The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-03

ssssed by those side. No blood o retaliation
stains hAads. We stand ready to cot purely
In the dsenos Of our homes and lives
But the catalogue Ia not yet complete. On the 18th
Of December, when the people assembled to vote
the constitution then submitted for adopton-only
O few days after the treaty of peace between ths
Governor ON the one side and the town Of Lawrence
on the other another Eruption was made into this
unhappy Territory But / leave all this untold.
Enough Of these details has been given.
Five several times and more have these invaders
entered Kansas in armed array. and thus five times
and more have they trampled upon the organic law
OF the Territory. But these extraordinary exped-
tons are simply the extraordinary witnesses sue
cessive uninterrupted violence They stand out
spicuous, but lot alone. The spirit Of evil in which
they had their origin, was wakefu! and nce ssant.
From the beginning it hung upon the skirts of this
interesting Territory narrowing its peace, disturbing
its prosperity and keeping its Inhabitants under the
painful alarms of war. Thus all security of per-
son, of property and of labor overthrown; and
when urge this incontrovertibe fact, set forth .
wrong, which is small only by the side of the giant
wrong, for the copsummation of which all this was
done. Sir, what is man-what is government
without security; in the absence Of which, nor man
nor government can proceed in development or en-
joy the fruits of existence2 Without security civil
ization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security
much when l declare that security, guarded, of
course by its offspring freedom is the true end and
aim Of government. or this indispensable boon the
Of tHa have thus far been despSab
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ture OF their pursuits, rendering them peculiarly
sensitive to the interruption, and at the ga ne cme
attesting their innocence. They are for the most
part engaged in the cultivation of the soil, which
from time immemoral has been the sweet en-
ployment of undisturbed industry. Contented
In the returns Of bounteous nature and the shade
aggressive accustomed to produce, and
not to destroy he is essentially peaceful unless his
home Is invaded, when his arm derives vigor from
the soil he treads, and his soul inspiration rom the
heavens beneath whose canopy he daily walks. And
such are the people of Kansas, whose security has
been overthrown. Scenes from which civilization
averts her countenance have been q part Of their
daily life. The border incursi0ns, which in barba
rous ages or barbarOus lands have fretted and "har
ried'' an exposed people, have been here renewed,
with this popularity that our border robbers do not
simply levy black mail and drive off few cattle,
like those who acted under the inspiration of the
Douglas of other days. that they do not seize few
persons and sweep them away into captivity, like
the African slave traders whom we brand as pirates
hut that they commit succession Of acts in which
all border sorrOws and all African wrongs are re-
vived together on American soil, and which for the
time being snnuls all protection Of all kinds and
enslaves the whole Territory.
Private griefs mingle their poignancy with pub
lie wrongs. l do not dwell on the anxieties which
families have undergone, exposed to sudden assault,
war ringing in their ears, not knowing that another
day might be spared to them. Throughout this bit
ter winter, with the thermometer at 80 degrees be-
low zero, the citizens Of Lawrence have been con-
their constant watch against surprise. But our
souls are wrung by individual instances In vain do
we condemn the cruetes of another age-the refine
ments Of torture to which men have been doomed
last agonies Of the regicide Ravaac-" Luke's iron
| crown, and Damien's bed Of steel"-for kindred
outrages have dsgraced these borders. Murder
has stalked = assassination has skulked in the
| ness of man has assumed unwonted forms. A
preacher of the Gospel of the Saviour has been rid
den on rail, and then thrown into the Missouri
fastened to log and left 10 drift down its muddy,
t0rtuous current. And lately we have had the lid
ings Of that enormity without precedence deed
without name-where candidate of the Legsla-
ture was most brutally gashed with knives and
hatchets, and them after weltering in his blood on
the snow clad EARTH was trundled along with gaping
wounds, to fall dead in the face of his wife 1t is
common to drop tear of sympathy over the trem.
bling solicitudes Of early fathers exposed to the
stealthy assault Of the savage toe; and an eminent
American artist has pictured this scene in marble
group Of rare beauty, on the front of the national
capitol, where the upfted tomahawk is arrested by
the strong arm and generous countenance of the
pioneer while his wife and children find shelter ut
his feet; but now the tear must be dropped the
trembling solicitudes of fellow citizens, seeking to
build new State in Kansas, and exposed to the per-
petual assault of murderous robbers from Missouri
Hireings picked from the drunken spew and vomit
Of an uneasy cvilization-in the form Of men
Aye, In the taIogus ys so for men;
AZ HOUNDS aud greyhounds rhongref spaniels, ours,
SiouRhs, waer rugs, and demi wolves, called
All by the rame OF dcgs;
eashed together by secret signs and lodges, have
renewed the incredible atrocities of the assassns and
OF the Thugs; showing the blind submission of the
assassins to the Old Man Of the Mountain, in rob-
bing Christians on the road to Jerusalem, and show
ing the heartlessness of the Thugs, who avowing
that murder was their religion, wayaid travellers on
the great road from Agra to Delhi-with the more
deadly bowie knife for the dagger Of the assassin
and the more deadly revolver for the moose Of the
Thug.
sion of all security in this Territory with the plum
der Of the ballotb0x, and the pollution of the cleo
toral franchise, l show simply the process in un-
precedented crime. II that be the best government
where injury to single citizen is resented as an
injury to the whole State, then must our gov
eminent forfeit all claim to any such emf
hence while bit leaves its citizens thus exposed.
In the outrage upon the ballot box, without the
illicit fruits which shall soon expose there is pc
culiar crime OF the deepest dye, though subordinate
to final crime, which should be promptly aven ged.
In countries where royalty is upheld, it is special
offence to rob the crown jewels, which are the en-
blems of that sovereignty before which the loyal
subject bows and it is treason to be found in adlte-
ry with the queen, for in this way may false heir
be imposed upon the States but in our republic the
lalOt box is the single priceless jewel of that
reignty which we respect, and the electoral fran
chise, out Of which born the rulers Of free peo
pe is the queen whom we are to guard against pollu
tiOn In this plain presentment, whether as regards
security regards elections, there is enough, sure
y, without proceeding further, to justify the inter-
vention OF Congress, most promptly and completely,
to throw over this oppressed people the impenetEa.
BILE shield of the constitution and laws. But the half
| is not yet told.
! As every point in a widespread horizon radates
| from common centre, 20 everything said or done
in this vast circle Of crime radaes the idea
that Kanzas, at all hazards, must be made slave
State. In all the manifold wickedness that has
occurred, and in every successive INVASION this
idea has been present. as the Satanic tempter-
| the motive power-the causing cause.
| To accomplish this result, three things were at
tempted: FIRST by Outrages of all kinds to drive the
tory; secondly, to deter others from coming; and
thirdly, to obtain the complete control of the gov
| eminent. The process of driving out, and also of
lettering, has failed. On the contrary, the friends
of freedom there became more fixed in their resolves
to stay and tight the battle, which they had never
sought, but from which they disdaned to retreat;
| while the friends of freedom elsewhere were more
aroused to the duty of timely succOrs by men and