The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-26

no political object now to be gained by tell
ing else than the truth. But We agree with
The Cincinnati Commercial, when it says:
The half has never been told of the wrongs
Inflicted upon the Free State settlers in
kansas, pursuant to the plot to extend Ella
very over that Territory. They have been |,
driven from their ballot boxes by hordes OF
drunken demons, citizens of Missouri,-a
Legislature was elected over them BY this
mob, which passed laws that are 50 immess-
urably tyrannical and devilish as to be
nearly incredible; the Territory has been
several times invaded by armies OF murder
evs and horse thieves, thirsting for blood
and plumber, determined to enforce the laws
tina, the infuriate mob had enacted; the
power OF the General Government has been
used to enforce these mob laws, and thus
the iron has been driven into the souls OF
me people; the Missouri river has been
bloekaded. its hanks bristling with artillery,
to drive back emigrants from the North;
even the Nebraska frontier has been guard
ed, and emigranis arrested there: and
throuehoa, the Territory, the squatters who
have simply dared to refuse to become sia-
very propagandis,s, have been. subject 10
CALLING and impoverishing insults and out
rages-pcrsecuted with perseverance aud
and depth and skill of malice almost ineoa-
ceisable. The strongest language can give
hui lain, idea of the awful accumulation
OF scoundrelism, and OF the misery incident
10 il, resulting in Kansas from the Pro-sia-
very crusade. But the question Is. whs, Is
the condition OF ksnsas nowi II is not 10
be denied this, the Misscurians, vi til their
imposiaticns of psupers fronathe South. have
repeatedly invaded kansss, burned houses,
stolen horses, and murdered inoffensise men,
and destroyed property that they could not
appropriate. Has any one ever hesrd that
single one OF these gangs OF bloody thieves
and incendiaries has been punishsd by au-
ihoriiy Certainly not. They have been fight
ing in behalf of "law and ORDER" they have
been called out a. Kansas Militia, (though
niue-len.hs OF them reside 10 Missouri
mustered into the service of the United
States, and have officially abated such NUS
snces as hotels and printing Offices. Dozens
of Free State men have been murdered, and
some Of them scalPed; and this was done in
he name of law and order and not the most
cowardly and notorious murderers in the
Territory have felt the slightest restraint,
bot have walked about among the officers Of
justice" smiled upon by all the 1high-toned'
folks, rs good fellows and worthy helpers
in great cause. In the ST. Louis Repub-
liean of Thursday we find editOrially,
the following paragraph under the head
of KANSAS NEws:-"The U. s. Court in ses.
sion at Leeompton has adjourned. Over 500
indictments were found by the Grand Jury
and about 100 persons had been arrested
Some were tried for murder and acquitted,
and were again arrested on other charges.
Itoentg-tpo rsre conrictsd--t0enty for -Eps
years, one for str years, and one for tOo
years"
Now mark ii well; every one OF these
persons convicted is Free State man, and
not one has been guilty Of any crime great
er than that of taking down his rife to de-
fend the honor of his wife and daughters,
mother and sisters, the fruits OF his labor in
The fields he had cultivated, the liberties
that his ancestors enjoyed and that he
learned 10 love-to defend his home and his
life against the hordes OF worse than barba-
rams who have roamed through the Terrific
~ to rob, rayish, murder and destroy. Ia.
dicted BY graadjuV oil their malicious and
deadly enemies. guarded In den called a
prisou. which was filthy and pestinential to
q frightful degree. by posse of the very
numbering devils who had been their tor
mentors during all the days OF trouble, tried
before Judge Lecompt) who is the JEFF
fries OF lhe American Bench. dirty drum
ken. brbed and periured, muddy headed and
laaligaan, little man, the tool of Drunken
Davy A;csi.on and his crowd OF eonspira.
tors-tried, by a jury Of blackguards raked
| from the wiliskey shops, who call every one
/ IL favor o. Fee States an Abolitionist. aud
have higher iaw" by which they con-
dsipn silAbolttiohists, on sight, TO ignomin-
itais death, 81 torture aud insult worse
! hGh deslh--they are convicted aud senten.
ed 10 The penitentisry, twenty oil them for
tive yesr-, 10 wear those chsins six lesi long,
eith ponterous balls sttaehed, or 10 be
chsiued together Ike Wild beasts according
'1 the prescription ia The Kansas code
/ They are 10 wear those seritsbie chains.
bout the '.clsnking' vi which the Buchan-
% orators affected 10 laugh as such ride.
! Ilons joke. Think Of il! What a joke il
=, that ~ enty citizens OF the United States
America guilty OF loving liberty and
ar play, and fighting for il as they we're
tnugbt TO honor their fathers for doing
doomed to lie loaded down with chains, and
made to Toll under negro slave oyerseers in
balding State House--a monument to OPP
preston on soil sOlemnly dedicated to free
institutions-ior five years. Hell itselfcan
hold no mockery more hideous than this.
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FIFTEEk SLAVES MAsunITTEp--Detroit
papers of the 18th, note the arrival in that
city of Mr.. William Sloan, Of KY, having
IN charge IS saves whom he is DESTROYS o.
settling 10 some favorable location in Mich
gan or Canada. They are manumi,ted by
the terms Of The will OF Thomas Z. Cham.
bers, of Spencer county, Ky, 90 miles from
Louisville, who besides giving them their
freedom, bestowed upon them 81 900 to pro
vide for their settlement n the North. o.
this sum 500 has been paid 10 purchase the
agsd father OF the family who was owned
ay another man, and whom they were anx.
igus 10 bring with them. One Of the party
is still in Kentucky endesvoring to procure
The freedom Of bis wife and two children.
OF The President has appointed T. S
Cunningham associate Judge Of Kansas
the man who had jus, BEEN defeated BY an
overwhelming majority, in Pennsyl Iva MIA. as
d candidate for Congress, and who has been
q bitter oPposer OF the rights of Kansas do
al L. A e.