The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-10-13
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The ST. Ioeis Republican, heEdst Futhsn
as il III il forced 70 eseiaim as follows, IN
rels,ion 10 the victims Of noualssism IN
Kansas, Nho have been driven out oil Lea
ten@or,h and other places, aud tho are
leelhg for their lives. as iram pack of
hungry wolves ot demeniaoai savagsS
We saw them once before. in the early
spring, when they went up the river with
money IN their pockets, health IN their
blocd, hope ia their hearts, and the world
before them. They Mere then Ia companies
Of hundreds. lhey had family circles, aud
looked happy. they topk quarters IN the
cabins 81 steamboats,, and psftook Of the
luxury OF fepose aud ,a& us table
| They we're thrifty looking emisrsals, who
| would DO AoaoT 70 aay country.
i I'VE HON see them ia squads Of tens aud
tweatiea--orippied, sekly aud apparently
poverty S,flkea- crowded upon the decks
q steamboats,, almost begging their way
back 10 ihe homes they len but tew
muaths before. Aud civil war in Kansas
/ haa wrought all thls mischief -doomed
mspy a hopeful heart 10 despair and death,
and emhtueFed tie lives oil hundreds more,
whose p,teoua stories the world viii never
know
1 The 81 Louis Iatelbgeneer, a Fillmore
/ organ, follows this up with the comments
below. II ine,udes heuluckians, rs well az
aostheFn men in tbe category Of sufferers
II Is well known that many from Kentucky
aed from the evils Of slavery to find free
hoAes il h gRsas, aud thar being free State
mea, they had to suffer in common with the
| settlers u tue North, TIE wrath oil the bor-
der rutaaRs;-
True, every word Off true Instead Of
having been welcome Ct peace and plenty
10 lac energetic aud thrifty emigrants who,
u year er two ago, thropged u the inviting
, plains .ron the Northern and Southern
States, Kansas, Ike q cruel aud heartless
malaeT, refused i nome 70 her adopted chill
/, dFeg, and sent them, poor, destitute and
Wretched, from her bosom As, after a
disastrous war abroad, the country is filled
Win the erippied, famed aud mutiiated vic
tins, SO now alter this Kansas war, almost
) every neighbarhood numbers It's returned
emigtaats wa has some sad stories 10 tell
ui cruelty, rapine aud violence in the Ter
rilosy. Men from Massachusetts, aud men
from Kentucky Industrious aud
hopeful emgfant, who. ii allowed TO live
jin the Tsrritary III peace. would, In few
with The fruits Of djilgeat husbandry--have
been compelled 10 abandon their loE.cabiHs
and young farms, and flee, houseless and
helpless, before the fierce flames of a civil
strife
! These are fearful pictures of scenes oe-'
earring IN the "free=t country ON earth" in
the middle OF the 18th century. And what
has produced 81 these suferings and sorrow,
aud outrage and wrong2 Who is resposi-
Die, but those st Washington aud on .he
borders 81 Missouri, who are determined to
crash out freedom in Kansas Who but
/ Douglas who opened tie channel through
8eeH ali this wrong has flowed
/ Tie follow az, which We copy from a re-
cent number o. the Squattef Sovereign
shows the aeyiIish spirit among the Dou-
glasites Of Missouri aad Kansas, which has
urged taem Oh e the fsndish outFa ges, whose
results the St Lonis pangrs So Pstheiieally
aeplore. The paper receives the patronage
aud support OF the General Government
Iit i one Of P.eree's mouth-peCes in the
iTerfitoFg
we are determined q repel this North
erR invasion. and make Kansas a slave
State, though our rivers should be colored
with tie blood of their victims. and the car
cases oi dead Abditiooists should be so
numerous IN ahe Territory as 10 breed dis
ease and sickness, We glll not BE- deferred
ia or purposes. Lei those who desire
Caves IA hahsas engage in this unholy and
anJust war against tHe extension OF our be-
Ierad Institution that ls now being waged
against the South bg the Inmates OF the
North
Tia Il 50t an echo u Douglas ~ne'n
sab5aR yous altered 10 The halls u the
Senate Il Is bot an agewai Of the deter
m5nat3on which has actuate 8 the whole sia.
very eraF from the time Of the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise 70 the present mo.
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