The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-10-30
More Testimony.

The recent decisive triumph OF the people
Of Kansas, over their oppressors, furnishes
no reason for forgetting the wrongs they
have suffered, nor for Withholding from the
stern Judgment Of history the Northern trai.
tors and Southern rufians who are the au-
thors Of these wrongs. They should. as they
will, "bs damned to everlasting fame
Rev. J. 5. Roy, minister Of Plymouth church
Chicago, has just returned from visit to
Kansas, and furnishes the following state
ment to the Chicago Tribune:
"But you ask me about the suferings Of
Kansas. Were they e,aggerations! Were
they abolition liesf l have taken great pains
upcu this point, and am Constrained " say
scarcely halt has been told. In the distant
settlements along the Neusho, the Little D.
noe the Big anu Little Sugar, and the Pot
m 1otouis, with all thelr branches, there
we're incidents enough unpublished " ill
yolume. Every CABIN We entsrvdcould tell
us .ome new tale Ut house rubbing and burn
ing. of s,.a,ling horses and cattle, vi destruc.
Tim of crops, vi personal insult aud injury,
of c,,n.tan, lear and alarm. Many sers
driven out VI the country alter their all WIS
t,l,n from them. Ia tho wake VI The In.
yadinr ruerillas followed the pro-siavery set.
tiers. apprvlria,ing their nelshbor's chick
ems and hogs and cattle Zone inan stole SUI
head, am grain and PROVISIONS. On the
Little Usage, n Mr.. Stone was driven from
nj, claim. wortn Sl5OO, and out OF the
country. and Compelled " take IN Old nurse,
known to be gvod Tor nothing, and that
died in three weeks Tor his standing crops
and stock 10 large amount. The claim
|. "a aid by n ruifan to Rev. SouthwooJ,
M IN, NE. church, iroln Texas. THIS
spriny, the free state men Pot Mr.. Stone back
u,ou his claim, in new house. iiis vile
went TO draw water mt the old well, when
the Rev. rascal, with the grey hairs Ut sevsn-
~ wears upon him. rushed Out and held |
nisiol 10 her head, threatening to blow her
bn,,,s out if she stirred, while his own wife |
beat with club the defsnceless woman, ~
that abe has not yet recovered the use Of her |
right arm. Southern chivalry!
Al have stood upon the aches OF scores |
Of burned homes as have stood upon the
enyes Of the martyrs, Phillips, Roberts,
Dow. Hoyt. Barber and Shombsr, who died
saying, / give myself cheerful sacrifice on
the altar of Kansas freedom" ~ I have
heard the simple unaffected tales Of Outrage
from the lips VI men and women who but
poke what they had known and felt, my
realization Of these facts has only been in.
'snsi6ed, my indignation has buried, and |
have wondered how the freem "a here had the
moral courage TO stand. - III, did, only on
he defensive. and did not, ~ they might
ave done. snnihilate their s,,ags INVADER!
g ID . strange feeling Lave had In passing
'ver thess prsiries, everywhere 70 have the
river or my travelling companion saying,
n this spot Roberts was murdered. and hero
} the pile Of stones at his grAvc; ut this spot ,
mother wss batnhcrcd; here that woman at
he house VI Mr.. Hyatt Was seised, g.sxsd,
iolstsd, kicked and len for dead; bscs shis
Cs,sa "a hprued and that hefs the prQpe 4