Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-08-12

gus one gave them one unasked, in which
the place was given into the tender mer-
cies of the worst enemies Lawrence has
ever had-among the most prominent of
them are persons living at Lecompton, a
rival town distant a dozen miles or So
sufficient index Of their interest in
this place by all who know the intense
animosity felt at Lecompton for Free
State men and their policy. The only
act Of sovereignty exercised By the city
government has been the removal of the
carcases of two dead horses and furnish
ing Sprinkler for the streets, yet for
this the Governor has not hesitaled to
charge the people with treason, rebellion
&c. In his desire to find some pretext
for his folly in marching the troops here
to overawe and browbeat the citizens in
to submission and compliance with the
fraudulent enaetments that still hang as
leaden weight upon the prosperity Of
the Territory, he has magnifed a mole
hill into mountain.
Jus: mark his preposterous charges:
Permi! me to call your attention, as
still claiming to be citizens of the Uni
ted States, TO the results of your revolu-
tionary proceedings. You are inaugu
rating rebellion; you are disregar,ling
the laws of Congress and oi the Terri
tsrial Government and defy ing their au-
thority; you are conspiring to overthrow
the Government of the United States in
this Territory. Your purpose, if carried
into effect in the mode designated by
you by putting your laws forclbly into
execution would involve YOU in the guilt
and crime OF treason. You stand now,
fellow citizens, upon the brink OF an
awful precipice, and it becomes my duty
10 warn you ere yoa take the fatal leap
into the gulf below. If your proceed
ings are not arrested you will neccessa-
rily destroy the peace of the Territory
and involve it in all the horrors of civil
war. | warn you, then. before it is to
late, to recede from the perilous position
in which you noR stand.
1t would be easy 10 refu:e all these
';.->--s:=s.'5.-so pm Pouzi and diO:;sI,s.,i
cally made-but their falsity is SO ap
parent that any remark upon them Ger
tainly ought to be entirely superfuous.
The demoralizing effects of living
without law are fearfully apraren..-
Outrage follows upon outrage, while the
perpeh ators go unwhipt fjustice. Sew
eral men have been killed for jumping
claims--a couple of weeks since two
Irishmen were most brutally murd dered
within ten miles of tLis place, their
skulls broken in, throats cut, large stones
tied to their bodios and then thrown in
to the Wakarusa. Horse stealing has
also become quite common. Last week
FIVE were stolen in one night 10 this Vi
cinity-one of them almost before the
eyes of lis owner The spring emigration
has been very large, and has brought
with it many bold. bad men who do not
hesitate TO engage iu any disreputable
business. Drinking, the vice of new
countries, is here becoming very univer-
sal. Doggelies are sprnging up every
where with a Mushroom growth, sending
/ forth their baleful Influence through a
thousand channels--yet despite all this,
the probability of collision with United
States troops, the rumors of invasion
from Missouri and having to contend
with the base and vile among ourselves,
l confidently look forward to the bright
est possible future for Kansas. 1t can
not he that this beautiful land was ever
destined to be blackeued and cursed by
the footprints of bondmen. The strug-
gle may be long and arduous, still do
not doubt bu; that Kansas will ultimate
/ ly be free. have neither time or heart
to write further now. More anon.
Yours, very Truly,
w r. K