Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-27
The Great Land Sale,

The letters We publish to-day from the
st. Louis Democrat will be read with in
terest. 1t will be seen that some twenty
Free State men have been convicted of
manslaughter by a packed pro-slavery jury,
and sentenced by Jetfries Lecompte to ball
and chain gang hard labor under the Mis-
souri-Kansas code, for five years each
There is an intimation that if Gov. Geary
does not interfere and annul the unright-
eo,s sentence, the Free State men will.
They long ago resolved On death rather
than submission to the infamous laws en-
acted by the bogus Territorial Legislature,
and they are not the men to finch from
the discharge of any duty in just cause.
1t will be seen, too, that GOV. Geary is
getting his eyes opened TO the outrageous
conduct of the pro-slaYery government of
ticials around him, and evinces determin-
alton to administer impartial justice at all
hazards. He has raised hornets nest
about his ears, and if he pursues the course
his first brush with Titus, Donaldson, Le-
eompte d Co. indicates, Pierce will cut off
his official head a-la-Reeder. This, or as
sassinaticn by the Ruffians, he evidently
anticipates. He talks definitely, and those
who know Gov. Geary say that when
aroused he is really fearless, Independent,
not to be bullied or turned from his pur-
pose.
Gov. Geary has suspended Marshal Don
aldson and Judge Lecompte, and removed
the Court to Tecumseh, Judge Cato to
preside. By connivance at Lecompton,
Hayes escaped, but Gov. Geary had Don
aldson arrested and put under guard. We
shall see what we shall see.
A letter to the Cincinnati Gazette dated
on board the Steamer Australia, jefferson
City, Nov. 13th, states that over two hun
dred Yankee spectators (Gov. Robinson
among them) passed up on the Keystone
on Friday, to attend the great Kansas
land sale at Fort Leayenworth on the 18th,
and the Australia had an equal number on
board bound for the sale. The writer,
bound for the land sale, says:
This great route to Kansas is crowded
with shrewd, quiet, cautious Yankees, who
make the trip almost in silence, and with
whom it is almost next to impossible even for
Northern man 10 get beyond the ordina-
ry common places OF conversation. They
form striking contrast with the clustering
Southerner-the Kentuckian, whose first
care is to proclaim his birthplace and to
hunt up other Kentuckians, as though they
were the only society fit for white men; OF
the vaunting Missourian, who collects lit
tie crowd of listeners around him, to whom
he boasts of his exploits in the Territory,
and proclaims his purpose of returning
there .'to shoot id Abolitionist."
The Southerners have all the show and
talk, but the Yankees have money, deter
mination, and prudence, and energy Of ac.
ton.
Oh, it is so hard for Yankee woman tc
keep still on this route! She does long tc
tell the Border Ruffians what she thinks Of
them, and she cannot help expressing her
self freely to any Northern man. l have
met with a number of families from the
East, and though the man was always pru.
dent, yet the wife and girls would rattle
away, despite his cautions and reprovine
glances. 1t will take something more thar