Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-12-07
CIVIL WAR IN kAxzAs.

the zeal Of the out-and out Free SoilerS. and
Its influence viii be fe';not only in the organ.
ization but in the legislative action Of II e
House. Its influence Is not, however. con-
fined TO one side . the House, and il VIII rem
der more difficult shsn ever any compromise
between the conflicting Pro-Slayery and An.
Il Slavery element.
II Is not stated in the despateh Of Governor
Shannon what particular laws have been le-
sisted by tie Inhabitants, bat il IS known that
poStian Of them refuse to recognise all the
laws Of the Territorial Government, though
they do not resist their execution by violence.
They 10 nos sue before the Justices, nor resort
u the Courts Of Probate. But have under
stood thEt they Intended 70 reSis: the actual
execution Of the twelfth section Of the sell
sIoG 3sw, kioh provides 70. the punishment
a any person xaa fine and Imprisonment,
Bao may. IN w1sds spoken, deny that Slavery
exists legally II hanzas
i person MAS convicted nndes th;s aet, and
the Free State people had determined not 10
resist the law unt1 sentence should be passed,
wAeR they would interfere 10 prevent is exc
catlon. so Il : possible that this Is the cause
Of the present disturbance.
Ibe h2aEss Question 5 to BE the absorbing
one of the session in the House Of Represent
s1Iyez- Jhzs i. II We should have House.
Fran t1s SsE Ira Tzlo.1s
y. Legis. T1ss51v. De. stE.
Accounts from Kansas state tha. an officer
belonging to the military organization Of Free
State men had bsea captured 81 Atchinson.
and written orders found ppoa his person to
burn down the tosn and murder Mr.. Laugh
lin. Improbable.
As the male population had gone TO Le-
compton undeE orders Of he Governor, re-
quest was sent 70 Western fc- assistance, and
8 party left there lass night for Atchison to
defend the plzoe.
SECOND DISPATCH.
ST. Louis, Wednesday, Dec. 5.
The Kansas Free state papers give the fol-
lowing account OF the difficulties in the Ter
Titory: i Young man named Dow, y wears
Of age. while at blacksmith shop where sew
eral border 1hsas had congFegated, was de-
Eberately shot by one Coleman. An attempt
was made 70 arrest the murderer, but through
the assistance Of his abettoTs he escaped to
Missouri. Getting Of citizens held on the
spot y EeTe the affair occurred, TO inquire into
the case, pronounced The act cold blooded
murder, on the part Of Coleman, and charged
four men. Hsgus. Buckley, Moody an Wag-
ner, with beng accessories. A series of res
oluiions Was passed, and Committee ap-
pointed to investigate still further, TO search
out the offenders, and to devise means 10
bring them TO justice. Sheriff Jones arrested
Bronson. al whose house Dow lived. for the
purpose OF havI~g him give security to keep
the peace, but whsle proee. ding to Lecompto
Bronson was rescued by a party of his ne Oh.
bors. Jones sent to Pawnee, Mo-, for aid, de-
claring that the Governor OF Missouri had
assured him the assistance Of 10000 men if
required.
From The g. Tt-is Tr.al,igancsr
SECRET SLAVERY SOCIETY IN Missouri
1t has long been known that secret League
is in existence in Missouri, the sworn purpose
Of which is to plant slavery in Kanzas It
was formed long before any one ever heard of
the Free State League, which was lately ex-
posed in the West, and resulted in the death
of Laughlin, one of the leaders of the Free
State League. Both these leagues were wrong
in spirit, but the Missouri League the less de-
feasible, because it was formed to operate in
terrltory foreign to our own soil.
A despatch sent from St. Louis to the Louis
oil5e Courier, in regard to the Kanzas civil
War" lets out little more than had been al
lowed to come out here. 1t reads thus in the
Courier:
THE VERY LATEST.
The Excitement Lcreasiug- MisSouriaaS 90
ing to Kanzas by HaadreGs.
WESTON, Mo-, Nov. Bop. m.
The greatest excitement continues to exist
in Kanzas. The officers have been resisted
by the mobocrats, and the interposition of the
militia has been called for.
4 secret letter from Secretary Woodson to
General EastOn has been written, in which
the writer requests Gen. E. to call for the Ri
te Company at Platte City, Mo-, SO as not
to compromise Goceraor Shannon
-Four hundred men from Jackson County,
Missouri, are now en-. route for Doug as Co.
kanzas Territory. st. Joseph aud Weston, in
Missouri, are requested each to furnish the
same number Of men. The people of Kan-as
are to6e s"!juga.ed at all hazards.
From the St. Louis Intelligence, 1st
A despatch from Independence, dated YES
terday, states that Jones, the Sheriff of Doug
las County, Kanzas and acting United States
Deputy Marshall, is still at Lecompton, with
hfty-two men, organized and equipped 10 aid
in enforcing the laws and suppressimg the in
surrectionary movements Of the Lawrence peo-
pie. The latter are organized also, and aril-
ing tor action. They have five pieces of can
non, and are reported 10 be well prepaid to
resist and defy the law.
The f" Law and order people of the Terri.
tory" which means the Pro- Slavery men,
are rallying TO the aid Of Jones, who has sent
10 Shawnee Mission for wagon load Of am
munition, ard for cannon. Jones las war
rant for the arrest of forty men at Lawrence,
and will proceed to execute it, we presume,
as soon as he is satisfied of the suficiency of
his force to the task. Then the conflict will
come, unless moderate counses aud reason
prevail, and we may have to chronicle the
slaughter of American citizens by those who
should be their brothers. The people of Law
renee refuse to deliver up the offenders, defy
tie law, and declare that they will hang Jones
and Coleman.
AS we raid yesterday, the Free State men
OF Leavenworth and other towns are gong to
Lawrence to side with the people OF that place
on the tight. The sky at the West looks lur-
id, and we tremble every moment lest we may
hear the clash OF resouhdng arms aud see the
smoke OF civil strife curling over the fields of
Kanzas.
The WAR IN KASzAs.-it appears that the
hrst telegraphic announcements OF civil war
in Kanzas all originated in the following de-
spstch which was sent from Independence,
Mo-, TO Jefferson City, where the Missouri
Legislature is now in session. 1t was dated
Nov. 20, and appeared in the Jefferson City
Inquirer of next morning:
:" Near Hickory Point, on the Santa Fe
road, three abolitionsts with ShaTps rifles
went to the clair Of Mr.. Coleman, pro-
slavery man, and ordered him to leave. He
was allowed ten minutes to leave, or he would
beshot. lie left for a short time, but return.
ed well armed lie met with one OF the men,