Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-15
KAN S AS.


Appeal of the Lcaven,vorth Sufferers.
@oyr LEAvENwoRrH, X. 7. Sept. 8, SO.
To Tie Citizens Of tie United States:
We, residents of Kansas Territory, and pre-
vious 10 September lst, citizens of Leavenworth
City, herein present the following brief and inn
partial statement of the transactions which have
robbed and driven US from our homes at the
point of the bayo net, with our sick and dying,
to face the coming Winter, homeless, houseless,
and breGdiess. - b. -',..
We assert, and call Heaven to witness, that
the Free-Siate men of Leavenworth City were
quiet, peaceable, law-abiding and an industri-
GUS people, asking no privileges of government,
or its patronage; demanding no rights but those
guaranteed by the Constitution and humanity
Nevertheless, on Sunday evening, August 3lst,
a large body of armed men, mostly Missourians
and Georgians, commanded by certain noto-
rious Captain EMORY who figured conspicuousy
in WALKERS famous piratical expedition, en-
tered Leavenworth City with banners flying
and paraded the streets Until next morning,
calling upon all the pro-slavery men to come
out and tall into the ranks, and at the same time
telling all others to leave the Territory By the
first boat, heralding each call and notice by
bugle blast, and repeating them at every door.
Early on the ensuing morning the same gang
of sdesperadoes, by large accessions from the
gambling shops and saloons, already became a
dense mob, reiterated the call and notice of the
previous evening, and commenced the work of
ptatder and outrage, whose enormity was only
less astounding than the impunity with which it
was committed. =oIa s1r s&slt -Efl-i' 5H&
Residences uere entered and searched ,rithow
the least shadosC Of iar. Warehouses ,rere plum
dcrea and stores tcere burned, acihout d,,y effort
at Interference By lie cipiL authorities, although
mithin sight of Fort Leapenmorth, the whole of
the forces Of which were subject to the order
of the Mayor.
Many of the best citizens of the town were
driven to the steamboats, and sent out of the
Territory, without opportunity to make any
disposition of their effects, or any arrangements
for the maintenance of their families. Among
them we're Dr. S. NORTON and Mr.. N. McCRAcK-
EN. both extensively and favorably known as
businessS men and valuable citizens. Others, to
avoid a similar fate, fed to the Fort, barely es-
Gaping with their lives, destitute Of food or
clothing. Such an exodus nay our country ney-
er again see. Pale mothers with infants but q
few weeks old, Others from the sick bed wild with
delirium of fever. For all such the only place
of refuge was the open and unoccupied parade
ground or the unfinished barracks without
doors or windows, which were procured thro'
the influence of one of the officers of the Fort,
save when some soldier shared the scanty ac-
commodatons Of his tent with those whom but
day before he had envied in their honest and
comfortable competence eT22 s1sst7S .g rs
No sooner had these unfortunate people va
Gated their hard-earned homes, than their
houses were occupied by the acorthiess maraaders,
their provisions consumed, their furniture stolen
or destroyed, trunks and boxes of valuable
goods broken open and riaed of everything
that could be appropriated to the use of the
heartless and inhuman plunderers. ayssss. ut
Thus robbed, despoiled, and removed from
the possibility of obtaining by labor the means
of subsistence, we find ourselves, for the first
time in our lives, friendless and pennyless,
thrown upon the charities of the world, perhaps
to perish by cold and hunger in the coming
winter. But we trust that generous public
will see that we are provided for, for the cause
in which we suffer is the common cause, the
cause of humanity, the cause of right and JUS
tice, and for that end forward Immediately their
contributions to the National Kansas Committee,
at Chicago, Illinois '
In behalf Of the sufferers
f-1sL s4s4 ezgss zse.-s a-L- .z--. j. A DAVIS