Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-09
The Kansaa TrouhIea


The Union, Democratic paper of Atchi-
SOD, Kansas, has an article on the bas4 a.
tempt of Mcdowell and others of Leaven-
worth to prevent relief being sent to K Kansas,
from which we extract the following:
In days of trouble, in the hour of danger.
IN the moment of common distress. men
with the ordinary instincts of manhood, are
won't TO be rnagnanimous enough to assi Il
each other to dispel the threatening troubles.
to eVade the coming dangers to alleviate the
impending distIesses. The gentlemen of onr
sister city practice differently, and believe in
another faith. Messrs. Mcdowell, Bartlett
Helm q 20. experience no qualms of con.
science in preventing relief from beiup af
forded to the thousands Of men, women and
children actually in want of the necessaries
OF life, when such relief gives business and
prominence to a rival town. Ohio would
have sent to the farmers of our young State
10000 bushels of seed wheat, but for the
action OF the infamous nine" The arms of
tie friends of Kansas, now performing deeds
OF mercy and acts of charity, have been
partly paralyzed. 1t is easier to destroy
than to create easier to blast with vie
SANDERS the brightest anticipations than to
successfully escape it's envenomed shafts.
Thousands of wealthy benevolent persons In
the East, uDacquainted with the bankrupt
character of those individuals who sci
abroad the foul contradiction to Mr.. Hyatts
ana General Pomeroy's statements, will now
refuse to give. The enemies of Kansas will
gloat over her fallen name and thank the
citizens OF LeavenwOrth for being traitors to
her soil. - = ~
Had not the true friends of humanity re.
newed their efforts, had not the members of
our Relief Committee redoubled their exer-
tons, during the past two weeks the gaunt
hend famine would have found many a vic
tim in our land. The crowded cemetery,
the catacomb of bones, the pestilential vault
would have been TO US not unknown, That
the effect of the Leavenworth dispatch has
disappointed its authors, makes them none
the less censurable, none the less criminal,
They have proclaimed to the world they
value life at the price of corner lots, and
cmpare the destitution of starving people
with questions of local interest.
Messrs. Mcdowell, Bartlett, Helm & Co.,
you are libelers on the fair fame of your
adopted State. You wilfully, wantonly,
lnjure those who have cherished YOU as
friends. To satisfy your preiudices, to an
pease your hatred of Atchison, with false
hood you deter Legislatures from sending
provisions to your own famishing coumu-
nifty, and seem willing to defame with cal
umDy him who even now succOIeth the
hungry around your own dwellings.
General PomerOy, since the lst day Of
January, has distributed to Leaven worth
County 10000 pounds of food, and now in
your lDgratitude, you turn upon him and
say his statements are reckless and untrue.p
Since the lst day of February, to your ad-
joining County, Jefferson, 25,O5f pounds
have been sent and to Douglas County, on
your Western border, in the same brief time.
96,97l pounds. The demands of these three
counties are now more numerous and urgent
than ever, yet you contradict the true tele-
grams forwarded TO the Associated Press.
and you are honorable men. One hundred
tea1nsters from twenty counties in the State,
over their own signatures in the Union OF
last week, testify to the falsity of your tele-
gram, still you expect to be believed, because
you are honorable men. Gentlemen, remem-
Der the motto courses come home to roost.'
The day is not distant when you will be
willing under the solemnity of an oath TO
deny that you sent the Eeavenworth dis
patch. Before the Ides of March you will be
procuring certificates that you never denied
the sutferings of Kansas, and ere the Oalends
of April arrive, you will claim you were the
originatoTs of the relief plan. '. -.