Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-12-15
IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS.
True Version Of the Recent Disturbances
The Free State Men not the Aggressors--
Details 9th Occurrence.

True Version Of the Recent Disturbance
The Free State Men not the Aggressors--
Details ofthe Occurrence.
The following letter is from the special cor
respondence of the New York Times 1t gives
a different version of the late tragic occurrence
in Kansas from that which first reached us
through the PrO-Slavery channels, and is un-
doubiedly correct, i, agrees substantially with
the information furnished other Eastern papers :
LAWRENCE, X. T., Tuesday. Nov. 81, 1855.
The crisis approaches. We, in Kansas,
must lose the protection of life and property,
which the Constitution guarantees to every A.
mcrican citizen, or we must have laws enacted
which shall rest on the will of the people.
l take my pen to inform your rcadeis Of an
affair which has just transpired among US, which
derives its chief significance from its connection
with the Territorial laws, if such the doings of
that thing which met a, johnson Mission can be
called.
Last Wednesday, one Mr. Dow, formerly
from Ohio, discovered that his neighbor, Mr.
COLEMAN, formerly of Pennsylvania, was cut
ting down trees and preparing to burn lime
kiln on the claim belonging TO him, when he
went TO him. requesting him 10 desist, telling
him that he had burnt one kiln on his claim, and
that he could not burn another. There was
man helping Mr.. CoLEMAS at the time, by the
name of BucKLEY, and neighbor of BOWS by
the name Of BRANsoN, went along with him as
he went up to order COLEMAN off. After hav-
ing some pretty sharp words, COLEMAN and
Buckley left and went away, whereupon Dow
and BRAYsoN returned home they both living
in one house, Dow, being single and boarding
with BRASsoN. Soon after, the same day, Dow
had occasion 10 60 by the house of COLEMAN to
blacksmith's shop on business. Before he
went, BRAYsog urged him to take some kind Of
weapon, as it was suspected that gang would
be at CoLEMAN's, where low GROCERY was
kept, but Dow refused TO take any, and said he
was not afraid Of any Of them. lie went up to
the shop and there he found BUCKLEY, who com
menced abusing him by words aud dared him to
step out the door and fight him. BucKLEy, in
the meantime, stepped out and cooked his gun,
threatening TO shoot him. Dow paid little at
tention TO him. but as soon as he got his bust
ness done with the blacksmith, which was get
ting piece Of iron fixed, he stepped out and
started for home.
Some little distance ahead Of him he saw
COLEMAN sitting beside the road with shot
gun in his hand Dow came up and passed him /;
when only few rods distant from him, COLE
MAN raised his gun and taking celebrate aim at
Dow, snapped cap On hearing this Dow
turned about to see what il was, when COLEMAN
recapped his gun, raised it to his eye, and shot
nm hn tn,f hot,
tered his breast, killing him at once. This was
all done in sight Of CoLEMAN's house and the
GROCERY, and happened at o'clock. No one
OF those gathered about CoLEMAN's house, and
there were some eight or ten, went to remove
the body or to inform any one of the murder.
So the dead body lay by the roadside TIL o.
clock, when BRAEsoN somehow or other heard
of it, and went and had the body taken care Of
The following night COLEMAN and Buckley
escaped TO Missouri. Some say for one purpose
some for another. One Iumor is that he has
gone to give himself up to the proper authoiles.
But nothing has up 10 this date been heard OF
him.
Yesterday public meeting was held in the
neighborhood, when the testimony Of several
persons was informally taken, which went to
show that COLEMAN willfully and coolly murder
ed Dow, without any other cause than having
this difficulty with him about burning the lime
kiln. Resolutions were passed expressive of
the sense of the meeting, and a salute fred over
the grave Of of the lamenied Dow
COLEMAN and all engaged on his side are ra-
bid Pro Slavery men, and this is not tho first tins
they have outrag ed public sentiment by their
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off from their claims near by, fred upon them,
&c. Dow and his friends are for free State.
l am personally acquainted with Mr. Dow, and
have been for about year, and have always
found him 10 be very peaceful and moderate
man. This public meeting numbered about
eighty men, among whom was a part Of mill
tary company, armed with SHARP's rifles, who
live between Lawrence and the place Of the muir
der, which was Hickory Point some ten miles
south of us.
On the return of this company in the night,
they discovered a party of horsemen at the town
oil Blanion, coming up in their rear, and, in ac-
costing them, voice was heard ''BRANsos is
here prisoner" and, upon further inquiry, it
was made known that the Deputy Sheriff, who
lives 10 Missouri, had taken a posse. and in the
evening, after the company had LEFT Hickory
Point, had arrested BRAssoN on the oaihs of
three Pro-slayery men, friends of COLEMAN, that
they were afraid BRAEsos would kill ihem.-
Nobody had ever heard Of this, and nobody be-
lieved it now. II was got up 10 help coleman
The company then told BRANsoN to come with
them, when the Sheriff threatened to shoot him
If he moved, but BRASsoN got off his mule and
joined the company, when the Sheriff left, say
ing he would go down and get 10 900 men and
came up and see what he could do. The SheriTs
writ was issued by Justice of the Peace BY
the name of CAMERON, once professed Free
State man, but who has now accepted office un-
der the Territorial Laws. The company took
the grounds that they did not recognize any Wi,
as valid coming from this quarter
Thus an open resistance TO the authority of
that mock Legislature has been made, and who
will tell the end thereof BRANsoN came 10
Lawrence last night, ! am informed, but do
not know his whereabouts. Those who rescu