New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-15
pgushed by the appropriate and very truthful appel
laiion Of Pricate Sickles. FAlR fiar'
re.otsr a lf59
THE PRESIDENT AND KANSAS.
LETTER FROM GOV. DENVER.

To ae EIiio, If The y. Y TylbNAe
SIR: Nv attention has been calsd to an ar'lcie 10
reference to Kansas affairs, published in yonr Daiy
Of the 10Th inst, and Semi-Weekly Of the 2is'i ID
which yon suggest that | have probably been com
PEELED bv the Administration to resign the post nave
held here for some months past, and on that supPo
top Won uroceed Ia make soine charges against
Mr. Rucbanan and bis Administration, for all OF when
there Is not the slighes foundation. II s true thai
have resigned the office OF Governor oi Kansas but
Il ves an act of nv own free will. The President de-
sired me 10 remain but the condition Of my pnvate
affairs vond not permit me to do 70 longer. In June
la,t sent M NV resg nation 10 take effect ID August
but while in Washington in July, at the urgent 7'ci
tatiops Of many persons interested IN Kansas anu
al-o al the request OF the President, then "lhule"
II for the time being Those who are conTeTsant
with the facts know that it has been Win
extreme reluctance that L have remained he' Itoln
the first, and that have an ays declared my '..I
t;up tn resign the Office Of Governor a. soon ~ y
could be done with safety 10 the pubic interests
have received the most ample assurances oi lne COT
dial approval Of my course IN ihls Territory oy tne
prs sSer. and 4" al the members of MS tabnet,
and here ! must he permitted to cay that, IN all my
conversations with the President abon Kansas anairs
he has always unaffected the deepest concern Tor the
peace and happiness Of the country and de,ernha-
ton that the People Of the Territory should nave 4
fair onnortunty al the ballobox to settle the ques-
lions at issue before them in their own way, and "i-
ont any e1traneous Influences. Such mas oeen the
character Of all his communications 10 NE, whether
verbal or written; and while endeavorlng 10 carry
them ont in good faith have met with 10 opposition
from the moderate men Of the Territory, nor IRON
those who have been classed as Pro-Slsvery men.
The frauds perpetrated at the elections in January
last were committed by the violent and unscrupnlous
men Of all parties and the investigation OF them was
partisan and partial Such acts as the forging OF re-
turns from Delaware Crossing were parafed beiorethe
,uhc with great eusto while the destruction of the
In - loii ea.S Mcuud nv Cant Mont
ro,nerv was psssed by III silence. The acors IN al
these transactions ought have been severely punlsh,
ed but there laws that would reach thrn ans
the late Legislative Assembly, which was all Free
Ste.e made no sufficient laws to meet such in
the future hut cnd-avored tn parayze the powers OF
the Circuit Courts and invest the Probate Courts with
powers they could not exercise. 80
You admit that things have gone on here quietly,
under nv Administration. This s not exactly correct.
There have been senie disturbances IN Doniphan.
Iesvenwor1h, Linn and Bourbon Counties; and, III
every case the dist ubances have productivity per-
son- calling themselves free-State men. In DonIphan
County an effort made 10 assassinate the gentle
men who were elected to the Legislature on the hrst
Monday in January last and, though they escaped
with their lives, they were Plnnderea OF @ tner prop
taken 10 punish the perpetrators; aud yet, all the
county officers trecState men. The troubles IN
Leavenworth City continued nearly all WINTER; and,
if the Mayor and other city officers did not encourage
them thry certainly took measures 90 have them
surpre ssed. In Linn and Bourbon Counties all was
qniet until Montgomery and hs band commenced
plundering and driving off the people who differed
with them in politicai sentiments, in the course OF
which they committed some most outrageous acts one
OF which to drive t. farmer away from ms nome
ON pain OF death and then to take the ladies' oi bis
fonily strip of all their clothing, and IN that condi-
tion compel them 10 walk backward and forward for
their amusement I passed through the counties
where these ontrages perpetrated and for some
thirty miles il presented such Il scene of desoa-
tion g. ] never expected to have seen and
hone never again IN see in country
inhabited by American citizens. Is 1t any wonder
that thr people on whom such outrages were perpe-
trat.d glonld hrcnme esasperatcd Some three hun
dred families TINS robbed OF ther property,
driven away from their homes, and compelled to fly
from the Terrltory-about two-tmids OF them from
Linn County where every local officer wasssnd is
Free State After providing places oi security
for their families some of The men, maddcned and des-
peratc with the treatment they had received returned
10 seek revenge and peTperGted the bloody and uL-
;us,;fable act OF the Marais des Cygnes. This was
ionwcd on the part of Montgomery by setting fire to
the town of Fort Scott, IN the middle oi the night,
while people ali asleep and then pouring IN vol
levs Of rieballs to prevent the people from extin-
gushing the fumes. Although no serious consequences
resulted from this act though several persons escaped
very narrowly, yet IN its inception know Of nothing
worse in the whole history Of If snch act
had been committed by a band of hostile Indians, it
would have sent thrill of horror throughout the
whole country.
Such have been some Of the troubles in ths Terri
tory, and yet the perpetrators are running Il, large
Frec-State men have al the local officers upheld by
portion of those calling themselves Free-Stste men,
among the most active Of whom have been the hired
reporters of the Eastern newspaper press. II any
further disturbances in this Territory these are
the people who will be Justly responsible for IT, The
Pro-Slavery party have abandoned the contest The
Frre-State men lave majority IL every county ia
the Territory and they have the Sheriff and al other
LEGAL officers in al bnt two or three of The counties,
and there is no county in which the Sheriff cannot
preserve the peace u hc desires 10 d. So.
You make another complaint against the President,
that he has tried Ia postpone the sales Of the public
lands. ii mistake not, last Spring you complained
because the sales were ordered for july The nrsi
reinforcement was rnads ar the urgent solicitation Of
The people IN all parts of the Territory aud ANXIOUS
were they 10 have it done, that they sent COM
mittee Of three 10 the President the subject,
and the resnl of their interview was published by
yen. The second postp0nement was more necessary
than the lIs for money had become more scarce ia
the Territory the rates cf interest had gone up to ve
and ten per cent per month and there good
deal Of sickness throughout the whole country.
Nv adhern 10 the second order for the sales 10 take
Mace in November, the settler would be placed
nj ,ie mercy 0f the money ycnder, when Ia postpone
Il the settler wond have another year within which
IN nhaiu che means to home. without having
which 10 enter the oihe. mali. No coed Government
and hence the second postponemen of the land-sales
until Inlv next II measure demanded by the
ON of affairs here and oi which have heard
one compain, except such were determined 70 be
dissatisfied with anything and everything the Admin
;s-,ation might do, and few y-lenders, whose
percentage has been greatly reduced by il.
Nv giving publicity 10 this, yon will correct some