Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-06

FOR the Hawk Eye
Alarming State of the Natiols-Dangcr
OF Civil War.

| OF Civil War.
| When the Missouri Shareholder Invaders were
compelic to retire from Kansas, by the calm,
but rcs,olute armed defence made by the friends
of freedom in Kansas about two months ago,
every patriotic heart reioiced at the result, and
| all hoped that now the settlers of Kansas would
3e permitted quietly to 60 on in perfecting their
| system OF Free State organization. But alas,
| how soon are our hopes blasted For the word
comes up from the cotton fields of Georgia that
another military forage is fast preparing for the
| INV aston of Kansas to plant slavery there at the
| r,olut of the bayonct. The letter of -atchison
I, discioscs the criminal the damnable move
ment which is again set on foot. This arch
scoundrei, this REASONABLE and ody-lnintcd
| villain, who with Douglas and Pierce connected
| the overthrow of the Missouri Compromise, writes
toa proslavory Georgia Editor a long letter
disclosing the scheme in its details; of which the
following are the concluding paragraphs. He
says:
1--WE are in a constant state Of excitement
here plate City, The border ruiiians' have
access TO my room day and night. The very air
| is full of rnmors. We wish to keep ourselves
right before the world, and VIC are provoked
and aggravated beyond sufierancc. Our per-
| sons and property are not for a moment safe:
| and vet we are forbid, by the respect we owe
| onr friends elsewhere by respect for the cause
| in which we are engaged, to torbear This
| state ofthings cannot last. You are authorized
| TO publish the whole or apart of what | have
| written; but if Georgia intends to do anything,
or can do anything for us, let it be done speedi-
Ivy
Let your young men come forth to Missouri
and Kansas. Let them come well armed, with
| money enough TO support them for twelve
months, and determined to see 1t out! One
hundred true men will be an acquisition. The
more the better. do not see how are to
avoid civil war--civil war OF the fercest kind
will be upon us. We arming and preparing
for it. Indeed, we of the border COUNTS are
prepared. We must have the support of of the
South. Weare fighting the battles of the South.
Our Institutions are at stake. You far South
crn men are now out the noise of the war, but
five fail, it will reach your own DOORS perhaps
your nearthS We want men, armed men. We
want nloney--not for ourselves, but 10 support
our friends who may come from distance, |
have now in this house two gallant young men
from Charleston. S. c. They are citizens of
Kansas, and will remain so until her destiny is
fixed.
fast as they can be raised. well armed. Well
armed. We want none but true men.
Yours truly, D. r. ArcnIsoN.
"P, 81 would not be astoniShed if this day
laid the groundwork for guerilla in Kan
Sas. have heardo OF runners of strife aud battle
AZ Learenworth, seven miles from this place, bus
the ice is RAINING in the Mississippi river and /
have nothing definite was peace-,Iiaker in
the difficulty lately settled by Gov, Shannon.
couusefied the 'Ruhans 10 forbearance, but |
viii never again counsel peace,
I'D. Il. A."
That letter disoloses that we are in the midst |
of an awful national crisis, and may God preserve
the free citizens ana settlers of Kansas from the
murderoGs assaults which threatens them
But how can, or will the citizens of Iowa ac-
qai, themselves to the world if ieing so close 10
the scene of intended rapine and murder, they
shall fold their arms, and look on the bloody !!
tragedy with indiferenees
That the treemen of Iowa will not show the |
craven is shown in the great upheaving of com
munity in favor Of the Republican cause
Like wildsre the sentiment spreads all over
the State, that when freedom AS nperilel 81, other
issues sink into utter insgnihcance; and that now
IS the day and is the hour to sindicase under
the Republican Gag natural, and I'M ,reserptable
rights of mankind to hfe. liberty, ala the pursuit
OF happiness.
We must then, not only act at the polls, but
De prepared If necessary TO risk cur persons in
behalf of our friends in Kansas. -