The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-30
MiseellaReoQs.
Letter from Gov. Denver.

aouIeSseQ the 1olloWlDg courteous letter
TO the editors of the Tribune, correcting
their errors, but they had not the fairness
to print it. Under these circumstances,
the gentleman to whom it was sent for
transmission to the Tribune, has handed it
TO us, and we cheerfully lay 1t before our
rsaders.-M Y Jour. Com.
LEcoMPToE, Z. T., Sept. 80, 1863.
10 the Editors of the N = Tribune:
GENTIEMEN:-My attention has been
called to an article in reference to Kansas
affairs, published in your Daily of the goth
inst, and Tri-weekly of the 21st, in
which you suggest that l had probably
been compelled, by the Administration, to
resign the post I have held here for some
months past, and on that superstition you
proceed to make some serious charges
against Mr.. Buchanan and his administra-
ton, for all Of which there is not the
slightest foundation. 1t is true that
have resigned the Office of Governor of
Kansas, but it was an act of my own free
will. The President desired me to re-
main, but the condition of my private
affairs would not permit me to do so
longer. In June last sent up my resig-
nation to take effect in August, but while
in Washington in July, at the urgent So
licitatiOns of many persons interested in
Kansas, and also at the request Of the
President, then Withdrew it for the time
being. Those who are conversant with
the facts, know that it has been with ex-
treIne reluctance that 1 have remained
here from the first, and that have always
declared my intention to resign the Office
of Governor, as soon as it could be done
with safety to the public interests.
have received the most ample assurance
Of the cordial approval of my course in
this Territory by the President and all
the members Of his Cabinet, and here
must be permitted to say that in all my
conversations with the President about
Kansas affairs, he has always manifested
the deepest concern for the peace and
happiness of the country, and a deter
mination that the people of the Ter
ritory should have fair opportunity
at the ballot box, to settle the ques-
tions at issue before them in their
own way, and without any extraneous
influences. Such has been the character
OF all his communications to me, whether
verbal or written, and while endsavoring
TO carry them out in good faith, have
met with no opposition from the mod
crate men of the Territory, nor from those
who have been classed as pro-slavery
men.
The frauds perpetrsted at the election
IN CO ano,-.skkoI L., L.
violent and interruptions men Of all par
ties, and the investigation Of them vas
partisan and partial. Such acts as the
forging of the returns from Delaware
Crossing were parsded before the public
with great gusto, while the destruction oi
the ballot-box and ballots at Sugar Mound,
by Capt. Montgomery, was passed by in
silence. The actors in all these trans
actions ought to have been severely pun
ished, but there were no laws that would
reach them, and the late Legislative As
sembly, which was all Free State, made
no sufficient laws to meet such cases In
the future, but endsavored to paralyze the
powers Of the Circuit Courts, and invest
the Probate Courts with powers they could
not exercise. You admit that things have
gone on quietly under my administration.
This is not exactly correct. There has
been some disturbances in Doniphan,
Leavenworth, Linn and Bourbon counties,
and in every case the disturbances have
been produced by persons calling them.
selves Free State men. In Doniphan
county an effort was made to assassinate
the gentlemen who were elected to the
Legislature on the first Monday in Janu.
airy last, and, although they escaped with
their lives, they were plundered Of their
property, and their houses burned. Nc
steps have been taken to punish the per.
petratorS, and yet all the county officers
were Free State men.
The troubles in Leavenworth City con-
tinusd nearly all winter, and if the Mayor
and other city officers did not encourage
them, they certainly took no measures "a
have them suppressed. In Linn and
Bourbon all was quiet until Montgomery
and his band commenced plundsring, and
driving OF the people who differed with
them in political sentiment, in the course
of which they committed some most out
rageous acts, one Of which was to drive 8
farmer away from his home, on pain o.
death, and then take the ladies Of ths
family, strip of all their clothing, and il
that condition compel them to walk back.
wards and forwards for their amusement
Ipassed through the counties where thes,
outrages were perpetrate6, and for somt
thirty miles it presented such scene O
desolation IS never expected to havt
sean, and hope never again to see in I
country inhabited by American citizens
il it any wonder that the people on whom
such outtages were perpetrated, shoulC
become exasperated? Some three hun
dred families were thus robbed Of thei
property, driven away from their homes
and compelled to hy from the Territory
About two-thirds of them from Lin
county, whore every local officer was ani
lisa Free State man, after providing place
Of security for their families, some Of tn
men, maddened and desperate with tn
treatment they had received, returned h
seek revenge, and perpetrated the bloed.
and unjust act Of the Marais dss Cygnes
This was followed, on the part Of Mont
gomerY, by setting fire to the tswn o
Fort Scott in the middle of the night
while the people were all asleep; and the
pouring IN volleys Of rifle balls to prevsn
I. the people from sxtinguishing the flames
Although no serious consequences re
suited from this act, though several per
sons escaped very narrowly, yet in il
inception, know of nothing worse inth
whole histsFy Of Kansas. II such an "a
had been committed by band Of hostil
1ndiauS, It would have sent thrill 0
homer threaghout the whole sountsy.-
Huoh have heon Ssma Of the trouhle, 4,