Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-13
Review of the kansas Outrages.

We wonder if the editor of the Demo
crat has heard enough of the outrages com
mitted in Kansas, to this week hazard al
, expression of his views as to the determine
ton of the democracy to FORCE slavery
upon Kansas, and CRUSH FREEDOM OUT; o.
will he say as he did in his last issue, thai
he will "defer comments;" then the evi
dence was astounding, and in the days o
our forefathers, it would have called every
freeman to arms. The article below is from
the Cleveland Herald.
We could FIJI our paper with incidents
connected with the Kansas outrageS, going
to show that every assertion as to wrong
doing on the part of the free state men is
false, and that firm determination to force
slavery into Kansas and freedom out, at the
! point of the bayonet. Long before we at
the north dreamed of such a resolution, were
measures in progress in the slave states to
carry it through. This is proved by their
own mouths, as follows:
Thirty of Buforts Georgians have left
him, of whom, some returned to the south,
Others are at work in the territory. The
tale they told, is that the inducement offer
ed them to come TO Kansas, was one hun
dred and sixty acres of land and immediate
possession it. The decent ones came on
expecting to put in crops without delay
AT Westport, the programme changed, box
es of rifles were opened, and each man was
compelled to promise armed service for one
year. Upon this the thirty left. The re-
mainder were part Of the forces which sack
ed Lawrence.
Another fact. Herbert of Georgia,
Major under Buford, was in command of the
camp at Benicia, Kansas; with his men, he
made prisoner of Mr. Shimmon, the owner
of large saw-mill, and eleven of his work
men. Herbert after keeping them under
guard for a while, made a set speech, telling
them that Buford and his men had come on
to make Kansas slave territory, and they
would do it or die in the attempt; that
Shimmon and other free state men, might
attend peaceably to their own business and
might enjoy their opinions on slavery but,
they mast not cypress them, and they must
not vote. Herbert advised them to 90 toI
Nebraska, where the free state men belong
ed, as Kansas was slave soil, and belonged
to the South.
We are told that testamony will be taken
as to these late outrages, and the time will
come when the truth will be laid bare
Enough is known now, to satisfy all honest
men as to the merits of the case. A
pro-slavery grand jury take it into their
hands to punish High Treason, they de:
clared hotel nuisance, because it is built
with free state money; they declared two
presses a nuisance, because one belongs to a
former South Carolinan, Mr.. Miller, who
has become a free state man; and the other
to a Northern man; they declared Blanton's
bridge nuisance, because the owner, free
state man demanded toll of band of these
armed outlaws. The Court issued its writs
for treason, and also command for the
destruction of these nuisances. Now mark
The wickedness of this thing, and the deter
nination throughout, to place the free state
men in the wrong.
First, sheriff Jones claims that Wood
vas rescued, and summoned posse of cit
zens on Sunday; they obey, but insisting
o have the work pointed out; he, in alb
ence of direct denial, considers that con-
luct denial, and brings a dozen United
S+,+o, J.oc.,o,,- ,,,bo 6,ro No t,,,,LIo opJ
meet no resistance, in arresting the preten-
led resistants. The wounding of sheriff Jones
" nobody knows who, was magnifed into
deadly shot, he was secretly watched and
eported as paralyzed and at deaths door,
This stirred up threats of vengeance against
lawrence. Then the Reeder affair, in all
which there was not the least resistance then
he enrolling of an armed posse, making
t out of Missourians, and Georgians, Ala
amians, and South Carolinians, who were r
aiken into the United States, pay. Then I
he precious admission of Shannon to Sum- 7
the latter asked that his dra- >
oons, twelve of whom had done all the !
uty required, might serve as a posse-that
e, Shannon, could not dictate to his infe- y
ior officers. Then the applications of the i
of safety, begging of Shannon to j
e protected, yielding implicit obedience on
Il occasions to his authority and that of +
ne Court; his promise to protect; his viola h
on of his promise; his murderous reply, i
Let Uar come, By God;," the cruel slaugh- q
II of young Jones and Stewart; the de-
land of that miserable Shannon that the
tizens of Lawrence should permit the de- V
ruction of the presses, as nothing less o
ould satisfy the South CaroliRians; the
ray of the armed posse in force around t.
awrence; the arrest by the Marshal and R
ght men, on the day of the sacking of ii
,ur citizens of Lawrence without opposi- 81
on the miraculous re-appearance of Jones Il
le sheriff; his demand for arms and the
ouring into the city of the rufians, with
1t waiting for an answer to the demand of =,
le sheriff; the bombarding; the burning; : :
le plundering; the flight of women and L
lildren from their despoiled homes; the Il
tting of Kansas on fire in six places; all
Il a tale of desperation and outrage which
Is but one side. In all this the free state y
en- are blameless, and in all this they have 1
Trained from resistance, rather than fall b,
lder the imputation of resisting the au- Il
lority of the Federal Government. ~ ~
Well does the pro-slavery commissioner, Il
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