Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-11-10
From the New York Journal of c C1mmerco. Oct. g. u tier from Governor Denver

A1 tier from Governor Denver.
 The New York Tribune having published an article on Kansas afzirs. September 2Oth. which contained several gross msStatements as to the action of Governor Denver and President Bu chanan, the Governor addressed the following courteous letter to the editors of the Tribune, correcting their errors, but they had not the fairness to print 1t. Under these circumstances the gentleman to whom 1t was sent for transmits. sion to the Tribune, has handed it to us, and we cheeriully lay It before our readers
 LEcoMProN, K. T., Sept. 30, ,58.
 To tte ELt0rs 0f he Neio York Tribune.
 GENTLEMEN:-My attention has been called to an article in reference to Kansas affairs pub lishel in your daily of the 2Oth inst. and tri- weekly of the 21st, in which you suggest that had probably been compelled by the admins. tratlon to resign the post 1 have held here for some months past, and lon that suppositon vou proceed to make some serious charges against MT. Buchanan and his administration, for all of which there is not the slightest foundation. It
 true that hfEs S Ma s hG S S H5 own free will. The President desired me to remain. but the condition of my private affairs would not permit me to do so longer. InJune last sent up my resignation to take effect in August, but while in Washington in July, at the urgent sol. citations of many persons interested in Kansas, and also at the request of the President, then Withdrew 1t 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, and that have always de- elared my intention to resign the office of Cover nor, as soon as it could be done with safety to the public interests. l have received the most ample assurances of the cordial approval of my course in the territory by the President and all the members of his cabinet, and here 1 must be permitted to say that in all my conversation with the President about Kansas affairs. he has always manifested the deepest concern for the peace and happiness of the country and de- termination that the people of the territory should have fair opportunity at the ballot box, to settle the questions at issue before them in their own way, and without any extraneous in- | t1uences. Such has been the character of all hls communications to me, whether verbal or written, and while endeavoring to carry them out in good faith have met with no opposi- ton from the moderate men of the territory. nor from those who have been classed as pro- slavery men,
 The frauds perpetrated at the election in January last, were committed by the violent and interruptions men ofall parties, and the in- vestlgatlon Of them was partisan and partial- Such acts as the foregoing of the returns from Delaware crossing were paraded before the pub hc With great gusto, while the destruction of the ballot-box and ballots at Sugar Mound, by Capt. Montgomery, was passed by in silence The actors In all these transactions ought to have been severely punished, but there were no laws that would reach them, and the late legislative assembly, which was all free state, made no sufficient laws to meet such cases in the future but endeavored to paralyze the powers of the circuit courts, and invest the probate courts with powers they could not exercise You ad- init that things have gone on here quietly under my administration This Is not exactly correct. l There have been some disturbances in Dopi. phan, Leavenworth. Linn and Bourbon coun- ties, and in every case the disturbances have been produced by persons calling themselves free state men. In Doniphan county an effort was made to asSassnate the gentlemen who were elected to the legislature on the Ist Mon- day ln January last, and, although they escap- ed with thelr lives, they were pundered of their property, aud their houses burned. No steps nave been taken to punish the perpetrators and yel the conhty oihcers were free state men, The troubles Tn Leavenworth city continued nearly all winter, and if the mayor, and other city officers did not encourage them, they cer- tanly took no measures to have them suppress i ed. In Linn and Bourbon counties all was oui- etuntil Moutgom cry and his band commenced plundering, and driving off the people who diff fered with them in political sentiments, in the course of which they committed some outrage ous acts, one of which was to drive farmer away from hls home, on pain of death, and then to take the ladies of his family, strip off all their clothing, and in that condition compel them to walk backwards and forwards for their am use ments. passed through the counties where these outrages were perpetrated, and for some 30 miles il presented such scene of desolatIon as 1 never expected to have seen and hope never again to see in country inhabited by American citizens Is 1t any wonder that the | people on whom such outrages were perpetrat- ! ed, should become exasperated! Some three 1 hundred families were thus robbed of their property, driven away from their homes and compelled to fly from the territory. | About two thirds of them from Linn county. where every local officer was and is free state man, after providing places of security for their families, some of the men, maddened and des- perate with the treatment they had received. returned to seek revenge, and perpetrated the bloody and unjuStifiable act of the Marias des Cynges. This was followed on the part of Mont gomery, by setting fire to the town of Fort Scott in the middle of the night. while the people were all asleep; and then pouring in volleys of rifle balls to prevent the people from ex,isgush- Ing the flames. Although TO serious conse- quences resulted from this act, though several ] persons escaped very narrowly, yet in its incep-