Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-01-13
The New Kansas Excitcm.,t.

A chamber cdict was sent abroad n
few days ago, to the effect that the Presi-
dent and Cabinet had had Kansas affairs
under review again. and had dispatched
orders to Governor Medary, or the Mar
shal OF the Territory, to have .Montgom-
cry and Brown suinmarily dealt wifh.--
The fact of this thing being more easily
said than done, viii save Gov Metlary the
responsibility of perpetrating anything
rash. Doubtless the acquaintance he has
been enabled to form with the people of
that Territory, will also impart caution to
his movements, and induce him to keep
within the clear warrant of the facts bear
ing on the late difficulties at Fort Scott
Medary is y politicH,n--unscrupulous as
necl be- but his footsteps in the Charnel
House of Governors, will probably be di
rected to the end ofkeeping' .Sammeiary
out of hot water The ghosts of Recdcr.
Shannon, Gcary, Stanton, Walker and
Denver. confront him at every cross road
in Kansas. and hold up their skinny tigits
waning him of the ways they trod. Al
together, we need not apprehend anything
so dircful from the executive illumination
as IFS first reading would seem to portend
nor anything SO insane as its source
woul warrant 10 have been contempla-
tctl.u ssll o. siCgreafhEl 81 se1f
.I What are the facts upon which this ex-
traordlnary missivc was predicated? Ear
ly in the Spring of 1857, all or nearly all
the highway robbers, assassins, house burn
crs, scalpers, ravishcrs and ballot box stuff
fers, remaining in the Tcrritory-tbose who
bcsieged Lawrence aud plunderc,l I.caven-
worth. those who murdered Hoyt, Barber
AMI Phillips, those who planned and cx-
ecuted the voting at Oxford, and Kickapos,
and those who framed the Lccompton Con
stitution--thc remnant of these Williams.
(all who dared to remain in the Territory,
made rendezvous of Fort Scott and the
country adjacent. Their presence was at
once signalized by robbery, murder and
rape. They spread terror over four peace
ful counties. In the place of fertile ami
prosperous settlement they erected a Pan
demonnm. crowning their exploits OH the
18th of May, with one Of the most cold.
blooded and appalling butcheries in our
history. We never heard of any partic-
ular aiacrity at Washington on the subject
of this ficndish deed.) Scores of industri
Gus citizens were driven from their homes
on the Usage, Marmaton aud Marias do,
Cygnes rivers The civil authorities were
appealed to in vain. Finally the people
organized for war, placed themselve,
under the command of Montgomery and
came down on the Fort Scott den with
suddenness and strength that sent the
miscrcants howlling to Missouri. Governor
Denver came upon the scene OF action short
ly afterwards and patched upa treaty
not omitting to justify Montgomery and
his men in their conduct throughout.
What has transpired since, in the infect
ed district, we have little means of know
ing. No donbt the compromise effected by
Denver has been violated more than once
by the Fort Scott despcradoes The late
outbreak points distinctly to the seizure
and imprisonment of Free State man as
the casus 6eli.o Montgomery and Brown,
as we are advised, served the haJeos corpu,
on his jailors in double quick time. The
stories of theft and rapine mJayning
the recital, arc to be taken as the statements
of nalcfactors among whom theft anil ssra-
pine are trade. and perjury pasiime.l
is the state of-t5e case in referencc
to our new Kansas excitement We eau
tion the parties who have the job of deal
ing summarily" with Montgomery and
Brown, on their hands, to proceed no fast
er than sqnatter sovereignty points the
way CM. Press and Trib.l.-Ff