The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-28
FROM KANSAS.


HrOwm makes n Confession thai
he ala steal tho Niggers<
[Speeial Corrsspondence of the Missouri Democrat.
LAWRENCE, X. r. Jan. 10.
All IL quiet on the Kansas side Of the bor-
der. No force 10 congregated anywhore.--
Montgomery neUsr crossed the MIss0uri bor-
der in any Of the recent difficulties. Brown,
it 10 understood. has left the border 1T the
request Of Montgomery. The people over
the line are frightened yet and needlessly
| alarmed by those who desire to get up q
rumpus. Many slave owners in their terror
fed from the border counties to Texas with
their slaves. 1t ia estimated that over one
thousand have thus been carried of in the
past two weeks. So the nulli6crs who are
raising civil war alarm on the border are
practical emancipationists. The Governor
Of this Territory is in daily communication
with your Governor, but neither functionsry
has yet found out what il to be done, or re-
ally, what is the matter.
The Legislature is quietly Mt work making
new code. Lane 10 lccturing on the histo-
~ Of kansas and Temperance. The Pike
Peak fever is kept up by constant and favor.
able reports. The snow, some one or two
hundred miles west of this, still covers the
earth, but is not deep. Weather still mild.
Rivers open. Business easy. KAW.
P. Sod Ossawotomie Brown did steal,
and help steal the niggers. He makes con-
fesson and justification in the following sim
gular letter to the Lawrence Republican:
TRADING Posr, Kansas, Jan. 1859.
GENTS You will greatly oblige an hum
BILE friend, by allowing the use Of your COL
umns while briefly state two parallels, in
my poor way.
Not one year ago, eleven quiet citizens Of
this neighborhood - viz: VIM. Robertson,
VIM. colpe,zer, Amos Hall, Austin Hall,
John Campbell, Asa Snyder, Thos. Stilwell,
Vim. Hairgrove, Asa Hairgrove, Patrick
Ross, and 3. l.. Rsed--were gathered up
from their work and their homes, by an
armed force under one Hamilton, and, with
out trial or opportunity TO speak in their
defence, we're formed into line, and all but
one shot--fve killed and FIVE wounded. One
fell unframed pretending to be dead. All
were left for dead. The only crime charged
against them was that OF being Free State
men. Now, inquire, what action has ever,
since the occurrence in May last, been taken
BY either the President OF the United States,
the Governor Of Missouri, the Governor Of
Kansas, or any OF their tools, or BY any pro-
slavery or Administration man, to ferret out
and punish the perpetrators Of this crime?
Now for the other parallel. On Sunday,
the 10th of December, . negro man called
Jim, came over to the Usage settlement from
Missouri, and stated that he, together with
his wife, two children, and another negro
man we're to be sold within . day or two,
and begged for help to get away. On Mon
day (,he following) night, two small compa-
nies we're made up to 60 to Missouri and
forcibly liberate the Eve slaves, together
nth other slapss. One OF those companies
assumed to direct. We proceeded TO the
place, surrounded tho buildings, liberated
the slaves, and also took certain property
supposed to belong to the estate. We how
ever learned, before leaving, that portion
Of the articles We had taken belonged to a
ma6lving on the plantation as tenant
We promptly returned to him ALL WE HAD
TAKEN. We then went to another plantation,
where We freed five more slaves, took some
property and two white men. We moved all
slowly away into the Territory for some dis
tanee, and then sent the white men back,
telling them TO follow as ~ soon 90 they
chose TO do SO. The other company freed
one female slave, took some property, and,
rs am informed, killed one white man 1.-THE
mastery who fought against the liberation.
Now for comparison. Eleven persons
are foroibly restored to their NATURAL AND
isAL1.NABLE RIGHTS, with but one man killed,
aud all shell is stirred from beneath" tits
currently reported that the Governor Of Mis-
souri, has made a requisition upon the Gov
ernor of Kansas for thu delivery of all such
as were concerned in the last named "dredd-
Jul outrage" The Marshal Of Kansas is
said to be collecting posse Of Missouri (not
kansas) men, at West Point, in Missouri, a
little town about ten miles distant, to SEN
force the laws.' All pro-slavery, conserva-
tive Free State and doughface men, and Adj
ministration tools, are filed with holy hor-
ror. Consider the two cases, and the action
Of the Administration party.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN BROWN.