The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-04-16
Gov. acary,. Reyelations

More than once, IN looking over the let
tiers of our Kansas correspondents, as they
came to US during the periods Of excitement
in that Territory, We have, before putting
them into the printers hands, drawn a pen
across their more horrible parts, not because
we had not implicit faith in the truthfulness
of those whom we had in our employ, but he.
cause we dared not challenge the credulty Of
the public BY statements which looked more
like the inventions of a fend than narratives
OF fact. All the while, we had our own con-
victions that the truth would be known to
the country ia due time, when the excitement
was Gained down and the public conscience
in q condition to receive it. That time is
not far of. We are told by Democrat of
unquestioned faithfulness to his party, him
self a Governor, that in a late conversation
with Gov. GEARY, he learned that that gen
tleman is preparing from his Diary, faith
fully kept during his administration, a sum
mary of events in Kansas, as they came I'M
der his own personal or official observation.
We are told by the same authority, that in
that book, when it is given TO the country,
the allegations Of the Republican journals in
relation to the fendish atrocities practiced
upon The Free State men by their Border Ruff.
fan invaders, will be not only confirmed but
fully proved. Il tciH be stated, that du-
ring trip on a much .frequented road, soon
after has arrtralin the Territory, the or-
ernor sar the bodies Of tioeniy-sir murdered
Free State men. Some Of these had been
shot or Drained, and thrown out by the road
side 10 rot under burning sun. Others had
been scalped as Indians scalp their victims.
One was pinloned to a tree by bowie-knfe
driven through his heart into the solid wood
at his back; on his breast was fastened a
written warning to all other "Abolitionists.n
Some were buried Just beneath the prairie
sod, their hands and arms left sticking out
OF the shallow holes into which they had been
thrown. Upon others the nameless mutia-
tons OF private parts, which characterize the
ferooious JOY of the Indian, in the moment of
victory, had been committed. In all cases,
brutality seemed to have exhausted itself in
insulting what, among all civilized men,
whether friend or foe, are looked upon with
respect-the bodies OF the dead.
Had these things appeared In the letters
detailing events in Kansas between MAY and
November last, the journal publishing them
would have been suspected Of exaggerntion,
even by its own political friends yet more
than one Of the atrocities which the Govern
or will describe, was written ont By faithful
correspondents for our columns, but We re-
fused publication for the reasons alleged
above.
What efforts may be made to suppress rev.
Citations like these, which will not only con-
Wet the Mlssourians and their allies Of all
that has been charged upon them, but the
entire Border Rushan press of the North of
/ completely in, or criminal silence in regard
to, these atrocities, We cannot tell. But If
the Governors present determination is ad-
hered -, his will be the sensation book Of
the season. We await its appearance, know
ing that its testimony cannot be questioned,
and that II will be justification Of Repub-
llcanism and deserved and overwhelming
rebuke Of it's opponents. -I Chicago Tribune.