The true Democrat., 1856-08-19


 The outrages above specified were preceded and up to the present time, have been followed by others of like character and dictated by a like settled policy on the part of our enemies to harrass and frighten, by their deeds of hor- TOT: our friends from their homes in the territo ry. Undoubtedly this policy Ca we'll settled party system) has dictated the notices lately gwen Tn all the disturbed districts by armed maraudlng bands of abolitionists, to the law and order men of their respective neghbor- hoods, immediately to leave the country on peril of death. Under such notices our friends about Hickory Point, and on Pottawattamie and Rock creeks have all been driven out of the territory, their stores have been robbed, tbelr cattle driven oH their houses burned, thei horses stolen, and in some cases they have been assasslnated for daring to return; some too of these outrages have been perpetrated under the very nose of the United States troops, who all the while assert that all is peace and quietness, and that they will afford ample protection. without the necessity of our banding together in armed bodies for mutual defence. Among many others of our friends thus driven away, we might specify the cases of Messrs. Hargous. Jones, and Owens, of Hickory Pont, whom two hundred United States troops stationed within two miles of their homes have been unable to inspire with sense of security. Morton Bourn, most exemplary, quiet and unoffending man of our party, living within eight miles of Le- compton, the capital of the territory, where quite number of troops are stationed was lately driven from his home by band of tw en- ty-tive armed men, who robbed him of all his guns, five saddles, three horses, the blankets from his beds and over fifty dollars in money. The thieves gave him twenty -four hours to leave with his family, and threatened to kill him Ii he ever returned, saying, they intended to serve all the pro-slavery men in the neigh borhood in the same way. Mr. Boun is still out of the territory, and though anxious about his property and desirous to return, vet he dares not do so; although as often as he applies, the troops and the Governor assure him that all is quiet, and that he shall have ample projections but he knows that unless they remain constant ly about his house they cannot keep marauders and murderers away. This case is specified not for its peculiar enormity or hardshitjs, but because 1t Is a fair type of large class of such cases, and because the undersigned have all the details from MT. Bourn himself, and know them to be strictly true; indeed one of us assisted his family in their flight the day after the robbery
 It IS but too evident the tr 'ops cannot enable our friends to maintain their ground in any part of the territory where the abolition ele- ment is in the ascendant; notwithstanding we can assure our friends that, after the most dili- gent enquiry and attention to that point. we firmly believe that our party has well estab- llshed, decided and increasing majority of ac- tual settlers in the territory. This majority however, we do not believe can be maintained unless something be done to give confidence t. our friends, where they are few and weak it. number. This can only be done by colonizine large settlements together, under one common head with absolute control; let, say from one to three hundred agriculturalists, mechanics, ald IaborerS So settle together n some suitable point, to he indicated by the undersigned, or some other committee charged with the gene ral interests of the party. This can be law fully, safely, and efficiently done and by this means law and order can be maintained in the territory; and we say this, too. notwithstanding we are in possession of very convincing ev- dence to the fact, that the aholitonsts of the north intend during the coming month to in- troduce large numbers of their hired bands to put their reasonable prctended government in to operation by force. These measures of mu- tual defence and future progress, however, re- qulre meaLS and demand aid from our friends abroad. The colonists should be subsiSted
 
 with adequate agricultural or mechanical out Tt SO there can be no want of settlers coming and remaining at the points where thev are most needed. Funds are required. and fol these we call upon our southern friends-upon all havlng a common interest-nav we call on all loving justice and wishing equal rights to each State and section of the Unon-.we call on the honest free State man, who, sick of the agitation and strife brewed by the abotionists. desires the restoration of peace and quiet to the country. These can be restored only by restoring to the weaker and attack ed section the means of future defence, in restoring its equhbrnm with the ma ority section. Fana- tcal aggression cannot be quieted by giung but It may by taktng aocay the power to effect It's ends. A II fair minds who have looked this question full in the face, know and adm it that It IS not merely question of whether Kansas shall be a slave State not, but question Ot whether the entire south shall not become the victim of misguided phanthrophy. That man CT State Is deceived that fondlv trusts these fanatics may stop at Kansas. To use that territory as the mere "key to the future'' the mere means of ulteror operations against the whole south-s unquestionably the set tied policy of the ultra aboltionists, the head and soul of the aggression, and a0aose opinions n tue end must teaven and control tue aUhOle b0iy the whole mass that acts with them.
 The most convincing proof Gf proofs were needed) of this was recently given before the Congressional investigating committee. Judge Mathew Walker, Wyandott, an unimpeacha- ble witness, and most reliable man, testified be- fore the committee, that before the aboitionists selected Lawrence as the centre of their opera tions their leader, Gov. Robinson, attempted to get foothold for them in the Wyandott re- serve, near the unction of the Kansas and Missouri rivers; that in his negotiations for that purpose, Robinson finding 1t necessary to com muicate their plans and objects, divulged to Walker (whom he then susposed was a sym pathiser) that the abotionists were determined on winning Kansas at any cost; that then hav- ing Missouri surrounded on three sides, they would begin their assaults on her; and as fast as one State gave way, attack another, till the whole south was abolltionized. That this re- velation was actually made the undersigned have not the slightest doubt; and we are equal ly confident that in that matter the abolition party was truly represented by Robinson, who has always been their chief man and acknow- ledged leader in Kansas.
 It is widely reported, and generally believed that the northern aboltioniSts are now raising large bodies of armed men, under military or ganization and discipline, to be surreptitously introduced into the territory for the objects of driving out the peaceful inhabitants, setting the laws at defiance, and overwhelming the law and order party at the decisive election for territorial Legislature to come of on the first Monday in October next It is not impos- sble they may partially succeed in their aims; their labors to inhame the northern mind are so incessant, their faculty of misrepresentation is so extraordinary-so fatally bent on mischief Their papers, for instance, show up the Ossa- wa.tame massacre as an outrage of our own; according to their account, |" five pro slavery men were hanging an abolitionist, when his five friends providentially came up and shot them in the act.''
 All have heard through the papers, of the killing of Stewart by Cosgrove. The facts were these: Stewart being in Lawrence, when news reached there of an aboltionist having been just killed at Blanton's bridge, in the vii cinity, started off with four others towards the o0 vi tb ] |.