Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-05
THE KANSAS WAR,


The correspondent of the ST. Louis Intelligencer
under date of Dec. 10th, says that after two days
Of laborious negotiation, between Gov. Shannon
on one side and Gen. Robinson and Colonel Lane
on the part of the people of Lawrence on the 9th.
er the whole matter was brought to a close:
The Governor, in n paper signed by him and
Gen. Robinson and Col. Lane, declared that the
whole had resulted from misunderstanding. That
the people of Lawrence and vicinity we're, as they
always had been, law and order abiding people;
that he, the Governor, pledged himself that hc
would not employ these forces below against the
people of Kansas, as a posse or otherwise. lie also
declared that these Missourians were on Kansas
sol! without his authority. Gov. Shannon also
promised his influence to recover indemnity TO the
people of Kansas for their losses 1t was also ex.
plicitly set forth that the people of Ka 1sas had a
right to test the validity Of the laws of the terrific
rial Legislature In a proper way, and also explicit
~ d clared that no opinion rs to the validity of
These laws was given, or conceded by the terms of
:he agreement.
The Governor made an odd speech as to the
character of these laws before he left LAWRENCE on
Saturday night, and promised that he would do all
he could to get the men below disbanded. When
he went back to the camp, on the Wakarusa, there
was an awful disturbance. A large number want
ed to come up and "whip the Abolitionists any
how" Col. Boone, of Westport, who had been a
party to the negotiation, though not in signature.
urged compliance with the treaty. Even Senator
Atchison, who has been in the camps and lowering
around Lawrence for n week made a speech in favor
OF the Missourians going home. 1.-The position of
Gen. ROBINSON" he said, sis impregnable; not in
a military point of view, but his tactics have Civ
en- him all the advantage as to cause of quarrel.
III you attack Lawrence now, you attack it as n
mob. and what would be the result? tell you it
would cause the election of an Abolition Presi-
dent and the ruin of the Democratic Party. Wait
"a lttle-now you cannot destroy these people with
out losing more than you would gain" Such
were the leading features of his "peace speech"
Other things had n happy effect on the negotiations.
Whiskey ~ been exhausted in the camp below,
and provisions were growing scarce. On Saturday
night we had n tremendous storm of wind, with
sleet and rain it was almost impossible TO have
fires, or be near them. And next day the men dis
banded, and went home very fast swearing ven.
geance on Governor Shannon. They had also been,
dupcd by their leaders, who told them that the
Free State people were to give up their arms and
surrender Internationally.
There are many interesting events connected
with this affair, that | will give in subsequent let
tiers. The Missourians carried with them three
dead bodies; one of these had been shot by their
own guard, who mistook him for a Free State man;
one was killed in a drunken row, and one shot him
self accidentally several others were wounded in
the same way by themselves. All the blood split
has been by the invaders. Two Free State men
were known to have been shot, and both were de-
liberate and cold-blooded murders; and the facts
connected with the shooting Of Barber, last week,
by a party who met him on the prairie, and coolly
murdered him when he was completely without
arms, are of so atrocious n character as to have
aided materially in disgusting and driving many
of the better class from the invading camp. In
deed, the blood of Barber was unquestionably one
of the parts of that price which the Free State
men have paid for their victory. ARGUS.
BLACK LAWS IN KANsAs.--ThG people of Kansas
were to have voted on the adoption Of their State
i Ton Ctitutiap m tbo 1Stl IA a. Al. u... 49,.
they were called upon to express their approval
or disapproval Of the passage of laws by the Cen
eral Assembly excluding free negroes from the
State" The result of the vote by the people to
act as instructions to the first General Assembly
on that subject.
Thus the Kansas men (some of them Free State
men are for expelling colored people from the Ter
ritory because they are free. And Missourians
are for expelling the free State men because they
against slaveholding in the Territory. Is it any
less q crime to expel colored men than white?
REVEALS AMONG THE SLAvEHoLDERs.-Six Camp
meetings recently held nearWincheste Tenn. result
ed in s~ixty-ivc or seventy hopeful conversions, with
f~orty-fve or fifty accessions to the church. AT
New Hope, Tenn, twenty-five white persons and
three blacks professed religion during snch e meet
ing. 1t was the Cumberland Pres5yterians of
Indiana, who in order to keep up their fellowship
! with these Tennessee Brethren recently expelled u
minister from their body for an act Of humanity
) to a slave, and who was also accessory to such
measures as compelled him to flee from his home
to escape Incarceration in a Kentucky penitentiary.
And that for an exhibition of christianity made
6 in Indiana. These Cumberland Presbytcrians Of
e Indiana doubtless thank God most devoutly for the
D conversion of their slaveholdiug brethren at Win
e chester.
D The Baptists in Texas are exulting that "God is
blessing Baylor University in their State with q
revival.
The Shareholders in Charlottesville Va. are re-
u joicing in a revival of their religion. They al
Z ready number one hundred and thirty converts.
Alas for the slaves, when their masters rob and
g fog them with solemn faces and hopocritical pray
n er'.
e STREAMING AT GNATs.-The conscientious Meth
odists of the South Carolina Conference have re-
q solved to sell their interest as individuals in tho
e S. c. R. Accompany y, "5ecause the Company would
e work on the Sabbath day, and they did not not
wish to participate in making money on the Sab
bath"
y PUTNAM FOR JANUARy.-The first number of
Putnam for the new year lies on our table. The
leading article is a paper On Shakespeare which we
have read with unusual interest. We hope the
y editor will not be disappointed in his anticipation
e of = series of articles on the same subject from the
same pen. They cannot but be highly valuable to
the student Of literature. We cherish the hope
d that many persons will be benefited by the perusal
of the story entitled 'Owlscopse." We cannot, how
IS ever, consistently say much IN praise of the poetry
in this number, which is, really, not very much
better than that of Godey's Lady's Book. "The