Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-11

OF The work ofjustifying the bloody ad-
vent of LANES fillibustering vagabonds into
Kansas, promises to tax the ingenuity and
condolences of the Abolition agitators more
severely than any work they have sought to
accomplish since the opening of the present
campaign. So cold-blooded, brutal and
iend-liks are the deeds of which these hired
marauders, fshed up from the pot houses
and reeking cesspools of infamy in the east
ern cities, are guilty, that the blood fairly
curdles at the recital. If the Stree State''
citizens of Kansas have suffered wrong at
the hands Of the "border ruffians," it affords
no excuse for the indiscriminate plumber and
murder that have marked the footsteps of
this degraded band of miscreants, recruited
and accoutered for the very work they are
performing, under the sanction of Parson
BEEcHER's Church of the Holy Rifles. They
were sent to Kansas for the express purpose
of driving from the Territory all who should
cross the path of LANE, REEDER & Co., in
their reasonable designs against the govern
ment. 1t was no wrongs of their own that
they sought to avenge, for they never expe-
rienced any. Nor was it alone to avenge
the wrongs of "free State men," that they
reared the blazing torch of the incendiary
and sent the bullet whizzing upon its GRAND
of death. They carried the work of pro-
scription, plumber and death against those
who had inflicted personal harm upon no
one-against those whose only crime was
that of being identified with the "pro-s slavery
party" And all are called "pro-slavery,"
in Kansas, who do not bow the knee to the
golden calf which LANE, REEDER, Robin
SON & Co., have set up for the people to
worship. When these men were enrolled
under LANES bloody banner, they we'll un-
derstood that they were going to Kansas ito
fight" They proclaimed this to be the OBJ
ject Of their mission, all the way from Chica-
go to the Missouri river
LANE proclaimed it in his appeals and
harangues to the people. He said he would
make Kansas "free State" or earn for him.
self bloody burial beneath her soil. Their
march through Iowa was that of a regularly
organized military train, and not of cara
van of honest peaceably- disposed emigrants.
The whole body consisted of men of rowing
dispositions and lawless habits, totally unen-
numbered with the presence of women and
children. LANES arrival upon the frontier
was the signal of disorder and outrage. The
entrance of his men into the Territory was
followed up by the attack upon Franklin and
other places occupied by "pro-slavery" set
tiers. All these exciting scenes followed.
one after another, in quick succession, and,
together, form series of events that should
brand with infamy the party to whom they
owe their origin. The Abolition leaders no.
where affect to condemn these outrages, but
apply themselves to the task of shifting the
responsibility upon the shoulders of the
"bordef ruffians." In this they have work
beyond their ability to perform. The facts
are all against them, even allowing " free
state" letter writers in Kansas to be the ex-
ponents. -
The N. Y. Tribune is straining every nerve
to save its party from the torrent of indig-
nation with which it is threatened to be over.
whelmed but even the pettifogging efforts
of that sheet carry the evidence of weakness
upon their own face The freedom shrek |
srs" have been shrieking" long time for
a fresh instalment of :" Kansas capital" I'll
they have got little larger one than they |
can answer for, their own is the fault