Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-03-14
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We have never seen record of more
cold d-blooded and inhuman murder than
the one We are about to give. 1t tran
scends in horror and inhumanity anything
that has ever been perpetrated by human
fends. Indeed we could scarcely believe
that we had, in this land of civilization
and christianity, class Of men so stepped
in crime ana iuf.-y .. to be snilty of q
deed that makes the blood run cold. The
"Border Rufians" live and move and have
their being by virtue Of the encouragement
and sympathy they derive from Pres.
Pierce. But day or 90 ago, be sent a
message to Congress, asking for money to
pay these Border Rufians for pillaging
towns and numbering innocent men and
women. Murder after murder has been
committed in Kansas under his sanction,
and by men whom he sent their to protect
and govern the Territory. How long will
these transactions be permitted by . free
people But to the murder, an account
of which We take from the N. Y. Times {:
Perry Co. Peoples Advocate.
"Mr. E. P. Brown, of Leavenwortb,
Kansas Territory, formerly Of Michigan,
was returning from the free State election
held at Easton. He had not molested .
human being, but had been a candidate
for the Legislature. Some forty Of the
Border Rufians of Missouri overlook him
within mile Of Leavenworth and dragged
him to groggery some two or three miles
in the country. Here be was shamefully
maltreated. But there was no mercy for
him. They prepared themselves with
ropes and other implements for hanging,
and after sunset Friday they arranged to
lead him out. Some of their party then
proposed to Lynch him ss compromise,
rather than hang him. This was at once
approved, when the rabble sprang upon
him viM haschet', aces, kniues, and clubs,
piercing, ehopping, mangiing, kicking,
NUMBERING HIM BY INCHES. He imme.
diately became senseless, from the heavy
blows upon bis head, and fell. He soon
recovered in part and attempted to rise
and escape, but no friend attempted to as.
sist him, and they repeated their beastly
outrages till be seemed literally cut to pie
ces. But he was still alive, ,aud, while bis
blood vas flowing freely for the liberty of
Kansas soil they roughly seized him and
tumbled him into wagon standing near,
of which be was the owner, and drove ten
miles to the house of one of the party
Most Of them were shamefully drunk by
this time, and finding poor Brown still
alive, they commenced the insolent work
of dressing his wounds. But drunk as
they we're, their compassion was so much
excited by bis dying groans, that they con.
cluded to carry him to bis own family
which was less than . mile distant. A
most amiable and devoted wife met him at
the door a. he was thrown in upon the
floor, but human nature was dropping Its
last sands. She tried to learn the cause
of SO distressing death, but be had only
strength to say, "T1ey murdered me like
These we're his last words. Oh
the chilling reflection that one moro pre-
cious life has been sacrificed by the most
abandoned and malicious band of maraud.
ers the earth affords, to preserve Kansas
to freedom. The fires of an orthodox hell
are too tolerable for those thrice damned
beings whose hearts are so callous to all
that is hopeful or redeeming in man.
How long shall we be left alone to defend
our precious rights when the demons at
our doors threaten rs with devastation and
deatbi They have descended to lower depths
of infamy than any civilised people of
which history bears record. For never be.
fore do remember of an instance where a
people protesting to enjoy the blessings OF
. Republican government have cut into
inch pieces and tortured TO death their p.i-
soners taken in war It is without par
slel. So gl.riug an event will do more than
all that occurred heretofore, to win the
sympathies Of our friends and expose the
calumny Of our enemies. Until eternity
begins, may history adorn the name Of
BRowN the martyr"
Poetry and Piety.
An exquisite relish for music, is no test
Of the influence Of Christianity; neither
arc many Of the exquisite sensibilities Of
our nature. When . kind mother closes
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