Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-29
PROCESS OF OUTRAGE IN KANSAS.

factory basis, and the bill was indefinitely post
Iponed.-Iji6une.
PROCESS OF OUTRAGE IN KANSAS.
The recent murder of Dow-of which, and the
proceedings growing out of it, Gov. Shannon has
taken advantage to represent toe Free State set
tiers OF Kansas as in state OF rebelllons by no
means singular event in the turbulent history of
that infant territory and of the border ruthanss
who have taken its affairs in charge
After the Spring election of 1858 several Of these
personages waited on Gov. Reeder and and threat
ened to hang him unless he would give certificates
Of election to the PrO-Slavery men chosen to the
Territorial Legislature by the votes of n Missouri
mob. His reply was Gentlemen, wo or three OF
you murder me- but a legion cannot compel
mc to do that which my conscience does not ap-
prove" y similar attempt to frighten Gov. Reed
or and to compel him to recant some statements
of his during visit to the East was afterward
made by the redOubtable Stringfellow himself; nor
were there wanting other similar occurrences, out
of which the telegraph from st. Louis manufac-
tured reports-now that Gov. Reeder had been
1ogged and now that he had been murdered.
On Saturday, pril II, 1855, mob of some two
hundred rulfans from Platte county, Missouri, the
residence of Stringellow and Atchison, assembled
at Parkville, Missouri, and attacked the Office of
the LumiRa1Y, a newspaper published there, and
which, because it did not implicitly subscribe to
/ the border-ruihan operations, accused of Free
State procivties. They destroyed the fixtures.
ana threw the types and presses into the rivers
The editors and publishers, j. S. Park and VIM.
). Patterson escaped personal violence at the time,
but they were obliged to fly the State. Mr.. Pat
terson is now in this vicinity, giving lectures on
| the conspiracy to make Kansas slave State. The
pecuniary interests Of the inhabitants of Parkve,
of which town MIR Park was the founder and prin.
/ Icpal proprietor, imperatively required his tempo
rary return thither for the purpose of executing
conyeyances and releases and other business acts.
No sooner was he known to be there than the
Platte County ruiians feroeiously threatened to
march upon the town and to destroy it and him ;
nor could the people of Parkv!le find any security
except in military organization, and compact
for mutual defence similar TO that lately entered
into by TIE people of Lawrence.
On the 30th of April, sixteen days after the at
tack upon the LuDt'nd1y, at Il political gathering
at Leevenworth City, after n question had heen
put by the Chair, Malcolm Clark, leading Pro-
Slavery politician, cried out, 1--WE have the
ljority," to which lawer named McCrea responded
Its a le." Upon this Clark struck McCrea with
a clu5 whereupon, recovering Il little from the
stunning effects of the bow McCrea drew a revol.
yer and shot Clark dead McCrea fed instantly,
hotly pursued by Clark's friends, who sought to
to kill him the spot; but he ran into the river
and found protection under the bank, whence he
was presently taken by his friends and delivered
to the commander of Fort Leavenworth for custody
and protection. Anywhere else his lite would not
have been safe.
Thus baked in their attempt to murder Nc
Crea on the 18th of May following n number of
border ruffans from Missouri crossed the river at
Leavenworih and seized Mr.. Phillips, the law
partner of NcCrea, and one of the most intelligent
and respectable citizens of the place who had
given additional offence by attestng the election
in his district in consequence of which elec-
ton had been ordered by Gov. Reeder. Assisted
by number of other rufians resident in the town.
and before the body of the people of the place had
time to collect and act they carried Phillips across
the river his stbeng unable to follow for want
of boat-and took him some miles inland on the
Missouri side when they shaved half his head strip
ped him naked, tarred and feathered him, rode
him n rail mile and a half put him up AT
mock auction, and Did him off to n negro at
dollar. Phillips however effected his escape from
these villains and returned to Leavenworth, where
he still remains, in spite of all the threats of fur
her violence against him if ho should not fly the
Territory. But now mark the difference Of civil
procedure in these two cases OF phillips and Nc
crea. No attempt whatever was made to intlct
any punishment on the lynchers of Phillips. Mr.
McCrca, on the other hand, undergoes long and
rigorous imprisonment, first in the fort and then
in the Jail; bill for murder is found against him
by packed jury, after more honest ono had re-
fused to find any and when at last he comes into
court to be tried he finds among the counsel within
the bar and among the officers Of that tribunal
Including the clerk of the Court no less than four
persons who had been concerned in the abduction
and lynching of Phillips. This fact was after.
ward brought to the notice of the Court by
sworn affidavit: but we have not yet learned that
any action was taken upon it. We are happy to
say that McCrea, after many other points has been
ruled against him, has succeeded in obtaining
a change Of venue-which operates, however, to
defer the trial and prolong his Imprisonment
which is in county Jail of the most wretched
description.
On the Goth of May, three days after the out
rage Phillips, several members of the secret Pro.
Slavery association of MissOurians, called the
Blue Lodge, visited Osawatomie, in Kansas Ter
ritory, and seizod Mr.. Parker on the charge of
being an Aboitionist They took his rifle and
broke it over a stump, mounted him mule and
carried him some distance in the woods They
then took measures to hang him without judge or
jury but upon his suggesting that he ought to be
allowed to speak for himself they suffered him to
do so. After he had made his statement the com-
pauy were about equally divided, one half siding
with Parker, the other half with Kirby, the leader
of tho gang. Soon, however, of the company
handed Parker revolver capped and cooked,
after which Kirby saw fit to hold his peace. Par
ker was finally released, but was obliged, however
to give up his claim. Since then the Rev. Pardee
Butler, Methodist clergyman, was sent down
the river raft on the charge OF preaching Free
Soil doctrines Similar TO this was the case of
the Rev. William G, CLARK, Methodist clergyman
from Portsmouth ~ H., aud lately resident in