Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02
THE TRUTH AT LAST tf
Pill for the Democrats OF Minnesota

Our Democratic friends, who have for the last
two years sneered, with fendish gusto, at
''blseding Kansas have finally a chance to get
at the Truth. The following is from the Chica-
20 Tribune of the l1th, and, although that pa
per does not tell who is the bearer of tho con-
versation with Governor Geary, we learn from
the best authority that the individual is COVER
NOR GoRxAN! Of course the Democrats of the
Territory will not doubt his testimony now let
them hear what he says. The Tribunes article is
40 follows:
GOVERNOR GRARY's REVELATIONS. 80"
ssMore than once, in looking over the letters
of our Kansas correspondents, as they came to
US during the periods Of excitement in that Ter
ritory, we have, before putting them into the
printers hands, drawn pen across their more
horrible parts, and not because we had not i'm
plicit faith in the truthfulness of those whom we
had in our employ, but because we dared not
challenge the credulity of the public by state
ments which look more like the inventions of a
fend than narratives of fact. All the while, we
had our own convictions that the truth would be
known to the country in due time, when the ex-
citement was calmed down and the public con-
science in condition to receive it. That time is
not far of. .., raca ...s .
"We are told by Democrat of unquestioned
faithfulness to his party. himself Governor,
that in late conversation with Gov. Geary, he
learned that that gentleman is preparing from
his Diary, faithfully kept during his admins
tration, a summary of events in Kansas, as they
came under his own personal or official observa-
Wa kNll hu tba hot
in that book, when it is given by the country,
the allegations of the Republican journals in re-
ation to the 6endish atrocities practised upon the
Free State men by their Border Ruffian invaders,
will be not only confirmed but fully proved. 1t
will be stated, that during trip on much fre-
quented road, soon after his arrival in the Terri
tory, the Governor saw the bodies of twenty y-six
murdered Free State men. Some of these had
been shot or Drained, and thrown out by the road
side to rot under burning sun. Others had
been scalped as Indians scalp their victims.
One was pinioned to tree by bowie-knife
driven through his heart into the solid wood at
his back; ON his breast was fastened q written
warning to all other "Abolitionists." Some were
buried just beneath the prairie cod, their hands
and arms left sticking out of the shallow holes
into which they had been thrown. Upon others
tho nameless mutilatons of private parts, which
characterize the ferocious Joy of the Indian, in
the moment of victory, had been committed. In
all cases, brutality seemed to have exhausted it.
self in insulting what, among all civilized men,
whether friend or foe, are looked upon with re-
specific bodies of the dead. N,4 ~
"Had these things appeared in the letters de-
failing events in Kansas between May and No
vember last, the journal publishing them would
have been suspected of exaggeration, even by its
own political friends; yet more than one of the
atrocities which the Governor will describe was
written out by faithful correspondents for our
columns, but we refused publication for the rea-
sons alleged above. ..m
What efforts may be made to suppress revela-
tions like these, which will not only convict the
Mssourians and their allies of all that has been
charged upon them, but the entire Border Ruf6an
press of the North of completely in, or criminal
silence in regard to, these atrocities, we cannot
tell. But if the Governors present determine
tion is adhered to- his will be the sensation book
Of the season. We wait its appearance, knowing
that its testimony cannot be questioned, and that
it will be a justification of Republicanism and
deserved and overwhelming rebuke of its oppo-
nents. .u sst. l.. rfGtt as4