Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-07-24
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
TROUBLES IN SOUTHERN KANSAS.

1Ao thCtC "OiO SodtioIN otOi lCS est
Fort Scott, [ propose to give only what
each party admitted against themselves.
WHAT THE PRO-sLAvERY PARTY ADMITS.
The Pro-Slavery men admitted that
bad men who had committed outrages and
crimes in other parts of the Territory had
come there for protection and found it.
As proii1ineht among such men they men
toned Gen. Clark, the murderer of Bar
Der, and nearly all united in speaking Of
him as bad man, Of very violent pas
sions, who hated all Free-State men, con
tinually plotting against them. He was
the brains for marauding parties, which he
dared not 90 out of the town to head.
The town is guarded by United States
soldiers, and Gen. Clark never goes O., Of
the range of their protection. He has not
been out of town for months, and it was
said, would net dare to stay In 1t if the
troops were withdrawn.
The Pro-Slavery men also admitted
that Hamilton, Brockett and Mckay had
made the town their headquarters for
marauding expeditions on Free-State men !;
that they brought in horses and other stolen
property; and that, though the property
was followed and proven by the owners, ii
never could be recovered, but was removed
/ by the connivance anl even assistance of
the citizens.
|, is also admitted by them that Elk
Gov. Ransom of Michigan, who holds the
position under Mr.. Buchanan of Receiver
of the Land-O Office at Fort Scott, gives all
the official countenance lie cail to outrages
committed by Pro-Slavery men. A few
days before we arrived, a prominent ma
rauder declared publicly that there never
would be peace until they had burned eve
nv Free State cabin on the Maras de
Ceignes, and p opposed TO organize party
To do it. Gov. Ransom who was standing
by replied, "Now you are talking sense"
1t is also admitted by some Pro-Slavery
men that Captain Anderson of the q. S.
Army, used the troops to protect and
sometimes even TO cooperate with these
lasless bands. This is also admitted by
several officers of the army now stationed
here.
i WHAT THE FREE-sTATR MEN ADMIT.
Montgomery admits that he hss in his
Iband several men who have sworn to shoot
Gen. Clark, and that they are lying in
wait about For, Scott for that purpose.
saw one of these men; he goes in the
company by the nickname of Pickles. His
real name is Wright. He is machinist
} bv trade, came to Kansas from Richmond,
Ind, and claims to be cousin of Barber.
Montgomery admits that he is carrying on
a guerilla warfare, and makes it selfsub-
: titutng; in other words, that he 'aEes'
what is necessary for the support Of his
band from Pro-Slavery men: that, having
been forced into the field TO protect him
self and his neighbors against the outrages
of Pro-Slavery men, he thinks it enough
to give his time, but makes those who
caused the war, support him and his band
in carrying it on; that it is against the law
for any man in his company to ride a Free
State borse; they are all mounted on
horses stolen from Pfo- Slavery men.
i He adults that he has frightened Pro-
Slavery settlers away by riding around
their houses as though making obscrva-
tons for an attack on them, snd boasts
that he keeps Sire people of Fort Scott in
a constant state of terror, United States SOL
; diers and all.
4 SAM PATcH LEAP.-A drunken sal.
OF, belonging to the schooner Hart, per-
formed feat just outside of Chicago, tie