Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-04
The Kansas Question.

Through the columns of this journal we have
given, during the past week, full details of the
late disturbances in Kansas which resulted in
the partial destruction of the town of Lawrence,
in the killing of number of unoffendne citizens
and in throwing the whole territory into a con-
dition closely resembling civil war
In the conflict, Of parties iii that unhappy Sec
ton we have little disposition to interfere, ex
cept so far as general considerations touching its
future welfare may induce US to speak, and so
far as duty may require of to give publicity to
the latest and most authentic accounts of what
ever may transpre there. This line of conduct
we have endeavored to pursue. We have not
hesitatei to condemn outrage, no matter by
whom perpctrated. We have spoken freely in
regard to the future requirements OF labor and
the inducements to enterprise in the infant COM
nonwealth of the westand We have presented to
our readers not only the narratives OF eyewitness
es of the narrowing scenes about Lawrence and
Leavenworth, but also accounts transmitted thro
the remains of the public press in Kansas, swell
| as the comments Of the journals published in the
border counties of Missouri. This news, SO start
ing in its character, has flashed along the wires
north and south, has been spread broadcast by
| the mails, and the voice that comes back from
| tbs whole country is so full of passional excit-
| ment, so ominous of sectional animosity, arons-
| ed to its tiercest heats, as to bid all men who
have stability of our republican institutions at
heart, to weigh their words with scrupulous care
and consider OF the affairs of the territory with
redoubled calmness.
Kansas has become the La Vendee of Ameri-
| ca. Its there that the Jacobins at Washington
under the.specious titles of equality Of citizen
ship, and with the armed powers of law and or
der, are enforcing in blood and FIRE, edicts OBJ
noxious to the people and destructive Of individ-
| mol froeHOu, Tho ycyernmnpf Of Prosi,Iapt
PIERCE has undertaken to subdue the inhabitants
tot certain districts, and are not the United
States troops put in reQuisiton, and the Federal
courts and Federal officers trained to the work,
but for fear it may not be effectually done, all
this power is given uncontrolled into the hands
of an excited and Infatuated gathering Of relcnt-
less partisans And those inhabitants against
whom such forces were nrrayed, have been SUBJ
dued Theirtowns have been sacked; their men
killed; their women forced to fee; their houses
burned. their presses destroyed; aud the hber-
tyo thought, speech, of action, for the time be-
ing, utterly annihilatcd in Kansas Territory
The rule of a tyrannical, and wicked administers
ton is dominant and the passions Of Southern
men have been appealed to, and their arms and
persons inslGiously used to accomplish the work.
For the acts and even outrages committed by
men who feel deeply enlisted in the fancied Sc.
curity of their slave property, and who deem il
endangered by the settlement of free State colo
MES we can have much charity, for We know
how far such excitements viii carry men, even in
the mos. order-loving communities; and that in
the heat OF blood they will be driven to excuses
that their cooler Judgment win be prompt to con
denim. And such we think has been the case in
kansas. The pro-slayery party there finding
themselves suddenly vested with all power; feel
ing the mantle Of Executive authority placed up