The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-03
Hannegan on the Kansas Question.

to Judge Law of this city, on the subject of
Kansas affairs The Judge had heard Hanne-
gan was making speeches defending the border
rufaans-he knew Hannegan had been to Kan
sas just purposely TO collect material for sucn
speeches-that he was in manner sent there
by his party to get capital to balance Col.
Lanes influence on the other side--and so
Judge Law wrote Hannegan letter to get a
reply for publication. 1t has come h. Clay
Pate, or the redoubtable Mr.. Mud Head, has
written many much better defences of the ruff
fans than the polished Hannegan has succeed
ed in doing, and on the whole we think his
letters are entitled to as much credit. Han
negan, we venture to say, knows really less of
the real condition of things in Kansas, than
many men who never were within q thousand
miles of the territory. We much doubt
whether he spent twenty-four consecutive
hours in Kansas while absent. If so, he was
in the company of men from who he coull
hear butone tale, and in whose presence the
Hon. edward A. flanagan dared not as he
valued life and liberty, express a free and an
slavery into Kansas. Eating, sleeping and no
doubt drinking with such men as these, Mr..
Hannegan is admirably prepared to enligkten
tie people Of Indiana as to the condition of
things in Kansas and their causes. More re-
liable witnesses than him have. and from this
State, aye from this very city, have given
statements and backed by evidence, proving
that Mr.. Hannegan is in his letter either stud
iously endeavoring to grossly deceive the pub
lie, or that he is in a most lamentable state of
ignorance as to that Of which he speaks.
Like the Ruffians themselves, Hannegan in
the first place lays the whole blame on the
Emigrant Aid Society. Is it possible man
ofhis intelligence does not know what this
society is, and what are its objects? He kuo,os
and he need not pretend to believe the contra
ry, that when he says this Society sent hun
dreds of persons to Kansas just 10 vote, he
states falsehood, which common sense alone
makes ridiculous. A society sending men on
acostly trip of perhaps Twenty-Five hundred
miles, with heavy expenses after arriving, and
some of them with their families, just to vote
and then return home! Was there ever a more
absurd idea than this?-and yet E. A. Han
negan has the impudence to write a letter here
telling our poor ignorant, deluded, neglect cit
liens, that the Emigrants Aid Society is ac-
tually doing this. Why the more ignorant Of
the border rufians laughed at'this story them
selves, when they first got it up. Hannegan
is retailing it second handed, and it is worse
than borrowing and wearing neighbours dirty
shirt But be objects to this company's buy
ing up lands in Kansas. That is just precise
ly what the company was found for--to spec
ulate in lands. They bought lands in good
sites as they had rightto, and then to make
these lands valuable offered every inducement
TO emigration. so that as settlements sprang up
around their lands, they would increase in
value. Gathend in the Eastern States, the
.emigrants sent out by this company were nc
doubt in a great measure Free State men
but whatever might be their opinions, was
none of the care nor the business of the Aid
Society.
Mr.. flanagan uses the following extraor
binary language. 'The present disturbed con
dition of affairs is attributed solely to tht
glaring misconduct Of Reeier in resisting tht
mandate of the Court" So because Reede,
refused to obey the mandate of this Judg
Jeffries of Kansas, claiming from his oficia
position freedom from arrest as he had RICH
to do he has produced all the numerous out
RACES, the burning of houses, destruction o
printing Offices, killing Of human beings, mob
biBgs and lynchings, which have since occur
.redi Oh, CONSTANT Mr.. Hanneganl TIL
Emigrant Aid Society caused all the outrage
before the order for Reeder's arrest-and Reed
er refusing to be arrested produced all the out
RACES afterwards In the meantime the gentle
humane, forbearing border ruffiians, were ex
amples of christian weakness and virtue
Happy Mr.. Hannegan
Mr.. Hannegan defends this Jefries of Kan
-sas as an accomplished gentleman, &c. In tn
same breath he defends that drunken Senate
rial scoundrel. Dave Atchison, ass muc
.slandered and abused individual He ha
promised to send the Judge copy.of Atchi
sons azspeech for publication here, as .it-wa
published in Atchisons organ. Now we tol
tunately have had reports of that identica
speech from four persons who heard it--an
the report differed SO little, as in that fac
alone to prove their correctness. Atehiso
was entirely too drunk to remember his word
well enough to report them for publication
But this remarkable Hannegan document yer
appropriately closes with senlogy upon Co