Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-14
The Kansas Rebellion.

Truth, like Justice, is accustomed to
limp little, aud-especially since the in.
vention Of the tclegraph-is often out.
stripped by Falsehood. However, in the
long run she is apt to win the race, and
that she now seems likely to do even in
the case of the famous Kansas rebellion, of
which We give to-day a full account in the
letters of cur special Kansas correspondent
and in extracts from the lawrence papers.
The disturbance, it now appears, was
begun by the shooting in cold blood of a
young man named Dow by one Coleman
at Hickory Point, place twelve miles
south of Lawrence. The young man hav-
ing got into some alteration with a party
of border ruf!ians at blacksmith shop.
left them, when the opportunity Vas taken
by Coleman to shoot him in the back.
The murderer fled to Lecompton and put
himself under the protection of Gov. Shan.
non, probably with the lie in his mouth
which has been telegraphed through the
whole country an attemp. had been
made to drive him from his claim, which,
by the way, he had stolen from another
man; that he shot Dow in self defense
and that subsequently his house had been
burned and his family dispersed.
Listening as We may suppose, to these
representations, Gov. Shannon orders
Jones, the sham Sheriff for Douglas coun-
ty-who is also, it seems, Postmaster of
Westport, Missouri, where doubtless he
lives-to arrest Mr. Branson and to oblige
him 20 give securities to keep the peace
the only otfensc committed by Branson
being that Dow had been lodger in his
house, and that Coleman seems to have
stood in fear Of his testimony. As this
sham Sheriff was carrying off Branson, he
and his posse of fifteen armed men were
intercepted by party of fifteen of Bran
sons neighbors, who released him from
arrest; of which circumstance advantage
appears to have been taken by Shannon
to issue warrants against Mr.. Pomeroy
and a number of other leading Free State I
men OF Lawrence, who were accused of
having been concerned in this rescue. As
Jones, the sham Sheriff, gave out that
Shannon was ready to back him with "ten
thousand men," and as the people of Law.
renee did not choose to allow their town
to be entered by that or any other num-
Der of border ruffians, who, under pre-
tense Of putting down resistance to the
law, mil ght rob, burn and murder at dis
rretion, they mustered with their Sharp's
rifles, which fact being communicated to
Gov. Shannon, he forthwith calls upon the
for aid, and telegraphs to the
President that Lawrence is in rebellion
All sorts of extravagant and ridiculous
stories are spread through Missouri, and
thence through the Union, and the border
rufians muster in force under SEannon's /
standard. Their invading march, how
ever, is speedily arrested by the apparation
more terrible to their guilty dreams than
that of Macbeth's daggar to bim-of 200 |
of Sharp's rifles and five pieces Of cannon,
presenting to these intending murderers
not their breeches, but their muzzles-
warned by which dream these valiant vol
unteers think it best to wait for regulars
from Fort Leavenworth. Such is the
whole story as it is stated by our special
in The Territory, for whose
in this and in every other mat
ter We can fully voucb, and who, in this
is confirmed by every other res
pectable authority.-N T. Tribune.