The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-28

rrlck, decepu0n ana snare. Inc uxe0 pur-
pose of jefferson Davis and Atchison, the real
authors of the Kansas Nebraska bin, is to estab
lish slavery in Kansas. Thus far Mr. Pierce and
the democratic party have been their suppliant
tools in the work Of shooting, scalping, burning
plundering and driving the free State settlers
into exile; but if the terrible uprising of
an indignant people, as developed in the
late Maine election, suggest the policy of a
temporary armistice, it will be only to let
loose again the dogs Of war with the election of
Mr.. Buchanan, should he be elected; for then
the niger driving rufians, ilibusters and seces-
sionists who managed the Cincinnati Convention
will have everything their own way.
But what is the real state of affairs in Kansas,
according to the latest and most authentic news?
| The free State army, under Gen. Lane, had
marched against the border rufians at Lecomp-
| ton, and had compelled the release Of the free
| State men held there as prisoners under Judge
Lecompte's charges of high treason. The border
rufians were in danger Of forcible expulsion,
when they were kindly dismissed to Missouri by
Gov. Geary The Governor, it appears, has next
proceeded in pursuit of Gen. Lane, with the
United States army, and has made a number of
arrests of free State insurgents" so called
meaning such men as have dared to face Mr.
Pierces border rufians in defence of their copst-
tUtional rights.
Among the latest advices by mail from Kan
sas, is letter dated Lawrence Sept. IL, from
the Rev. Mr.. Mute to the Rev. DR.. Miles, Secre-
tary of the American Unitarian Association
,sa M N,,<o hol L.
with others, on account of his :" free speech"
particularly obnoxious to the border rufians, and
they had captured him and other offenders, and
had given them for two or three weeks a course
of punshments which it seems the survivors are
likely to remember for awhile. Mr.. Mute, after
referring to his first twentyfour hours captivity,
says
After that time we endured brutality that will hardly
seem CRED BILE TO those who 70 among civilized people
think will be difficult to fnd parallel TO this in
Oh the annals OF civil war taking all the circumstances
into account: the brutal murder Of brother; the
heariless conduct toward the distressed widow the cool
open murder Of the young man who attended US the
mockery Of proclAimpg free 60 friends and
the insulting and violent arrest on the vee planned
confinement in a close crowded, filthy dungeon after
the tenth day Of our mpI isonment when too III 10
threats that three occasions had every TO
suppose that my last hour had come. But have
heart strength to finish the sentence now to give
you anything more than hint Of what passed through
since last you. II will be painful for to 20
back 10 the beginning an give the history OF this affair
and II 10 personal consideration that
TO undertake it, And what is it all the whole
Of outrage and barbarity that has be- inflicted my
distressed people and all this Territory during the
past month"; Let one talk OF the exaggeratior OF these
oatfaRes any longer. No estimate the dis
treas which has folio wed them There much OF il tha,
can never be made public the bGtcheries of CT
which there witnesses but God and the cowafdy
perpetrators the seeress terror OF defenceess women
md oh xrhn afOhh haU
crven from burning homes and those yet unhappy
whose husbands and fathers have gone out to be
heard from Lo more or the sidngs Of whose savage
buichery has come back 10 them.
This is the testimony off clergyman in Kansas
sufferer, prisoner an eyewitness to the scenes
lie describes-and we leave it to our readers to
decide whether this witness in Kansas or our
amiable and self-complacent Buchanan cotempo-
raIy in Wall street, is best entitled to belief in
their respective accounts of the millennium which
has dawned over Kansas with the advent of Gov.
Geary.
No. Men may cry peace, peace but there is
no peace" and there can be no peace until those
infamous Missouri-Kansas laws are abolished;
until the rights of free settlement and free speech
are restored, and until border runlans and United
States dragons are superseded by popular sove-
reignty, as guaranteed by the constitution. These
things We cannot expect with the election of Mr..
Buchanan, for he will be in the hands of JEFF
Davis and Atchison as the successor of Mr. Pierce:
but with the election of Fremont we shall have
the constitution proclaimed over Kansas, and the
democratic policy Of making that Territory
slave State by fire and sword will be superseded
10y the policy of leaving the bona tide people Of
Kansas freeyto settle the question for themselves
under all the protective provisions Of the consti
tuition.
In the me antime, we believe, according TO the
constitution and the usages Of all civilized peo-
pie that the Missouri river is n public highway;
yet we all know that for some time ii has been as
rigidly bockaded against free State emigrants to
Kansas as any river in the interior Of China. We
know that Gen. Lane and his reinforcement to
the free State settlers had to pass round through
Iowa and Nebraska, and that a previous free
State detachment ascending the Missouri on
steamer, were intercepted, disarmed. plundered
of all they had, and sent back again to Illinois,
pennies. and without even change Of linen
The election Of Fremont will remove this ruffian
ly blockade OF the Missouri river, and reopen
Kansas to the people at large. Let US, there
fore. elect Fremont, and forever put down this
modern corrupt, disorganizing democratic poll
cy Of making Kansas slave State by Missouri
blockades, United States dragons, and the ruff
fan mercenares of Missouri.
WHAT FoRNEY THINKS or PENNsYLvASIA.--
There is no in the democratic party who
ought to know more OF the condition Of parties
in Pennsylvania than John w. Forney. He has,
it is said canvassed every part Of the State, and
Lnnrrs nrntiu nnarlu about how n will rn In Tho