Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-19
LOOK AT THIS; AND THEN AT THAT.

LOOK AT THIS; AND THEN AT THAT.
Mr.. EDITOR All remember the civil war in
Kansas. None, with SO poor O memory, but will
recolect the frequent invasions of that bloodstain-
ed Territory, by the armed %rufians of Missouri,
who murdered all who stood in the way Of their
nefarious frauds, sought to be ~practiced upon the
elections of that Territory. All remember the
butchering of an editor who m%anfully opposed
these invaslone Of their. Territory, and these frauds
at their elections, and as ~manfully defended, with
pen and tongue, the cause Of liberty. They re-
member how be was taken from friends and carri-
ed some distance, and then stabbed in the body,
and his head cut many times with q Ratchet, after
which his friends carried his body to his own resi-
dence, and throwing open the door, laid the man
gled form of a loved and cherished husband, be-
fore the terror-stricken wife. The shock was too
much for human nature-reason trembled upon
it's throne = and fell ; from that moment she, the
loving and afectionate wife, has been a maniac.
They remember too, the shooting ola young man,
a son of Captain John Brown, one morning as he
went to tho spring for a pail of water and the
capture of another son, and the tying of him with
a heavy log chain, and fastening him to a horse
and forcing him to run seven miles, when exaust-
ed nature gave out, and he awoke many days
thereafter in the wild delirium of brain fever.
Call to mind, dear reader, all this. Ays much
more than this,--all that catalogue Of horrid crime
which stains the history of Kansas. Then ask your
self ,oho had the poper to stay this shedding of limo.
cent. blood to quell this rebellion, and bring to jus
tice those land pirates. The answer Wilt mus
be, the Governor of the Territory and the Presi
dent of this mighty Republic. The question that
you must ask next, is, did they do itf Did they
call out the United States troops, and the militia
to hunt Town the barbarian invaders of Kansas
and bring them before the proper tribunal of JUS
tice? Did they establish a double patrol, armed
and equipped to ride night and day to watch that
there was no invasion of the Territory. No! But
THAT did they dol At one time they called ou'
the troops to disarm the people, that they nigh
fall an easy prey to :he mlrauders, for Sharp's
rifles had become a terror to the Border Rufians
as | hope they may become to %rufians Throughout
the Union. During the early history of Kansas
every election was marked with more or less blood
shed, and the destruction of more or less properly
The Federal Government, and the Territorial, eth
er folded its hands and looked calmly upon tn
scene, or else, lent their aid to the thrice accurset
villains, who sacked and pillaged the Territory an,
murdered its inhabitants.
But there is another picture for the reader. Al
old man, whose head was silvered with the boar
locks of age, hoping to strike an ~effectual blow q
the root of the "sum of all villanies," collected
body Of men, who, actuated by the same motive
which governed him, agree to aid him in his trul
glorious enterprise, to be guided by his counsel
and TO obey his commands. They planned an in
surrection, and once their plans laid commenced tn
work. But, alas I! success did not attend them,-
God grant it may attend their successors. Blu
does the government look calmly on without lif
ing q finger to quell the rebellionS or else, lend il
aid to the revolutionists No it is active in il
e~xertions to quell the rebellion, and to wip
gu. the last vestage Of the instruction
1t may succeed in doing SO. We hopo not. 1t
but natural that it should be alarmed, and Shout
8 muster its powers, and gather its strength 70 OF
pose a force which aims at its overthrow. But ba
1.-THE Governments memory? If so, let
look back to Kansas, and recollect that it omitte
a duty, which if it had performed, its preser
trouble might not have been. Let it remembe
3 that the blood split in Kansas, has sent sorro'
and grief to the homes and hearts of many through
5 out the North. Their wrongs are remembered
and the blood Of Brown and his com panions wi
not be forgotten. Reader, lood on these two pit
t land Of the free and the home of the brave."
. Yours, 4. w. PORTER.
MIDDLEFIELD, Nov. 1st, 1859.