Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-06-25

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Kansas Roorback.
Under this title the Democrat of last
week chases down a rumor that Mr.. WAR
E A. LATIN, of this county had been
killed by the Rufians in Kansas. Our
neighbOr says it is not so, and thereupon
discovers a terrible conspiracy on the
part of the BLACK Republicans to cir
culate lying Iumors TO create excitement
about Kansas.
As to the LATIN story, it was never
credited, never published, and was only
a vague rumor, and circulated quite as
much by Democrats as by Republicans.
The zeal with which the Democrat at
tempts TO explode it, shows how exceed
ingIy glad u opponents ale to find the
least flaw in any report of outrages in
Kansas, and it is the strongest possible
proof that they dare not question the pub
Hshed accounts of the sacking of cities
and the murder Of free citizens.
Week after week has passed since
Lawrence was sacked and partly burned,
yet, saving some three lines of telegraph
ic report, the Democrat has not contained
n word upon the subject. Next the
town Of Osawattamie was pillaged and lis
printing presses destroyed, but the read
ers of tie Democrat have never learned
Of it except from some other source
Even the Plaindeal~r has come out and
declared that the free settlers were &C.
ting on the defensive against an outrage
Gus invasion, and unless orders of gov
eminent for the Interference Of the U.
S. troops were given a universal civil
war was inevitable, for the northern
states could not and would not stand it.
Still the Democrat is silent as the grave.
But an error is found in a mere floating
rumor, and the lynx eyed editor seizcs
upon it. and quickly matches out of it this
astounding fact concerning the existence
of Black Republican associations for the
propagation of lies.
Has the Democrat yet to learn that
there is a ~coneealment of the truth which
amounts TO practical lying? That paper
has not only concealed the truth with re
gard TO Kansas. it has concealed from its
readers the fact that in the person of
Senator Sumner, free speech was stricken
down in the hall of The Senate. Weeks
and almost months have passed since
that most alarming display of Bord,r
R~ufianism, and the Democrat has not yet
contained a single word with regard to it.
1t has neither mentioned tile facts, denied
Il, nor commended upon II. And this is
a Democratic Newspaper, enlightening
the Intelligent Democracy of Trumbull
with al tie eurrent neUS of Importance
and political interest!
No wonder that intelligent Democrats
are regulating it in disgust. No won
der that its diminished size gives ample
proof of the truth contained in the Re.
publican resolutions Of a year since, that
Thrift shall no longer follow such base
and dishonest fawning upon their masters
at the south"
Even in the story which has led us
into this comment, the Democrat dared
not be honest, and tell its readers that
Latin was safe because he had found a
partnership with a slave holder, and de-
clared himself neutroL in the politics Of
the Territory. The same messenger
who brought one part of the newsbrought
the whole, and that messenger is one of
the best known Democrats in Trumbull.
The ChOle truth corrOGorates the fact
which every body but the w%ilfully blind
admits, that the free Americans can only
speak for the freedom of their adopted
Territory at the risk of their lives, while
those who follow a timid time-serving
policy and conceal their sentiments may
live in inglorious safety. The haJ truth
was intended TO convey the whole false
hood that there is no Rufian rule in
Kansas.
Who then propagates lies? The Re-
publicans or such %servile prints as the
Democrat?