The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-01-08
The pimculae. South.


A friend writes US from Mound City,
Linn county, on the 26th ult., in which he
says
al regret to observe that there are news |
papers in Kansas, whose editors profess to
be governed by principle, which continue
TO uphold the crimes daily perpetrated, by
sustaining highway robbery, murder, and
expulsion of our population from Kansas,
because of mere difference of opinion
These journals have done more to prolong
our troubles than all other causes Ii such
editors have no sense of moral justice, and
cannot be influenced otherwise, the lndlg-
nation of the whole country should be
aroused against them.
81 have lived in Linn county since De-
tober, 1855, and have seen enougl. of
crimes of every grade, perpetrated both
by night and day, to satisfy any man not
stepped in crime. Little did 1 think, in
'56, that professedly Free State men
would be guilty Of the same crimes, for
which we denounced the Pro- Slavery
men of that year, and which raised such
storm throughout the nation.
Men of sense ought to know that the
daily repetition Of crime will never restore
peace. They ought to know that outrage
begets outrage, and the longer it is con-
tinued the farther we are from an honor
able and peaceful adjustment of our diff
iculties.
Your comments on the late Conven-
ton here were very just. Though it was
agreed that the troubles should cease, and
all parties should lay down their arms, yet
THE Montgomery faction, in the face of
that compromise, raised body of men,
marched to Fort Scott, liberated prisoner
there under indictment by a Free State
Grand Jury for murder, robbed a store of
some 5000 worth of goods, riaed trunks
of their contents, and shot down one of
the citizens of the town, and held others
prisoners as long as it suited their caprice.
l confess | cannot see'the difference be-
tween those crimes committed by these
Free State men, and the burning of hotels
and dwellings, the destroying Of printing
offices, and the outrages in Lawrence in
May of SO. 1t only proves that human
nature, under the influence of a bad heart,
is ABOUT Ine same everywhere.
"The ordering off of citizens, the steal
ing of horses, mules, and cattle, the plum
dering of houses, and the stealing of Ne
groes still goes on, and will, until the
strong arm of the law is made effective
against crime, and violence"
Another gentleman, clergyman, writ.
ing us from the vicinity of Moneka
says -
L have watched the progress of these
troubl es here until / am sick, heart SICK
with humanity. Here are men claiming
gospel, who profess to be guided in thei
actions by the teachings of the Prince o
Peace, who have organized a body of muir
derers robbers, gamblers and horse thieves
and subsisting by plumber, they are ridins
over the country, and committing thu
basest of crimes If this is christianity
anything would be preferable to it; but i
is not! Christ taught no such sentiments
but the reverse
"The strangest of all is to see peace
men, those in the States who were mem
bers of peace societies, and who wer,
sending delegates to Peace Congresses, la
boring to inaugurate civil war, with the ex.
pressed object of working a revolution
throughout the nation, ultimating in
dissolution of the Union; and all to procure
the emancipation of the slave. Simple
men! They should learn that revolutions
involving such grave consequences are no
usually set on foot by murlerers and thieves
Though Catalina triumpheG over the
dead corse of Caesar, yet it is not believed
that in this age of enlightenment, few
ignoramuses and desperadoes of the char
acter of those in this county, can succee &c
in crushing out slavery, and with it Amer
lean freedom.
ave thank you, most heartily, for n,
manly and independent course of tn,
Herald of FTeedOm throughout this pro
tracted contest. 1t has been terror t.
those wretches who have been involved il
those crimes, and has been the only re
straint which has been exerted over them
Had other journalists showed the sam
spirit and devotion to the right, on
troubles would have ended a year ago
but while Montgomery and his follower
are backed up by the hireling press, $
long he will continue to ride rough sho,
over the country, setting the laws at def
ance, and stamping his iron heel into tb
breasts of his victims. So long will a
right be disregarded, and Our beautiful
country, the loveliest heaven has eve
smiled upon, will be the home of an OF
ganized banditti, as desolating in the
consequences as were those of Spain c
Italy in the darkest period of the world
history"