The national Republican., 1860-11-27
THE KANSAS TROUBLES.

We have no idea that the telegraphic &C.
counts of the recent outbreak in Kansas, which |
have reached us within the last few days, give
anything like a fair version of the difficulties.
Coming as they do from Federal officers and
Administration agents, they should be received
with many grains of allowance.
That many citizens Of Southern Kansas,
goaded to desperation by the inhuman treat
ment they have lately received at the hands Of
the Federal authorities, have taken up arms,
under the leadership Of the notorious Captain
Montgomery, to defend their homes, and to
avenge their wrongs, is doubtless true. 1t may
be true, also, that they have committed out
RACES that are wholly unjust6able, notwith-
standing their great provocation. We wholly
discredit, however, the representation that the
outbreak is an "Abolition raid" or that opposi.
ton to slavery lies at the bottom Of it.
1t is well known that the people of southern
Kansas are suffering from failure of crops
unprecedented in the history of this country.
But for the aid that has been extended to them
from abroad, actual starvation would probably
have decimated the inhabitants before this
time.
At this critical juncture, when the great
problem with them is, how they are to obtain
the bare means of subsistence through the
coming winter, the lands which they have pre-
empted, and upon which they have built their
houses and made their Improvements, have
been suddenly thrown into market by the Ad.
ministration, and all appeals for delay have
proved unavailing. We do not pretend to say
that this cruel treatment Of the people of X an
sas justifes them in taking up arms against
the Federal authorities and their abettors, to
expel them from the Territory; but that it
should lead to that result is certainly not to be
wondered at.
We apprehend, however, that it will be found,
in the sequel, that Captain Montgomery's band
has been mainly recruited.from the "burnt dis.
trict," where some seventy families were lately
rendered houseless and homeless by one of the
most fendish acts of cruelty ever committed
under the color of law, in any Christian coun.
try.
The following brief statement of this out
rage, and the pretences under which it was
committed, we copy from the NeW York 4ii6-
une:
"About three years since, survey was made
of the Indian lands in the southwestern corner
of the Territory, and the northern boundary of
the Indian Reservation fixed about twelve miles
south of Fort Scott. Immediately north of this
was the New York Reservation, and notice
was given that these lands were open to settle.
ment, as the Indian title would soon be ex.
tinguished. Settlers accordingly poured in,
lands were taken up on pre'empton, farms
made, houses built, and Bourbon county pres.
emily gave an indication of the character Of the
emigration by large Republican vote at the
elections. This was not the result contempla
ted or hoped for by the Government, and ont
of those high.handed measures, of which there
are 30 many in the history of Kansas, was re
sorted to, to drive these people out. A new
survey was made, and the Indian boundary wa
extended eight miles northward, and the in
habitants, numbering more than fifteen hun
dred, we're ordered to quit the Territory
Trusting that redress would come with delay
they fingered Until the notice for the land salt
of the New York Reservation was issued
With this came new order, for the people o.
the eight.mile strip, on which they had settled
in accordance with the boundaries of the frs
survey, to abandon theF homes and improve