Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-12
Kansas Matters.

Kansas MaCterS.
Every day brings more exciting news
from Kansas. The Missouri mob is de-
termined to subjugate the free-state men
at all hazards. and late dispatches leave
little hope for any escape from an appeal
to arms.
The following telegraphic news is from
ST. Louis, under date Of Dec. 18th
A young man twenty-five years of
age, named Pow, while at a blacksmith
shop, where several border ~rufians had
congregated, was deliberately shot by
one Coleman. Attempts were made to
arrest the murderer, but through the aid
of his abettors he escaped to Missouri
A meeting of citizens convened on the
spot of the murder. Committee enquir-
into the facts of the case and pronounced
the act a cold blooded murder, on the
part of Coleman, and charged Hagus,
Berkly. Moody and Waggoner as &C
cessories. A series of resolutions were
passed and committee appoined TO inves-
Iigate still further and search out often.
ders, and devise means 10 bring them to
Justice. Sheriff Jones arrested Jacob
Branson, lat whose house Dow lived,
for security of the peace, but while pro-
ceeding to Lecompton he was recued by
a party of his neigbbors. Jones sent 10
Pawnee Mission for aid, declaring that
the Governor had assured him of the as
~sistance OF 10, 600 men if needed.
Governor Shannon, and all The officers
of the Territory side with the Slaveo-
Gratis, and under pretense that the peo-
pie were resisting the officers, Shannon
has called on the military in Territory to
o~verpower them. 1t is said that Presi
dent Pierce is backing the Governor and
the border %rufians TO the fullest extent.
A later report contains the following:
"a secret letter from Secretary Wood
son TO Gen. Easlon, has been written, in
which the writer requests Gen. E. TO call
for the Rife Company at Plattee City,
No., SO as not to compromise Gov. Shan
non.
Four hundred men, from Jackson Co.,
Mo-, are now en- route for Douglas Co.,
Kansas Territory. St. Joseph and Yves
ton, in Missouri, are requested to furnish
the same number of men. The people
Of Kansas are TO be ~subjugated at all
hazards !"
Under these circumstances the actual
s ettlers of Kansas seemed to have no al
tentative, but 10 resist or be destroyed.
We cannot doubt but that they will
a ct like men, and we trust the Missouri
r ufians will yet be made to rue the day
when they first invaded the territory
The duty of the free States in the matter
is a question which calls for serious
thought. Many papers are proclaiming
that the attack of these last invaders
opens a civa War, which demands %instan-
taneous action upon thepart 0 fthe North,
to prevent the freemen in Kansas from
being overwhelmed.
We sincerely trust the alarming news
will have the effect of Fastening the
organization of the House of Represen-
ia tives, and that a bill for the admis-
sion Kansas as a free State may be pass
ed forthwith. When The Missourians
see that the game is fairly beyond their
grasp, they may desist from their law
less purposes. There is no time for de-
lay. The action of the President in CIV
ing Shannon power TO call upon the q.
troops in the Territory to support the
0 fcial tools of the usurping Legislature,
should be imm ediately inquired into,
and such Congressional action taken as
will give the strongest and most speedy
su pport to the real settlers of The Terri
tory.
The present state of things cannot be
long endured. The patience of the
Northern people is fast being exhausted,
and if they are provoked beyond endu-
rance, wo to them upon whom their
wrath shall fall The Administration
seems to act upon the assumption that no
outrage or insult is to great for freemen
to bear, from the Slaveocracy, and ap
pears determined to Try whether the
free States al be reused to opposition
by the utmost stretch of i~nsOlent oppres-
sion. The people of the North are pa
and the South should mind the old
proverb, and beware how they enrage
suck but if they will not be prudent,
the nena liz will he nnnn their own heads