The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-28

ser! yOn are Governor OF Kansas, and
as such appointed and paid to preserve
order and punish crime. You have the
Federal judges, Marshals, &c., at your
back, with the Army close at hand to be
used in enforcing your dictates. Your
Judges and Marshals could find Grand
Jury to present the Free State hotel and
printing Offices In Lawrence as nulsances
and decree their destruction-surely they
can find one to indict robbers, rioters,
bruisers and assassins. If, then, crimes
have been committed in Kansas--no mat
ter by which party--sinCe you have be-
come her Governor. and you have not of
fered rewards for their perpetrators, had
them indicted and brought to trial, you
are guilty by confession of gross negleco
Of duty. All your charges against Free:
State men, therefore, come home, with
crushing effect to yourself. Why are you
not now trying to bring the offenders to
justice instead of seeking to make party
capital out Of them by letters to the jour-
nals' No matter who have done wrong,
let them be arrested, convicted and pun
ished. Your fling at hired reporters of
Eastern newspapers" passes By Us. since
We have had no hired reporter in Kansas
for months; but when you say ''perpetra-
tors of criminal outragesl are Running at
large without an effort to arrest them"
you compel US to say that you seem to
have a very imperfect notion of your du-
ties, and to be obviously earning your
salary. But, Mr.. Denverl your account
of last Winters outrages in Southern
Kansas is essentially dishonest and tricky.
You speak of the acts Of Montgomery aud
his band, as if they were unprov oked,
when you cannot help knowing that the
contrary i, the fact. Montgomery, BORN
and reared in Slave State, went to
Kansas to help make her a Free State
For this only this-bc and others like
him, we're habitually plupdered and
grossly abused by the Border Rufiaus.-
They lived for months in daily fear OF
death. This violence at length drove
them to violence in turn-they were i'm
PEELED to spoil their spoilers-until the
latter were compelled to cry, Enough
We do not justify their course-we only
state the facts which you dishonesty sup
press. The game of spoliation and out
rage in Kansas was deliberately begun
by your party-that whose cause you
petifoz with whose interests you fully T.
IDENTIFY yourself. They had it all their
own way for while, bat Sbarp's rifles
and Northern i'm grafton at length turn
ed the tables upon th,m, and they are
now back in Missouri or have a%sed on
to Arizona and Sonora. They did not
make expense at thorse.stealing and house
breaking during the last year of their
Kansas experience, and We bre not sor-
ry for it. But for you, Gov. d, nver! to
hold up Capt. Moutg gomery and his do
ings as the provocatIon if not an excuse
for the cowardly seizure and murder of
several unoffending Free-Stute men while
peacefully at work on the Marias Des
Cygnes last Spring, is what We could not
have expected, even from satrap of
james Buchanan. And when you speak
of the outragcs at the South as occurring
'iD counties where the Free-Stste men
have all the local officers ycu are guilty
Of the grossest preVarication. Bourbon
Comfy lid not have a Free-State Sheriff
till late last Sprlng-as you know very
well, for you appointed him-and as to
Linn, where the cowardly murders of the
Marias Ges Cygnes were perpetrated, you
know that the murderers were hiding In
Missouri within two hours after their
butcbery was perpetrated, and before
the scattered pioneers could hear Of their
crime and gather on their track. YO@
j. w. Denver! ought to have followed aud
tracked out those assassins! You should
have called on Jour political croDy, the
Governor of Missouri, TO help you-wby
have you not done it'll Why are you
writing apologies for the miscreants whom
you should be bringing to Justice!
You say, Sir, that We make another
complaint of the Presiient-th he has
twice postponed the land sales" in Kan
sas. No. Sir! nothing like it! We COM
plain that be makes such po-tponement
an act of clcmency and favor toward the
pioneers, when it is one of simple and OBJ
Vious justice. We complain that be and
his satellites are trying to make party cap
ltal out fit, as Jour letter bears witness.
We complain that the Presidents parti-
sans in Congress last S ssion defeated
Mr.. Grows bene icent bill, allowing ten
years to elapse after the survey of each
tract of the Public Lands before it shall
be forced into market-a bill which
would, if passed, shield the settlers from
those premature and disastrous sales of
the lands on which they have squatted,
by which they are too frequently driven
iuto the clutches of remorseless usurerS.
Pass Grows bill, and there will be no
more occasion for Presidents to make an
insulting parade Of clemcncy toward set
tiers on the Public Lands, nor for Gov
crnors to try to coin those settlers sppre-
tensions and their sense Of relief into dir
ty party capital. e
This is our position, Gov. Donverl If
you will read THE TRIBUNE more ear.