New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-13
A WORD TO THE NORTH.

WORD TO THE NORTH.
NEW ORLEANS, Wednesday, June 4, 1850.
Men of the Nolth-Frends Of Freedom l fesr
YOU have failed TO do your duty, and that an awful
responsibility rests upon you. Nay more than
responsibilities greet blame. Why did You hesitate
Why stand back and allow your friends and the
noble self sacrificing friends of Freedom in Kansas
to be prosecuted, hunted down, murdered or driven
from the Territory. by set of lawless desperadoes
and scoundels acting under the pretense OF law and
aided by wicked infatuated President and corrupt
Adm nisiraton Did you not see from the very COM
III, ncement of serving wrts on the leading Free-Sate
men the game that to be played You must
have seen it, for it was too apparent not to be
seen and understood. Why did you not hy tn the
rescue2 Did you not think the bIocdhcunds
of Slavery capable Of such gross and hesh de-
sign, and deeds tell you there is nothing too bad
for them to do. They will move heaven and earth,
and hell itself if they can TO accomplish their end
the triumph of Slavery kansas-they s'cear they
will have it. All they swear: By God zee intend
"to hare il and zee rW hare Il. cost tchat may
Thus have heard them; thus have they said to me,
here in the City Of New Orleans. But let that pass.
II is not Of that wish to speak nor yet Of the
scenes and outrases that have lately taken place in
that Inflated T, rritory. You know it all. You know
Kansas is lost, and how il was DONE You must
know more tLan do, for you are nearer the source
and channels Of the news. You know how the
slave propagandsts have poured into the Territory
their Iufisns this Spring. You know that one
Col Buford went up there in April with near
four hundred tools Of Slavery composed OF
whisky.dripkeis gamblers ard lcafers gathered from
the scum of Southern society. You know that they
<a.fsh .ar<
upon the Inequalities of their compatriots in the Dor
der counties of Missouri, until they were needed,
when they were mustered to service the militia of
the Territory, and furnished ruth United States
arms and with such as they could rob or steal from
FresState citizens and then marched together with
hundreds Of Missouri Rufians, against the peacesble
citizens of Lawrence and oher FreeState towns and
were made to constitute Mashals posse under the
pref. rded yet dam ably false purpose Of aiding him in
arrestpg few men who made no resistance, but for
the unmtakabe purpose, as the result has proved of
destroying their towns, and numbering chasing out
of the Territory all the Free State citizens, and of
utterly "crushing out" and DESTROYING the Free.
State movement. All this you know, and much
more You know that Lawrence has been destroyed,
" cannonaded and burned and you know this
done, notwithstanding they msde resistance, but
y,
skIg arrests. You know, too, that when Jones, the
infamous scouDdrel, was only wounded when he ought
to have been killed, one Donaldson, trom Georges.
another bloody snissary of Slavery, was appointed
Marshal in bis place who headed the forces against
Lawrence, and who, after he had made his arrests
without resistance turned the place to Jones.
W hat be did you know. And you know, too. that
this Jones was the cause Of the Kansas war; last
n ,h.4h h. ~ La tba al
ton mobs and invasons from Mirouri, being himself
an invader that he has continued from the first up to
the present TO harass tie citizens Of tho Territory
even unto death and the destruction Of their prop
erty You know that Robinson wa unlswfully
detained and imprisoned in Missouri, AIRED back into
the Territory. and is now in the hands Of the barb,
lianf-his life in great peril; that Pomeroy is also
prisoner, and it is said, will be hung, and probably
/" Robinson also;' that many other leading Free
State men are in the hands of these desperadoes-one
of them have been murdered, others threatened;
Reeder forced to fly, in order if possible to avert
collision betwee. the invading rufians and the ct.
zens of the Territory. All this you know; and yet
you quietly look on, though panic stricken by the
horoJess of the outrsges and not 70 the rescue
II is rot of these things, however, that | wish TO
speak, but of this Bufcrd pary-theee men who have
been furnished with the arms Of the General Govern
men,. was in this city when they psssed through on
their wsy to Missouri. Much has been said in the
papers about Their carrying J'JIes instead of nice.
AL agent of the American Bible Society in Mobile,
learp.d, gave each of them, when there, q pocket
Blble-no doubt tie frst thing of the Kind many of
IL en- bad ever SEEM friend Of nine whose state
utnts have entire confidence, and who came
the same boat with them from Mobile, told me that
lre Of them traded off their Bibles DUNG the night at
the bar Tor whisky learn also that they had but few
Bibles left when they got TO ST. Loui-. and presume
bone by the tune they got to the Border Couutes. SO
much for their Bibles. The whole thing was Q mock
cry and false pr.tense but the sooundres had at de.
rency or sense enough to carry the thing out. You
night well east pearls before swine TO give Bibles
10 these Southern emissaries of Slavery. saw my.
sell several Of them drunk the str.e,s duing Satur.
tsy-tbe day they arrived here.
On Sunday had some conversation with one Of the
party, an elderly, plan-lookDg man, WHO seemed to be
Die Of the leaders, be had jus, made arrang
With one OF the boats 10 cary part Of them 10 s..
Louis. 10 the course Of our conversation said TO
him; " suppose you all go well armed l' "No,"
aid be, we carry no arms, at least no guns. We
ake he BibleTevery NAN carries his Bible, and We
n''r TO Gee persuasion and the ballot boI.' IAN that
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