Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-12-08
The War In Kansas--The U. =. Troops
ordered out by President Pierce 10 eIter-
inmate the Free State Settlers.

ordered out by President Pierce 10 eIter-
inmate the Free State Settlers.
Our late accounts from Kansas are ncoherent
and from the enemies Of the free state move
meni by the actual settlers. but it is clear that
serious difficulties have occurred, and that the
people are 10 open collision with the Missouri
appointed officials. President Pierce received
on Monday. a Geographic dispatch from gov
ernor Shannon, announcing that civil war was
actually threatened in the territory, and request
ing prompt assistance. The President ordered
that troops be Immediately despatched from the
nearest posts To the place OF difficulty.
Accounts from western Missouri, which must
be received with qualifications, say that the free
state men had rescued prisoner from the sheriff
Of Douglas county, bnrned houses, aud proper
ty and driven numbers offamilies to Missouri fos
refuge. At Atchison, the pro-slavcry paper APP
pretended an attack and had sent 10 Weston,
Mo-, for fifty armed men. The Sherilrof Law
renee district had warrants for the arrest of forty
two citizens Of that place, and the people there
were armed and drilling, determined TO resist
every attempt to arrest any Of their citizens
II is said they have five pieces Of artillery and
that they threaten 10 take the sherii1s Coleman
and Jones and hang them. Large numbers of
free stale men were collecting at Lawrence from
different parts Of The territory. Sheriff Jones
had sent to Weston for wagon load Of ammu-
milton and cannon. Cannon had been sent from
Independence, Mo, probably from the U. S.
fort there.
A despatch from Weston, Mo-, states that
recent letter from Woodson, Shannon's, secre-
tary,,o Gen Eas ton, requests him to call for the
rife company at Platte city, Mo-, but in such
way as not to compromise governor Shannon.
-Four hundred men from Jackson county, Mo. =,
are now en- route for Douglas county. Kansas
territory. ST Joseph and Weston, in Missouri
are requested each to furnish the same number
Of men. The people Of Kansas are TO be sub
jugated at all hazards.
The origin of the difficulty is thus given in
the ST Louis Intelligencer, an ultra pro-slavery
journal -
Three free-soilers went TO a settlers house
named Coleman, who is pro-slavery man, and
ordered him of. They were armed, and gave
the man only ten minutes to leave ill., He left
Tor shor, time, but returned well armed. He
threats, and attempted to shoot Coleman, but his
gun missed FIRE. Coleman then shot his as
saiant who died Immediately. Coleman gave
himself up for trial. A mob Of abolitionisis,
ARMED with Shape ridoS, roPairsd tn Cnlemans
house, driving his wife and children of, burned
his house, and ordered other pro-slayery men to
leave, and burned their houses. Depuiy-mar-
shall Jones arrested the leader of the mob, and
obtained the names of twenty others. Jones is
now al Lecomplon with two prisoners and if
teen or twenty assistants. The abolitionisis
are gathering at LOcompton, demanding the re-
lease of their comrades aud the surrender of
Coleman
The above is ielegraphie dispatch 10 the
Springfield Republican of Wednesday. In the
editorial columns of the Republican we find the
following remarks -
"Ihe crisis in Kansas has fully come Pres
ident Pierce has ordered the government troops
TO assist the blood-thirsiy ruflians from Missouri
in buichering the people of Kansas, Who will
not hasely submit TO the laws forced upon them
by the Missouri invaders. A deed of such a
trocions gult,in such daring defiance of all law
human and divine, was never before attempted
by any administration. God help the freemen
of kanaas They are fighting the battles of
liberty and the Union against merciless and
brutal foe. II is no longer contest with the
drunken rullians of Atclison and Stringfellow,
but against the power ofthe general government
in the basest and most INSCRIPTIONS hands.
1t would seem that there is a concerted effort
at last very likely under adyiee from Wash