Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-06-19
The Kansas 0utrages.

A dispatch from st. Louis on the l2th,
gives an account of the way government troops
dsarm Free State men, and leave them unprO-
tected 1t says: Advices from Palmyra, Kail-
sas under date of June 9th, mention that Osa-
wattomie was attacked and plundcred on the
18th by an army Of 100 men, who had come up
to Palmyra under Gen. Whitfield, the bogus
delegate to Congress, mostly from WcStpOrt,
Independence and Lexington, Mo- The ".
s. troops disbandcd the the Free State parties
that went out to meet the MisSouriaus as they
came up. Whitfeld's men plundcrcd twenty
five houses III O3awattome, shot sixteen horses,
and went so far as to take rings and eur rings
from the women. A printing Office was dcs-
troycd, and after all was done, some of the par
ty started for WeStport with their booty the
remainder went some miles south and canIpcd.
The Free State men are closely watched by
government troops, diSbandcd, and in some
cases diSarmed. The mail from Lawrence to
Westport was robbed by law and order"
men, last Friday. They have been pillaging SO
that it is unsafe to come up by the Westport
road. No one should land at Kansas city but
all should go to Lcavenworth. At least
dozen transfers and horscnen have been rob
bed on the road leading from WcStpoft into
the territory, within Il few days. The road il
infested with law and order camps. A Mr..
Brooks had load of -four taken from him by
them. The body of Free State man was
found with three bullets in it, near where Gen.
Whitfcld's camp has been, and another was
left on the praries, bound and gagged Out
RACES of this last description are very numerous.
Mr.. Howard, of the Kansas Committee, and
Messrs. Hanscomb, Lord, Townsend, and other
fl ,,f fbn a.
on the steamer Polar Star, from Kansas They
start for the East Tomorrow When they left
Kansas, large bodies of Missouras were pour
ing into the territory, determined on fighting,
and the Free State men were mastering, equal
y anxious for battle
Persons just arrived at Chicago, from Kan
sas city Monday evening, state that Col Sam
ner ordered Gen. Whitlield's army to leave the
territory on Saturday, when.the whole number,
400 left, and went to Westport, where they
wore reinforced by $50 Mssourians, and ro-
turned on Sunday, threatening to hang Col.
Sumner If they caught him. A collision 10
tween the U. S. troops and Whitlield's party
was expected, unless the latter changed their
purpose.
Geo. G.. Fosg, Esq., Editor Of the Indepen-
dent Democrat at Concord, New Hampshire.
ana VINO was the chief Secretary OF the kam-
sas Investigating Committee, as the result Of
two months painful experience in the the terri
tory, says:
Instead of the wrongs Of the people Of Kan
sas having been exaggerated the half Of their
wrongs has never been told And this the
testimony taken by the Congressional Commits
sion will couclusvcly show And yet, no oral or
written testimony portray height and depth,
the length and breadth of the outrages perbe.
tratcd in that territory under the color Of law.
and by authority of men who hold commissions
under the President of the United States. In
Gliding the Governor, Judges, Marslial and
Indian Agents. they are engaged in one consol-
dated conspiracy, having for its object the ex-
pusion of every Free State settler from the ter.
ritory, and the establishment of Slavery there
IN all hazards, not excepting civil war and a
dissolution of the Union.