The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-09-06
UNITY AMONG THE PEOPLE.

local prejudice. We are grieved to notice the
extent TO which a portion of the press Of the
State have carried this most contemplate feeling
of the human heart. With eyes blinded to any
other than their own immediate private and
local interests, they are slowly working out one
common ruin, in which will ultimately be invol-
we'd the best interests of the entire State.
l. Selfshness and harmony ore incompatible
and hence any endeavors, to be successful, must
be free from any semblance Of selfshness. The
frailties of human nature must be curbed. In
the fall Of our first parents, man inherited the
power of improving or retrograding his nature
and hence it becomes US, with watchful vigor,
to improve that power, to the direct benefit Of all
in which we are interested, or that which has
claims upon US. 1t is useless to extemporize
upon this matter-the general good Of society
demands that the tendency Of the human heart
to selfshness and wrong he checked, and that
the finer feelings of our nature be cultivated and
put in action.
But sermonizing is out Of our line What we
say has been suggested by the constant clamor'
ing of certain newspapers regarding the interests
of their localities. With pertinacity worthy o
better cause do they beg and beseech for men
and measures which may conduce to their special
benefit, and with equal stubbornness refusing or
resisting that which may not tend to their ben
eft. 1t is a miserable index to the heart to hear
a paper week after week bowling that the inter
ests of Lawrence demand so and so-the interests
of Leavenworth demand thus and so, &c. Now,
We certainly find no fault with a paper for urg
ing, at the proper time, any claims its locality
may have, but We do protest against such mat
ters being brought before the people Of the State
at large, under circumstances like the present,
when the only result can be distraction. Unity
is wanted now. Upon this depends success.
And upon success depends the future glory and
existence of Kansas. Then, too, to allow dis
traction and defeat to befall us, being caused by
the degrading instincts of humanity, existing
among our own people, will entail upon us dis
grace. We imagine splendid representation Of
harmony, if the delegates meet in convention
with the same spirit now displayed by the press.
In the selection of Mr.. CRAWFORD as our choice
for Governor we never once thought Of the fact
that he was not Western Kansas man. Nor
have we mentioned Professor GoopNow as q suit
able person for Superintendent of Public Instruc-
We are glad that in our innocence We did not
exhibit soul so small. Although having fully
at heart the welfare Of Western Kansas, we do
not feel justified in intruding our local affairs,
and thereby give rise to local and side issues in
a campaign SO important as the present. We
chose MIR. CRAWFORD because of his labors to
unite all patriots, and without disParagement of
other gentlemen named, for his honesty, capa-
bllity, and radical loyalty. His purpose and
efforts to secure unity among the people coincid.
ed with our views, and hence We selected him.
A WARNING TO THE SETTLERS ON OUR
BORDER.
From Minnesota We have most stirring news.
The fierce war wheop of the savage Is heard in
all its terribleness on our Northern frontier,
and the bloody massacres Of Schenectady and
Wyoming are being re enacted in the new set
Elements of Minnesota. The Sioux Indians,
one of the most powerful tribes within our
borders, have arrayed themselves in deadly
hostility to the whites, and have already COM
mitted the most frightful excesses. Over Eve
hundred persons have been most inhumanly
butchered, neither age nor sex being spared.
The cause of this outbre ak is said to be .
failure on the part of the Government to pay
this tribe their annuities Of money; but Min
nesota paper charges it to the fact that there
has beer Southern emissaries and Indians from
the Missouri melting them to this hellish work.
From the manner in which they have thus far
acted, boldly stacking forts and fortified places,
it appears plausible, ss Indians seldom do this
unless led by white men.
II the above be the fact, nothing can be
more probable than that men Of the ,ame stripe
are operating With the Indians on our border
Some thirty thousand Indians, consisting of Eve
different tribes, have been, until quite lately,
within one hundred and twenty
miles Of this place. aud it is well known that
much dissatisfaction existed among them
These Indians have now gone to Fort Lyon to
receive their annuities, snd after their distrl.
button We may look for hostilities if ever. The
Siou1s received their presents but few days
before they commenced their indiecriminate
ane these tribes On our border may
only remain quiet until they are served like
wise. 1t bshoovss our Government, tsen, and
the citizens likewise, to watch with . Jealous
eye their every movement, and be prepared for
any emergency. Our Western frontier st this
time. is almost defeneeless against such . vast
horde of savsges, and the Govsrnnsut shonld
profit BY the blood bought lessons Of New Ulm |
and Beaver Greek and promptly reinforce it. !