The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-06

live eske cay sllswsaee {esl ~. nc aad
coustsy IL which We live, the sscting Of
lawrence % asisiled ia Mr.. Mallseyss. let.
". il not paralleled BY any a,roci,y ofes-
pat Or @odern tipes- Ihe Amsaeah ~
dan hetle SACRED xhe pSson Of she sosst
vho has Abmoted with him - pipe 81
pssce. Nc Aseb Of IT, desstsouh die
ia defeaes even Of anl eeu0 who had ~un-
.wares eaten bread under his tent. But
lere is a man calling himself United
States Marshal. who takea - iree sdinnef in
. friendly way at the hands Of his entertain
ers, who promises the people Of Lawrence
that if they make no resistance they shall
not be injured.-and who n a few hours
afterwards, by ball and fre.razes to the
ground the house which had just afforded
him hosPitable shelter, and gives the town
Il . etenceless people whom he had prom.
,sed to protect, 70 the Underestimate pillase
sf NIB, which he'd been assembled and
which acted under HE oeders. We know
Of no language which would properly De-
scribe the base. the cowardly ruz6anism o.
such procesding.
The lying messsee Of Franklin Pierce
stated that order was TO be preserved in
Kansas; and though il dishonesty connect
ed the Free State men with the ruffians who
had invaded the Territory, il promised that
U. 8. troops should restrain these Invaders
rom committing any more outrages. Bu,
mere re have United States Marshal CON-
mand;rs aud directing hordes OF armed ban
ditti, wso had invaded Kansas. for the ex.
.ress and declared purpose Of effecsing the
very object which they have accomplished
And tie imbecile Shannon replies 10 Ia,
call made upon him, that he cannot inter
fere be cause these rnarauders were the mi
iltia OF the Terrifory--she posse OF the Uni
ted Ststes Marshal and of the Sheriff o
Douglas county. Were those sackers Q
Lawrence who returned to Missouri imme
dlately after the Infamous deed had beer
consu prnated. the militia of Kansas Wer,
the land pirates whom the motto ious At
chson led from Platte county, a portion o
the militia Of Ksnsasa Was the armes
eand Of South Carolinians, which had jus,
arrived, and which seems TO have taken the
lead. portion OF the militia of Kansas!
The destruction OF Lawrence was not the
act of an ungovernable mob. 1t was done
At the order OF United States Marshal
and he would not have assumed such re-
sponsibiii,y unless he bad orders or permis
sion from Washing on City. Presiden
Pierce is morally responsible for all ih'
blood that has been shed in Kansas, a
we'll as for this last crowning iniquiiy.
And yet we are to be told, when truthful
accounts of these enormities are given :,
the people. that they are only "shrieks 70
freedom" Figuratively speaking, there i
more truth in the expression than is intend
ed by these Democratic sneerers, In Pc
land, freedom shrieked when Kosciusk
tell, and in France she sang song OF re
jocing when the Basiiie was destroyed
Once, in the land which is called the Ian,
of the Tree and the home of the brave, III,
chorus of her jubilation rang loud and clea
from the summit Of Bunker Hili,-and late
ly, in this same land, she has slrieked 10
sorrow al the destruction OF the town o
Lawrence. For sorrow, but not for fear
And that sorrow will again be turned 4
joy. An outraged people have becom
thoroughly aroused. They have found Gu
that repested submissions 10 the slave pow.
er have been rewarded only by repeated in
suits and increased aggres s ons. But tn,
eliminating atrocities of these latter days
have destroyed the idea of any further sub
seryiency TO an ihsolent aristCcracy, AM
after yielding for thirty five years to ever,
demand of an overbearing ohgarchy, the,
cunnot be accused of coming any precip
itats conclusion. ~