The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-11-29
Trouh1es in Kansas.

A great variety of statements, have
within a week or two past appeared IN
respect to outrages in Kansas. The
pro slavery journals as usual, represent
these acts Of violence to have been In
stigated by the free state men in Kan
sas. The meek, peaceable and lamb
like Missourians, residing on the Kan~
sas border, have been mal-treated, and
their property laid waste by the turbu-
lent free state people. Such are the
pro slavery accounts. Acting upon
these representations, it is said the
President has ordered a considerable
number of United States troops, to put
down, or drive out the riotous leaders.
The true state of the case will be fully
known soon, when it will be found, as
it has in similar cases heretofore, that
the attempt to throw the blame upon
the free state men, is a mere prosla-
very invention.
The New York Tribune of the 23d
inst, details some of the principle causes
which have led to the present distur-
Dances in Kansas, among which are
the following
"About three years since survey
was made Of the Indian lands in the
southwestern corner of the Territory,
and thenorthern boundary Of the Indian
Reservation fixed about twelve miles
south of Fort Scott. Immediately
north of this was the New York Res
ervation, and notice was given that
these lands were open to settlement, as
the Indian title would soon be extin
guished. Settlers accordingly poured
in, lands were taken up on presumption
! farms made, houses built, and Bourbon
county presently gave an indication o
E the character of the emigration by ;
lage Republican vote at the elections
This was. not the result contemplated
or hoped for by the government, ant
/ one Of those Ugh handed measures, o
, which there are so many,in the history
OF Kansas, was resorted to to drivethes'
people cut A new survey was made
and the Indian boundary was extend
7 ed eight miles northward, aud the in
: habitants, numbering more than fifteel
hundred, were ordered to quit the Ter
ritory. Trusting that redress would
; come with delay, they fingered until th'
notice for the land sale of the New
Y ork Reservation was issued. With
this came new order, for the people
. of the eight mile strip, on which they
had settled in accordance with the
boundary of the first survey,to abandon
} their homes and improvements; and al
they still fingered, reluctant to give W
, the fruits of three years toll, expended
because they put faith in the act of tn,
: Government; the Indian Agent, will
: fifty dragons at his back, invaded
: the settlement, with his own hand pu
the torch to the dwellings,, threw their
household goods out Of doors, anC
drove almost naked from their homes
Seventy>four houses, it is said, have
been, by this officer and his emissaries
reduced to ashes. In the mean tim,
the President refuses to postpone the
time Of the land-sale in the adjoining
Reservation, and there the people are
given over, in time OF unusual distress
and poverty, to the invasion of the
, Border Rlffians, who burn and Stay
and renew the terrible scenes of The
darkest days of Kansas. Such are The
measures resorted to by the Federal
Oficeholders, aided by Government
authority, to prevent Kansas from be.
becoming Free State. 1t is these
acts Of aggression and tyranny that
have prompted Capt. Montgomery anG
his men once more to fly to their arms
) 70 protect their lives, their free homes,
ano free labor. five need any more
compromises, is it not we'll to consider
whether it is not demanded quite as
much on behalf of Liberty as for the
protection of Slavery?