Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-16
From the Chicago Tribune.
The Outrage. E3t rsf II

1t is marvellous, as we'll as monstrous, that
one of the great high-ways of the Nation should
be blockaded, and the gravel of Freemen upon
it stopped, by alawless and irresponsible power.
Yet SO it is! i4it this very hour the white labor
ing man of the North, if for making Kansas
Free State, cannot travel up the Missouri.
The cry or excuse Of the pro slavery party for
the wrongs perpetrated by the border men, is,
that .tthey were for law and order" Yet see
what they have done They have
Invaded Kansas Territory s
-Usurped legislative power
Denied therein free speech and the right to
vote 4t'5
Burned and sacked cities
Murdered, robbed and pillaged peaceful cit
-Blockaded the Missouri River. r.
How step bystep, the Missouri rnfiians have
advanced in outrage and villany. The frstin-
vasion was enough to have reused the land-it
did shock it: the subsequent ones bolder and
darker; the last crowns the infamy of the whole,
for its daring and damnable despotism. Yet not
a move is made by Government to arrest the
scoundrels thus guilty, or to give to Free-State
men the right made common to'every citi-
zen. 1t yields all oSayery and Slavery exten-'
sion! si49Sf -.E+ '.
An Independent journal Cincinnati CONNER
eial) recounting these monstrous outrages of the
Missouri border men, and declaring that it can
no longer keep aloof, says:
ssEyen as their deeds are nlonstrous their
bearing is hold, and instead of the words that
were once dear to every American heart-"Give
me liberty or give me death they demand
slavery, and would. aye do, murder those who
oppose them "lSlaperY or death . is their war
cry. Yet, with the craft of the devil they do not
trust alone to violence for the accomplishment
of their vile desires. They scheme to have the
lands on which the Free State settlers have To-
Gated, brought into market at such a time that
the war-worn and impoverished squatters will
be unable to pay for them, and they, the Ruff.
ans stand ready to take by law that which the
bowie-knife and the torch have spared. And
while the scheme of pacifcation of Douglas is
being passed upon, its ostensible features being
to grant liberty of speech and secure the right
of suffrage to those in the territory, that they
may, :. in their own way decide upon their in
stitutions, the Rufians take an advanced step,
just equivalent in length to the back out of men
in Kansas, which is atedious and precarious
business, they strike nearer the root of the diff
fculty, they proceed toward the fountain head,
and take measures to cut off the supply of food
for their powder and steel-they absolutely
blockade the Missouri River against the people
of the North. An army Of Ruf6ans, with artille-
ry and munitions of war, is encamped at Lex
ington, and IS robbing the Free State men, and
setting them adrifto the great river ~. ~
Such a specimen of highway robbery as this,
has not been heard Of since the Buccaneers ruled
and robbed on the West India Seas. 1t is al
most incredible that sucn things are done in the
heart Of this continent, which We once thought
was civilized. Robbers, protesting to be the
conseryators Of lawand order, have command of
the noblcst of our rivers, and forbid those who
are not in favor of the nationality of slavery, to
pass There isa baud Of pirates, as sanguinary
and meaner than those who sailed under black
flags long ago, who are dispoiling our citizens
| now. What viii be the next stepof these de-
bauched and desperate highway thieves and as
sassins, into whose hands our friends fall when
| they 60 out West 7 & It is . grave question, for
that there is progress is plain. The fact is pal
pable, we think, that it is not worth while to yield
any more ground, unless it is proposed to con
vert all the free States into slave States for the
| sake Of peace. We must make stand some.
where against the food of pro.slayery madness
| the black and bloody waves of which are swell
ing fast, or that in principle We hold precious
ltor our own and our eountry's sake will be los
forever Peaceably il we can, forcibiy if We
must, we shall stand by the rights that remain
Ito us, among which We may yet count, if We dart
! assert il boldly, the right TO vote for Fremon
for nex / Prendens.ss He cis the great s Path
4 6nder,n and il we can elect him to- the higl
/ Office for which be 10 nominated, we are sur,
| that he can find paths by q North Path, or
!" South Pass through which men, the men o
the North may march to their heritage Of fire.
territory, unobstructed BY standing armies o
blood suckers