Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07
SHALL MASSACHUSETTS AID THE FREE
MEN OF KANSAS?
Cor respondence of the'N Y. Tribune.
STATE. lloUsE, BUsToN. Feb. Is

oTATE-n HOUSE, BUST0N. FgD. iS, 1901.
public session Of the Legislative Committee
to whom the question Of State aid for kansa,
was referred, was held in the State House thi,
afternoon.
STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR KANSAS.
MI. S"nborn, Corresponding Secretary Of the
Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee opened the
argument Ill favor OF an appropriations Aher
referring to the constitutional right tp make an
appropriation. Mr.. Snnburn introduced Can't
Brown--glorious Old Brown OF Ossawatamie-il
weldeserved panepyric.
OLD BROWNS SPEECH.
! Capt. Brown, as hc stepped forward. was re-
ceired with applause. lie said he meant 10 sneak
exclusively OF matters with which lie was person.
ally cOgnzant, and therefore the Committee must
excuse him il he should re er more frequently To
himself aud family than he otherwise would do
The Captain then read his remarks, in a clear
hrm, ringing tone.
! WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAW IN MISSOURI.
saw, while in Missouri, in the Fall of 1866
ana also returning after they they had done, as
they said.
he TAKES THE FIELD.
Later in the year !. with four of my sons, we're
called out and travelled mostly ON foot and during
thir'J five niles-wherc We were detained with
some five hundred others, or thereabuu from
h'e to ten days-.Say an average of ten days-at n
cost 10 each OF not less than 81 80 per day, us
wages, to say nothing of tie actual lnss and suf.
ferlrg occasi"ned many Of them, leaving their
families sick. their crops not secured. their houses
unprepared for Winter, and many withnut houses
at all. This was the case with myself and sons
| who could not get houses built after returning
Wages alone would amount t. 81 500. Loss and
suffering cannot lie estimated.
saw at that time the body of the murdered
Bhrber, and was present to see his wife and othe
friends brought i'll to see him with his clothes on-
Just rs he was when killed.
i LOSSES OF THE souAr1rRs.
], with six sons and sonulaw, were calle,
nut, and travelled must of the way on foot to IT.
and save Lawrence, May 20 and II. aud niuch+, 4,
the way in the night. From that date neither
nor my sons, or sun-in-law, could do any wurl
hbont onr homes, but lost our whole time until We
leit IN October. except one .: my sons who had a
lev weeks 10 devote to the care Of his own and
and his brothers family, who were then without IL
home.
From about the Goth of May hundreds of men
like ourselves lost their whole tme and entirely
failed of securing any kind Of crop whatever.
believe 1t safe 10 say thai five hundred Free State
men lost each one hundred and twenty days which
~ 81 Oh per day, would be, tU say nothing of
attendant losses, 100000,
HIS SONS IMPRISONED. AND WHY.
On. or about the 30th May two Of my sons, with
several ot .ers, were imprisoned without other
crime than opposition 10 bogus legislatiun and
most barbarousIy treated for u time-0ne being
held about one month, and the other about four
months, Both bad their families on the ground
Alter this, both of them had their houses burned
and all their goods consumed by the Missourians
In this burning all the eight suffered One had
his oxen stolen in addition. The Captain said he
had ut the hotel and would show the Committee.
# they desired it, the chains which one of his
sons wore after the anxety, Suiferings and cruelty
he experienced had rendered him maniac--yes,
IL maniac.
AT Black Jack. the invading Mssourians wound
ed trree Free State men, one of them his son in
law, and few days at,erward une of his suns was
SO wounded that ne will be cripple for life
FRUITS OF SLAVERY AND soUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.
In August was present and saw the manged
and dishgured bndy ut the murdered lluyt OF
Deerheld Massachusetts,, brought into our camp.
| knew him well.
SAW the ruins uf many Free State mems houses
at difrreut places in the Territory. together with
grain in the stack burning and wasted in other
ways To the amount al least of $4,000.
saw several other Free State men besides those
l have named daring the Summer, who were bad
ly wounded 10y the invaders Of the Territory.
1 know that f,r murh of tie time during the
Summer the travel over PORTIONS oi the Territory
was entirely cut Vt, and that none Lut bodies ul
armed men dared To move at all.
know that for u cunsidorable time the mails on
different routes were entirely stupped: and not.
Hihslahdlhg that there were abundant N ,ps
IN the Territory to escnrt the m ills, | know thai
such escurts were not furnished they ought to
have been.
saw while it was standing, and afterwards
saw the RUNS Ot II most valuable house. the prup-
erty ot II highly civilized, intelligent and exen.
plary Christian lndian-which was burned to the
ground by the rutiiuns because its owner was sus-
pected of flvorlng tho Free State men, lie is
known as Ottawa Jones, or John L Junes.
In September last | visited II beautiful little
Free State town called Stanton, On the north side
Of the Usage Tor Mer.de Avin5es, as it is sOme-
times cnIled) from which every inhabitant had
He'd for fear Of their lives. after having built
u strong block house or wooden fort, Mt a heavy
expense. for their prntection Many Of them had
left their effects liable to be destroyed carried
uf not being able to remove them. This WIS to
me a most gl0umy scene, and like visit to a sep
ulcher of Freedom /?
Deserted houses and corn.felds were 10 be found
in almost every direction south OF the Kansas
River.
saw the burning of Osawatamie by body of
from four TO six hundred ruilnns the Both Of
August, and Of Franklin, alter Gov. Geary had
been some time in the Territory, and could have
prevented it. Il would not have cost the United
States one dollar to have saved Franklin.
PREAMnLEs OF THE NEBRASKA BILL IN OPERATION.
have not yet told all | saw in Kansas. once
saw three mangled bodies-two of which we're
lead and one alive, but with twenty bullet and
buckshot holes in him after the two murdered men
had lain on the ground to be worked at by dies for