Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-14


Meeting In Leavenworth, Kansas
A Border War "a be Inaugurated-
The Western Tier of Missouri Coun-
ties TO be wiped = Section
of the State 10 he Burned Over.
An immense crowd assembled on the corner
OF Fish and Shawnee streets, last night, to bear
General Lanes speech.
Mayor Anthony was called to the chair. Gen.
Lane then came forward amid the loudest
cheers, and said:
FELLOW CITIZENS OF KANSAS: / am here
again to address you. In the first place. | desire
to read to you a resolution, and Afterwards to ex-
plain and discuss il. Here il is:
Resolved, That so many of the LOYAL men of
the border as can be spared from home protec-
ton be requested to assemble at Paola on the
9Th day of September, with such arms aud am
munition as they can procure, organized and
supplied as follows: Eacn twenty men to select a
captain, and bring with them a wagon and one
blanket each, and fifteen DAYS subsistence.
i ask you not to adopt it until after the vari-
Gus opinions upon it have been heard. They
may differ IA voice-'Adopt it now One
hundred and fifty of the citizens of Lawrence
have been mAssacred, all unprepared, to a mista-
ken policy. | had hoped the people OF Kansas
understood il all, IL has afforded me pride and
pleasure to believe that the people of Kansas
knew what the policy of the Government ought
10 be. The entire State of Missouri has been In
possession of the United States troops for nearly
two years. There has been no regular Confeder-
ate force in that State for nearly two years, and
yet the defenseless citizens of Kansas are massa-
cred in scores by g~uerrillas from Missouri.
You have decided that there can be no safety
to Kansas except through the determination of
the rebel citizens of those border counties of Mis-
souri,. We have had officers at the head of the
Department OF Missouri who believed in a war of
determination against those bushwhackers. Gen.
Curtis was in favor of it: but a man clothed with
a little brief authority-and that's Gamble-said
to the President these bushwhackers are only
conservatives Treat them well and they will
return to their allegiance. This sa me man pledged
his word to the President that if he 1.-THE Presi-
dent would remove Curtis and appoint Schofeld
there would be peace. The President did remove
Curtis and appoint a conservative. in order to re-
store quiet. The bloOdshed at Lawrence is
chargeable to the fact that II conservative policy
rules this department.
/ have said that Kansas is in favor of exter-
mination. Upon what was that opinion based?
Upon the fact that they well knew that every
man who gave Information to Union troops
every man who was not a reliable rebel. was
driven from the border counties of Missouri at the
commencement of the war. In my first expedi
ton through Missouri, / travelled miles and miles
of road thick with people who we're obliged to
leave the State because they were tainted with
Unionism. / Travelled the border there and saw,
as the people of Kansas saw, that if the bush.
whackers were allowed to live in those woods on
the Missouri side, Kansas would have to give up
her prairies on this side.
We captured some of these citizen bushwhack
ers there. We found upon them oaths Of allegi
ance by scores. and protection papers bv dozens.
Those men were bushwhackers one day-citizens
the next. We know it. Kansas knows, from the
history of eighteen hundred years, that guerrillas
could not exist in any country without the aid and
comfort of the inhabitants of that country.
Therefore, not for mere butchery, not for the
qualification of mere prejudice, but for ~self-pres-
e%rvation, we believe in a war Of determination
Our opinions and judgments were deliberately
founded. determination repeat here that, for
self preservation, there shall be determination of
the first tier of counties in Missouri. and if that
wont secure US, then the second and third tiers,
and tier on tier until we are secure. [UprOarious
applause Oaihs of allegiance Great Godi
Wher | was IN Missouri the other day | took
particular pains to inquire for the best Union man
in the county. | was directed to a man named
Hook. | rode over TO his house. and fad a con
versstion with this beau ideal Of a Union man. /
asked him his politics. He answered very quickly
that he was Union, my men close by at the time.
/ asked him what he meant by Union" He
said that he was in favor Of the Union as it was
and the Constitution as it Is. I asked him what
ne meant DIV lndL. ne Sdlu, i OWN nlGEerS III
we have the Union as IL was, and my niggers run
off. | can recover them. If we can't have the
Union as it was, then | am in favor of the South
ern Confederacy." / then asked him how long
since he had seen any bushwhackers. He said,
"Mr. Woodwork was here to day to dinner. /
saw your soldiers and told him that he had better
not 90 near them. | hear rebels at my corn crib
almost every night. | never interfere with them
Quantrill came here the other morning on his
- a. 100000 .nI orIo.od hroaIc..t g., Eft-
and got it," A voice-"Where is Hook now?"l
I'm he'll. ILeft him in the hands of The erecu-
TONER"
There is no such thing as Union men in the
border counties of Missouri where these bush
whackers stay
The people of Kansas in the last few DAYS have
lost So 600, 900 in property, which has gone to
Jackson, Bates and Cass counties. An order has
been made, to take effect on the 9Th Of Septem-
Der next. inviting the people of those counties to
leave there for certain points. Those who are
loyal are ordered to move into the principal
towns That will leave our captured property in
the brush. The resolution proposes that we meet
at Paola on the 6th-the day before that order
expires, ready with our writs of replevin to re-
cover our property Says one. "the military
won't let YOU in" The Constitution of the
United States provided that shareholders could
recover their slaves wherever found. Under the
Constitution we have a right TO recover our
property. If met by military. | propose TO carry
the question to the highest authority of the Gov
eminent. Let them interfere who dares with the
people of Kansas in the pesceable pursuit and
recovery of their property
/ don't believe a loyal General lives but will be
glad to have us assist him in 1t. tell you, in NV
opinion, it will take the people OF K,nsas 10 de-
stroy and exterminste these bushwhackers. I am
willing to take the issue OF Vengeance for blood
devastation for safety The military, In my
opinion, will gladly accept our services. 1t will
cost the Government nothing, ami il most Ger
tainlv will grant US the privilege of recovering
our property.
History can be searched ia vain for a parallel
10 the Lawrence massacre.
The people felt secure; [ felt secure. Do you
suppose your humble speaker would have been
asleep in his own home If he had believed there
was danger? No; | would have had n company
of men ready to whip the murderers to their sat
i~sfaction ms soon as thew entered Kansas. We
relied on The military authorities for protection.
/ don't propose to blame anybody. j do propose
TO say. however, that the policy of Schuield
brought on the massacre at Lawrence.
What was Scho6eld doing while the fends
were numbering the citizens of L1wrencef He
was administering oaths of allegiance to their
companions ia Missouri, trying TO WOO them back
TO their allegiance, instead of killing them.
Eighteen months of this war have been wasted
by the SAM system.
Another thing / desire to ask of you. / ask
you to pass q resolution before you adjourn de
handing the removal of Schofield and the placing
of a man of heart and determination in his stead
When the bushwhackers of Missouri claim to be
the leaders of the conservative element in thai
State it is time for US to wake up. The object oil
Tho nolicv IL m rosfora siarerv