The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-12-29
COPY Of dispatch received here earl,

To DIR. McMurry and Col. Sam j Wood
son:-Your favor was received. / tho't
l was too well known in the community
to be thought capable of practicing a
hoax. The Marshal has a requisition
from the Governor, to arrest AZ men in
Lawrence, and they refuse to give them
up, and he calls for volunteers, and if
the citizens refuse to aid him, l cannot
help it. They also say publicly that
they will take Coleman and Jones, and
hang them both.
''They are drilling in the open prairie
every day, and have five fine pieces of
artillery, and openly bid defiance to the
laws.
ga large number of them were seen
crossing from Delaware and Leaven-
worth yesterday, going to Lawrence.
"a member of the Legislature was
from there yesterday morning for guns.
We can only send CO. Jones also sends
for wagon load of ammunition and
cannon.
"Now act, or not, as you please; if you
will send the cannon here, / will take it
there myself. In haste, A. G. BOONE"
Col. Boone did take the cannon near
here, but he knew his position too well
to point it upon Lawrence. He could
not be guilty of ''practicing hoax"
upon the people of Missouri, but he
could give currency to one of the most
infamous falsehoods ever devised, prob
ably through ignorance of the facts
"Bid defiance to the laws" The people
of Lawrence ''bid defiance to" no claw"
For one year they have lived without
law, and have hardly been guilty of any
improprieties which sound morality
would condemn. They bid defiance to
the proceedings of an armed mob wheth-
er it comes to take from us our dearest
franchises, to impose a Draconian code
upon us, or to enforce such code. To
call the acts of the ''barons," who con-
yened at the Shawnee Mission in August
last, claws, +" is disgrace to human leg
islation and intelligence. They would
have reflected lasting disgrace upon
school children who were practicing
mock Legislation for the purpose of ae-
quiring knowledge of parliamentary
rules, and should sink the real authors
of such code into lasting infamy.
The following articles are extracted
from the Leavenworth Herald of the 9th
inst. They appear in that journal under
its Ielegraphic head, save the first which
is the leading editorial. The letter OF
Shannon says Jones wants 8 5000 men as
a posse. A pretty strong posse that in a
sparsely settled Territory like Kansas
The poor simpletons could not see that
they were furnishing incontrovertible
evidence that the people of Kansas had
no hand in the Legislation of the barons.
They could not see that they were MAX
ing proof which We were desirous of get
ting before Congress, touching the un-
popularity of their pretended laws.
Every man they could get from Mis-
souri, was enlisted in their service, and
still they were insufficient. The Gov
ernor, to make his forces stronger, sent
three expresses to Col. SUMNER, COM
mander of the U. S. forces at Fort Leav-
enworth. for the entire strength of that
military post, because he dare not attempt
to attack Lawrence, and the people of
the Territory with his drunken rabble
from Missouri. But we are keeping the
reader too long from the following choice
articles from the Herald -
TREASON AND REBELLION IN KANSAS.
1t is with pain and sorrow we place
such caption as the above at the head
of an editorial this week; but the fact is
that open and avowed rebellion and trea-
son exist in our Territory. Little did we
anticipate at the commencement of our
paper. the first issued in Kansas, that in
fifteen months we would, as faithful Jour-
nalists, be called upon to lay before our
readers intelligence so startling, SO hu-
initiating and so painful. But tits true.
The abolitionists are in arms against the
laws and authority of the Territory
Failing in all the schemes and plans by
the ballot box to make the Territory a
den of thieves, and from this stand point
strike at the interests and institutions of
Missouri and the South, they now at
tempt to accomplish that end by a resort
to arms. For this they have received
arms and ammunition from Massachusetts.
For this they had formed months ago a
grand secret military organization IN the
Territory, called the Grand Army of
Kansas. And they have commenced their
work of rebellion, by reseuing criminals
from the hands of the officers of the law,
and have burned the houses of pro-sla-
very men, and driven their families into
the wilderness, and have set all law and
eoxz;;y,nr hU thar y1rnSS-