The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-29
The rtoubles soufh.

The Troubles South.
The news from the southern part of the
Territory is of the most stating character.
We clip, and publish elsewhere, from the
Osawatomie Herald. detailed account of
one of those atrocious transactions which
has made the early history of Kansas
memorable the world over. The colonies,
during the first settlements, cannot recite
more tales of horror, perpetrated by the
dark savages of the forest, than can the
pioneerin Kansas. Looking back through
two centuries, and calling up the bloody
scenes at Pittsfeld, Schenectady and
Wyoming, we find their counterparts here.
The murder Of Dow, the shooting down
of Barber, the cutting to pieces of poor
Brown, the calling out from their homes
at midnight and the numbering of the
Doyles and Wilkensons, the scalping of
Hops, the barbarous killing of three citi-
zens near Fort Scott few weeks ago, and
the shooting down of five others but last
week, and the wounding of several others,
is enough Of the horrible to fill up blood
and thunder" novels for another century.
The tales of Indian warfare, and their
shocking violence to women and children,
must be laid aside to make room for the
occurrences of the late three years in
Kansas.
We have Iabored to arrive at the truth
relative to the difficulties in the south
part of the Territory, and have published
many columns in regard to it; but we
believe the whole is receivable into these
facts That number of lawless men, of
the Buford stripe, with the murderers
Clark and Brockstt at their head, had set
lied around Fort Scott. They wished to
embroil the Territory in strife, and have
succeeded, by their depredations on quiet,
unoffending citizens.
The violence of these men excited to
action others of the opposite party, who
were but too ready to engage in a contest,
the end of which no one can tell. Like
the circles in the quiet pool when pebble
is thrown into it, first small, they continue
to increase until the whole body is affect
ed by it. These difficulties. at first insig-
nifcant, have extended until whole neigh
bOrhoods have become involved, and unless
speedily suppressed, are in danger of In
VOlving the Territory at large. The
pretext for this recent murder was the rep
resentation that Montgomery with his pi-
ratical band had warned the pro.slavery
settlers to leave the region of the Usage
and Big Sugar Creeks by a given day
Instead of their leaving, it is claimed that
accompany was organized in Missouri, who
visited the region of strife, where they
found a body of men entrenched for a
light. Brockett and DR.. Hamilton, with
their desperadoes, fired upon and killed
live and wounded six others. The facts,
however, are as detailed by the Osawato-
ME Herald, as we have it from gentleman
from Iowa, who was on his way to this
place from tour in that region, who saw
the dead bodies, and learned all the par
tlculars in regard to the terrible outrage.
Had those concerned in the outrages upon
the pro-slavery party been the sufferers,
We should have no censure to bestow but
they were moderate, conservative men, no
way mixed up in the troubles, but men
who were sincerely DESTROYS to restore the
country topeace. Ithas been thus through
all our difficulties, and so it will continue,
and for this reason it becomes the duty Of
the peace loving citizens to take immedi-
ate and active measures TO suppress the
difficulty.
Montgomery and Hamilton, with theil
oanditti, scour the country, and levy Macl
mdit from the opposite party. Neither
stop to enquire whether the persons they
rob are "mixed up" with the present
troubles. 1t is sufficient to know thai
they are Pro-slavey or Free State, as the
case may be, and their horses, their goods
and perchance their lives, must pay the
forfeit.
No sooner has Hamilton and his muir,
aefers laid waste neighborhood, thai
'ney retreat to Missouri. A party o
ne'ghbOs, justly incensed at the outrage
leave the bloody corpses of their neigh
Jus SUI above-ground, and fly to punish
Tue guilty wretches who have plunged 81
: many families in distress. They, perhaps
wiz follow into Missouri, when the citizen
Oh 'nat State, feeling incensed with bein,
suspected of protecting those demons
y" use up to expel what seems to then
:, q battle may be fought, whel
'As defeated party viii rally their friends
ana thus there is danger the whole coun
ny viii be involved.
We see no hope of terminating this con
.sS' only BY the inansediate interposition Q
' general government. Each hour Q
p'0c'astlnasion win make the trouble
O's difhcult of adjustment and wi
'sse more public and private wrongs
ps'e'ahated for in the future. Every phi
'nfopsst must tremble in view of tn
a :, and animosities which will folio,
,As Present difficulties. Ali experienc
as demonstrated thatman is so organize
4.A' u the laws viii not redress privat
e,'ssanceS, indisiduals viii, and henc
1' dark catalogue of crimes which ar
observable in all countries from year t
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