Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-08-27
Position of Affairs in Kansas.

OF the contest in Kansas; also an article
from the Lawrence Republican on the first
page, which will not fail to arrest the at
tention of our readers; the eyes of all men
being directed to that down-troddcn land
at present, expecting that the next breeze
from that quarter will bring tidings that
the blood Of brother compatriots have been
made to flow by Federal bayonets for re-
fusing to obey tyrannical bogus laws. 1t
will be seen that the bloody and drunken
ATcHrsoS. declares that his dependence for
making Kansas slave State, is in the Dor
der counties Of Missouri, and that the Pro-
Slavery party Of Kansas ''must and will
have majority" in the next election
Another Border Ruffian invasion could not
be more distinctly foreshadowed Add to
this the fact that, in the glaringly fraudu-
lent and illegal apportionmcnt Just made
for the next Territorial Legislature, by
the Presidents and Secretaries of the late
observation-disclosures Sinking the respon-
sibility of doing his duty, in the most das
tar,lly manner-eight tenths of the repre-
sentation is to be from districts bordering
on Missouri, and the whole calculating vii
lainy, becomes apparent. And to make
assurance doubly sure, Judge Caro- has
given an extra judicial opinion, to the ef-
feet that only persons in the Territory who
have paid the taxes imposed by the bogus
Legislature for the support Of the bloody
horle of vagabonds engaged in making
Kansas a slave State, will be allowed to
vote; and it is arrogantly proclaimed that
only the registered voters, nine-tenths OF
whom ATcHIsoN says are pro-slavery, will
be allowed to vote on the constitution a.
bout to he manufactured when that docu-
ment is submitted for confirmation to "the
whole people," to whom Gov. WALKER
delighted few weeks ago to address him.
self. The denunciation Of WALKER by the
Richmond South, the Charleston Mercury,
and such fellows as KElrr, is mere dema
gognery. They affect superhuman dcvo-
ton to the cause Of the South, and make
it a rule Of action to rave about the slaugh-
tered rights of the South in the most frothy
and blatant style, whatever may be the
state Of facts. WALKER attempted to be
a great statesman, and to manage Kansas
affairs so as to impress the whole country
and mankind at large with his personal
vastness. But he has narrowed down his
field of operations, and is now engaged in
the most abject manner, in an effort to quiz
ct the South, which was offended at his
empty words Of promise Of fair playto the
Free State men, which the Cincinnati En-
quirer and other Democratic journals did
him the honor to say, were only the effu-
sions of polite endeavor to put to pro-
slavery uses the old-time Democrats in the
Territory. who had gone over to the Free
Sellers. Walker, say his defenders, did
not mean any thing by SO much talk about
giving the whole people a chance to decide
upon the nature of the Government, under
which they would live, further than that
he desired by smooth words to win voters
to the support Of the Administration
Doubtless this is the fact. And now he is
engaged in doing the dirty work of the
Blue Lodges of Missouri. He is employ
ing the United States troops in hunting
down and arresting numbers of the best
men in Kansas, who were guilty of the a
trocious crime of defending themselves
from the horse-thieves, house-burners and
cut-throats, who invaded the Territory, to
take advantage of the repeal of the Nilsson
ri Compromise, and make it a slave State.
The old scandalous charges of treason are
being trumped up. and men are being ar
rested for daring to oppose the Missouri
usurpation, and are prosecuted by the tax
gatherers of the usurpcrs. The people Of
Kansas are thus driven to desperation, and
they appear to have no alternative but to
take arms--to rebel in good earnest in the
good old fashioned style, and with their
rifles .vindicate their manhood. Bnt there
is isothermal Walker. and Harvey, the
woman whipper, with the most powerful
body of troops that has been collected Oh
the continent since the Mexican War, rea-
dy to aid in crushing out all opposition t.
injecting the fairest Of our territories, will
the black leprosy of slavery. There is al
ways vitality, however. in good cause up
held by strong hands and stout homes
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