Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-09-10
ALARM ON THE MISSOURI BORDER.
THREATENED FoRAY FROM KANSAS.


We learn from the st. Louis Union of tho lst instant
that the utmost CONSERVATION and alarm prevail in the bor
der counties Of Missouri consequence of recent orderss
sued by Gen Ewing and threatened Invasion from Kansas
GEN Ewings orders require all the inhabitants in Jackson
Cass and Bates counties to abandon their homes and
sembe at certain specified posts by the 9th of September
and direct that all hay left in those counties shall be burn
ed. At the time it is announced that Gen. Lane will
enter Missouri with military force, the 9th of Sep.
tember in order to punish however unusty the people
of the border counties for the guerrilla Quantres late
outrages at Lawrence. The Union says:
"The inhabitants are fleeing in wild alarm from their
homes tn escape the threatened fury They nearly all
poor without to sustain themselves away from their
little homes and without horses and wagons to carry of
their household stuff.
There is general conviction that Independence the
most important town in Jackson county IS to be plumber
ed and reduced to ashes The Of the bak al that
place have been removed to St Louis for safety The
cords of the three countiesJackson Bates, and Cass
have also been removed to prevent their destruction.
"Gen. Schofed, with his staff left this city yesterday
for the border to give his personal attention to affairs
there and to start energetic for Kidding that
gion OF the brgands under Quanirel."
The part to be taken in this oray upon many unofsnd
ing and loyal people by Mr. Senator LANE of Kansas, is
disclosed in speech made by him to public meeting of
part of his constituents held at Leavenworth the
night of Thursday, the 27th umo We place before
shed in Kansas newspaper. Comment upon its vio-
lencs is unnecessary We suppose prompt will
be taken to protect the people of the Missouri border from
the cruelties with which they are threatened.
SPEECH or GENERAL LANE.
Fellow-citizens of Kansas: here again to address
you. In the first place desire to read to you reso-
on and afterwards to explain and dscussit Here it is
ResOued That many of the loyal of the border as
can be spared from home protection be requested TO assemble
Pa0la September,
ammunition they procure organized and supplied as
follows Each twenty select captain, aud bring
with them wagon blanket EACH and fifteen days
subsistence
ask you not to adopt until after the various opnons
upon it have been heard. They may differ One hun
dred and fifty of the citizens of Lawrence been
sscred, all unprrpared martyrs to mistaken policy.
had hoped the people of Kansas understood it all 1t has
afforded me pride aud pleasure to believe that the people
OF Kansas knew what the policy of the Government ought
be- The entire State of Missouri has been the pos
session of United States troops for noary two years.
There has been regular Confederate force 10 that State
for nearly years. and yet the defenceess citizens of
Kansas massacred by by guerrilas from Mi
souri,.
You have decided that there be safety to Kansas
except tbr' ugh tie the rebel citizens
those border COUNTS of Missouri. We have had officers
at the head of the Department of the Missouri who be-
leved in war of determination agaiast those bus-
whackers Gen. Curtis in favor Of it, but man
clo he'd with little br of authorityand that's Gamble
sad the President these bushwhackers only
v-tives. Treat tn WELL ard they will return to their
ident that if he (the Preden) would Curtis and
appoint Schoied there would be peace The President
did Curtis and appoint rvaye in order to
restore quiet The blood shed at Lawrence is cbargeabs
the fact that conservative policy rules this Depart
ment
have said that Kansas in favor of determination
Upon what that opinion base1 Upon the fact that
they well knew that every who gave information to
Union troops every who was not reliable rebel
driven from the border counties of Missouri at the
COMMENCEMENT OF the In my rst expedition through
mil and mil of
people who obliged to flee the State because they
tainted with Unionism travelled the border there
and saw, the people of Kansas sew that If the bush
whackers allowed to live in those woods the Mis-
souri, side Kansas would have to give up her praries
this side.
We captured some OF these citizen bushwhackers there
We found upon them ostbs of allegiance BY aud
protection papers by dozans Those bush
| whackers one dsy-czeus the next We know it all.
Kansas knows FROM the history Of eighteen hundred years
that euerras could not exist in any country without the
aid and consent Of the inhabitants of that country There
fore, not for butchery not for the qualification of
prejudice, but for sefpreservaon, believe in
Of determination Our opinions aud judgments
deliberately founded Extermuaon Irepeat here that
for sefpreservaon there shall be determination of the
first tier Of counties in Missouri, and if that won't
ihen the second and third tier, and tier tier till we
are secure lUproarous cheers.
! Osths OF allegiance Great God When was in Mis-
the other day took particular pains to inquire or
| the best Union in the county. ! directed to
named Hook rode to his house and had con-
versation with this teau ideal of Union asked
him his pOltcs He answered very quickly that he was
| Union-my close by at the time. j asked him what
he meant by Union" He said that be in favor OF
the Union it and the Constitution it is. asked
him what he meant by that. He said, i own nggers
If have the Union 1t was and my nggers of,
can them. If we cant have the Unon X was
then am in favor Of the S,utheyn CoGed racyP then
asked him how long he had any bushWhackers
He SAID a. Mr. Wood ward here to-day to dinner.
your soldiers and told him that he had better not go
near them hear rebels at my crib almost every
night never interfere with them Quantrel came here
the other morning his way to Lawrence and ordered
breakfast for ffty and got it,. A voice /" WHARF il
Hook now ~ In hell / left him in the hands of the
executiUner
There such things Unoa in the border Of
| Missouri where tn sc bushwhackers stay.
The people OF Kansas in the past W days have lost
TIVE mi lion dollars worth Of property, which has gone to
Jackson Bates and Cass counties An ofder hsa been
made to take feet the 9th OF September next inviting
the people of those counties to leave there for certain
points Those who loyal ordered TO into the
principal towns. That will leave captured property
in the brush. The resolution proposes that meet at
Paoa Stthe day before that order expireeresdy
with ws of repevn to recover our property. Says
one, the military won't let you In. The Constitution cf
the United States provides that shareholders
their slaves wherever found Under tho Constitution wa
have right to property II met by military
propose carry the ques ION to the highest authority Of
the government Let him Interfere who dares with the
people of Kansas in the peacesble pursuit and recovery Of
their property. don't believe loyal General lives but
will be glad to have assist him in it.
l tell you, in my opinion it will take the people Of
Kansas destroy aud extermnate these bushwhackeys
am willing to take the issue Of vengeance for bioodde
alton for safety. The military, in my opinion, will
gladly accept services IL will the Cover nment
nothing, and it most certainly will grant the priyil ge