Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-22
kansas Alfairs..Gev. GeArr AusRylne
UP the Work Of making Kansas Z

mp the Work Of mnkinr Ksnsss
Ar. John w. Geary, the new Governor pa
pointed under the direction of jefferson Davis,
for Kansas, is pushing on his work of making
that territory Shave state with great energy. -
He does not mince matters NJ He makes no pre-
lenses to neutrality between tho claims Of con.s a
ficting border rutfans and free state setters.--,
He understands his Instructions and knows what
be Is expected 10 do G21 s4a E35s9 Isl E25!l.'.
The administration, Border Rufiaus had a vii Z
ling, but very, poor instrument, in Governor
Shannon. His late, long.winded manifesto is .
precious confession Of imbecty, indecision, u
perplexity and incompetency. Ifis proves mors''
than this, il proves that poor Pierce attempted
to shelter himself under the wings of poor
shannon, while Shannon considered himself en-
titled+to the sheltering wings Of Pierce. Gov.
Geary, ON the other hard, having received hin o
orders, has gone out to Kansas to fulfil them.
and without any squeamish fears of public OPT.
MON he seems to have entered boldly upon, the
task Of making Kansas substantially slave
state before the PRESIDENTIAL election. IA eFs5
D Our latest advces from Kansas show that Gov.
Geary is perfect Napoleon in the modern de-
rnocratic art of making a slave state out Of
free territory. First, with the United States dra.
goons at his service, he dsmisses the armed bor-
der ruffians, with the complimentary discharge
Of q volunteer militia force, no longer needed;
then with his dragoons he forcibly expels Gen.
Lane and his armed defenders Of the free state 4
settlements; and thirdly, he proceeds to arrest
the unarmed free state settlers remaining in tho ,
territory on charges of treason. Our readers
understand what constitutes high treason in
Kansas. fraudulent Legislature has enacted "a
a code of laws Of the most infamous, bloody,
cruel, savage, shameless and lawless character.
q code full of unconstitutional Oaths pains and
penaltes; and the free born white American *
citizens of that territory who prefer the con-
stitution and their rights under it to tlieso spu-
rious and attrocious laws, are slaughtered or de-
nounced, hunted arrested and imprisoned, on
these administration charges Of high treason. p
According to the latest accounts from Kansas 70
Qn addition to wholesale arrests for high trea- r
son. a hundred free state men were confined
at Lecompton, on still another trumpery charge,
of murder in having defended themselves, their
families and their property against our demo-,
cratic President marauders. These prisoners
we're strictly guarded by the United States troops
in a small log house, with loaded field. piece -
near the door to serve as a reminder that
they must not raise against their masters. Of
course the wives and children Of those prisoners
must take care of themselves. The ruffians
remain in the territory-some of them vagaboh-
dizing and plundering what little subsistence Of
the people that has been left by the United
States srmy-others enlisting as three months
volunteers in the United States service. Under
this pressure numbers Of the free states settlers
from impending starvation arc leaving the ter
ritory and many of those that remain--men
women and children-have subsisted for weeks
upon green corn and squashes-neither flour,
meal nor meat of any kind being left them
To the settlers of new country their horses
are invaluable. 1t is taking away the right arm
Of frontier settler to rob him of his horse. He
is robbed at once Of the faithful servant upon
whose services he had depended for raising the
necessaries Of life. The administration ruffans
in Kansas understand this well |; and, accord
ingly a prominent feature Of their system of
operations has been the wholesale stealing or
taking of the horses of free state settlers, ac.
eording to the official democratic doctrine of
the Ostend Manifesto. The Missouri border
rufians have only applied to the horses of their
free state neighbors of Kansas the identical doc
trine which Mr.. Buchanan Is pledged to the is
land of Cuba-the good old buccaneering doc
trine of ''wresting it from Spain, il we have the
power" -..-. ..,. ...-..... .--.. --.
| There is nothing, therefore, remaining to pre-
| vent the erection Of Kansas into slave state,
through the system of terrorism, blood, robbery
and fraud, adopted by Pierce and the rotten de-
mocracy, except the election of Fremont as our
| next President. His election, however, will put
| peremptory stop to this policy of terrorism,
| and restore the constitution, the laws and the
| sovereign rights Of the people to Kansas and
the South, where the constitution is as much a
dead letter as in Kansas.-[N. Y. Herald, l4th.