Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-24


Judge Williams of. Kansas muse beN q
Judge after Mr. DuchapAn's own heart The
President had some diaRcalty In knding men
mean enough 10 answer bis putpOae IN Kan
sas, but he finally succeeded Some Kind Of /
an outbreak has been made there, not tworse,
probably than has occurred half a dozen
times within as many weeks, and probably
aipiibg at preventing Che land sales from
going on in this time of distress. But Judge
Williams turns il into an Abolitionist raid,
and his imagination transforms all the relief
which the American people are sending to
their distressed brethren in Kansas, into
arms and ammunition for wiping out slavery
in the Southwest, and every manlwb9 con
tributes any thing 70 save the people from
starving, he turns into bloody John-Brown
AbOlitionist aaf I... .I- .o
The Judge has not even sense enough to
tell his story straight. In one dispatch to
the President he states that the Abolitionists
''haye taken the towns on the Missouri line,
the Fort Scott Land Office, &c,v v'and "they
intend to invade Missouri This Judge,
who says that he fed for his life, Processes
to know just what the Aboltionists intend.
In the other dispatch of the same date, he
states: -.-.E.1 Ts,i s... XIII, ..-
u suspect that they have seized the rec
ords,'' 1.-THE Court records), "and also the pub
lie records of the Land Office, as he publicly
declared he would do So" .f' =
From positive declaration that Mont
gomery had seized the Land Office, he tapers
down TO suspicion that he had seized the
records of the Land Office, as he said he
would do so; which shows that so far as the
Judge knew, he had not seized the Land
Office at all, for that would have included
the records. The statement about the break
ing up Of the Court and the seizure Of its
records is of the same kind nothing being
clear except that the Judge had been in
great terror, which the style of his dis
| patches indicated to have been caused by
delirium tremen,. For Judge to fly from
his Court for his life, as he says, and then to
suspect that Montgomery has seized the
records, shows that the Judge took the pre-
caution to start well in advance of danger.
Emeutes at land sales are not an uncom-
mon occurrence in this country, and if there
ever was provecation for one, there is now
in Kansas. There is nothing for Abolition
lists to do there now, except to resist occa-
sional border raids which Judge Williams
regards as law and order. The people have
too much to do to save their lands and keep
themselves from starvation, to undertake
any thing for philanthropy; and if they
wished to do any thing violent they have
arms enough without calling on the East fol
them. The outcry of Judge Williams about
arms being sent under cover of aid is
of the same character =, as the per-
formance of Governor Medary in pro-
claiming Thanksgiving to the starving peo-
pie, and then rushing to Washington to
counteract the measure for relief by repre-
senting that their need had been greatly ex-
aggerated;Tand that they would only have to
go out of the Territory to get food, which
was no distress at all. These two demon
| strations look very much as if the Admins
'tration was determined to starve the inhabi-
tants out ofthe territory, and was exercising
all its wits to that end. AT any rate, before
Gen. Harney, SO terrible on squaws and
children, and his dragons are ordered to ex-
terminate the people of Kansas, it would be
well to get some information of the actual
state of affairs from somebody who is sober