The Washington union., 1858-03-23
INTERESTING FROM KANSAS.
0UTRAGES BY LANES MILITIA, -DEPREDA1IONS
ABOUT FORT SCOTT, PRESENT POSTURE or Az
FAIRS.
Fonr soorr, TX. r.. , March 8, 1858.

Fonr soorr tx II y March 8, 1858
We are truly living under ',reign of terror This
is the only country aud the first ie that cotnnnity
felt more unsafe in their persons aud property in time
of peace than they would in the midst of war In
times of war we know enemies and prepare for de-
fence, make repals and teach enemies to observe
the rules OF war among civilized people Az present
ut pcace have made declaration of war, have
avowed enemies hence each remains at home sola
ted from his neighbor aud is unprcpare for attack
from ovcrIowerng numbers
The outtagcs OF the kozei thieves under the
mand OF Lanes militia captains, are daily becoming more
aggravated 1iiet oqr Of robbery and assassination
tacty sanctioned by the free Stale part}
The leaders, set OF sctimonious scounrcls, ''ncyer
bear arms ,''neyer encourage violence yet hold
ing commissions under them prowl through the country
with bogus writs i say bogus, because they is
sued bs eiSate county judges q county against
pro slavery citizens o another county, and executed by
II catam of Lanes militia" When they get possession
of the person against whom writ Is issued he is drag
,cd from home, carried into strange ncighborhood in
suited his life threatened, and, without any trial for the
offence alleged against him, lie s ordered to leave The
Territory at the peril of his life and during Ills absence
generally Is the that his property is stolen by his
good fee-Sate ncighbors who did not participate in the
foray upon him.
This sheet has not space enough 10 make record of
outrages that have been committed during the past week
10 be brief, will mention of the strongest
In neshborhood they stole five horses from three
slavery men, negro man from another, and drove
the family of the latter out of the Territory Only few
miles further they drove three from their claims
and took all their horses and household property they
carry wagons with them to haul the pundcr) In
another neishbohood they served notices al the pro-
slavery 10 leave AS they proceeded their outrages
became greater On the Little Usage they imprisoned
crl men until their property taken when they
released and ordered out of the country AT Spntsve
they plundcred store, tied up the owner insued his
wife and daughters and proceeded to the next pro slavery
mans house. surrounded it, and, he out OF the
door to make his escape, shot him down. They robbed
A.. l.. n
their wagons loaded dot Started for Lawrence Judge
Williams having received information Of their proceed
ngs, set the deputy marshal with 80 troops to The
of disturbances They reached Sprattsvle only six hours
after their departure and would have ovcrtaken them
I, they not been informed that the troops after
them They fled with much pecipitancy that their
trail found various articles of pIundcr which fell out
of their -four saddles, blankets, wearing ap
parc dry goods &c Notwithstanding the haste of these
scounlres they had time 10 stop and commit outragcs
such insulting women, &c They overlook two boys
the Of Mr. Sprat formerly OF Sebastian county,
Arkansas, anda member Of the last year legislature
and demanded certain information and failing 10 give it,
these outlaws made fire in the prairie grass and held
the boys oyer il until their faces aid hands were seriously
burned 11ils last outrage barhtrty cqmed only by
that of the scpoys OF lia II could not believe until
Capt Anderson who commanded the troops this
sion, confirmed the statement.
To-day ugitives from the country have been arriving
and it makes my heart bleed To hear their accounts Of
the outrages that have been committed their neigh
nave uccu On tney
not fled Mr. SpraM referred TO before in this letter is
among the ugitives and it wrins my soul to south
ern men thus tramplcd npon.
You may ask why. in county where we have 800 or
400 majority, and where men as claim possess
more courage thus be over, First they live
about in distant ncghborhoods, not than Is 10 20
IN neighborhoOd, without communication with ench
other Two or three hundred strangers from other
countit~) make sudden descent upon them Two hun
rcd will spread all nchberhood where there
may not he, Mt the most more than twenty Of
they Will divide into bands Of Is 70 and attack isolated
homestcatls. What chance stand against
such odds aud against such warfare Before morning
these men will scatter round and divide out among the
free State families and next night repeat their outrses
Ivy the time friends from distance turn out the
troops, they are off to other parts of the Territory and
they march through the country, claim the respect duo
to Lanes militia aud fill the country with reports of
tho offences of the proslavery They keep paid
standing army in the field.