St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-11-29
Troubles in Kansas.

ing to the hard times-the crops be-
ing nearly all cut off by the drouth--
many of the settlers find themselves
unable to pay for their lands, and
their homes are being sold out from
under them. The settlers feel that
this is a great hardship and a wholly
unnecessary oppression on the part
of the Government. They have gone
thither with their families and their
all-havc taken up land, built their
cabin. fenced and improved around it,
and now owing to advcrsities be-
yond their control they are unable to
pay the Government the pittance re-
quircd. They have petitioned 81. B."
to defer the sales, but in vain; and
now they find their all is being swept
from them by the cooperation of Gov
ernment officials, southern land sharks
and border lullians.
Under this state of things is it a
wonder that the settlers should resist
Under the lead Of Capt. Montgomery,
it appears hat they have organized
to the number of three or four hun
bred, determined to stop the sales and
defend their homes. Seeing this, the
" sharks" and Government officials
have raised the howl of abolition
ISM" and telegraph dispatches are
sent over the land making grave state
mcnts of the vicious propcnsitics and
shocking outrages perpetratcd by the
"abolitionists." We copy below some
of these dispatches
WARSAW, Mo-, Nov. 81.
A messenger reached here to-day
bringing the following despatch,
which has been forwarded to the Ad-
ministration at Washington
CLINTON, Mo, Nov. 81.
The AbOlitionists, with arms newly
imported from Boston or the East. un-
der the command of Capt. Montgomc-
~. numbering from three to four hun
dred men, and increasing in numbers,
have attacked Fort Scott, and obliged
all the officers of the United States
District Court to fly for our lives.
They have taken the towns on the
Missouri line, the Fort Scott land of
flee, &c. They intend to invade Mis-,
souri,. (Signed) j. WILLIAMS,
L. S. Judge Sd Judicial District.
The following letter has been adj,
dressed to Gov. Stewart, of Missouri:
CLINTON, Nov. 81.
SIR I am here to inform the citi-
zcns of this place of the following,
and | have been requested to present
them to you as Governor of the State ::
The Abolitionists, under the com
mand of Montgomery and DR.. Pcnni-
son, to the number of from 800 to
500 arrived with Sharpc's Rifles, ORA
goon Sabrcs, Navy revolvcrs and
bowie knives, have suddenly COM
menced a var of extreme ~fcrocity on
the law-abiding citizens of Southern
Kansas, in the counties of Linn and
Bourbon. These arms arrived by the
wagon load at or near Mound City
about a month since in boxes, marked
as donations for Kansas sufferers
They are all new.
Montgomery has been in Boston
during a part Of the summer and re-
turned with plenty of money to en-
list recruits. Many of his men are
newly imported. lie has taken pos
session of TT. Scott and other towns
of the border near the Missouri line.
He has murdered Mr.. Moore, a grand
juror, Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Samuel Scott
and Mr.. Kinds, and obliged all the
L. S. officers. including myself, to fly
for our lives. His own expressed dc,
sire in a speech, as he said, without
conccalment, is to keep possession of
TT. Scott and other places near the
Missouri line to prevent Il fire in the
rear, while he cleaned South-Wcst
Missouri of slaves. So far he has
carried out literally his declared pro.
grammc. The citizens of Missouri
on the Usage and McrmHon rivers
and other places, arc flying from thcii
homes into the interior. He has
money and means to equip and sus
tain 1000 men. My Court was brok
en- up by them,-lhc L. 5. Court 70,
the Southern District, and | suspcc
!, that they have seized the Records anc
also the Records of the Land Office
as he publicly declared he would do.
Yours, &c,
(Signed) j. WILLIAMS,
L. S. Judge of Sd District.
The following handful is circulated
through the country
TO ARMS!
WARSAW, Nov. %, 1860.