Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-12-26

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E;nce ms Is<s, esesy thing here has been n y. !
s,rpat rtat1 81 exeitefnegit but tie newg brongn
1 siur;ne the IA twe1ts four houss has great,
Changed tke sspsct 81 a6sirs Yesterday, ~ i
oclosk, vas The hour mentioned for the attack :.
4 commence, bat ~ soi1ie raeaas did not
TIE last ness was brought 81 ns last nissstf
4 about o'clock bv parties who lea here 81
"Wednesday morning last. and bare bern at law
renee all the true. Fran their retort ~ appear
! that Gov. shannon has stepped ost oi his iorfne
f,os;ton and declares he has been imposed upon
and naissnorrned rs 10 the true state OF things
lie ends thar his intorrnants are men interested
| in harinz Lawrence DESTROYED, ss they arc a'
| pro-siayery men, and Interested in the town o
Lecompton, and Lawrence il OF course, grea'
bugbear to them.
The Missonrisns numbered about 800 men II
| both camps. AT Lawrence they had collected
about zoo men. who came there to die or be ric
,orious They we're 70 fight for their homes and
families, while the mob, on the other hand. had
nothing q, stake, bnt the pleasing OF few poiit
ical hacks. After Cor. Shannon had aconversa
ton with some Of the men from Lswrenee. he
saw his folly; and the entire strength OF Law
renee placed itself in his hands for the preserEa
ton of the public peace, and the sustaining OF all
them, and BY that means, they have clearly out
generated the mob party.
And now that the mob find they have been
brought there upon the representation OF few
interested men. they are loud in their denuncia
ton Of them, and wouldn't mind fighting among
themselves.
have been talking with q man who has just
come in from the scene, and he says the Nilsson
rians are leaving for their respective homes, as
fast as they can, and they all seem to be of one
mind. Damn Kansas, il may 20 to hi before
they come over again. This is the third time
they have come over to clear ont the "darned
Yankees" and each time have gone home with
out fight, and they are now convinced that the
men they have to deal with are not made OF
straw ! know of some instances of personal ex-
posure that are truly beautiful to contemplate.
II is an assurance doubly sure, that the blood Of
our forefathers has not degenerated one iota from
tile days of'76, but that the present generation
is chip off the old block, and had the mob
gone into battle this time, they would have found
they had a mighty foe to compete with. They
were well armed, and provided with cannon, and
in my opinion those Skarp's Rifles had very
deletcrious effect upon the minds of the mob
1t was against the descendants of the men of rs
they had to march, and it does not surprise me
at all that they looked twice at the road, before
they set out upon it.
am glad the affair has happened. 1t has
put the men of Lawrence right where they want
to be understood to stand willing to respect
Constitutional laws and to resist all that are not
and having taken that stand, to die rather than
prove recreant to it. The mob know this now,
and think the political leaders will have hard
work ever to get them to come again. Lawrence
having conducted herself so prudently, has made
friends by it, and secured the respect of those who
before, had no conception of their character.
We have just had another express from Law
renee; all is settled and the camp ofthe mob has
been broken up, but at last accounts the Lawrence
people were still throwing up their entrench-
1nents They have some four or five embank-
mants thrown up in different parts of the town,
and in case ola fight would have used the stone
hotel for fort, and itwould have been good one.
The towns near here are all jealous of the in
creasing Importance of this point, and in order
to throw stain upon it have threatened to tear
down this hotels as the property of the Emigrant
Aid Company, and it was greatly feared they
would do it on their return from Lawrence, but
the citizens of this place met in meeting to adj
wise some means of averting the threatened des-
truction, and a circular was drawn up, setting
forth the facts in relation to the hotel, stating
that it did not belong to the Emigrant Aid Com
pany, but private individuals; that they were
gentlemen and kept just such a house as we wan
ted.-A committee was then appointed to pro-
coed to the scene of war, and if they heard any
threats of the kind made, to produce this circu-
lar and use their best endeavors to crush such a
feeling. They went, and have returned, and re-
port that their mission was entirely successful !;
and such a feeling was put down, except by a
very few, who, if they attempt it, will get ,rhipp-
ed, as the citizens to a man, will defend it; but
we apprehend no further trouble now Ion