Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-10-31


has been charged by the free State men
Read it:
PLATTE Co, Mo-, Sept. 10, 1856.
Editors of the Richmond Wing.
1 send you few facts in writing, believ
ing that you know very little of what is dai
ly transpiring in the Great West. What
information you Yirginians get coming
from some little papers in Kansas and the
borlers thereof, is not to be relied on.
What those papers contain is false in
parts false in toto. send you printed
sample. have lived long in Richmond, but
am now here in this goodIy land, the
'Platte Purchase" A fairer land than this
never sun %ieved in his wide career. A
lovely spot for all that life can ask. Salu-
brious, mild"
The settlers of Kansas are from almost
every State in the eonfederacy, but chiefly
from the free States; the rest are Missouri
ans who have made repeated invasions Of
Kansas. When the election came off, (the
first one in PARTICULAR hundreds of load
ed wagons, with provisions, arms of every
caIibre and name, ammunition, and barrels
of whiskey, were driven to within a half a
mile of the polls:-there the invaders en-
camped, and such shouting, swearing, drink
ing, firing, hallooing, roaring, damning, &c.
this world never saw before. Next morning
they marched to the polls; and gave a Dem
ocratic vote. After voting they returned to
their camp, renewed their Bacchanalian or
gies, and the next morning crossed over to
Missouri. This is as true rs any record in
the United States. 1t would require many
sheets of foolseap to contain 1.-THE of the
barbarities, robberies and murders, that have
been committed in Kansas. You know the
Missourians have thrown evorl printing
press into the Missouri river that did not
hoist the negro flag. 1t is thus that you
hear erparte testimoney, and nine-eights of
that is fabrication. A majority of the peo-
pie in Kansas were and are for making it a
free State. They are not abolitionists, but
free State men. The Missourians, knowing
this, have had recourse to various expedi-
ents. The last or dernier resort, is to ex-
pei or ostracise them.
About ten days ago, the Missourians in
vested Leavenworth city, the largest town
in Kansas and gave peremptory orders to
every man in the city, whom they suspected
of free State sentiments, to leave in one
hour and a half or die. One hundred
peaceable, orderly artisans, merchants, &C.,
were thus compelled to leave their houses,
shops, tools, stores, &C., to the
honesty and mercy Of. One of them
had in his store $4,000 worth of goods as
per invoices. If you have any idea what
were the feelings of the Athenians when
they abandoned Athens, and Cimon took
with him only part of his horses furniture
then you may form some opinion of the
great calamity that fell on these one hun
drcd families. They left their homes
their all. One might have bought houses
and lots worth thousands of dollars for So
to $40, might have bought wagon load of
furniture, or rich and costly cloths, cassi-
meres, and silks for $40 to 500. From
what hear, one might have bought enough
to load fifty wagons for 800 or 5000 or
less. Many did buy wagon loads for
mere pittance.-The great bulk was left.
have my information from a reliable
a highly respectable Missouri
You will ask why this cruelty?
Why this great injustice? 1t is because