Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-12-22
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'MovNp CIrr, Kansas. Nor. 20. 1850.

MOUND CiTY, Kansas, Nov. 29, 1860.
DEAR FRrENB Those unhappy persons
who were expelled by legislative enactment
have been nearly all kidnapped on the road
while leaving Others after they got here.
Wherever they went, The greedy eyes of the
manstealer pursued them One boy, IA
years old, who was taken near Fort Scott
mode his escape from bis captors, and was
brought back to his mother by humane
Mlssouran. The husband and father bad
been kidnapped IN Arkansas He, too,
made his escape, and came to US few days
since There is a white man living near us,
on the Usage, who bad a little son six years
old carried of by kidnappers three years
since. The outrage was perpetuated at
Alton, where the father was living at the
time The child was playing by the river
side with two black children when two men
crossed the river in skif and seized
them ALL OF the Arkansas refugees, lit
tie girl was carried off by Jack Hurd
short time since. Matters had got to such
a pass that we had no security for our own
lives Numerous attempts we're made 70
assassinate the leading Anti.Slavery men.
Several barbarous murders had been per.
petrated By a secret Dark-Lantern Order
in our midst and we found it impossible to
to bring the perpetrators to justice by
course of law, as the secret Order seemed
to control the Courts.
eve tried to indict them in the Circuit
Court but Judge Williams cut the ses-
sion short before an indictment could be
reached.
When the session of the U. s. Court
came on, in which the Marshal chooses the
Jury, we found both juries thoroughly pack
ed-no fewer than nine Of those very mur
derers being impaneled and not Republi-
can on either jury. From this time until
we took them in hand, their impudence was
unbearable. They boasted openly that the
Jayhawkers' were all gone but Is or 20,
and that as soon as Tatton Barnes got back
from the mines they would take week or
two and hunt them all. By the term Jay
hawkers' is here understood the active,
fighting Abolitionists. The term was ap.
piled by our enemies, and is supposed to re.
present the suddenness with which we have
been wont to attack them. By the time
we had hung few of them, the scale turn
ed. We did not operate secretly but open
ly and above board telling them we were
not acting as party but as the people, and
such we certainly are, the majority being
overwhelmingly on our side.
At the late term of the U. s. Court, the
packed jury, spoken of before, was very
busy, and it is understood large number
of indictments were trumped up. When
they did not get through in one week, the
Judge gave them another and also an extra
session after the election. At this extra
session the same juries were summoned
again including the man Moore the murderer,
who was killed resisting an arrest by our
Vigilance Committee.
We are charged with ordering people
out of the country. This is not true. We
merely told them what kind OF people we
were dealing with, i. e., criminals. This
was enough. They fed, Judge Williams
among them, as the wicked flee when no
man pursueth.
Our Committee has dealt only with rlMr-
dersrs and nagi-stealerS. II is not true that zoe
broke up Judge Williams's Court, nor that
zoe threatened to break ii up. We make %
threats. The Judge and the Marshals
Campbell and Dieman, had been kidnap1-
ing, what they could, fugitires from Arkan-
sas, most probably those unfortunates who
have been exiled by the laws of that barbar-
Gus State. This supposition is the more
probable from the fact that the poor crea-
lures were not allowed even the sham trial
allowed in the Fugitive Slave act. DR..
Jennison, in speech at Mapleton, told the
people what cases we proposed to deal with
and that was the threat which put the wick
ed to fight The Judge fed three days before
has Court a0as to SIT, and now, on his repre-
sentatiou that he had been driven off, Fort
Scott burned the Land Officers murdered,
Missouri invaded wagon loads of Sharps
rifles everybody murdered &c, &C., the
troops are sent down Why 'osrs they not
sent 10 1eTaS! Oh that's the question.
Truly yours JAMES MONTGOMERY"