The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-04
sBrec kenridge County Tragedy-John
Brown Outdone!''

Americas Sentinel, of date December &c.
1859, containing communication, over
your signature, under the above glaring
caption, which I propose briefly 10 notice.
In the article IN question, you charge the
Republican party with completely with, and
responsibility for, the acts of party of
twelve men, who came to Breckenridge
county from the northern portion of the
Territory, in the month of October, 1856.
robbed and plundered Free State and Pros
Slavery men alike, and murdered Mrs.
Carver, living on the Cottonwood The
facts of this raid were, believe, substan-
TALLY as you have related them, and the
guilty parties merit malediction and punish
nent. But you fail to show any response.
bility of the Republican party for these out
RACES /; you do not tell US when or where
the Republican party endorsed them, know
ingly, or sympathized with or aided their
perpetrators. The reason why you do not
furnish this proof to substantiate your false
and slanderous charges, is because you can
not. No such proof exists now, or ever has
existed; and you well know it. In making
these charges you have violated all decency
and truth, and all claims to respect as a man
of honor
But, sir, there is fearful responsibility
resting upon goa in regard to these very
acts of murder and robbery for which you
seek to hold the Republican party response
bic. That you and your band of 'twenty
men" should have laid in wait for single
man of the robbers while the main body was
escaping, is not, perhaps, to be wondered at;
but you state in your communication that
you know now and have known the ''Ieader
and taUo Others of the toOelve that killed Mrs
Garner, and one Of tie guides.'' For three
years, sir. you have kept this a secret in
your heart, until now, when it is too late to
punish these murderers, you proclaim it to
the world. For three years you have aided
in shielding murderers and robbers from the
punishment due for their crimes. During
the whole of this time word of yours
would have sufficed to bring these villains
Carver. But the word was not given, and
they go unwhipt of justice Call you this
doing your duty as citizen and as a sworn
officer of the law? Are you not, yoursey,
by your Darn confession, morally and legally
guilty as an accessory TO these heinOus crimes /?
And, too, during these three years you
have been guilty of unfolding and aiding
the Republican party, which you now so
fiippantly charge with the crimes of murder
and robbery.
Let me ask you if you thought the Re
publican party guilty of murder and rob-
berry" when you accepted the Republican
nomination for District Judge under the
Leavenworth Constitution, in the spring of
1858 II you have forgotten just what
you did think then, will cheerfully repub-
lish your letter of acceptance, which will
probably throw some light on the subject.
Did you think that the Republican party
was guilty of the murder of Mrs. Carver
and the robbery of your friend Wilmington
when, in 1859, you were delegate to, and
| CHAIRMAN OI Lu0 SOulItI
publican Convention which framed the
platform on which the party is now acting
If you have s'streacherous" memory on
this point, also, will re-publish the pro-
ceedings, accompanied by your remarks, -
which may remove any doubts you may
have as to what your position really was at
that period.
Did you think that the Republican party
"'nursed in its bosom murderers and dis
unionists" when, in September, 1859, you
were a candidate before the Breck eniidge
County Republican Convention Ito which
you were also delegate) for the position Of
Delegate to the Republican State Conven-
ton, held at Topeka, for the nomination Of
State officers, under the Wyandott Consti-
tuition If you are in doubt on this point,
I can furnish you with some relevant con-
temporaneous testimony which may assist
in removing such doubt.
Did you think the Republican party
guilty of wholesale robber: and midnigh!
murder" when, in October last, you were q
candidate before the Republican District
Convention, held at Ottumwa, for the posi-
ton of Representative, under the WyandotI
Constitution ? II you are anxious. can
furnish some testimony on this point. also,
which may throw light on the subject.
Ever since the organization of the Repub-
lican party in Kansas, you have been a
(professedly at least) jealous worker in its
ranks, and persistent seeker after its Offices
and emoluments and think that you vii
: hardly be allowed at this late day to turg