Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1872-05-08
CASS COUNTY.

Quiet and good order prevail, and
has prevailed throughout the borders
of Cass ever since the Gum Town
tragedy. The reports that reign OF
terror prevailed, and that hundreds
of good citizens had been driven
from their homes by the threats OF
the mob, published in the X. c.
Times, and repeated IN extras of the
Register of this city, were as false a.
the details OF the first account of the
butchery. Had Gov. Brown needed
this highly colored and exaggerated
story coupled as it was with frantic
appeals for the MALTA, he would
have ordered not less than two regi.
nents Of troops into Cass, and that
county would have tasted what La.
fayette experienced under the reign
of Bacon Montgomery's MALTA. Nc
imfliction less than this could have
Yratificd the rancorous malice Of the
Times and the Register towards tb'
people of Cass. But Gov. Brown
had too much sense to be influenced
by the venal organs of county courts
and Railroad rings. He didn't send
any troops into Ca>s. The two com.
panies of MALTA ordered out tarried
few days at Holden. returned /,
Kansas City and dishantlcd. Gen
Sigcl remained. and after minglin4
with the citizens de Jared that thcr,
was 10 necessity for State aid to pre-
serve order and enforce the law
Mass meetings have been held it
lich the people d,pl"rr the lat,
murder, and pledge their aid to th'
local authorities in bringing til,
criminals to justice. A resolution
passed at one of these meetings de.
nounces the X. &. Times for it,
gross misrepresentation, and its per,
>istcnt and un u>iiiiahlr abuse of tn,
citizens of Ca>s county. \ few
residents of that county id.impellrd
by groumdlcs> fears. or guilty cuu-ci-
en.eS. fly from their h"nlr-. but these
have bees. invited back and promised
protection. Life and property are IA
secure in Cass as i'll any county OF the
State.
In speaking of the false reports.
put in circulation bv papers at :. dis
Iancc. The Iiarrisonville Democrat
says:
at seems IA if it was impossible to
persuade the papers abroad to give :.
correct statement of the murder at
Gum City. The truth is bad enough,
and is calculated to strike one with Il
chill of horror il stated as il occurred,
and the papers could make it "srn>a-
tionaf enough by coniiming them
were disposed. We do not upil"i"
the action of the mob by any means.
nor do the majority OF the citizens OF
Ca>s county, and, if it had been
known that such Il proceeding WA
going on, this horrible tragedy could
never have been enacted within the
borders Of the county.
The sober minded people are not
in the least afraid to express their
diSapprobration Of this affair, and will
cooperate with the authorities i'll
bringing the perpetrators I" justice,
and it is not very consolimg to have
such reports spread broadcast over
the land rs the Kansas City Times and
ST. Louis Republican, have published
about them, accusing Il majority OF
the citizelis of Cass county of being
engaged in it.
All the blame lor these exaggerated
resorts can be laid to the Times.
which has on all occasions upheld amy
action, no matter how criminal, that
would reduund,to to the pecuniary bcn-
eft of Amos Green, Mastin 4 Co.
To show how little this subsidized
sheet cares for the truth we publish Il
few extracts from II i'll regard to the
mob.
We were at Gunn City when the
reporter of the Times arrived there,
81 Il for the same purpose that he
came, and we know, and so does he,
that he did most outragc"usly lie
when he pcnncd the following:
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We omit the lengthy extracts and
and comments for want Of space.