The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-02
AFFAIRS IN KANSAS.

The st. Louis papers report that the work of
pacifcation is going ON favorably in Kansas.
The Governor, it is said, acts with energy.
The "Army of Law and Order" enrolled as
the Territorial militia, had been disbanded.
The steamer David Tatum, which arrived at
st. Louis on the 22d, took on board three hun
dred and fifty citizens of Missouri, who, in ODE
dience to the Governors proclamation, had
given up their military organization, and were
returning to their own State. General Lane,
relying upon the efforts of the new Governor
to re-establish order, had left Lawrence, with
several of his men, for Topeka on his way to
Nebraska. The St. Louis Republican Border
Rufian) says that he had fed, and Governor
Geary had sent out a detachment of United
States troops in pursuit of him. The same pa
per states that the Governor had arrested nine
ty of the citizens of Lawrence. 1t is not unlikely
that a more correct account of the arrests made
is to be found, than in the following paragraph
from a letter in the Pennsylvania Inquirer, da-
ted Lecompton, September 10th:
yesterday number of persons came in
ing of outrages that were there being committed
by detachment of the Free-Soil forces. Sew
eral of these made affidavit to the fact of hav.
ing been robbed and otherwise abused. This
intelligence being we'll authenticated, two COM
panes of the United States dragons were i'm
mediately dispatched in pursuit of the marau-
ders. They crossed the river at sunset took
up their line of march for the scene of dis
turbance, and about midnight came upon an
encampment and took one hundred and one
prisoners without resistance, together with
their horses, wagons, small arms, and one large
feld-piece. This party had attacked log
house belonging to Mr.. Lowe, in which sixty
persons had taken shelter. The attack was
made with the cannon, and continued from
twelve o'clock till shutdown. But few of the
balls, however, took effect, and lonly one man
of those assailed was killed. His name was
Robinson. Rifles were freely used on both
sides, and it is ascertained that about a dozen
of the attacking party were wounded, several
of them severely. The prisoners allege that
none of their men were killed. This fight oc-
Cured at place called Hickory Point, about
mile from where the capture was made"
We confess we have little faith in the efforts
of Governor Geary. The transaction Just no.
ticed shows how oppression may still be carried
on, under legal forms. These sixty men, forti-
fed in log house, if we may place any reli-
ance on former accounts, had committed out
RACES on the Free State men, who at last raj.
lied, to defend themselves and punish the az.
gressors. These, getting the worst of it, forth
with enter complaint, and then follows the
summary arrest of the Free State men, to be
tried by Pro-Slavery Court, before Pro-Sla-
very Jury, whose orthodoxy is insured by a test
oath. This is the kind of justice to be dealt
out to the Free State men. "On the side of
the oppressor is power"
The st. Louis Republican seems delighted
with the doings of Governor Geary, and an.
nounces that the Pro Slavery men are energet-
ically organizing for the election the first Mon
day in October. Let it never be forgotten that
the acts virtually DISTINGUISHING the Free State
population are still unrepealed, and that the
whole machinery of voting is under the control
of the Pro-Slavery men.
Since the foregoing was written, the follow
ing additional items have been published. It
seems to US that the Governor and the Admin.
istration are squarely arrayed against the Free
State men,