The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-29
AFFAIRS In KANSAS.

The subjoned despatch from St Louis, dated May 81
contains the latest intelligence from. Kansas:
Later adviees from Kansas report the of Messrs
Robinson Schuyler and Conway the charge of the fed
era authorities Robinson in prison at Lecompton. Rec
der is still unheard from. .. ..
An extra of the Kansas City Enterprise of the 22d says
that Sheriff Zones took about twenty into Lawrence At
bis demand Gen. Pomeroy delivered up all the rifles and
be could collect and for which Jones gave him
eep Jones then requested Edrdge to the furn
ture from the hotel, which the latter declined to do. The
posse then entered and carried most of the furniture into
thsEtreet. Sheriff Jones express orders that pr
property should be injured and particularly that Rob-
nsons house should not be touched but after portion OF
the posse had left, the house was burnt During the
element shot, and another killed by the
falling walls of the hotel Gen. 2omeroy is still liberty
in Lawrence"
In few days at farthes must be in possession Of
full and particulars Of the which have
caused much excitement inside and outside of the Terri
tory Of Kansas In the time it is gratifying TO know
from the above despatch that the "cosng scenes Law
we're not marked with the violence and boodshed
so generally anticipated few weeks ago and subsequent
" generally reported The fight of Robinson Reeder
and the other leading spirits Of the Topeka movement the
convenient absence of Col Lane the intervening thou
sand miles between the New England Emigrant Aid Society
aud its miserable dupes 10 Kansas and the unmstAabe de-
termination OF the federal and territorial officers yind
and maintain the laws "at all hazard it would APP
pear, have robbed abolition assumption Of maryrdom Of
all its attractive features and have induced the fanatics Of
Lawrence prudeny and properly TO consult their personal
safety in preference the traitorous political designs Of
their eastern employers II the Topeka party pos
sessed Of much unrhecng courage they manifested
Of nsoent boasings IT, they pretended, they outnum-
bered the loyal aw-obeyng citizens four TO one
would be enactng in the Territory of Kansas which
facts presented us il would that the civil
war confidently predicted and ardeny wished for
and prayed for by the black republicans lat dis
tanc scarcely rises the dignity Of mobvoence and that
Marshal Donaldson in the discharge Of his official duties
has in the end met with less oopposdon than
many Of railroad have experienced the
hands Of their sbores during the prevalence Of strike
We do not mention this in a spirit Of derson for our
Qualification at the changed condition Of public affairs and
public sentiment in Kansas great that dis
posed to dwell on the past when there much of prom
Use in the future II is true that the feeble resistance Of the
people Of Lawrence TO the law and its sworn officers may
be cited evidence Of absence on their part Of any
real hostility to the federal and territorial governments
put When compare their traiorous language with their
subsequent acts not uncharable infer that they
failed to carry their wicked designs not from any re-
turning love for the Union aud the constitution not from
any returning Of duty loyal and aw-obeying c
1ens but from the want Of numbers and the want Of that
bind courage which has frequently led political and re-
ligious fanatics to sacrifice their lives