Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-01
The Crushing Out!

Sc .,hdned.v One hundred and seven OF the gall
liant heroes in that stricken Territory have been
arrested on United States authority Tor MURDER
and are now waiting in a small, damp DUNGEON
exposed to the cold and wet OF an inclement WIN
ter and there will wait to be tried before that
Democratic Jeffreys, Judge C) Lecompte, next
Anril. for daring to stand up and defend their
wives and little ones from the outrages OF PACK
of invading Ruf6ans. Yes, Peace relgns IN
Warsawp, And an Election has been held, IN
which the ballot-boxes were so carefully guarded
tha. not Free State vote opposed Whitheld's
ole ct;on to Congress The Pioneer tells its
readers with chuckle that Gov. Geary mas
brought peace. Yes, he has-such peace as Ma
poleon brought to France, when ne planted q
six-pounder upon every corner, and then told his
subjects, with sinister smile, to speak their
thoughts freely-if they dare Scores of men
have been murdered upon those plains, women
have been outraged and children orphaned, while
many families of the prisoners incarcerated there
are to-day wandering and begging their way
homeward through Iowa and Western Missouri.
The Pioneer says, /" Oh! it's all right now.''
Aud its blind followers, when pointed in the dl'
rection of the outrage, exclaim with wonderful
innocence, "Where l don't see anything
wrongw And then with provoking noncha-
sance they sneer at " bleeding Kansas the ar
gument which Tyrants always use, to veil the
hideousness of their crimes.
Who destroyed the Parkville Luminary, the
Territorial Register, and the Herald OF Freedom,
broke their Presses and scattered the type in the
adjacent rivers? Who tarred and feathered MIR.
Baker, Lawyer Phillips, John Walton, Rev. Mr..
McAfee, and others, and sent them down the riv-
er on raft? Who violated the persons of Miss
Merrill, Mrs. BuFurn, and host of other New
England women, upon the streets OF Lawrence
Who murdered Brown, Hyatt, Clark, Philips,
Harris, Dow, Barber, Collins, Jones, Gay, Hoyt,
Hops, John Stewart, and an army OF gallant
martyrs sacrificed upon freedoms altar9 Who
are numbering there to-day all who dare to speak
in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence
above whisper? These things are sneered at
and denied. abolition lie' is easily spoken,
and it forms the citadel Of Democratic pallatiou
and defence. When Paul asserted some bold
doctrines before the Athenian Philosophers, we
are told that :s some mocked''--a concise method
of refuting the Truth, and likely from its short.
ness and convenience to continue In favor and
fashion. But the Democrats of Minnesota tell
us their party is not responsible for these acts in
Kansas-oh, no, indeed, not they To be sure
the Border Ruf6ans vote the Democratic ticket to
man-to be sure the Democrats voted in body
in Congress against receiving Kansas as Free
State, and in favor of receiving Whitfield as the
elect of the Stringfellow marauders-to be sure,
they recognise the villainous enactments of a
Missouri mob, and call them "law," but their
party is not responsible for these outrages-oh
uo-of course not!
And what is this Black Code which Democrats
label CLAW" and which the Pioneer thinks
"must be enforced at all hazards till it can be
repealed ?" They are laws-if We call them
laws-which would lock Bunyan again in priso,
darker than that of old if he were to utter ii
Kansas the thoughts which swelled his bosom ir
his native England. Laws which would arres,
Thomas jefferson and try him before Judge Le-
compte for treason, if he spoke there the
thoughts which he uttered in the Senate Cham.
ber of the United States; laws which wou! i'm.
prison Patrick Henry for 10 years, if he spoke
again those brave and fearless words which
brought on the war of the Revolution; law.
which would put Benjamin Franklin and George
Washington under Buford's posse, if they were
to proclaim in Kansas their incendiary Language
that sSlavery is most blighting curse, and mus
be restricted in its limits )" laws which would
hang John Adams as ''a damned Abolition.
ist," if, as one of the settlers in Lawrence, HI
should express HALF the condemnation of Z" th'
peculiar insttation, . which characterized his life
and which now radiates the pages Of his works
laws which would put James Buchanan in the
Penitentiary for two years, if he were to uttel