The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-20
rHE DESTRUCTION OF THE FRONTIER.

Frontier frlntlng DISBURSEMENT na0 Deer
broken into by a mob, and the materia
Thrown into the street. But 1t appears th'
perpetrators of the act were not satisfied
with this denomination of their disappro
baton of the course of that paper, and re
turned las. Saturday night and completely
demolished the press and fixtures Of the
Iofice, broke in the windows Of the building
and fred several shots It our citizens who
lshowed themselves in the strects-one oi
(which took effect on Charles A. Woods,
the ball passing through his hand and
lodging in the hip. The wound is quite
painful, but is not considered danger
Gus. Such illegal conduct should be
denounced by all good citizens. The ten
dency of mobs is to disorganize society,
to generate ill-fecling and suspicion-re.
moving all the restraint of the evil passions,
and rendering insecure the persons and
property of all. If unauthorized parties
can take the law into their own hands and
redress what they may consider grevious,
no one Is secure. Our Office would be as
likely to be destroyed BY those who do not
agree with Us, as was that of the Frontier;
and so Of all other species Of property.
There Is proper course for the redress
of all grievances. If the tendency and
influence of the Frontier was pernicious
and dangerous to the Government, (and We
firmly believe it was, complaint should
have been made to the proper authorities
who would Eave suppressed it without the
destruction of property that has been
witnessed in this city. This was the prop
er course, and we earnestly enter our
protest, as will all good citizens, against
the destruction Of property by unauthorized
parties.
Neither do we believe that in the present
unhappy condition Of OUT ccuntry-while
our armies are fighting to secure the very
existence of our nationality, that public
journal should be permitted to create dis
sensiOns in our ranks by party wrangling<.
To do so we consider dangerous to our
cause, and calculated to give aid and COM
fort to our enemies. For instance, the
proceedings of the late Democratic Conven-
ton in Indiana, were copied into tie Rich
mond Enquirer and other Southern papers.
The infamous speech of T. A. Hendricks,
was commented on with much satisfaction,
and referred 20 as evidence of a reactionary
feeling at the North, and that Lincoln's
Hessian army would soon be required to
keep down dissensions in their own midst,
and exhorting the South to stand firm, that
in short time the North would be compel.
led to acknowledge their independence
This speech, with the resolutions adopted
by the Convention, were copied and endors.
ed in strong language, by the Frontier. If
This is not incipient treason-if it is not
aid and comfort to the enemy,
what in the name of Heaven is it?
Ex-Governor Joseph A. Wright, of In
llama, a lifelong Dcmocrat-Buchanan's
Minister to Prussia, and lately appointed
o fill the vacancy occasioned by the expul
ion of the rebel Bright from the United
State Senate, recently said in a speech at
indianapolis:
"Away with party creeds and platforms. and
'arty prejudices in such an hour! If there was ,
10 other reason why they should be abandoned
n the present crisis, this is enough: in the I
resent condition of our country, We want a {
SIrED NORTH. Party creeds divide the North, :
nd thus weaken and paralyze the arm of the ,
government With divided North, torn and
ent with party prejudices and party strife, We |
nay look for a country desolated by wars. and c
athed in the blood of her citizens. And we
nay also expect dssentOns in our own ranks,
7ar and bloodshed in our own midst" Q
Never was anything more truly spoken, ..
r more forcibly expressed. This rebellion :
'as not made against one political party, O
ut against all that We, as freemen, bold y
ear. Then should We let party strife, a
arty tricks, party prejudices and schemes .
ow stand in our way as patriots !? Can 6
rue patriot, in this dark hour Of our Ma d
on's history, still cling to party organiza- g
ons that generate discord and dissensions, 6
hen our only hope for the triumph of the
'nion cause, is the '.nity Of the Northern ii
eople? il
A paper that attempts to keep alive "
arty chickering's, that villi6es the Govern 'o
eut and its public msn-that says Lincoln ;,
trough ''a feeling of ignoble revenge" d.
'mmenced this war,-tbat continually p,