M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-10-21
Letter from Governor Denver
Instantaneous Corrected.

al gross misstatements as to the action
of Governor Denver and President
Buchanan, the Governor addressed
the following courteous letter to the
editor Of the Tribune, correcting their
errors, but they had not the fairness
to print it. Under these circumstan-
ces, tic gentleman to whom it was
sent for transmission to the Tribune
handed it to the Journal Of Com
merce, from which We copy. 1t is an
interesting letter, and should have
wide circulation:
LEcoMproy, X. T., Sept. 30, '5S.
70 tile Editors qfthe ". Y. TiJunG
GENTLEMEN: My attention has been
called to an article in reference to
Kansas affairs published in your Daily
of the Goth instant, and Tri.woekly
Of the 21st, in which you suggest that
| had probably been compelled by the
Administration to resign the post !
have held here for some months past,
and on that suppoSitiOn you proceed
to make some serious charges against
Mr.. Buchanan and his Administra-
ton, for all of which there is not the
slightest foundation. 1t is true that |
have resigned the Office Of Governor
Of Kansas, but it was an act Of my
own free will. The President desired
me to remain, but the condition Of
my private affairs would not permit
me to do SO longer. In June last |
sent up my resignation to take effect
in August, but while in Washington
lin July, at the urgent solicitations Of
many persons interested in Kansas,
and also at the request Of the Presi-
dent, | then withdrew it for the time
being. Those who are conversant
with the facts know that it has been
with extreme reluctance that | have
remained here from the first, aid that
| have always declared my intention
to resign the office Of Governor, as
soon as it could be done with safety to
the public interests. have received
the most ample assurance of the cor
dial approval Of my course in this
Territory by the President AMI all the
members of his Cabinet, and here |
must be permitted to say, that in all
my conversations with the President
about Kansas affairs, he has always
manifested the deepest concern for the
peace and happiness of the country,
and a determination that the people Of
the Territory should have q fair op-
portunity at the ballot box to settle
the questions at issue before them in
their own way, and without any ex-
traneons irfucnces. Such has been
the character of all his communica-
tions to me, whether verbal or writ,
ten, and while endeavoring to carry
them out in good iaith, | have met
with no opposition from the moderate
men Of the Territory, nor from those
who have been clasSod as pro.slayery
men.
The frauds pOrpetrated at the elec-
ton in January last were committed
by the violent and INSCRIPTIONS men
Of all parties, and the investigation of
them was partisan and partial. Such
acts as the forging of the returns from
Delaware Crossing were paraded be-
ore the public with great gusto, while
he destruction Of the ballot-box and
ballots at Sugar Mound, by Captain
Montgomery, NJ was passed by in silence.
The actors in all these transactions
ought to have been severely punished,
bus there were no laws that would
reach them, and the late Legislative
Assembly, which was all Free-Statc,
made no sufficient laws to meet such
cases in the future, but endeavored to
paralyzc the powers of the Circuit
Courts, and invest the Probate Courts
with powers they could not exercise.
You admit that things have gone on
here quietly under my administration.
This is no: exactly correct. There
have been some disturbances in Doni-
phan, Leavenworth, Linn and Bour-
bon counties, ana in every case the
disturbances have been produced by
persons calling themselves Free State
men. In Doniphan county an effort
was mado TO assassinate the gentle
men who were elected to the Legisla-
.ure on the first Monday in January
last, and, although they escaped with
heir lives, they were plundercd of
their property, and their houses burnt.
No steps have been taken to punish
the perpetrators, and yet all the county
officers were Free.Stato men. The
in Leavenw worth City contin-
ned nearly all winter, and if the May.
Or, and other city officers did not en-
them, they certainly took no
measures to have them suppressed.
In Linn and Bourbon counties all
was quiet, until Montgomery and his
band commenced plundering and |
Irving off the people who differed
with them in nolitic al sentiments in I