Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-10-11
GEN. BANE CHALLENGES TIE
BORDER RUFFIANS.
70 Messrs. A. W. DoS,pn,S oadA. G. Booy

IfHf't'tAfA
your names are subscribed as in1orsers. Alch
ison & Co., your principals, have long sine,
placed themselves beyond the pale of lhose VIII,
can be recognized as gentlemen; and therefor,
! address you.
II this half Of the circular conveys any ide,
Of the spirit or tenor Of the whole article,
venture the assertion that in reckiossness Of yo
racily and bald Justification il would be difficult
to find its parallel,
have never enlisted an army, nor even a
single soldier, to march into Kansas. tray.
eled through Iowa in company with a large
body of peaceablo citizens, each Of whom ayow-
cd, with the greatest apparent sincerity, their
determination to become bona fde settlers of
Kansas, and, SO FAR as my knowledge extends,
have actually made good their professions, and
are now making homes for themselves and their
families. Fearing my presence might be seiz-
ed upon as pretext for attacking them by the
United States troops, ] lei the company on the
east side Of the Missouri River, and travelled in
to Kansas alone, taking different route from
theirs, 50 as to be entirely disconnected with
them.
Ga my arrival in Kansas | found the border
papers ieeming with inlamaiory denuncialions
Of our citizens. and boldly proclaiming against
them war uf determination and in response
to their indictments, hordcs Of depraved mis-
guided desperadoes entering the country, many
Of them having inscribed on their hats, Death
to Abolitionisls, and no quarter; a mother and
daughter, in the absence Of the husband and
father, ravished By nearly one hundred fendish
men the gifted Major Hoyi, who had gallant
ly served his country in the Mexican war, hru-
tally murdered while totally unarmed, his body
hacked to pieces, and few sods thrown over
him, leaving his arms and fee, projecting from
the earth, prey for wolves prisoners mur-
dered in manner exceeding, IL possible, even
the shocking barbariiy Of savage tribes, and af-
ierward scalped-one man scalpod while alive
and who yet lives to exhibit his skinless head
to an outraged world dwellings burned over
helpless women and screaming children.
In the state Of confusion and Indignation re-
suliins from these ouirages, the people Of Kan
sas sought my aid and counsel and tool,
command Of the forces rallied for their defense
as an imperative duty which the prompiings Of
humanity forbade me to refuse Instead Of fol-
lowing the examples Of your associates, we de-
,ermined 10 wage an honorable and only de-
fensve warfare. To this end, the first order
issued guaranteed protection to the settler with
out reference to his politics, compelled humane
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