The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-01-01
From the South,

Capt. SAMUEL WALKER, the present
Sheriff of Douglas county, a gentleman
whose word was never contradicted by any
party, has just returned from visit to
Linn and Bourbon counties, where he has
been on a commission from the Governor,
inquiring into the truth of the difficulties
in that quarter. His recital of outrages
practiced by the Montgomery faction upon
persons there, is enough to draw tears from
the eyes of any one not hardened in crime.
Outrages, he states, have been commit
ted by those desperadoes equailing in
atrocity those of the vilest Border Ruffians
in the campaign of 1856. Capt. W. states
that there has been great revulsion in
public sentiment there within the last few
weeks. Everywhere he met men who
had sustained Montgomery in the past,
who now say they can do it no longer
He has gathered about him all the des-
peradoes of the Free State party, and
they live by plumber and crime. No man
is safe among them. At Fort Scott the
Captain found the whole country gather
ing in there with their property, to protect
themselves from these freebooters. The
professed object of this banditti is to in
augerate civil war, and bring on disso-
luton of the Union, and to that end all
their exertions are directed.
We hear from other sources that Capt.
Brown is compeer of Montgom cry, and
that only few days ago he made a ma
raudiug expedition into Missouri, and
after committing various "excesses," armed
party of slaves, mounted them on horses
and marched them over into Kansas
Thus outrage after outrage is committed,
and newspapers processing responsibility
endorse them, and urge on their perpe-
traitors to the commission of greater
crimes.
We have not space this week to do JUS
tiee to this subject; but in the name Of
the people of Kansas, we pray the Gov
ernor to interpose the strong arm of the
law, and military authority, if need be,
to put an end to these difficulties. Life
or property is not safe. The people Of
Lawrence owe it 20 themselves and to the
country to call Convention, and de-
rounce these robbers and cutthroats, and
their diders and dbettors, whether in the
guise of newspaper journalists, receivers
of stolen property, or the direct tools Of
these arch villains. Ignorance of fact,
cannot be accepted as an excuse fol
defending them any longer.
We remember the SquGtter Sovereign,
Kickapoo Pioneer, Leavenworth Herald,
and Westport Border RU6ian newspaper:
in 1856. The editors placed implicit re-
lance upon the villains who were perpe-
trating all sorts of crimes on Free State
men. We denounced them as particeps
erissinis, and such is the case with those
Free State journals which sustain these
guerrilla parties nO,O. If they do moi
share in the plumber, they..shar in the
crime, and the public will ultimately hold
them responsible. The sooner they dc
30. the sooner the end will come, Crime
iscrime, whether committed by one party
oEths other, and that journalists dsrelec
to duty who does not hold it up to tn,
gaze of the public in its true light.
Speak not to me Of power that builds its thron
On outraged rights; for II shall pass away;
Yea though its empire stretch from zone b
some 1905 3 $3.50 f
And bsths IN endless day,