country demands
It, and it should be accomplished at all hazards.
COM nj e RCIAL.
Review of Burlington Market.