The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-08-14
Murders 5sn gEasasag.

Murders 5aa gzas2saS.
During the last Presidential campaign, the
Democratic Party was met continually with
the charge that the outrages in Kansas, commit
ted bv bands of desperadoes and a8sassins, were
all the natural and unavoidable consequences
Of the passage by Congress, Of the kansas-Ae-
braska bill. Indeed, until the Investigating
Committee made their report, the Abolition
Republican politicians would not even admit,
that any body but pro-sIavery men, were con
nected with these outragrs. They cast the
blame of every murder and robbery, committed
in the Territory, upon tie "Aissouri Border
Rutians, and shocked the people Of the States,
with the incessant narration OF horrible stories
concerning the ferocity and barbarty Of South
ern immigrants. Bot after the truth was bro't
to light, through the researches Of he Investiga-
ting Committee, it was discovered that the
crimes which had been PerPetTated, instead Of
being chargeable to pro-sayery men alone,
were in very many instances the work of Ltut-
fan Abolitonist8 Instead Of Lnt one secret so
ciety existing in the Territory, as The '.ireedom
shriebing'' press and speakers alleged, il aP-
peared that both Of the sectional Parties-the
utra-Northern, as well as the ultra-Southern-
had established organizations Of that nature
Ii appeared also, that the members of these So
cieties, under preience of carrying out their
partisan views, committed the most inbuman
atrocities, not only in fighting with each other,
but also in numbering and Plundering peaceful
citizens, who did not belong 10 their organiza-
tions, and who constituted large majority Of
the inhabitants. Under the tasteful title Of
.sBlue Lodge some Of the violent Pfo-slayery
men had banded themselves together, whilst
under the auspices of that Abolition monstrosi-
ty, the E'Kansas Elnigrant Aid Society,"" whose
members were made to take the most fearful
oaths, Jim Lane and other reckless and law
less men united with themselves The rowdy
spirits Of Aboliton-R n-Republicaaism. The first
mentioned, lsBlue Lodge has long since dis
banded, but jim Lane and his con.ederales still
cling together. still fulfil their eXecra5ie oaths,
still harrass quiet, peaceful citizens, pretending
;iiat it is necessary, in order to make Kansas a
free state, that treason should be plotted against
the government, and that the regularly consti-
tuted authorities ofthe Territory, should be set
at defiance. Out Of these and similar orEaniza-
tons composed indiscriminately of the maddest
fanatics Of A5o.ionism, and the most jealous
propagandists of slavery, and seemingly modelI-
ed after, and suggested by the secret society OF
Know Nothings, grew three-lourths of the trou-
bles that have made Kansas a bye-word among
men, It is an iaccntrovegtible fact, and every
body who has examined the report Of the In
vestgating Committee, knows It to De such
that the numerous murders and robberies com
mitted in the Territory, were the work ofsecret
bands Of marauders and outlaws The equestlon,
therefore, whether the furors created by the
secret society of Know Notaings, had not 4
great influence in bringing about The orsaniza-
ton of these bands, Is worthy more than ogdi-
nary attention. 1t is certainly reasonable 10
suppose that it had
The late revelations Of the Leavenworth mur-
NC'CISs A4oSiSSIH5 AAe StdItiiHS ldLt ltdt i CUl-
pany of villains had organized themselves into
society, in that place, 10 follow the business
of numbering men for their money, furnish ad-
ditional evidence that the 5arbarilies in Kansas,
from which 50 much capital has been made by
Northern fanatics, were the work Of men(?l who
are brutes aud cut-throats BY nature, aud who
never cared farhing whether Kansas should
become a free, or slave state. These revela-
tions explain the horrible deeds Of which we
told such endless tales, last fall, and which
Abolitionists charged TO 'Missouri Border Ruff
tianism," in precisely the same manner in
which the Democratic Press has always under
taken to explain them. It was invariably the
position Of the Democratic papers and speakers,
with regard TO the Kansas troubles, that they
sprung from the uncalled for quarrels of sec
tional agtators, and from the pouings of
scheuing villains, the bandiui of the border,
whose only object was the getting of money,
and whose means to reach that object were
The rufian's pistol, and the assassin's knife
Time which p5oveth all things, has sustained
this position, and in view Of this fact, it re-
mains TO be seen whether intelligent citizens
will ever again 50 a-!ray, following The deluaiye