Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-10-31
GEARY A GREATER TYRANT THAN
HIS PREDECESSORS.
Gov. .Shanon's Barbarities Excelled.
A MORE THAN NERO!

nals Of the history Of America, not even
excepting the atrocities of the savages Of
the early days of our country, when led on
and instigated to acts of cruelty by the
basest of her own traitor sons, more revolt
ing to the thoughts and souls of every free
man, than the conduct of the present ad-
ninistration, and every one of its officials,
IL the treatment which has been meeted out
to the free and peaceable settlers and emf
grants to Kansas, we would like to have it
pointed out.
The sentence pronounced by Douglas.
and aoquiesced in by the President, and ev-
cry one of his mouth-pieces down, down to
his most fawning servant in this community,
awe WILL SUBDUE YOUR is being
executed to the letter. Every hireling of
this corrupt and wicked administration, is
doing what he can to CRUSH OUT FREE
DOM from the very thoughts of the settlers
ia that Territory. And, strange, there are
men in thir community who contend that
the administration is doing all in its power
to establish peace and freedom there Men
who even declare that there has been no
trouble iN Kansas, except what has been
made by the free state emigrants. How
absurd are such assertions How false on
their very facel No man, except he who
is determined to close his eyes and ears to
the knowledge of intelligence which daily
arrives from the scene of these unparalleled
cruelties and outrages, but what feels in his
own soul that the half of these enormities
are unrecorded.
When Gov. Reeder, would try and have
senablaaes of justice extended to the detu-
al settlers there-let them form their own
laws,-the blood thirsty hordes from Mis-
souri, with reyolvers and bowie-knives, mad
dened to desperation with whisky, and a
desire for plunder, overan the country,
drove the people from the ballot-box, elected
their own drunken leaders to be the law
makers and executors of those laws. They
then demaded of President Pierce that
Reeder should be removed, or KANSAS
WOULD BE LOST TO SLAVERY!
How quickly this demand of the South
was acquiesced in Reeder ,Oas removed
Every moment he remained in the territory
his life was in peril.
Wilson Shannon, the basest of Ohio's
traitors, was his successor. Under his bac-
chanalian rule, free state men were subjected
to moro degrading, ignOminious and inhu-
man laws, Shannon himself assists in per
son, to enforce them, and by his conduct, puts
to shame the vilest of rufians. 1t was
thought no man could be found in the
Union who would do the task set for him,
more to the satisfaction of the South, or
with more alacrity than Wilson Shannon.
But at last, one was found Shannon could
not be base enough. Pennsylvania, the on
" State in which second Jefreys-Judge
Kane-could be found, sends forth John w.
Geary, and he is now arresting the free
state men, women and children, who are
coming in there as pcaceable settlers, by
hundreds, and placing them in confinement
On the charge of murder Gov. Geary is
giving unmistakenable evidence that he will
follow the instructions given by the great
prototype of slavOcracy, Stephen Arnold 7
Douglas, awe WILL SUBDUE YOUR ]
Read the following letter which we cut from
he N. Y. Tribune: L
Postdam, St Lawrence Co., NY.
I have recently received the following let L
er from brother in Kansas. Previous to e
he incidents mentioned in the letter, the z
writer was quiet farmer, and had not med r
He'd with political quarels of the Territory a
It is the intention of Gov Geary to MUIR
Ter one hundred men by hard treatment, 70
md for no other crime but that of self-de- t
ence, when there agas no other defeRce- o
rhe people ought to know it. c
SAML. MARSH. o
Lecompton, Sept. 26, 1856.
DEAR DocToR: l have been close pris-
ner since a week ago last Monday morn (
ng. 1 have no opportunity-aud even if :.
had, am not abie-to write the incidents :
f my life during the last five weeks.
/ have been driven from home by the ruff
ans, and two or three times have tried to I
.et back; but each time have been inter
epted, FIRED AT, chased for miles; and n,y
scdpe ,Oitb life has been l0holly o,CiRg to :
he speed of my horse. A week ago last =
night, with some one hundred and !
wenty Others, started for our region of
ountry, hoping to be able to reach home :
nd get a clean suit of clothes. On Sun !.
ay we fell on party of armed men at !
Hickory Point, and battle ensued, which
asted some six or seven hours. We had )
100 men mortaUy OoHded, and number
f others severely. The opposite party had
nc killed, and number wounded.
During the night, the camp was surroun-
led by United States troops, and all taken
and marched to Lecompton.-
Here we lay some nine days, on the open =
,rairie. guarded by the troops, Without