The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-10


nearly froze all who were out in it,
Wagon covers were blown of, tents were
blown down and the whole posse were
thrown into the greatest confusion. Many
of them came into Lawrence to seek shell
ter and food, and others returned home.
Gen. Atchison was in this camp, and it is
stated that had this been mild night
an attack on Lawrence would have been
made without the sanction of legal officers
The next day being Sunday, Gov. Shan
non, Sheriff Jones, and Gen. SHicklel
came into Lawrence and spent the day
considering thewa over on their part
In speaking of this attack on Lawrence
the Congressional Committee in their re.
port says:
Among the many acts of lawless violence
which it has been the duty of your com.
mittee to investigate, this invasion of Law.
renee is the most defeneeless. A COM
parison of the facts proven, with the off,
cial statements of the officers of our gov
eminent, will show how groundless were
the pretexts which gave rise to it. A
community, in which no crime had been
committed by any of its members, against
none of whom had warrant been issued
or complaint made, who had resisted nc
process in the hands of areal or pretended
officer, was threatened with destruction in
the name of claw and ORDER" and that
too, by men who marched from a neigh
boring State with arms obtained by force
and who, in every stage of their progress
violated many laws, and among other
the Constitution of the United States"
tTO BE CONTINUED
France and Kansas.
There is a marked resemblance between
France and Kansas. We do not wish t
be understood as saying that Lecomptol
is like Paris, that there are any Boulevard
at least not any levelled into streets
in Lawrence, or thatany in Ossawatomie ar
altogether up to. the Louvre or the Arc d
| l'Etoile. We do not mean to say that tn
Big Blue flows through so cultivated an,
embellished landscape as the Seine, 0
the Kickapoo Rangers will compare wit
the Zouaves and the Curiassiers of tn
line; and we nave no idea that the bes
eating house in all Wyandott could pos
sibly be mistaken for the Trois Freres, G
the Maison Doree. We make no sue
pretensions. But in the way of govern
ment we will put the Democratic rule i
Kansas against any tyranny from the day
of Nero down to Bomba of Naples. En
| gland may boast of her Jeffreys, but w
proudly answer the braggart with LIE
compte; Spain may bring forward he
Alva, and Austria her Haynau; we ca
match them with dozen volunteer so
diers in Kansas, who have happily unite
all the cruelties of civilization with th
native ferocity Of the savages, over who's
grounds they have driven the men an
women guilty of opinions favorable
| freedom.
But tits in the government of Kansas tn;
we find the resemblance to France. Lou
! Napoleon would make capital pro-sl;
very Democrat. He believes in popul;
sovereignty and holds his place by virtu
of it. but he modifes it by external fore
and expounds its principles by seer
police and a standing army; he holds
universal suffrage, yet allows nobody
vote against his government, or only
many as may give it the appearance of
: decent division of public sentiment. Wit
infinitely greater tact, but to the san
ends, he governs France much as IL
Democratic administration, through tf
instrumentality of the Border Ruffian
: have governed Kansas He permits new
: papers, but if any one of them publisl
es anything that is dangerous to his 60
ernment he gives it three warnings al
shuts up the Office and sends the editor
prison. In Kansas they give no warnin
4 but throw the type and press into the ri
: er and lynch the editor. He allows ele
tions, but if tickets are circulated that {
not suit him, he arrests the offenders f
: sedition, and sends the candidates
S Cayenne. In Kansas, they allow the tic
: cts to be printed and circulated, but dri
the voters from the polls with bow
knives, and tar and feather the canC
dates.
: If some way could be contriyed
which despotism in Kansas could be ton
: down to the politeness of French tyranr
it might, without losing much of
strength and efficiency, be deprived of
: great deal of its atrocity and thus be re
: dered much less disagreeable kind
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