Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-02-03

Core espondesee of the Missouri Democrat
From Kansus..The Border
- Tr0uhles
LAwRsscs,sK. T. Jan. Is.
All il quiet on the Kansas side of the
border. No forcs is ccsgregated anywhere.
Montgomery ssserl ST0ssed the Missouri
bordsf ID any of the secent difficulties
Brown, it is understood, has left the border
at the request of Montgomery. The peo-
pie over the line are frightened yet and
needlessly alarmed by those who desire to
get up 4 rumpus.. Many slave o~nefs in
their terror have fled from the border coun-
ties to Texas wirh their slaves. II. is esti-
mated that over one thousand hare Been
carried off in the past two weeks. So the
nulli6ers who are raising civil war alarm
on the border are practicable emancipation
isis. The Governor of the Territory is in
aaiiy communication with yours Governor,
out neitner functionary has yet found out
what IS to be done, or really what is the
matter. Al .--, 81, -..-,..
The Legislature is quietly at work max
ing new code. Lane is lec,uring on the
history of Kansas and Temperance. The
Pike Peak fever is kept up BY constant and
favorable reports. The snow, some one or
two hundred miles west of this, still covers
the earth, but is not deep. Weather mild.
River open. Business easy. KAW.
Ossawotomie Brown writes to the Law
renee Republican stating that he did help
liberate two negroes and the family
of one them, who were abont to be sold
South, and begged him to rescue them.
He then draws the following parallel:
Not one year ago, eleven quiet citizens
of this neighborhood-viz: VIM. Robert
son, VIM. Colpetzer, Amos Hall, Austin
Hall, John Campbell, Asa Snyder, Thos.
Stillwell, VIM. Hairgrove, Asa Hairgrove,
Patrick Ross, and B. L. Reed-were gath
cred up from their work and their homes,
by an armed force undero one Hamilton. and,
without trial or opportunity to speak in
their defense, were formed into line, and
all but one shot-5 killed and 5 wounded
one fell unharmed, pretending to be dead.
All were left for dead. The only crime
charged against them was that Of being
Free State mep. Now / inquire what ac-
tion has ever, since the occurrence in May
last, been taken by either the Presidentso of
the United States, the Governor of Missou-
ri, the Governor of Kansas, or any of their
tools or by any pro-Slayery or Administra-
tion man, to ferret out and punish the per-
petrators of this crime T. -. e.siv ~
"Now for comparison. Eleven per-
sons are restored to their natural and NAL
ienable rights, with but one man killed, and
all shell is stirred from beneath" 1t is
currently reported that the Governor of
Missouri has made a requisition upon tbs
Governor of Kansas for the delivery of all
such as were concerned in the last named
"dreadful outrage" The Marshal of Kan
sas is said to be collecting posse of Mis-
souri, (not Kansas men, at West Point, in
Missouri, little town about ten miles dis
tant TO "enforce the laws" All pro-sla-
very, conservative Free State and dough-
face men, and Administration tools, are
filled with holy horror. Consider thetwo
cases, and the action of the Administra
tion party 4
The Republican says: ale ~
"a telegraph dispatch announces that
the Administration has offered a reward of
two hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest
of Montgomery and Brown and has au-
thorized the Marshal of the Territory to
increase his posse to any extent. This is
the same Administration that has reward
ed several of the most notorious villains
and murderers that ever infested this or
any other country, with honorable and lu-
cratiye offices. This Marshal who is au-
thorized to Increase his posseto any extent,
is one Fnin, fellow who assisted in the
sacking and plundering of this city, in May,
1855. If Montgomery and Brown are re-
ally as bad men as they are represented to
be, Mr.. Buchanan, following his own pre-
cedent, ought to reward them with good fat
places in the various land Offices, or make
one Of them a purser in the Navy like the
notorious Clarke" ~