Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-07-09
Open Confession.

II is well known to the readers OF the
Tfun6uH Democrat, that during the pro.
gress Of the long series of exciting and
alarming outrages perpetrated upon
Epeaceable citizens in Kansas, the columns
OF that paper, protesting to give its
readers the current news of the day,
g might have been searched in vain for a
single word respecting them. On the
% contrary, when il has alluded 10 Kansas
lat all, it has been almost invariably TO
reiterate IFS stereotyped %falsehood, that
- all was quiet in Kansas; and that The
stories published respecting the outrages
81 committed upon emigrants from the free
q States, By men scting under the leader
ship of a Democratic Speaker of the
Senate, supported by a Democratic
President, and Administration, and en-
Lsdorsed BY the whole Democratic party,
q we're nothing but stories gotten up for
o. bankum. and newspaper lies. We have
repeatedly charged this fact upon them,
e. and ourreaders have not been backward
in pointing it out to the readers of the
Democrat That paper, at last, has made
1.-The discovery thai it can not presume
Longer upon the ignorance of its readers,
9 snd:thst they are perfectly aware of the
nihsult which has been offered to their
intelligence. lis last issue has the fol-
flowing = i-at
81 10 1.-THE latest and most reliable intelli.
ssgenee indicates hat the United States
troops. under Col. Sumner are Kidding
Kansas of hordes of invading rufians
and demagogues. A letter to the St.
Louis RepV6lican, dated Westport, 18th
iiuit., says that Sumner has putthe Cali
-rfornia and Sante Fe roads and the prin-
eipal thoroughfares leading into Kansas,
under blockade, and has driven out Maj.
Buford, Gen. Jones and Col. Shelby, all
of Them heading emigrant parties"
A So 9the Democrat admits. at last. that
there really are hordes of invading ruff
fans in Kansas. and led on by Maj.
Buford, DC. Astonis hing. truly. That
paper does not yet inform its readers
who the invading rufians are-who Maj.
Bnford, Gen. Jones, and Col. Shelby
are. Perhaps it will, in time. We can
hardly expect it will openly admit it has
heretofore stulti6ed itself. and acknowl-
edge at once that is has deliberately
suppressed the truth, and published
arrant falsehoods. Again it says:
a small force Of Summers troops met
eighty armed Missourians on the 18th
ult., and commanded them to disperse.
The MiSsoarians refused and fired a
yolley al The troops, who charged, put
them TO flight and drove them away
Tile Missourians threw away all their
arms and accoutrements in the rapidIty
of their retreat.
% The Democrat has always charged all
the disturbances upon the Free State
men, and in this same article denounces
Gen. Lane severely but here it gives
the facts, for once, that it is the Missouri
border r%ufians who have fred a volley
into the United States troops, openly re-
sisted the authority of the United States.
and trampled upon it. But still. not one
word does it say of Free State men be-
ing murdered ; Free State women vio-
lated ; of houses burned of robbery,
raPine, oppression /; the Imprisonment of
Free Sta'e men. keeping them in irons
for weeks, for DO crime whatever ; and
all these crimes committed by these
same pro Siapery DenocralicA SsouTidns.
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