The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-07-25

The news from Kansas during the past
week indicates new troubles in that quarter.
Notwithstanding the eminently wise, pacific,
and conciliatory character Of all Gov. Walk
er's measures hitherto, the abolitionists and
disunionists of Lawrence appear determined
to plunge the territory into new scenes oi
violence. The city of Lawrence, the hot-oeo
Of abolitionism in the territory, has set not
only the laws of the U: S. and Of the regu-
larlv constituted territorial government at
defiance, but even the edicts Of the sham
Topeka legislature Of their own CREATION
The result is, that Gov. Walker has been
obliged to call U. S. troops to his aid, and at
latest accounts was encamped before Law
renee with eight companies Of U. S. troops.
In another column our readers will find
the proclamation of Gov. Walker, in which
the causes which leave him no choice but to
adopt threatening measures, are fully detail
ed and explained. From this authentic
statement of facts it will be seen that the
hotspurs of Lawrence are in exactly the
same position with the Mormons Of Utah,
and if an expedition to Utah is justifiable to
reduce the rebels there to subsection, it is no
more than consistent that the army, before
proceeding on its route across the plains,
should first secure the country against the
fire in the rear.
The people Of Lawrence, as the telegraph
advices would indicate, will probably not at
tempt to resist Gov. Walker, and We shall
next near that he has made arrests of 60
zen or two of ringleaders for treason. The
usual farce of a nominal Imprisonment OF
five or six months will be enacted, and the
traitors will then expect again to be dis
charged on nolk proseQui, as they were
before. Such course may accord better
with the general feeling Of the country,
which is averse to harsh treatment of the
deluded fanatics of Lawrence; but we have
administration, and the country would be
spared, if Gov Walker would proceed at
once to hang some half dozen plotters of
treason in Kansas, such as Lane, Robinson,
remove at once the chief cause Of difficulty
there. The people Of Kansas, as body,
are satisfied with Gov. Walker and his ad-
ministration, and do not care rush for the
Topeka Legislature and Convention with all
its tomfoolcrles and absurdities As proof
Of this we subjoin an article taken from
late number of the Herald Of Freedom, the
abolition parer published in Lawrence, and
which undoubtedly reflect the sentiments of
the great mass of the free state men in and
out of Lawrence, in Kansas. The Herald
says:
Gov. Walker has issued a lengthy procla-
nation "To the People Of Lawrence" cx-
pressing his displeasure at the organization
of an independent city charter, declaring it
"in direct defiance Of the Territorial govern
ment," and placing the people "in open
conflict with the Government of the United
States" and this after bill creating NUM-
cipal governments" was defeated by the To-
peka Legislature.
We regret this act on the part Of Gov.
Walker, as its tendency is to intiame the
people at the time when all parties should be
laboring to perpetuate the era Of peace. We
hare no sympathy nth the independent city
organization, as ue indicated in our last
number, and greatly regretted it, as aee acere
apprehensire it acouid bring upon us uhat is
rapidly approaching. While We take ex-
ceptions to that movement, We must also
take exceptions to Gov Walker bringing the
military to Lawrence. II he had legal pro-
cesses to serve, they should have been served
by United States authorities, and no man in
Lawrence or out of it, would have resisted
it. Our people-aU Of them, the extremists
included-kho,c too ueN that Uncle Sans
authority is not to DO resisted nth impunity.
Gov. Walker may send the troops here,
and may arrest those connected with the
organization Of the city government. This
is all he can accomplish. There will be no
resistance, hence no bloodshed. Matters will
move on quietly, and the agitators on either
side will not be able to get up serious
collision.
We are conscious that the Free State party
is occupying high vantage ground, and we
shall no. he driven from it by sustaining ex-
treme measures on the one hand, or resisting
federal authorit,- on the other. The policy
of our people. and ti.c administration Of Gov.
Walker. as shadowed II. his speech at To-
peka, the first to preserve tie quiet OF the
Territory, "peaceably if he Can. but at all
events to preserve the general quiet"
secondly, for the people to get the 1trrlso,
rial government into their own hands, AID
administer it for the benefit of the actua!
residents is identical. This being the case,
it is the interest of Governor Walker, as
well as the people, to keep all agltating
questions out of sight, and avoid every
movement which tends to accerbation on
ether hand.