Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-29
Southern lxa.sas,

The troubles in southern Kansas are likely
to be the occasion of making the public better
acquainted with what has been going on in
that quarter for some time past The Chicago
Tribune OF last Saturday says "A gentle
man from Linn county, Kansas, who arrived
i'll this city from that region ON Thursday,
gives us the following, among others, as the
causes in which the recent troubles in south
ern Kansas had their'o origin. The first OF these
causes is the sale of the public lands at this
time, when the people occupy ing the lands as
prc-emptors are in Il starving condition, and Of
course wholly unable TO raise the amount to
purchase them. Another cause is the burning
OF seventy-tour dwellings, all belonging TO fee
state men, on what is known as the Eight
Mile Strip This was tract set apart lur
the New York Indians, but never accepted or
occupied by them In 1853 Gov Denver
made speech in Linn county, and told the
settlers that these lands might be occupied
| by pre-emptors, in advance of the eXtir
guishment or withdrawal of the Indi
an ttle--that it would soon come into
market, and that possession could be taken
with perfect confidence, and no difficulty would
occur. Under this statement, or rather pledge
OF Gov. Denver, about fifteen hundred persons
on the first of june when the census was ia
KEN occupied these "New York Indian
Lands" Last spring it was discovered that
almost the entire population were free state
people, and OF course this fact aroused the ire
OF "Old Pub. Func." and his administration,
and immediate measures were taken to drive
them from their possessions, such settlers be.
ing regarded as iuimical to slavery propa.
ganding government. The attempt to drive
them of i'll the spring not having been sue.
cesStul, it was renewed again about three
weeks since, when orders came from the pow
ers at Washington, telling the Cherokee In.
dian agent to send company of fifty Uuited
States dragons to accomplish the wishes of
the administration. The drag )ons, in doing
their work, as we have stated, burned seventy.
four dwelling houses, every one of which be.
longed to a tree state resident and it is not
known that the residence of single border
rufiian has been disturbed Another reason is,
that the Missourians are in the habit OF
coming into the territory to hang, shoot,
rob and kidnap its people-several attempts of
the kind having occurred quite recently. The
new law of Arkansas, which went into opera
ton not long since, requiring the free negroes
OF that state to choose master or leave the
state-has sent large number of that class
! OF persons into southern Kansas, and particu-
larly into Linn county and the Missourans
Ila'e ueeh III the naDlt OF coming INTO the ter
| rltory for the purpose of kidnapping these
poor negroes. These same kidnappers, in
Their lncursions, have been in the habit OF Wis.
lifting Montgomery and DIR. Jennison, for the
purpose OF annoying them, and have also made
attempts to assassnate them.
these and various other similar reasons are
assigned by the free state people of Kansas in
JustlhcatIon OF the demonstration which Mont.
gomery and his friends are now making against
the border ruihans and their allies, the officers
OF the present administration residing in that
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