New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-12

i,,,pected tina, every lover aud Order will rally
10 the ,cene Il Ou to put
Of Dougss County who eommttins upon per
60, and burning down houses and dec airing
he Utility fe.sce the laws have fo'bly rescued phs
be- Sss executed The outlaw said armed the teeth
Ar number GOO Every man should orns bis nile anma
and would DC wen 10 Two tsIy % 70 Fl.
and do his duty. MANI 'iIHhNS'
Few will respond to the above call from Kansas,
but many will from Missouri. The excitement
appears to have originated in quarrel between a
Missourian snd a Free-State man regarding a
claim. The Mssourian shot the Free State man and
then gave himself into the hands Of the appointed
Sheriff of Douglas County after which com
"pany of men from Lawrence went and demanded
the murderer from the Sheriff, for the purpose
"of trying him before Judge Lynch" This is, as
the story is told here by men from Lawrence,
where the difficulty occurred, upon hch his Excel
lepcy, Gov. Shannon, the pet of the Border Ruf-
fans of Missouri" has ordered the issuing of the
above proclamation signed by Lucien j. Eastin,
"Bripader General of % brigade northern division
" of Kansas Militia" Where the General received
his ii lie is not as yet known, nor was it known
that he claimed it, until it was seen appended to
this call. He is the editor of The Kansas Herald,
and one of the Council elected by fraud last
March, This call to arms" signed many citi-
zens," was gotten up in Tile Herald Office by set
of hsBgersCn about that establishment, who
know nothing but to DO as they are bid by Eastin.
Az TO the genuine lovers of law and order (the
Free State party obey ing this cali, they will not
unless it assumes different shape from what il at
present presents. Tie Lawrence men have
burned down no houses, have not declared resist
snce to the laws, but small party of them have
npted TO take murderer from the hands of
one sided Sheriff and Judge, for the purpose of
try ing him before a committee Of good, honest,
upright, men, who would punish the murderer as
they on their Oaths would declare that justice de-
manded. The Lawrence men number about four
or i've hundred well armed citizens, who will die
at their doors rather than submit to this lawless
band of invaders and the blood which will there
be spilled will be but drop in the river which
must flow from a war commenced as this
is about to be- Many may think this prOclama-
tiOn mere hoax, and as such it was at first
looked upon by us here, and was undoubtedly so
regarded by the zone sided Governor" but he
did not know (Or il is to be hoped he did mott that
in the border Counties of Missouri there were
armed associations Of rufiians who stood ready at
any mOmen. to march upon Lawrence. or any
other town that might entertain Anti-Slavery
sentiments. Such, however, is the case. have
il from reliable authority that there ave several
thousand border rufiians" enrolled and waiting
some pretense like the present to deluse with
blood the land they have already made almost un'
inhabitabe. by forcing upon 1t Legislature who
lave pretended to enact laws for its government.
What the result of the meeting to be held here TO-
morrow will be it is hard TO divine. The leaders in
the affair in this place say ther object is to annihl
ate the Town of Lawrence. This am satisfied will
be attempted if the hordes now expected come
from Missouri. The Platte Argus Of the Goth inst.
publishes long string of falsehoods, such as are
calculated to arouse and excite the feelings of
Missourians against the citizens OF Kansas, and
saws that "the citizens of Weston hold themselves
sin readiness TO march to the assistance of Coz.
Shannon aud their friends in Kansas" Buchanan
County, Missouri, has also offered its assistance.
-Four hundred rihemtn from Independence are
already on the march toward Lawrence. What
the end Of this i'll be it is difficult to guess. We
who have come to Kansas to make for ourselves
bone, are not TO sit quietly and see our neighbOr-
ing towns destroyed without offering some resist
ance vet TO resst is almost certain death. We
fear We ale not strong enough TO contend against
such force as Missouri can bring; but where
shall We look for help Not TO the Emgant Aid
Society-ihey have already cursed us enough Not
TO the pre-, est Administration Though large
majority of US are or were Administration mem,
vet we now look for the Administration to turn
the screw once, after the border rutans have
done their worst.
II Kansas could be left alone to make its own
institutions, elect its own rulers, adopt its own
laws, &c. 10 better country or people could be
found in the Union. The squatters of kansas are
high minded enterprising, industrious class OF citi
zens vho believe that il 10 better to die in defense OF
their rghs than TO patiently submit to the powers
I'll be, 10 wit Stripefelow and the Missouri
mObOcrsts first, Gov. Shannon next, aud l fear
TraIk Pierce must be put al the tail end IN order