M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-08-07
KANSAS AFFAIRs---.RRFUTAL
OF FAhSEHOODS.
ALBANY, Friday, july 4, 1856

,Ib the Edit ors Atlas and Argus An
article IN the New York TINES Of this morn
ing demands passing notice at my hands,
The description ofthe treatment received by
"Free- State" prisoners, while in the hands
Of the authorities in Tecumseh, is delibeT-
ate lie form beginning to end, manufactured
for the same purpose that hundreds Of SINH
lar ones have been. namely, that Of making
political capital, by exciting the sympathies
Of the North in favor Of the criminal faction.
who have long been trying TO deluge the
plains Of my late adopted home with the
blood Of their ieli0Ss citizens = " Is tfao ti.ot
a nHn1bOe Of prisoners were brought to Te-
cumseh for trial, before U. s. Commission
er; it is true that they were chained for secu-
rity on the journey. But it is lie that they
walked sixty.fve miles, or any distance, on
foot while chained. They travelled in wag-
on, guarded by true and veritable specimens
of the red.shirted border rufians. was in
Tecumseh when they arrived and during
their entire stay, and can assert that they were
trea e far better than they deserved. They
were, OF course, strictly guarded day and
night in a room in the hotel; brought down
regularly to their meals at the hotel table; in
fact treated with every indulgence consistent
with safe keeping. All this time they were
in the hands Of those terrible border rufiians,
so graphically described by the N. Y. Times
and Tribune, as blood-thirsty monsters with
hands constantly STEPPED in the innocent
blood Of Abolitionists and Freesoilers.---
Two Of those men were sons OF that atTocious
monster, John Brown, seu better known
in the Territory as" "0ssawatamie Brown
the captain of that band of rutfians calling
themselves "The Army off the North" who
had so recently committed number OF the
most diabolical murders, each individual case
attended with acts of barbarity far exceeding
any ever peIpehated by savage Indians in the
worst time Of border warfare. In fact, all Of
theprisoners were we'll known to have formed
part of this monstrous company at the time
those atrocities were committed; and would
venture to say, if taken and guarded by
citizens Of California under similar exciting
circumstances, would have speedily obtained
their deserts, ga short shrift and merry leap"
from limb of the nearest tree.
AS to the case of Tucker at Topeka, who
happens to be lawyer and not doctor,
was the person who arrested him in my ca
pacity Of Deputy Sheriff, in the act Of re-
moving horse, which he had concealed
the night before in thick piece ofbrush on
the lands ofa settler living near Topeka
He was caught at 10 O'Clock at night remov-
ing horse with saddle and bride, all prov
ed to have been stolen on the previous day
froma man named LIE Hay, a pro-slavery
man, living l6 miles east Of the Abolition
town Of Topeka. Four witnesses proved
the fact Of his coming 10 remove the horse
from its place Of concealment, and tiUO Of
his comrades from Topeka proved that he
had not left town on the night the horse was
stolen, which was the night previous to the
one on which he was arrested. This is the
alibi which, according to the Times cores
pondent, was proved by five or six witness.
es. He was held to bail, with two securi-
ties Of $500 each, to answer the charge Of
horse stealing.
Since his Committal, three persons have
been discovered who met Tucker and an ac-
complice on horseback, within few miles
Of the scene of the robbery, about nightiall
on the 10th Of June. On that night two hor'
. ses were stolen from lie Hay, and the houst
of a neighbor of his, with all its contents
burnt to the ground. The custom and ex
L. ample of Illinois and Missouri in their earlI
days, and of California and Oregon at tn
|, present time, would have justified us in hang
, ing Tucker from the nearest tree. Had O
pro-slavery man been detected in the act ol
horse-stealing, by party of Free State men,
his doom had been short one. Such is the
difference 5etween the so-called "border ruff
fans" and those much injured, innocen:
FTee.St men. The former party had SIM
ply endeayored to enforce the laws and keep
peace and quiet in the couniry; while the
latter have heen setting law and order at de-
fiance, numbering, under cover Of nigh, ,isola-
ted and delenceless settlers, but never daring
to meet their adversaries in fair and open
field.
Lying and boasting Of their intention tc
resist the laws, but whenever an official o.
: the law came with an armed party, resis
lance was no longer spoken of-their object
was accomplished-a good case for lyin(
was made out for the Abolition papers,
! Those individuals who are keeping up e1
element in Kansas cannot possibly care onC
hg whether it becomes free or slave State
each and all of their acts tell against thei
own interest and the cause they pretend to
have atheart. Ifthey really wished TO make
Kansas free State they would have cultivat-
ed peace,and peace only. Fighting is not thei
forte-they know nothing oft, and had bet
ter never have commenced it
lremain yours, &C.,
: WIN, GE0GHAN, NJ. D.