Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-05-22
Pro-Slavery Cruelties in Kanzas.

we take the following from Cel. Lane s
speech at indianapolis, as reported by the
journals of that city. All these atrocities
where winked at by President Perce and
the officers of the General Government, and
to arrest the murderers, and no efforl made
to bring them to punishment. But now
Sheriff Jones is wounded and there is no
certainty by whom it was done, but there
being a surmise that it was done by some
Freesoiler, the whole power of the general
supposed perpetrators. This is a specimen
of the ''even-handed iustice' the admnistra-
tion deals out on the Slavery dispute. Here
is the extract from Col. Lane:
He then mentioned some OF the cruelties
practiced upon the free State men by the
Border Ruffians. Tarring and feathering
men, ana especially preachers, he said, SEEM
ed to be common amusement He saw
the preacher who had been tarred, feathered
and sent down the Missouri river. Of all
disgusting exhibitions, man with coat of
tar and feathers was the worst. He had
seen it once and he never wanted to see it
again. A man was deformed out of a II hu-
man shape. To see human being rolling
in mass devoid even of the appearance o..
humanity, was terrible. tBut to that odi-
Gus disgusted torture a preacher of the
gospel was subjected, because he had said he
was for making Kanzas free State. AT
ter this 'coat" had been spread over him.
he was placed upon raft Of two logs held
together by clap boards, and with piece of
bacon and corn bread, was started down the
most rapid and dangerous stream in the
world. Such was the treatment Of Free
State preachers. Collins was murdered
Collins had acted with him on the commit
tee on Platforms at the Convention in Kan
sas. He was gallant and noble man. He
had been murdered. Itwas said that Laugh
lin shot him in street fight, but that was
false. He was killed by shot gun and by
another person. Dow had been murdered.
Coleman killed him while he was Oh the
road home frcm blacksmith shop. Here
Col. Lane narrated the story of Dow's death
as it was related by our correspondents at
the tine.
Barber had been killed cruelty anl in cold
blood. He was an excellent inofensiye man;
another had been killed, murdered by Clark,
the Indian agent, during the troubles at Law
renee, and Clark had gone to the Missou-
rian's camp and boasted that she saw the
dust fly out of the abolitionist's clothes when
the ball HIT"
Brown had been most foully murdered
He was trave man, who could whip the
ruffians, and had done it, two to one. He
was going home with others in wagon, one
day, not long ago, when he was met by some
eighteen Missourans; they stopped the way.
He told them to let him pass, and as they
didn't csel strong enough to fight him with
even two to one, they let him pass. Later
he met another company of seventy Missou-
rians. They also stopped him. He resist
ed, but that compan: was strong enough to
take him. They did it, but with the stron-
gest assurance than he should not be hurt
How were those promises kept! Worse
than among barbarians. He was taken to
cabin, through the cracks of which could be
seen what was going on Inside. ne was
told that be must die. He asked for a
chance for his life. He begged them to let
him fight any two of them for his life. with
any weapon they pleased, pistols, knives or
guns. No. they would give him no chance.
A halter was put around his neck, and he
was led to the door. The limb was ready.
But when lie had reached the door they set
upon him, thus bound as he was, and thus
assured that he should be protected, and cut
him all to pieces with hatchets. They kick
ed that mangled body TO his wagon, more
than one hundred yards. They threw it in
to the wagon, and kicked it after it was
thrown in. They drove with it to his house.
and the first intimatiou that his wife had of
his fate, was seeing his mangled corpse
pitched into the house, $50 that his blood
spattered her dress. She was un excellent
anG interesting woman, one of as good as
ever lived. She was made maniac by that
awful sight.
Such was the sufferngS of the Freemen
of Kansas. ask, said he, if we did not
need protection as mnch as did Arkansas or
Michigan. You sold lners," ask il we do
not need i: more than Texas did, Shall
not Kansas be more 3rotected! (Cries of
yes, yes.) Then give her your sympathy,
speak out at the election and 20 can protect
her. Loud applause.)
CtTA report has been put in circulation
in some Of the republican papers, that Judge
McLane took ground in lS4S against the
constitutonality ofthe WIlmot Proviso.-