Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-11-30

CEDAR FALLS. IOWA.
November 80, 1860.
Trouble In Kansas.

Trouble In Kansas.
A few days since tclegraphic dispatche!
stated that Southern Kansas was again tn
scene Of bloody raid; that Captain MoNr
ooxERy, at the head Of five hundred men, al
fully armed with Sharp's rifles, dragon sabres
navy revolvers, and bowie knives, had seized
Fort Scott, and was going to clear South
west Missouri Of Slaves, prevent the lane
sales, and drive of obnoxious settlers; thai
several lives had been sacrificed, and that /
bloody time was expected. A body Of troop.
mustered into service by order Of Gov. Stew
ART, Of Missouri, left st. Louis on the 25th
for the border. The brigade numbered abou,
700 men, embracing eight companies of in.
fantry, an engineer corps, one company O
cavalry, and three pieces Of artillery, fully
armed and equipped for one months cam
paign. Major BELL Of United States arsenal
furnished full supplies Of shot and caniste,
for battery Of 10000 rounds Of mimic balls
and sixty rounds Tor each Colts revolver.
But later accounts 90 to show that the firs'
dispatches were exaggerated. The Chicago
Journal says an intelligent resident Of thai
city, just returned from Kansas, represents
the trouble as having had its origin chiefly in
the threatened ejcctment Of the settlers on
a portion of the York Reservation, and in the
incursions of outlaws from Arkansas and
Missouri. MONTGOMERY, with band Of about
two hundred settlers, had simply acted on the
defensive. The Journal adds to the state.
mcnt of its informant: "Our readers will
remember that the Arkansas Legislature, Al
the last session, passed law requiring all
free negroes to leave the State. or suffer the
penalty Of being sold into slavery. The free
negroes accordingly left, most of them, the
distance being short, emisrat,ng into Southern
Kansas. And no sooner had the poor exiles
settled in their new homes than an organized
scheme was formed on the part of Arkansas
and Missouri slave-traders to kidnap them,
carry them back by force, and sell them into
slavery. A band Of these rufians attempted
to capture negro at Capt. MoNrcoxERY's but
a dogs barking exposed them. The letter
also says that the good citizens, determined
to put down these border ruffians, organized
a company and took those ruffians prisoners,
and tried twelve Of them. These they, after
trial, let 20 on condition Of leaving the Terri
tory, but one named HlNDs, who has been
harrassing Free State men since 1859, was
condemned to death, and hung Nov. 18th. "
On account of the excitement now existing
in the extreme South, this matter is ill-timed,
and it is to be dcplored that any thing should
take place having tendency to augment the
revolutionary feelings Of the people of those
States. In that section of the Union the
matter will be greatly exaggerated and highly
colored, and will be used as means of still
further inflaming the minds of the common
classes who will readily believe that the whole
Republican party. is on the border of tho
Slave States. ready to march into their mids,
with the sword in one hand and the torch in
the other, and commence a war of exter
mination. If guilty of any wrong, we hops
Capt. MONTGOMERY and his band will be Sc
verely punished; but at present it looks as
though they were acting in self defence.