The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-05-20

II YOU.
When Kelly saw how mstters stood, he
came forward and said--"he did not take
Butler to have him hanged; only tarFed ana
Gathered" YET 10 the other grocery they
,ad said TO the mob that they should do as
hey pleased." He dared not take the re-
.ponsbili,y OF taking my hie' but wheh
Ihese unfortunate men, whose one-idea'iSth
IN the subject of slavery and southern
Riph,s has become insanty-when these
irresponsible South Carolinians, sent ou'
TO be hul dogs and bioedhounds tor At,
Gibson and ingiellow-when they could
be used as tools 10 lake my life, ne was
ready 10 do IL.
Our guupcwder Moderator cnsthe Discus
sion shor, BY sasiug-"it is moved that but-
Ter be tarrcd aud tea,herea and receive thiF-
ty-nile iashes.
A msiority said AYE though number
Of voices said "No." The Moderator sa'a
",he affirmative has il. :
| began 10 speculate bow that soF, %
thing would work as far north as the Ia,
,ude OF Kansas. There was good deai o.
whispering about the house. l saw aa,N'
ominous and threatening looks IN the
crowd.
The Moderator again came forward, an !
in an altered voice said:
at is Raoued Nst the last part o. the SeA te''os
be rescinaed
II was rescinded.
was given isto the hands of NY South
Carolina overseers 10 be tarred and ieathei-
ed. They muttsred and growled az thls
! issue OF the matter. "By--, said thes,
~if we had known il would have come out IN
| this way, we would have let -----
shoe, Butter al Tie first. He would have
done il quicker than fash"
! One little sharp-yisaged, dark ieatasea'
| black.pyed South Carolinian, as smart IS
cricket. who seemed to be the leader OF me
eauc. was particularly displeased. "D-h
| gon,' said he, "if come all the way from
South Carolina, and spent SO much moaey
to do things up in such m'iS and water
style as this"
/ They stripped me naked to the waist
covered nv body with tar, and then lor the
want OF feathers. applied cotton wool. Hat-
ling appointed a committee OF three 10 Ger
tainly hang me the next time should come
to Atchison, they tossed my clothes into
| II ggy, put me therein, accompanied me
10 the suburbs Of the town, and sent me
naked out upon the prairie.
I adjusted nv attire about me as best
could, and FASTENED to rejoin my wife and
two little ones on the banks Of the Stranger
creek. Ii was rather sorrowlul meeting
after so long parting. Still, we were
very thankful, that, under the blessing OF
good Providence, il had Jared no worse with
lus all.
The frs. mob that sent me down .ht
Missouri river on raft, always excepting
Robert S. Kelly-were courteous gentle
linen compared with this last one. Nhei
Ii was towed out into the middle Of thl
stream, do not remember 10 have heard I
word spoken by the men on the shore, -
Their demeaaor Indicated that they tel
themselves performing painful duty
Though perhaps they regarded ii as neces
sary one. Thi. last mob, when they lei
me on the border OF the town, shrieked ans
yelled like pack of New Zealand eanni
bais. The first mob did not attempt I,
Iabridge my right OF speech. In reply to al
the hard and bitter things they said agains
me, they patiently heard me TO the end
But these men who have come TO introduce
Into Kansas that order of things that nov
exists in South Carolina, sagagely gagged
me into silence by rapping my face, choak
iss me, pulling my beard, jerking me VIC
,lently To nv seat, and excialming Cd
you, hold your tongue" All this was don'
while nv arms tpers pigioned behind me.
Many will ask now, as they have asket
already, what is the true and proper caus'
Of al these troubles which have had j!
Atchison. have told the world already
and can only repeat my own words, hay'
said: The very head and front Of my Of
tending hath this extent no more"
had spoken among my neighbors favorab!
for making Kansas Free State, and sal
in the office of the SquGtter Sousrstgn, an
Ia Free-Soiler, and intend to vote tor Kan
sas to be a Free State. 1t is true that Kei
ley by an afterthought has added two new
counts to his bill OF indictment against me
The first is, that / wentt 10 the town Of Atchi
son last August, talking Aboitionism.
nave not the honor OF being an Abolltionlst
And second, that spoke somehow or 9th
81 improperly in the presence Of slaves
All this is not only utterly false, but tn
, charges are ex-post facts; for not wor
vas said Of this The day they pat me on IN
raft.
The New York Trl5une publishes me q
Methodist preacher that was put on 9 raj
Tor preaching Abolitionism. | am mem
Der Of the denomination kaown as ii ,ciple,
[Campbelites,) and have never alluded t
me SUBJECT Of Slavery 10 my preaching.
published narrative oil the whole affair j
he Missouri Democrat, not one word c
! hich has ever been denied, TO the best c
nv knowledge, except this: / said ha
card that Kelly was born in Massachu.
etts. He says be was not born there; tina
ne was born in Virginia. r bert S. Kelly
Ilunior, editor of the Squatier Sopereign, an
iGoyERsNEsr printer, shall be born JUS
where he pleases.
Still, it viii be regarded as mysteriou
md incredible that man should receiy
such treatment fer uttering words DIS | re
por, myself to have uttered. The matte
lis clear enough when the facts are under
stood that viii explain.
Prior to August 10, 1855, there was prop
erIy speaking no Free State party organizei
10 Atchison county-perhaps not 10 tht
whole Territory Of Kansas. Free voter
did not know their own strength, and a!
we're disposed TO be prudeni--some wer,
tmid. Here IN Atchisoa county we wert
determined that i. the Border Ruffisns were
resolved TO drive ms,ters to bloody issue
the responsibility OF doing so should resi-
wholly with themselves. There are man,
: Free SoiIers in this county; brave men, Gu,
nave no conscientious scrupes to hinder
them from armiug themselves and preparing
10 repsl force by force. The Border Ruf
iians sought, by system u terrorism, 40 Il
intimidale the Free Soi!ers as 10 preseh
them from organizing Free State Parry
; CT even discussing the subject OF SLAYER
and freedom IN Kansas. They carried TIN
20 such un extent OF outrageous violence
that it came to be currently reported that i
| was as much as mama HE was worth il
the town Of Atchison, TO say am Ffe'
Soiler."
We deprecated violence and wished
nsarefni disrnssinn Of the subject IL va