Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-29
s z -...-M ONOAV. sEPTEMBER 20. / ; s.


letter froul Rev. MIR. Nute,
The following interesting letter from Rev.
Mr.. Mute of Kanzas, is to gentleman of Bos-
ton =
LAWRENCE Kanzas, Sept. IA, 1856.
Dear S3r Yours Of the goth ult. is before
me- l had just reached home from my cap
tivity with the rufians when it came, and
have been nearly down sick ever since, or it
would have received an earlier answer.
have seen Mr.. Brown from Ossawatome,
who informs me that Mr. Babb's house had
been burned by the slavery banditti with
most OF the houses in that settlement, and
that Mr.. B. and his family are at his MIR.
Brown's) house, sick, and in want. AS Mr..
b. had been absent from his home some days,
could not learn whether the fifteen dollars
of which You write had been received. But
l authorized Mr. Brown to relieve Mr.. Babb's
wants to the amount oil twenty dollars, which
he said would be sufficient 10 save them from
actual distress for week or two Mr.. Brown
will take down lead of -four and groceries
lie hoped to start yesterday. l have not been
able to go to town since.
have done my best with the one hundred
dollars which l received from you, together
with nearly three hundred dollars from other
sources, to relieve the wants of the destitute
brought about one hundred dollars in pro-
visions and groceries, which am yet distrib-
uting. 10 some give money, thirty dollars
expended for shoes for women and children
who were nearly, and in some instances,
quite barefooted.
But the time of pressing want has not yet
come. 1t will be when the cold weather
comes on, and for that l was reserving the
greater part of the fund. Mr. Whitman has
distributed nearly if not quite ten thousand
dollars, for all of which lie has taken the
vouchers to meet the heartless sneers of our
enemies at the East who, we see, are re-
iterating their charge in the public prints that
not one dollar of the money raised for the re-
lief OF the distressed in Kanzas has ever
reached its object.
These late outrages have plunged so many
OF our people into utter restitution, that l
find myself compelled to use all the funds III
my hands Immediately. shall go about the
work tomorrow If l am well enough to get
about, as hope now to be.
For the last two weeks have been in the
hands OF my enemies, forced to sleep on the
bare ground, denied wholesome food, or any,
regularly-part of the time confined in a close
and loathsome dungeon, crowded in with
twelve others, whose only crime and the sole
charge against whom was that they were free
State men. If l get up, it will be a narrow
escape from long fit of sickness. Three
times l had every reason to believe that
my last hour was come, and that was to be
added to the long list of victims to the bloody
Moloch of slavery. The young man who rode
with me when L was taken, was murdered in
cold blood, right in the streets of Leaven-
worth, and his body lay where it fell for the
remainder of that day. Two others were
butchered the day AFTER and at least ten were
shot down on the praires in that vicinity dur
ing the first week of my captivity.
Excuse the confusedness of my narration.
My head is dizzy and my heart sick with the
attempt to write. Before many days | hope
to give full account. OF this be assured =
we are not yet subdued, and zoe nevor can be.
was not prepared to see so much GOODNESS,
tirmness, and courage, as our people have
manifested all through this last struggle
| They have conquered at every part, and it
looks now as though the final victory would
be ours. If SO, we who have suffered only in
our persons and in the spelling of our goods,
will find an ample compensation. Yours, for
eedom, EPHRAIM MUTE, JR.