Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-10-27
From the Chicago Tribune.
FROM KANSAS.
Letger fram Rev. i. h. Roy, of
Plymouth Chs rcla, & IaicagO.
LAwRENcE, kansas, Sept. e8, 1s57

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Sept. 90, 1857.
Some of the Missourians are fearing
that Lane will come over the line and take
vengeance for the last seasons invasion
Many Pro Slavery families are moving out
OF the southern part of the Territory, be-
cause the AntiSlavery spirit is getting too
hot around them. Five such families left
one place last Sabbath. But they need
not feel safe, for there is now no Missouri
Compromise line to prevent freemen from
going there and taking liberty with them.
The South is now looking to the Cherokee
and the Choctaw nations to make slave
state, as they are SHAREHOLDERS; but the
eye OF Freedom is there, TOO, and those
who have been through this struggle have
and they are ready for it.
The population of Kansas is estimated
fere at hundred thousand; the emigra-
ton this season at forty thousand, most Of
which is Free State. 1t is a moderate es-
innate TO say that four fifths of the people
are Free State.
1t has not been in vain that the cause OF
| Kansas has been espoused at the East. II
has been that general movement that has
saved this Territory for Freedom. The
policy Of the Admins tra:ion has been, in
the language Of Mr.. Douglas, to ''subdue
them;" the effort here was TO drive off or
Kill every Free State man. This tEey
would have done, but for aid from the
North. The Emigrans Aid Society, which
invested $4,000 here in mills-the first
want of new counlly-in hotels. and
school-houses; the National Kansas Com
mittee, which sent seven hundred and fl y
boxes and barrels of clothing; also men.
money al ms, and provisions. To tie amount
Of several hundred thousand dollars; the
laundering of the press and the pulpit
and the platform, and the general burst
of sympathy, that could not be cut off by
he biockaling of the national highways
by land and by water-all these have con
spired to save Kansas from the doom Of
Slavery. Il has been very pleasant TO hear
1he people express such feelings, and tell
how much good all this aid has done. 1t
was but our duty. for their cause was
our cause. They fought over the battle of
our common liberty. a.a.v--t
| u But you ask me about the snfferings in
Kansas. Were they exaggerations p
| Were they Abolition hes? have taken
Areat pains upon this point, and am con-
strained to say. scarcely half has been
told. In the distant settlements along the
Neosho. the Little Usage, the Big and
Little Sugar, and the PoLtawatomie, with
all their branches, there were incidents
enough unpublished to fill volume
Every cabin we entered could tell us some
new tale of house -robbing and burning, of
stealing horses and cattle. of destruction
Of crops, Of personal insult and injury, of
constant fear and alarm. Many were
driven out of the country after their al
was taken frora them. In the wake of the
invading guerillas followed the Pro-sla-
very settlers, appropriating their. neigh
bors' chickens and hogs and cattle one
man stole FIVE hundred head) and grain
and provisions. @g.. 5aI .e'u~
80 AS 1 have stood upon the ashes of
scores Of burned homes; ash have stood
by the graves of the martyrs, Phillips,
Roberts, Dow, Hoyt, Barber, and Shom-
Der. who died, saying, ,r'I7 gave myself a
cheerful sacrifice on the altar of Kansas
Freedom~ as l have heard the simple.
unaffected tales Of outrage fionn thelips of
men and women, who but spoke what they
had known, and felt, lmy realizqtion of
these facts has only been intensified, my
indignation has burned, and have won
dered how the freemen here had the moral
courage to stand. as they did, only on tho
defensive. and did not, as they might have
done, annihilats their savage invadersi 1t
IL strsss feeling 1 have had IN passing