The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-11-17
Exaggerated Stories.

The border press seem good at con-
cocting large stories with which to
frightea the cHIvALEY. The Kickapoo
Pioneer states that we have :, 900 Sharp's
rifles in this city, and that we are fully
organized to resist Missouri interference.
1t says that we have sixty thousand
rounds ofcartridges ready for instant use.
Good for the Pioneer According to
the Frontier News statement last sum-
mer, those who come here from an ad-
joining State hereafter, to NEEDLE with
US or our institutions, evil see sights"
in reality, if their reports are true. Every
man armed with Sharp's rifle is equal
to ten men armed with other instruments.
With three thousand of these instruments
we are at once equal to an ordinary army
of $4,000 soldiers. Poor show for
"border rufians'' to display their chiv-
airy in and about Lawrence with these
figures.
The Leavenworth Herald says the
Emigrant Aid Co.'S Hotel in this city is
built of stone, three stories in hight, with
a fat roof. Above this roof is a terrace
several feet in hight. also of stone, which
is designed for a breastwork. This
breastwork, says the Herald, is pierced
with port holes, and will accommodate
two hundred persons on the roof, and
from this point, with their Sharp's rifles
they have complete command of the
plain for several miles in every direction.
Why did not the writer add that every
house in the city would become for
tress in case of an att9ck, and that the
women were determined on joining hands
with their husbands and brothers in pre-
venting violence upon the town?
The last Leavenworth Herald, under
the caption, TRAITORS Exposed" states
that we have secret military organiza-
ton, which is co-extensiye with the Ter
ritory, in which
"The members are bound together
by secret oaths and obligations, and
have instituted signs, grips and pass
words, in order that they may know
each other. Every reliable Free State
man in the Territory is to be fur
nished with rifle, a brace of pistols
and sabre and required to take an oath
to hold himself in readiness to march
into service under his superior officer
when called upon, and that he would 60
to the rescue of the person or property
of any Free Soiler who would be brought
by force into obedience to the present
laws of the Territory.
''There is constitution and ritual to
organize subordinate encampments, by
the most solemn oaths, inviting the Free
Sellers of Kansas, into an army, for the
purpose of resisting the laws, who are
to be supplied with all the implements.
They are bound to go to the assistance of
any member of the order who may be
arrested for a violation of the laws Of
the Territory. The Boston Abolitionists
have contributed 100000 for the pur-
pose. Sharp's rifles, Colts revolvers,
and sabres are to be furnished every re-
liable Free State man in the Territory
When the day comes, we shall see, what
we shall see'
The Herald closes its article as fol-
lows:
can organized secret band of con-
spirators plotting treason and disunion
exists in our midst. The object of this
order is to war upon the institutions Of
the South and make Kansas free State,
at all hazards. Southern men, do you
hear that! You know your duty"