The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-08

cases did that which NIGH be indefensible I'M
der other circumstances. Why did not Mr..
Hardin allude to the commencement of all the
troubles-the invasons of the Missouri Ruff
fans, who took possession of the ballot boxes,
drove away from the polls the actual settlers,
elected citizens Of Missouri and the tools OF
Border Ruffians to the Legislature, and formed
just such body of lawmakers as never be-
fore disgraced this or any other civilized coun-
try? Why did he not allude to the Infamous
laws made by this body, utterly crushing free
speech and free action, unworthy of the age
and even disgrace to the scoundrels who
enacted them !? Why did he not allude to
them? Were they not made by that "honest
and high-minded set of men," as he calls the
border Missourians Were not the men who
refused to obey this despotic, tyrannical,
scoundrelly code of laws, stigmatized as trait
ors, hunted down by the border Missourians,
arrested. maltreated, and hound over as
traitors by legal tool Of ,Pierce's called a
Court? Was not this code of laws sustained
by the Administration, as laws of proper le-
gality and which it was treason to oppose p
Did not hordes of Missourians visit Kansas to
sustain these laws, and to lynch, murder or
treat with the basest indignities, those who
refused to yield obedience to laws against
which the heart and hand of every true Amer
ican citizen should rebel ? Did not these ruff
fans to sustain laws" and under the name
of claw and order men," do what we have
said. and burn down houses, and steal horses
and other property, and perform deeds which
smslt to heaven in their infamy? And yet
with these notorious facts before us, Mr.. Har-
din, in view of the approaching elections to let
the people know the truth, says:
1t is charged by the lying Black Republican
press that the border Missourians have com
mitted gross outrages in Kansas. Now | as
sert that the border MissouriaDs are, as gen.
eral thing an honest and hIgh-minded set of
men. They made no incursions into Kansas,
except to protect the actual settlers, both free
and slave State men, when they were being
robbed and murdered by the Abolitionists.-
They have doubtless committed some outrages,
but they were never the aggressors, and the
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GOOD heavens Is it possible with the
mountains of facts which have been given to
the world, through the letters of men of indis-
putable veracity on the spot, through the
sworn testimony of scores of good men before
the Kansas Investigating Committee, through
the best avenues of information of all sources.
even through the admission of Missourians
themselves, we must say in courtesy to Mr..
Hardin, that all these are mountains of lies
to crumble in the dust before his naked word
although he be not an interested partisan,
but merely supporter of Buchanan, the Pierce
Administration, and of every man who is run
ming on the Old Line Ticket in the State of In
diana! 1t is unnecessary to continue this
subject farther. We are only sorry that Mr..
Hardin in his laudable endeavor to wipe out
some of the ignorance of this community, did
not give all the facts at his command. We
have merely endeavored to put him on the
right train for giving further facts a little more
closely connected with the subject.