Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-26
Kansas Afsirs-The Great Land Sale

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The letters we publish to day from the
ST. Louis Democrat will be read with in.
terest. 1t will be seen that some twenty
Free State men have been convicted OF
manslaughter by a packed pro-slavery
jury, and sentenced by Jeffries Lecompie
10 ball and chain gang hard labor under
the Missouri Kansas code, for FIVE years
eack. There is an intimation that If
Gov. Geary does not interfere and annul
the unrighleous sentence, The Free State
men will. They long ago resolved on
death rather than submission to the I'M
just laws enacted by the bogus Territorial
Legislature, and they are LOT the men to
finch from the discharge Of any duty in
a just cause,
1t will be seen, too, that Gov. Geary
is getting his eyes opened to the out
rageous conduct of the pro slavery Gov
eminent officials around him, and evinces
a determine ion to administer impartial
Justice at all hazards. He has raised a
hornets nest about his ears, and if he
pursues the course his first brush with
Titus, Donaldson, Lecompte d Co. indi-
Gates, Pierce will cut off his official head
a la-Reeder. This, or assassination by
the Rufians, he evidently anticipates
He talks ~defantly. and those who know
Gov. Geary say that when aroused he is
really fearless, independent, not to be bull
lied or turned from his purpose.
Gov. Geary has suspended Marshal
Donaldson and Judge Lecompte, and
removed the Court to Tecumseh, Judge
Cato to preside. By connivance at Lee
compton, Hayes escaped. but Gov Geary
had Donaldson arrested and put under
guard. We shall see what we shall
see.
A letter to the Cincinnati GazeAs dated
on board the steamer Australia, Jeffer-
son City. Nov. 18th, states that over two
hundred Yankee spectators Gov. Rob-
inson among them passed up on the
keystone on Friday, to attend the great
Kansas land sale at Fort Leavenworth
on the 18th, and the Australia had an
equal number on board bound for the
sale. The writer, bound for the land
sale, says:
The great route to Kansas is crowded
with shrewd, quiet, cautious YANKEES,
who make the trip almost in silence, and
with whom it is next to impossible even
for a Northern man to get beyond the
ordinary common places of conversation
They form a striking contrast with the
clustering Southerner-the Kentuckian,
whose first care is to proclaim his birth.
place and TO hunt up other Kentuckians.
as though they were the only society fit
for white men /; oil the Wanting Nilsson
rian, who collects a little crowd of listen
ers around him, TO whom he boasts Of
his exploits in the Territory, and pro
his purpose of returning there ''to
shoot add Aboli;ionist.n
The Southerners have all the show
and talk. but the Yankees have money,
determination, and prudence, and energy
Of action.
Oh, it is so hard for a Yankee woman
to keep still on this routel She does long
to tell the Border Rufians what she
thinks of them, and she cannot help ex-
pressing herself freely to any Northern
man. l have met with a number Of
families from the East, and though the
man was always prudent, yet the wife
and girls would rattle away, despite Lis
cautions and reprOving g~lances. 1t will
AXE something more than the fear of
death to stop a Yankee woman's tongue.
l was surprised to learn through some
pro-slavery friends at St. Louis that the
pro slavery men are not making great
Efforts to secure land at this sale, but
suppose the Free Skaters are going up in
such numbers and with so much means
hat they will have everything their own
way.-U Cleveland Herald.