Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-25
NEWS FROM KANZAS
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE,

The Conspiracy Against Kanzas--Thc
Free Sane Men 10 be Ex;ermIuated--
Fall and Authentic Particulars.
By the kindness of friend, we have been fur
nished with a slip from the office of the Chicago
Tribune, in advance of its publication, which we
copy below -
We knew that the report of the ST. Louis
Republican which we published yesterday, had
secret meaning in it which a day or few
days at most would reveal. That revelation
has come. Hearit, Freemen, and act.
For some two months or SO, the Border
Ruffians have been seemingly quiet. All Is
peaceful in Kansas they said. Z" We have
news oforder and quiet in the Territory" re-
peated the St. Louis Republican. This was a
blind; all this while, the Border Ruffians
were preparing to make a grand sweep over
the Territory, to band themselves together,
and by one descent, murder, or drive out of
Kanzas, the white Free State population?
l. Bufords men and the Georgians and
Tennesseans remained in Kanzas with the
Missourians and erected Notifications, calling
them colonies, IN different parts of the Terri
tory. These Notifications number some ten
or twelve. There are three in Douglas coun-
ty, twojat Ossawatimie, one of them command
ed by Coleman who murdered Dow, and the
rest extend along the Missour River
2. The Missourians have been furnishing
tie Carolinians, Georgians, and their own
men with provisions, ammunition, sc.
8. When all was ready, the hufhans made
no secret of their plan. They thought that
they had the Free State men in their power
They resolved to exert it. The question as to
the time of attack was the only point, and this
was to be Immediately after the adjournment
of Congress.
4. The river meanwhile was guarded at eve
ry point, and no Free State man reached Kan
zas up the Missouri or through the State of
Missouri.
5. So certain were the Rufhans Of success,
that on the 18th, Mr.. Hoyt OF Massachusetts,
was shot down on the prairie, by the Rufians,
at the Block House, near Washington Creek,
and on the same day another Free State man
was killed by these brutal murderers.
Seing this state of things, and knowing that
life or death hung upon the issue, the Free
State men resolved to meet the crisis like men.
They could not wait-for to do that would be
to insure the success of the Ruffians. They
dared not do it-for, not only would their
property be sacrificed but their wives and chill.
dren be ruthlessly violated, and they murder
ed. They concluded, rightly as we think, to
meet the foe, and to show him that he was not
feared, Cn9y determined TO aJLaCk MIN IN one
of his strongholds.
LIST, Franklin was one of the dens of the
Ruftians They occupied a block house in the
town. This block house the Free State men
attacked and carried who had one man killed,
Edward Sackett, from Detroit, and two more
badly wounded-Jack Brooks and - Gun
ther. Five others were slightly wounded
The Rufians being strongly fortified, escaped;
only four were wounded--but they cried for
quartz r, and surrendered The body of them
ran like troopers. The Free State men took
sixty stand of arms, one cannon, powder, and
large amount of stores. These arms had
been mostly stolen from Lawrence, and We're
identified though among them were few
United States muskets.
The story of the ST. Louis Republican, as
to the robbing of the post office, or The sack
ing of Lawrence, is all lie. Not building,
not citizen, nor the property of any citizen,
was destroyed or disturbed. The ault was
+ confined to the marauders' dent began there
and ended there. No people know better how
to respect personal and private rights than the
freemen of Kaazas.
This is the true state Of affairs in Kanzas.
A special messenger, whose yeracity cannot
be questioned, reached St. Louis on Monday
morning, and furnished these details. The
forthcoming news from the Territory will be
looked fer with deepest interest. Our belief
is, that the Free State men will be true, and