The Washington union., 1857-08-28

of being exposed to insult and contumely and, what Is
worse to the political harangues of Lane will be able 10
attend his business unmolested and where the
and treasure belonging 10 the United States viii be
ieved from dangerous proximity TO lawlcss banditt
whose eupidy is the measure Of their contempt for all
law, human and divine.
During my soourn at Osawkee had the pleasure Of
hearing discussion on the political afairs of the
Territory between lane and T. o. Perrin, esq,
formerly OF Memphis Tennessee. The former had
thrown down the gauntlet which promptly taken up
by Mr. Perrin Lane led of in his usual infammatory
style denouncng the administration, Walker the bogus
Legislature misunderstanding, in short, except the
ee-Stae party of Kansas and the Topeka constitution
In reply to all this ''blood and thunder, Mr. Perrin
reviewed the policy OF the administration towards Kansas
inaugurated by and being successfully carried out
by Gov Walker Lane had urged that Walker moved
the troops Lawrence TO prevent the people Of that
town from clearing it of dead cats and dogs Perrin
thought it would be strange and novel spectacle to
mayor aldermen, and city police moving in solemn
procession through the Streets bearing dead dog to his
last resting place the adjacent prares 'The truth
Is said Mr. p ''tfe establishment of municipal gov
ernent in Lawrence is the nitiaory step towards the
consummation of extensive scheme of revolution,
which proposes nothing less than the subverson of the
territorial government and the immediate Inauguration Of
that of Topeka notoriety," He demonstrated this
proposition by the ccarest and most convincing
ing satisfying every unpreudced mind that the only al
tentative left to Walker to prove recrcant to his
high trust and false 70 his oath of Office, to use
all the power placed in his hands to quell nsurrec-
ton and maintain the supremacy Of law and the con-
stitution. Mr.. Peuin's rebuke to agators' those
who, like Lane, would the unhappy strife
which baptsed the fair plains of Kansas in bood-was
withering scatIing annhilating. Equally happy
the remarks of Mr. Perrin in regard to the extremists
of the South those who being thousands of miles
away had taken Kansas under their fostering and
especial guardianship. We desire not the intervention
of such persons said Mr. n Eabsas Can manage her
own affairs without the help of the editors of the New
Orleans Delta and Richmond South Mr. Keitt of South
Carolina Mr. Kitten of Massachusetts,. On the sub.
jec abolition sympathy for the negro Mr. brought
forward overwhelming array Of facts and arguments
show that it false and hypocritical lie insanced
the treatment Of Randolphs slaves in Ohio, and cited
passages from the speeches of leading aboonss prove
that they actuated by hatred of the owner
than love for the slave 1e natural instincts Of these
men, " said he, jealousy, envy malice, impel them
ward in their crusade against the South these iancs
to them much stronger incentive than any love
they have for the a.stinls of the negro.
II would be vain to attempt TO convey adequate
idea of Mr. Perrns eoquence and powers debater,
and of the effect produced by his discussion with Lame
the first of the kind which had taken place in the Terri
tory 1t is to be regretted that such discussions not
frequent particularly when the administration has
such champion Mr.. Perrin But there is very little
probability that that gentleman will have the satisfaction
of another tilt with the Ajax Telemon of the Topekaites
Lane when again the challenger will seek oeman less
worthy of his steel
To lover OF peace it gratifying to observe the
good order which prevailed at the Osawkee sales In the
vast copcourse embracing perso,s of
variety of sentiment and from every degree Of Latitude
there seemed to be very few disposed to agiate and
to mar the general harmony which prevailed The sals
were conducted in which reflects the highest
credit on the commissioner, Hon Norman Eddy and the
register and receiver Gen. Whitfield and Gov. Woodson.
To the prudent foresight, energy rmness and sleepes
vigilance of these officers is to be ascbed, in great
measure the admirable order which prevailed from the
first the last day of the sales No higher praise could
be bestowed upon them than to state the simple tact that
on the soil of bleedng Kansas " the sark and bloody
ground six hundred thousand dollars received
from the hands of the squatcrs and during the time the
vast multitude remained upon the ground notwithstand
ing the presence of such agors Lane and Robinson
and of that great dsturber of the public peace bad hs
not life was lost, and nothing occurred to bring re-
proach the people occasion regret to the officers to
whom the government had committed the responsible
and important charge of conducting sales in which the
varied and conflicting interests of squattcr Indian and
government all to be duly guarded and protected
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