Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-05-07

lSuS uASO ~ ssAS
2sth, 1862:
ave have no accounts Of DR.. Jenni.
SON pursuing other than quiet life, uu-
Ill Que day . troop Of border rufians
passed his little domicil on their way to
organize . provisional government
tor Kansas. Attracted by 50 many
persons passing, his wife and child
stepped to the door to look upon the
calvacade, and there, upon their own
door step we're thev both shot dead by
those ruthless Williams"
Nov, in order to give the above ma.
licious and wilful falsehood little air
ing, l ask you to publish the following
communication to the Crisis, aud also
the editorial following it, by Sam. Me-
dsrv, late Governor of Kansas. The
articles are important-frst, as giving
the paragraph from the C;~cin"a" Co.
zeste upon which friend Sanders editor
Il is based, and secondly, by giving y
prompt and positive denial OF the death
of Mrs. Jennison. WINFIELD
May LIST, 1862.
From KANsAs.-The following / cut
from the Cincinnati Gazette,of the goth
Of January, giving the primary cause OF
the frightfu, disease With which Messrs.
Montgomery and Jenu'son are afflicted,
intended 10 doubt as an apology or JUS
t,fication of the cold blooded atrocities
they have perpe,ra,ed on this frontier ::
"WHAr Ais JENNIsON AND MONT
GoMERY.-Col. Jenpison, Kansas irst
Cavalry, is small man, delicate const'-
tuition, a physician, originally from Liv-
iogston county, N. Y. When the bor-
der ruffian horde went into Kansas to
elect the first Territorial Legislature,
they passed Jennison's house. His wife
| and only ch,ld, attracted by the caIva-
cade, went to the door and we're both
shot dead by the ruffians. That's what
ails Jennison the jayhawker. Mont,
geometry is a Kentuckiao, mild, gentle
manly, highly educated man, clergy
man and graduate of Oberliu. When
the border luffians in one Of their raids,
reached Mon,gomery's home, they took
him prisoner, tied him to a tree, and
brough out his wife, an educated, &C.
compl'shed lady, and violated her per.
son in the presence Of her husband, and
that's what ails Montgomery"
Now, Mr.. Editor, have lived in this
country near the border for years before
the organization Of Kansas and Nebras.
ka, and l am familiar with all the do.
,ngs, good and bad, of public charac'
ter, enacted in the memorable period d
IS and SO, and this is the first have
ever heard Of this outrage, and pro
rounce it u sheer fabrication. 1t is one
of those "shrieks" made outside Of Kan
sas for purpose. No, sir, the distem
per dates further back than their settle
ment here-it was not contracted il
Kansas. So far as Montgomery is con
cerned, the ailment ought to be charged
upon the unwholesone atmosphere o
Oberlin. But he is "a mild, gentle
manly" man. Yes,
CAS- mild hammered man
u
e Mrs. Jennison is alive and well.
r GUIzoT.
The above extracts escaped our nc
tice in the Cincinnati Gazette, or W
] ,hould have called attention to them
1 knowing them to be false. 1t is one G
o those paragraphs always sent to tn
I Eastern press preparatory to some fcu
act to be perpetrated by these men o.
innocent people, who never harme,
them, and as an excuse for plumber
E robbery and murder. The st. Louis
Democrat, the Chicago Tribune, an.
the New York Tribune, were the specio
organs, for years, of these outlaws, and
generally the Cincinnati Gazette. ane
other papers echoed the murderels
notes of PREPARATION.
After these notes Of the banditti were
sent abroad, the readers of these paper.
we're prepared to echo to the life '.,ht
foul murders and robberies of these
men" having been posted and prepared
before hand W tn the aryuments!
Jennlson's wife was alive and in Os
sawa,to,nie, the night we we're there
about the LIST Of December last, a yea
ago, Jennlson himself being "fugitiv.
from justice" lurking somewhere in the
wood aronud.- Columbus Crisis, FEB
26th, 1862.
RESOLVED, That political Union, il
any form between slaveholdiDg and
tree community mus: necessarily ,nvolv,
the latter in the guilt of slavery there