Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-22


And ihey sssssd keep she can,
the administration of justice ras probably sonin-
what loose End not according TO modern fcfm1-
las predatory tr1p Of Robis elan involved
burnings and piunderings, with perhaps now
|1xn men m incidental murder. So, ~ least, II
n depicted 10 ~. But Rob, Outlaw - he was,
had touch Of Genuine chivsiry in his character
II he was tower bad for blessing, he was in
some respects ssower guide for banning. He
hsd real or fancied wrongs TO ayenge, and even
bis foraJs we're prompted by something akin 20
love Of Justice, due, Is be thought, TO himself.
His ciansmcn might have been barbarians; they
we're not ioases rufslans. - q +sset
Weremember astanza Of Scottish poetry, il
iustrated by an engraving. in which two Scotch
men are represented as riding homeward in the
grey OF the morning, when one Of them discoy-
cred blaze in the distanr horizon ss aiias
..yshat loveis yoa ~ quo tn. GUIDE Loehfel, sts
III swhik rises with the sun early pr ss
"By .hs God o. nv sio e said .he young oglvie,
IT'S my alae bonny haIne q Airly. !" ~,
We read in the pages of romance, Of these
Wild SCIENCES and characters, and we shudder in
attempting to realize such state of Iawless life
Ii is not to be called society. 5sis;. 800
/ But in our own day and country we have q
condition of affairs which, in every repulsiye
feature, SURPASSED that. In Kansas for many
months, fnarauding bands from Missouri have
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murder; have pilaged, from the ,sordid desire OF
plumber, and burned dwellings in deyilish de-
iligfit 20 make women and children houseless.-
Where Rob Roy in in all the excitement Of his
Sfpyenee and hatred would have been nerciful,
jtloy have been stony-hearted. So. many ., of
these atrocities have been told abroad, that tired
sick and disguised with s'man's inhumanity to
man" readers can endure no more. Murders
are not infresuent now, but they can stir no new
or additional emotions. s.,f ..
But there is one point in which the Kansas
vilianies are still more strongly distinguished
from the lawlessness Of barbarous countries and
times. Some of them, az the sacking and bur-
nings at Lawrence were done under color of
law or lawful process. In other cases the lcad-
ers have been themselves the officers of the law.
Awell-known murderer in Kansas Clark still
holds the commission and receives the pay of
the United States, and his is not the only ease.
Worse still, the sufferers who have, for long
months, been out of the protection of all law,
except the first and highest of self defence, are
now arrested and arraigned for daring to defend
( their own hearth stone, against robbers. To
band together for mutual defence against ruff.
ans, is construed into crime against the gov
eminent which lcftits citizens to the nercies Of
cut-throats.: Not one of the wrong doors ismo-
/ lested. They are the prosecutors. Gov. Geary
takes them into consultation and avails himself
!, of their aid. They select from the property of
the victims whatever they choose to claim, their
title being in virtue Of having stolen it from the
free state men before. rsse 'iss's Sc tfV "
And this is done in country where laws are
presumed to prevail; and yet men look on in
calnness or apathy. This Gov. Geary, appoin-
ted it is said on q recommendation from Mr..
Buchanan, is carrying out with resolute and in
fernal coolness,a the purposes which Shannon,
thoughwilling enough, lacked the nerve to exc
cute. Laws, over and again, declared to be UNI
constitutional and disgraceful to the age, are to
be enforced with, if needs be, the whole militia
ry power of the United States, in order to SUBJ
,jugate Kansas. And this course finds apollo
gists, defenders and advocates among L.
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