Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-23
From Kansas Territory.
Paris, Linn Co, 4. '. ]
 February 21st, 1859. {


 crat published in St Louis, the 1lth inst. l notice foul, calumniating batch of lies and falsehoods, calculated to do high credit to the interruptions and lying editor, and hls numerous correspondents of the same stripe, in his editorship of the foulest aboli- tion sheet known, and the boldest defender of theives, murderers, robbers and high way-men ever published in this country or any other, Greeley not excepted, in regard to me and my actions as Marshal in south ern Kansas, which is so utterly false and bears the impress of falsehood so deeply stamped in every line and sentence, that I do not think it necessary to take up and dispute and disprove all the lies it contains separately, but by one general sweep de- nounce the whole thing to be as black and false as the editor, the paper, and its whole host of Meiging, abolition correspondents, which to my mind paints 1t in darker col ors than 1 could otherwise express. After disposing of that infamous bundle of lies in wholesale manner, I will now give you true and impartial account of my whole course and actions as Deputy U. $. Marshal i'll Kansas, for the truth and vera city of which respectfully refer you to District Judge Williams, and District At toney Mason Williams, Gov E. Ran som, and Deputy Nlarshals Campbell, J ones and Mcdonald, all of Fort Scott, Bourbon county, K. T. Also Deputy Marshals Nit chell and Babb, of Linn county, and to the Hon. members and council-men from both those counties, to the legislature that has just adjourned, all of whom are un- compromising and reliable free-state men, from the Hon. District Judge down through the whole list of references.
 was appointed Deputy U. s. Marshal for southern Kansas in June last It was my sole desire to do equal and undivided justice to all persons of all parties totally regardless of former political difficulties or political proclivities, upon which platfom of justice l endeavored to act faithfully up to the present time In December last I determined to resign my office and return home to my family and friends, and bid adieu to Kansas with all it's troubles and strife. But on reaching Fort Scott (as I had been absent for a while, few days after the most inhuman and brutal murder of one of her best citizens, Mr. John Lit tie, late Deputy U. S. Marshal, and the robbing of Dr. Little of about $6000 in goods, besides other robberies and outrages committed in the place, 1 was earnestly en- treated and pressed by the U. $. District Judge, Hon. Joseph Williams and District Attorney Mason Williams and my friends generally, not to resign and leave them at an hour of such imminent danger and peril il both of life and property. Being as I was, and ever had been, so desirous to do what could to assist in quelling the dis turbances and arresting and bringing to
 
 justice Montgomery, Brown, Bane, and Snyder, and their lawless band of free booters, murderers and robbers, 1 consent ed to serve them while longer, for which l am now being recompensed with evil for good instead of good for evil, by having phials ot wrath and fiery indignation pour ed out upon me hot from the lower regions in the shape of such foul slang as the arti- cle above alluded to through all the aboli- tion or robber jurnals both in the territory and states, manufactured by these h-ll hounds and their sympathizing correspon dents and newspaper editors of the same elk to suit their h--hsh purposes and de- signs, for instance, the editors of the Osa- watamie Herald and the Lawrence Repub- lican, who boast loudly over the grand ex- plaits and success of their robber chiefs, Montgomery, Brown, Snyder and Co.,, and cheer and laud them to the skies for their share of the spells. Now this is no fancy sketch or biased notion but stubborn truth, point fully conceded by all honest, conservative free-state men and journals throughout the territory and elsewhere, that these banditti are urged on by these foul sheets under political cloak, without any more right to political name, charac- ter or standing among civilized people than-l had like to have said Camanche Indians, but that would be no comparison, because the Indians are ignorant and un- educated, whilst they are educated and might be { l will not say are, blessed with all the light of civilization bestowed upon the face of Gods green earth, yet seeing and knowing the right, they of choice, steal, rob, murder, and commit all the dark and damnable deeds known in the catalogue of crimes, and then say they have done right-done their duty to them selves, their God, and their country; poor, miserable devils, if they have, their coun- try IS not my country, nor their God my God, l want no connection with them here or hereafter
 But to return to my promise, as have allowed myself inadvertently to be drifted off from what I commenced stating while ago in regard to what had done in this country. After consenting to remain I set about organizing the citizens of Fort Scott and vicinity until the return of De- putty Marshal Campbell, who had gone to Lecompton to see the Governor. I then left there, (and he completed the organiza tion,) for this point, but as I could not come straight through, owing to the most infected district of country being on the route and around Paris, had to go around through Missouri to West Point, opposite Paris and Is miles distant, there I hired a young man to go through to Paris and car " dispatch from me to Mr. B. B. Mitch ell, the sheriff of Linn county, K. T.,