New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-27
THE CRUELTY AND BRUTALITY OF KANSAS
BARBARIANS.
IrTTrR FROM THE REV. MR.. MUTE.

LETTER FROM THE REV. NIX. MUTE.
The following litter from the Rev. Mr. Mute has been
recey ed BY the Rev Dr. Miles, Secretary OF the Ameri
can Unitarian Association:
LAwRtscE, KANSAS, Thursday, Sept. II 1876
REV. DR.. MLrs-Dcar Friepd | am We, alive to
the disappointment Of friends and foes and once more
out of the hands Of the latter. But have had hard
time Of it. Two weeks Of harassing captivity, with
wearing exposures, have nearly broken me down in
health. A few days will. hope act me up again,
when will hy TO give full account Of that fortnight
experience, and make public some Of The fac which
have learned thereby Of the plans and doin # the
enemies 10 Freedom and TO God.
An account of our capture and treatment for the first
twenty four hours, has probably been given you by
those of the party who were bound East and who We're
permitted to 90 down the river.
After that time we endured brutality that will hardly
seem credible ia those who lived among civilized
people think it will be difficult to find parallel to
hs Gaze in all the annals of civil war taking all the
circumstances into nccourt-the brutal murder Of our
brotEer-thc hcartess conduct toward the distressed
widOw-the cool, open murder of the young man who
attend,d us-tbe mockery of procialming US free TO
90 10 our friends, ard the insulting and violent re-
anes on the levee. planned 20 as to leave the widow
without any prOteeti0n-Our confinement IN close.
crowded filthy dungeon after the tenth day of our inn
prsorIncnt when too i'll TO stand up with other
cIue deceits and blOodthrsty threats that three
occasions had every reason to suppose that my last
hour had come. But have no heart or strength to
fnsL the sentence now nor to give you anything more
than hint Of what passed through since last wrote
you 1t will be painful for To go back t. the be-
ginning and give the history OF this affair and
mere personal consideration that me 10 un.
dertakc il.
And what is il all TO the whole sum Of outrage and
barbarty that has been inflicted my distressed peo
pie and all this Territory during the past mouth
Let talk of the exaggeraton of these outTage-
anv longer. No Over-estlmate the distress
which has followed them. There il much OF it that
can never be made publc-the butcheries of men of
which there were Witnesses but God and the cow
ardy perpttra;ors-the sleepess terror of defenseless
women aud children whose neighbors have been mur.
dered or driven from burning homes and those vet
ore unhappy whose husbands and fathers have
gone out to be heard from more, or the dings of
whose savage butchery has come back to them.
II is estimated that sixty families have been
TUNED out of home. Many of these have had their oil
destroyed or plundered. OF the number killed we have
as YET no definite estimate. Six persons with whom
was peIst nally acquanted-and three of them intimate
and dear friends-haye been butchered.
But we have again conquered, though at a terrible
cost IL il seal the final victory Of cause, il will
he an annie satisfaction To who have suf-red only
in our own persons and in the spelling OF our goods
anil the beet consolation to bose who have lost their
friends in the contest.
VIII it not be a crying shame to the confessors to
Freedom and Right in the State if ths work OF blood
and rapne is not stopped and that speedily
Yours. in good hope, D. MUTE, Jr
PS-Vnless aid IL sent ont, there must DO much
distress here during the coming Winter
VAIN clothing, blankets and either bedding VIII be
needed by many from whom everything of the kind
has been pundered.