Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-02
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE.

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country, and who..must be known per-
sonally TO many Of the anti slavery
men in Iowa, has been divulging the
concocted schemes for stealing and
running off slaves. 1t appears that
the modus operandi by which he
proposed to accomplish "the Kansas
work." differed from that adopted by
Brown. But we give extracts from
the ". Y. Herald. and the corrcspon-
dence Of Forbes:
s.The modern Roundhead, Brown,
had come North for the purpose of
bringing back with him to Kansas a
man Of military genius and experience
who would undertake to train the
kansas abolitionsts in all the tactics
pertaining to the guerilla branch Of
the profession of arms. Fortes was
just the man for the purpose. Cue
rIlla fighting was his forte, and he
had the reputation besides Of being
somewhat Of a genius in the art OF
war. He was an excellent fenccr, and
although that was OF little account
among the border ruffians-an ac-
complished linguist. Brown and
Forbes we're brought en- rapport by
one of the reverend editors Of tho N.
Y. Independent. Negotiations were
entered on, and Forbes was secured
to the cause Of abolltionism. What
the exact terms of the contract were
we cannot say; but VIC ga.her from
the correspondence in our hands that
certain monthly remittances were to
be sent to Forbes family in Europe,
by those who had charge of the
funds in this region. Poor Forbes
appears, however, to have realized the
utter unreliabillty of those philanthro-
pisis, aud his letters show that he
soon found out that the whole game
was one Of cheating. lie appealed to
Horace Greedy to have justice done
him. Horace replied that Forbes had
no legal claim upon him. lie put
himself in correspondence with Sew.
ard, Sumner, Wilson, Hale, Chase,
Fletcher and other prominent aboli :
tionists, and acquainted them fully
with Browns projects, pointing ont
how they must inevitably fail and
bring dismay and destruction upon
the anti-slavcry cause. But Forbes
found that. like CassanI-" IS ~. =,
predictions were laughed at and his
entrea,ics set at naught.
So long ago as May, 1853, he sp-
pears to have had an interview with
WIN. H. Seward in Washington, in
which he went fully into the whole
matter in all its bearings.
In letter from Forbes to T. B. Sa-
born, of Concord, Mass, dated Jan,
23d, 1858, he says:
II will give you another instance OF
gross free State misconduct. Last
July l arrived at the house of Mr..
Jesse Boewn, Of Iowa City, where
expected to have met Col. Brown
AT the moment / arrived a young
man handed him a letter, which, hav-
ing read, he launched out in bitter in
vectives against all committeeman and
managers, and everybody connected
with Kansas and the free State par
ty. l was petr,fed. All this from
the great friend of the cause. He
told mo something about having been
. year or two previous guarantee for
some arms, but he was too angry to
give me any clear details. On lnquir-
ing Of Capt. b. aud others respecting
this matter, learned that DR.. Bowen
had really been very i'll used. A
number of free State men had come
on Is far as Iowa, and these insisted
upon having the arms which had
been promised previous to their leav-
i'g New England. The regulations
for the Iowa militia, or volunteers,
enabled companies organized as State
volunteers to be supplied with arms
from the State arsenal. Before deliv-
ering such arms it was requisite that
some responsible citizen should sign
. bond for the value of the arms, that
bond to be cancelled after the COM
panies had been organized and the Of.
ficers elected had gwen their receipts
for the arms. DR.. Jesse Bowen con-
sented to be bound in this instance,
believing in the assurance that the
companies would be actually and in
stanlly organized, as required; so
that after the officers had given their
receipts he wonld have been absolved
from any pecuniary liability, though
the companies were afterward to
march with the arms to Kansas or
Mexico. No sooner were the weap-
ons produced than they we're bounced
upon by the free State men. The
stipulated organization of the compa-
nice, which would have cost nothing,
and was q mere formality, was not
complied with. The mob rushed off,
the managers at the head, Boosting OF
~ha, they would do to the border
rufiians, and on the first summons,
after crossing the Kansas frontier,
they CALAMITY gave up those arms and
scattered. The bond for the value OF
those arms now hangs over the head
OF DR.. Jesse Bowen. l believe that
the men who did this formed part of q
company who we're induced to engage
to 60 West under tho promise that
they should each have Sharp's rifle
on starting, but who we're, when that
moment came, pnt of with the assu-
ranc that the rifles had been sent to
Albany. When there they were
promised them at Buffalo; when there
they were + romised them in Chicago;
when there they we're promised them
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