Delaware State reporter. [volume] (Dover, Del.) 1853-1859, 1856-02-19
Dover, Tuesday, February 70, 1856.
A Lamentable State of Affairs is
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to be Blamed!
According to late accounts from Kansas,
civil war would seem to be inevitable. The
Abolitonists claim to have elected. as governor,
q man by the name of RoDINsoN; but the pro-
slavery party deny the legality Of his election.
The former, however, are in great terror on ac-
count of the alleged anticipation of military |
attack upon them by the Mssourians and
other pro-slavery advocates. Whether this fear
on the part of the Abolitionists, arises from
consciousness of their being in the wrong, or
from real danger, we are not fully informed. |
But we have received no reliable information
sufficient to Justify the conclusion that such
design is entertained at present by the pro-sla-
very men. although we can find little reason to
doubt the probability Of 1t.
ROBINSON has addressed the following letter
to the Governor of Ohio, who has laid it before
the Legislature of that State. It has also been
transmitted to other States in which freesoilism
is predominant:
LAWRENCE CRY, K. T., Jan. 2lst.
To His Exccllency, The Governor of Ohio:
Strive have authentic information that an
overwhelming force ofthe citizens Of Missouri
are organizing upon our border. amply supplied
with artillery. for the avowed purpose of inva-
ding our Territory, demolishing our towns, and
butchering our Free State citizens.
We hope to be able to hold out until assist
ance can reach us. We respectfully request, on
behalf of the citizens of Kansas, that such steps
may be rukeI by the people of the States as hn-
manitv suggests, to prevent the ~uccesSIui car
rying out of so inhmnan an outrage.
7. H. LANE, Chairman Elk. Com, X. i.
G. RopINsoN.s GOV. elect of Kansas.
General PoNRRoY, of Kansas. we are inform
eds in New England engaged in collecting
the materials for war. ROBINSON is likewise
represented as having sent the following dis
patch TO his friends in CINCINNATI: !" Tell
them the Territory is arming for self defence
preparing for war--to enlist all they can get,
and with as large an army as possible TO be
ready at moments warning" In another
letter to Massachusetts he writes: "War is
inevitable enroll all the men you can, and be
ready to march at moments warning"
AT Lawrence the frcesoilers are under arms.
They have half a ton oflead and as much pow
der, while more, with provisions, are reported
to be coming in preparatory for battle. Forti-
fications are erected and garrsoned with COM
panies Messengers have been dispatched to
different parts Of the Territory to summon
them to be ready upon notice. A letter is also
published from Senator ATcnIsoN, calling upon
q pro-slavery men to send on forces to fight the
battles of the South
Scenes such as these have never before beer
witnessed in this country They are truly
alarming. From foreign foe we have little t.
fear, but the full consequences of civil war car
neither be toreseen nor described. Such war,
are always most bloody and fatal. As The
combatants are Of the same country, each party
aims at the determination Of the other This
naturally results from the circumstance that
both can not dwell together; and besides, the
luminosity is ever found to be Of the bilteres
character. A government revolutionised in thu
blood Of its own inhabitants is catastrophe la
mentable to reflect upon. Should this flame o
civil war in Kansas, which now appears jus
read to blaze forth, be once kindled in earnest
it is impossible to tell where it will terminate
Should RoBrNsoNs policy be sustained by tn
sending of troops and other materials Of wa
from the Free States, without the proper autho
rity, similar unlawful measures would undoubt
eddy be adopted by the slave holding States
not only as a means Of retaliation, but of sell
defence. The authority of the general govern
ment would then clearly be disregardcd and Sc
at defiance; nor would any thing else remain
but the sword of civil war to decide the conflict
Already the authority Of the majority. speakin,
through the ballot-box, which was wisely in
tended to decide all differences in this country
and which has heretofore so admirably fulfilled
its purpose, is openly set at naught in Kansas
This and the sword are the only two means of ter
lninating public differences; whenever the fol
mer is rejected, the latter remains as the onl
alternative.
It is to be hoped that the people of Kansa
may return to their right minds; and that tn
schemes of these Infatuated men may be We've
in their true light and discouraged by the pee
pie and the authorities of other States north an
SOUTH But what grounds there are for hot
can not now clearly be seen.
In regard to the question where the fau
lies. it may be admitted. no doubt, that bot
parties are at fault. 1t is unqucstionabl
wrong for the inhabitants Of Missouri and othe
border settlers to interfere in any manner, eithe
with the elections or any other public affair 0
Kansas. But it is by no means less so, fol
men residing in the Northern and Eastern States
hundreds Of miles distant, to form association,
for the purpose Of turning the whole tide of en-