, 1860-11-27
THE OUTBREAK IN KANSAS,
What Montgomery is After.

| From the leaycnwoEih Times, November ell
! For some time past VT have t.cos p:..,.jst.
!! ill- reports from the southern portion uf the
! Territory, which indicated that serious trouble
/. Tas brewing il. that quarter. uur accuunts
were from, various sonrccs, aud we lave given
! them without comment. because we hays' nrc-
/ fcrrcd 70 Na.1 lar fEll :c,!crs lis IT. tie cause
A: Of the difficulties sud their true nature, before
! expressing our views thereon. We have now
saTlhc: and more definite intelligence from
tho locality in QUESTION than has YET been given
!: 10 the public,
+; Our raiders ere fan,;llaT with tho ,r:.nsac-
/ tins in which Montgomery and Lis men played
/: 50 prominent 4 part in l6j.-5S. The Amuesty
d. Act, which was passed hy the Legislature in
lS5S, was intended to dispose ut a1l the old
differences between The Federal aut!.oritics
: and those who were u',ler indictment from
:, tie United States Courts After the Passage
! Of that htlt Montgomery and 1ls cupfcGg.as.-
expressed themselves E-.; E:...; to Weld suhni;s.
!; SON thereafter to the legal tribunals. md
u aid. il necessary, III t}l.. urres: ii all Of.
; lcntitrr
The difficulties Of which VIC speak originated
m the unfortunate struggles in the early his
TOR, of the Territory, aaa, at first, the diyi-
*l9ns c. of the conteMiInE parties were purely
Political ones 1'Mt i'll the progress Of tic bur-
der warfare. rascal, et Ill ;ints arr:.yrG them.
f2l:cs :r:,a:d :astl t0.aici, and under the
,'over Of Ert> State or l'7o-Slasery movements.
'ntialsct :htir prorersitics ior rlundcr nui
every s;'esies Of yil]ainy. Capt montgomery
Int! !attac!aeda ivt Of such characters to himself
hui VIXEN peace was restored. /: was he.;.-,.;
that he would dissolve all l!.-t;.rr connection
with thsns, Lately lie seems to have .,ren cD
-::s.ct. in o.Gaci1.Eg ulcsn into COMPANY. and
adding Thereto iaE1-,e humber Of honest f,rt
misguided men, who had suffered pcrsonal1y.
o-through their friends, from the 0utrs.cs ii
tue Border Ku1taus.' 2ad =ar. ::.f,n;nafcd by
fanatirs! zeal iii opposition rv cyrrythiu.
I'ro-sl;lvtry.
Several months ago Montgomery rctfrned
IRON d t!ip 10 tic Eastern States, where he
was engaged in procuring assistance to carry
On his l'iarautins enterprises. 1t that time
ite IL, laalc til ia:ia1Anatury speech ut Mound
thy. after wEic!, hc proceeded to collect and
arm his mcn
Under the cover or an:i.slaycry prctcnccs.
his band have recently committed various den
relations. TO wliirli they were 1mstly incitcd
by some MissoNrians who still retain the old
spirit. The tlr;t important feature Of the rrcs-
cat excl l11Ecat was the trial and execution Of
ono Hines, by number OF MontGomeTy's men.
headed hy Dr.. Jcunison, Ills Lieutenant. It is
alleged by those who composed the mob court
that Hincs was notorious character, who had
been ordered 10 leave the Territory in 1857;
but the Immediate charge a:a;nst him was that
he had spirited away negro from Kansas into
Missouri. Nlctllr: the negro was free or
slave, wc are urafle to say, as our accounts Of
the Transaction di!lcr OH that point, one be-
in" to the effect that the datEcy was free, and
WAS sold by Hines for gain; and the other
that Hines WIS respectable citizen, aud