The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-11-10

drsn Under their arns. The sick crawl q
best they can into ths woods--ths murderer
Powers Was one Of them.sA
They then visit my clair half mile from
town, rob and mn q osseS nlis1
r isno- forte va J 100. they y bars
= ofkce, cut open iro4eafs tfdeh
|ey and papers. - e. % " horse,
wagon and harness, after burning my three
outhouses. They kidnap my oldest son, and
bear him OF to Missoasi, where they for ma
ny weeks detain him. 80 ass
Terror stricken, Nhp people As from ~
country. Cut on FROM supplies---by the
Bordercrs sworn 70 accomplish ous dsatruc-
sioa+ -we have been compelled 70 get out Of
the TERRITORY, where no protection Of life or
property j. enjoyed, to the profession Of the
0>o We are robbed OF our all, And
-; ~ are hunted ~ the roe upon the
mountains.
We are to-day thrown upon tho cold char
ity Of the world, ruined. Ours 10 far from
Of hundreds who have been similarly out
ragged. Over $50 families have had to Zee
from the Osawattamie section impoverished,
robbed, houses burned, and utterly ruiped.a
To you, your Excsllsncy, Hook tor redress.
I have the best reason 10 believe that our
town was destroyed under your authority
Gen. Reid came into the Territory, a. Am
compelled TO believe, under the eau q Sec
rotary Woodson, a. kansAs militia. II not,
Why is the burning OF town, the murder of
quiet and unonending citizens, the imprison-
| mcns Of its mail contradictory the detention
Of the mail over two weeks, and finally the
robbery OF the ONCE Of over 400 letters, mon
eys, &C., and the destruction OF the once, L.
nored by you2
/ Again, Gov. Genry, in his letter to Score
tary Marcy, dated Lscompton, Oct. 10 (inst.) }.
says: ssfor upward Of two weeks NO out
4 ssrage has been automatically reported."--
Allow me, however, to inform your Excel
lency that during the two weeks mentioned
by Gov. Geary an outrage was committed 81
Osawattamie, in the burning Of twelv,
buildings that remained Of that dictated
town, including the steam mill, a store jus
opened, and the Post Office. Allow me Il
inform your Excellency that have satisfac
tory evidence TO cause me to believe tina
Gov. Geary was informed Of the fact, an,
|, protection was asked for the suffering peopl
, then. but refused, as il had ever been befor
, the writer left Kansas-Sept. Both ult
Thu. the Governor ignores the wrongs don
! to Free State settlers in Kansas.
But lest weary your Excellency with m
complainings, l viii close by asking If Their
is to be no protection for the FREQ State set
: tiers of KAnsas2 Will your Excellency stil
!. see as threatened, robbed, driven out, {
murdered, and lend no listening ear-s for
no protection? Has liberty become crime
that her some must be hunted, prosecuted
burned, and murdered, in this fair land 9
boasted freedom and equality, and that un
der the cognizance Of Government? ! al
not politician. The outrages, suffered b
E, myself, my neighbours, and friends, force N
10 thus to resort to him who is sworn to sui
port the Constitution OF these United State
Referring your Excelieney for evidence {
my credibility and moral standing to the Hol
j. a. Spencer, the Hon. y. B. Mattesol
Willard Crafts, esq. OF utica; c. p. kirl
" land esq.,, and A. j. Blocker, esq., OF Ne
York City; the Hon. +. ID. Culver Of Brool
lyn; the Hon. John Wentworth and JUDY
- Wilson of Chicago; and VIM. Spencer,
s. Surveyor, Newark, Ohio; beg leave
subscribe myself your Excellency's ye
obedient servant q. G. BROWN.
OF Osawnttamie, Kansas Territory.
Utica, New York, Oct. 90, 1856.