The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-08-28
Per the Advertiser.
Letter from Kansas.

Letter from Kansas. IA
Nm. DAN1KIs--Derr Sir: A letter has 4
been placed il my hands written b. 4 esr-
tain Goodtia Taylor, nov Of this Terri
sesy, and poblhhsS b the Cedar. D.
crdt.
Mr.. Taylor, conscious that his "politi.
cal course is well understood in Tipton,'
and having lived 40 years in Pioneer
Grove" proceeds 20 unburthen himself
relative 10 our Kansas 4stfairs. His &C. |
ness for this work is apparent. He afirms,
I" This whole trouble WIS hatched in
Greeley's office, believe" Montgomc-
~ has At his command perhaps not less
than fifteen hundred armed men," (Six
men in buckram.) @From the best in
formation l can get he has several thou
sand men on the Usage river" Twelve
men in buckram.) "All this is done un-
der and by order Of Lane, who is am
informed acting under the advice Of a
central free State or Republican commit.
tee
respond: Lane demanded Of Mont
gomcry that he should give up his COM
mission Montgomery replied that he
was acting as guerrilla leader, and not
under any commission. This 1T. Scott
war was as purely local matter as was
the Cedar County Vigilance Committee.
"Bear in mind" says Mr. Taylor,
skansas is on the eve of two elections
after the elections peace will reign in
Kansas. I Peace was made not one month
after Mr.. Taylor wrote his letter He
knows nothing about the real state of
affairs in Kansas. He is evidently "A very
credulous partisan, aud blockhead at
that. Tie election is now just past, aud
Lccompton is so dead it cannot kick. To
get up war to kill Lecompton, would
have been like pouring water on drown
ed mouse, t
| Mr.. Taylor next proceeds to vindicate
the spotless aud immaculate purity of
s'ths great democratic party" His logic
| is, the pot should not call the kettle
black. "All the wrongs and evils com
mitted in Kansas two years ago was
charged to the great democratic party
Now Kansas has Free State Legislature
Lane and Montgomery in the feld--mer
are killod--horses stolen-houses broker
opeu---women insulted' Yes, though
the Free State men have the Legislature
yet they have not the control of tho ju
dietary. That yet belongs to the Dem
ooratic President, Buchanan. Lecomp
ton and Cato are judges, and not out
criminal has been capitally punished il
Kansas from the first day until now -
Lecompte was able to foil even Gov
Geary himself when he undertook t.
bring Hayes to justice for the murder o
Buffum.
1t is rather singular that the only muir
ders detailed BY Mr.. Taylor are thos
: committed by a "good democrat, Ham
J bleton," and his forty other brother dem
: oeratic Missourians. But we are told tina
Hambleton was ordered to leave his claim
G TAYLOR comes in at the eleventh hour
: lie had been, at the time OF writing hi
letter, about elk weeks in Kansas. Ii
i knows Just about as much of the pas
i of Kansas as bigoted Papist knows {
the history of the Protestant religion
!, With him one single word describes a
o We have written. They are Greeley
n lies Yet the distorted and perserte
representations of such a man are pul
n lished to the people Of Cedar county
!: reliable information. This business
r driving men out Of the country, and 0
!" dering them to leave, has been going {
et for years past. Four years ago the ''got
/ democrats" Of Salt Creek valley resolve
II that no Free State man should live
~ Kansas. Three years ago, and before Il
= Free State men had lifted finger In Il
.. Territory, the s'goed democrats OF Ate
H. ison county resolved to drive every Fr
., State man of the county; aud final
fsthat the foot Of not a single abolitionl
should pollute tho fair carpet of ka
sas.' Pursuant to this resolution, La
renee wa. twice invaded, and finally sac
rs cd, Ossawatamic was burned, the Fr
az State men Of Leayenworth city were d
ca ven down the river, aud Dew, Brown al
ny Barber were murdered. For tpo yea
u all the naoLLea and murdered men zoe
10 Free State men, and their murder.
on uere such "gooa democrats asMa Ht
n ilton, rho shot doun, Nth has con.pan
Us ten Free STATE men, and killed fre
Sc them All that saved Tay'or's life v
'st that he was able to vindicate hims
!. from the charge of being black Rspt
se lican. Taylor, according to his o
showing, was more il danger from Ego
NJ democrat" than Republicans. ! Y
ordered to leave Kansas, and that
in, should remain only at the peril of
nt- life. But / did not therefore raise
:. company Of men and murder those v
a had mobbed me.