New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-14
KANSAS.
HOW THE WORK GOES IN.
COMMITTEE Rooms,

| Sesrespondenee Of TIE n Y Tribune.
| When the English officer, dining in company with
tme Of our revolutionary fathers, discovered that
they lived on pumpkins and sweet potatoes, no
Went back to his camp and declared that il was
| hopeless to attempt to- subdue them. When the
| border'kufhan firm Of Pierce, Douglas & Co. learn
the fact that adouaticn of wooden underyarmeuts.
knitted By Mind lady s. pears Old. has been no
ceTed rom the East they, too. may possibly i'm
sgne that spirit has been aroused which despi.s
their savage assertions they will find no easy task
10 " subdue."
This isa fact. In one of the % packages Of
clothing which reached US yesterday from New. En-
gland, certain articles were thus marked. Indicative
enough, think, Of how wide and high the 6rea of
Freedom burn.
Twas sorry TO see in late number Of Tie N.
y. Times. statement by Randolph" to the ef.
feet that Of the many thousand dollars contributed 10
the cause Of Kansas the actual material assistance
received here was but mere pitiful dribct do not
think il is So have watched things pretty closely
since have been in the Territory, and, when con-
slider the thousand avenues through which money
flows out, think it is hardly sppreciative Of the
efforts of our friends to hint at carelessness neg
ligence, or wore.
And yet, while We fu ly appreciate and desire to
thank you and them for your manifest sympathy IN
our behalf, We would on no account, have you
relax your efforts l have witnessed in and around
Lawrence. instances of greater physical discom-
fort, deeper wretchedness, and penury approach
ing to starvation, than ever saw during my two
years residence among the purleus of your Five
and hn hsv last
their all in the terrible issues through which we
have not get fully passed. Aad unless tho
North continue to stand by aud assist US this en-
suing Winter will make stern and fearful havoc.
And yet think am right in saying, that even in
the event of Buchanans cleo ion, hardly man will
leave us. From all that can hear and see, the re-
solve is fixed and definite that every man of us
will have free home upon the soil Of Kansas, or
freemans grave beneath it.
do not desire to say much about Gov. Geary.
or shall grow ill-tempered. He is as many col
ored as harlequin, though scarcely as dexterous;
for his feats of political leger main are beginning
to be Ill derstood because Of which men despisc
the cheater. He has lately been amusing himself
with arrests of Free.State men in tho region OF
| Osawstamie and Fort Riley, around which places
he has been and is now making tour Of |" observa-
" ton and pscfcation Q)' do believe that his
absence from Lceompton at this time was apre-
meditated act in orderthat the infamous Lecomptc,
who is now presiding over the trial of the Hickory
Point Free-State prisoners, might not be restricted
| into deceney. A citizen of Lawrence, who has
been present during the progress Of the trial. told
me to-day that the insults received by the prisoners.
mani far hfN
prosecution, were devilsh beyond description.
can we'll conceive of this; rode across there tho
| other dav, on purpose TO SEE him and Titus, two
| greater litels on manhood than whom have never
looked upon. Leeompte appears like human
| skin disteAted with whisky-such an one as you
| may see every day in the Centre street Tombs;
while the first glance at Titus suices to show that
| be is brutal, cowardly, and cruel-a two-egsed
| specimen of savage tigerhoOd
II is rumored that posse Of officials q presume
| Jones will not accompany tbem) will be here TO-
morrow to make arrests Of men against
whom writs have been issued Heaven knows why
or On what account-I do not. IL this be SC, and
they are not accompanied by United States troops.
there will be some rare fun. They have writ
against Capt. Walker, which yesterday they tried
to execute. Walker, however, was obstinate, and
would not 90 along; and they, thinking perhaps
that discretion the better part Of valor, left
him with lilly threats. You can imagine the sort
of peace with which we are blessed when, in con
necion with this, you remember that Walker is
also in the service and under the pay Of the United
States Government
Some Of Titus's men were in town to-day, drunk
and quarrelsome; 80 drunk that they could hardly
sit on their horses-so lquarrelsome that at ono
time thought fight between themselves and
couple ofkwalkers. militia was inevitable.
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