The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-03-26
porters of Mr.. Buchanan in the late can


les have been "eatravagantly magnifed,"
and then charges the people of the North
with direct falsehool-and that these
falsehoods have been "reiterated'' over
and again, and all for political Effect
No wonder the President labors long and
hard in this part of his message to con-
ceai bis oaon guilt in relation to the infa-
nous and damnable wrongs and otitra-
ges that have been committed against the
Free State men OF Kansas within the two
last years. What would he not give to
plot out from the history of his Admins
tration that "5loody page" which will go
down to posterity and burning disgrace
upon the American name-a ..hissing and
by-word" in the mouths of all who hate
our free institutions?
Sir, it is too late for the President to
turn special pleader and undertake to de-
ny the facts by technical shifts. The
President, and not the people, has already
been tried upon the main issue, and pro-
nounced guilty but if it were otherwise
he is "estopped" by his own acts. The
fields of Kansas are still red with the
blood of its citizens, murdered by the
minions Of his Administration under the
color of law. Her buildings have been f.
red and burned to the ground under the
mockery of judicial authority. Her ter
ritory has been invaded by armed mobs;
and the .sGoths and Vandals'' of the
nineteenth century have usurped by
brute force the elective rights of her citi-
zens. Her public rivers, natures great
highways, have been for months blocked
up by robbers and highwaymen, who
have killed, plundered and robbed peace
able and quiet citizens passing down their
waters, hunting them down like dogs in
the streets. Citizens of Kansas, for the
enormous crime of defending their lives,
the lives Of their wives and children, from
rapine and murder, have been seized by
the paid tools of this A administration,
dragged into fetid cells, and even left to
sicken and die amid the pestilential va
pors of their loathsome dungeons. Laws
that would have disgraced the darkest
day of the darkest age that ever had an
existence since the light of civilization
first dawned upon the footstool of the AL
mighty, have been forced upon the people
Of Kansas by this Administration. "Ex
travagantly exagerated?" I call to The
stand Governor Geary, one of the Presi
dents own witnesses, and will let him an
swer this unjust arraignment of the peo
6 pie of the North In a letter to tn
"Pennsylvania Buchanan and Brecken
ridge Club" dated Lecompton, Nov
27, 1856, and published in the flashing
ton Union of Dec. 18th, he says:
"When I accepted my present position
the whole country was convulsed b.
scenes daily enacted in Kansas, and many
good men looked on with apprehension
for the safety of the Union.''
'.The bitterness of feeling upon my adven
here was greater than l had anticipated
or can be imagined by persons net witness
ing it. Both parties had prepared fo
scar, and were actually marching to NEE
each other in fratricidal strife, each re
solved upon the determination of the othe
as the only hope of peace.
81 will not recount the horrors and out
: RACES committed in the past upon this soil
my heart sickens at the contemplation
] Sir the. wrongs done the people Q
: Kansas. instead of having been "exag
gerated," never have been half tod.
The special pleading of the Presiden
7 that he has not been responsible for thes'
wrongs, will not avail him. What or
the facts ? When Gov. Reeder under
took to administer the Government witt
equal fairness to all parties, the Slav
power demanded his removal, and tn
President yielded and removed him, an,
Wilson Shannon was appointed in bi
, place. During the whole time that h
, occupied that position, eipit arar reigne'
! in Kansas, every day threatening to in
voIve the whole nation in the sam
bloody strife.
+ Governor Geary confirms this when b
2 says:
: " Both parties were actually marchin
: to meet each ether in fratricidal strife
each resolved upon the utter extermlna
ton fthe other as the only hope Of peace.
1t was not only "war." but the mos
J horrible of all wars-a war of " utter e3
e termination" With these tragic scene
: passing before him, threatening the yer
e existence of the Union, the President re
tanned Shannon in Office month afte
y month, nor did he remove him until con
r PEELED to save him and his party from i
,: retrievable political ruin.
;, Why were Lecompte and Donaldse
: kept in office until the President was p
,r into an extremity by Gov. Geary, ar
obliged to listen to his wishes in riddil
e the people of Kansas from their bloot
it misruie
l. Sir, these things have not been done
BIT corner. The eagle eyes of the who