Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-29
Additional News from Kansas.

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to us from St. Louis, copied from the Pro
Slavery journals, were grossly at variance
with the truth.
We appended some additional items o
interest which 90 to show the fate tha
awaits the Free State settlers unless helI
soon reaches them. A correspondent O
the Cincinnati Commercial writes to tina
journal:
The war in Kansas has scarcely begun
Sunday, the 18th, passed in Leavenwortl
Extras were issued on that day and the day
before, calling upon the people of Missour
to arouse. Dispatches were sent to Lber
ty, Platte Citv, Delevan, Mo-, calling fol
men, and offering 81 so per day. Coming
Immediately from the scene of war, as l dc
and knowing the press through which the
reported cause of present difficulties mus
come to be very questionable. l herewith
offer statement of facts: A military en-
campment of some $50 Georgians had been
located near OSsawatomie. Provision
wagons coming from Kansas City to the
Territory have been robbed of their contents
successfully, and often their owners mur-
dered, and teams and all taken. Several
of these have been traced to this camp. On
the 9th of August this camp was driven off
by a company of settlers, and fifty stand of
arms and lot of provisions taken as spolls.
A similar encampment had been in exist
ence in Franklin, near Lawrence; their op-
erations were mostly in the Horse stealing
line; a number were stolen in the immedi-
ate vicinity, and refused to be given up.
A company of $50 settlers attacked the
place: after three hours firing, the beseiged
having seven badly wounded, and the Free
State men one killed and three wounded,
they capitulated. Their arms and provis-
ions wcr. taken, and they ordered to leave,
the Territory. The report of the breaking
into and robbing the Post Office is absolute
ly false.
Facts have been grossly misrepresented
in regard to the murder of one Williams.
He was from Missouri, and formerly Pro-
Slavery, but had lately expressed himself
in favor of free white State. He passed
hard words with one Mcbride, Pro Slave
ry.1 He was shot while in the woods ma
king rails, and stated, on his death bed that
it was Mcbride that murdered him.
Hovt, a valuable and peaceably inclined
citizen of Lawrence, while riding on horse
back in the neighborhood of the encamp-
ment of Southerners, on Washington creek,
eight miles from Lawrence, on the 18th
inst. was taken prisoner-taken off his horse
and shot some five or six times through the
body. His horse and money were taken.
The citizens of Lawrence called upon the
United States troops to act in the matter.
They declined, saving that they had no au-
thority; so a company of some $50 Free
State men collected, determined to have
the murlerers; they marched on to the ecamp
when the murderers fled and escaped to
Lecompte. The citizens of Lecompte held
as prisoners five men who unsuspectingly
came into their place.-They were deprived
of their teams, and unlawfully detained.
Outrage upon outrage upon the Free State
settlers of Kansas, by these marauders and
thieves, has continued until forbearance has,
indeed, ceased to be a virtue.
On the morning of the 10Th cannon were
heard in the direction of Lecompte. Furth-
er particulars not known as to the attack.
F. G. w. Clark, Indian Agent, and the
of Barber, wero in Leayenworth
City, addressing the people, and urging
hem to action. The excitement was high.
Resolutions were passed to the effect to
lrive out and annihilate every d-d Alb
,litionist, as they termed ito commence
n Leavenworth City. One thousand men
we're expected the next day to march into |
he Territory, from Missouri; $50 of them
anne in the morning l left the lSthl. An
extensive and bloody collision, l think, un-
Lane, with the major part of
lis men, are in the Territory.
Another letter from Carlo, Ill, dated the
sd, says:
Last evening, party of fty-fonr landed
rom S. Carolina, at this place, on their way
o Kansas. They marched in regular array
rom the river to the hotel. They had the
ONE STAR on their caps, and the Palmetto
rec on their coats. They said they had
ONE by railroad to Nashville, where in
onsequence of low water in the Cumber
and river, they purchased fiat boat, and 4
Tere two weeks in descending the river to
be Ohio. Most of them were drunken,
urbulent fellows, and the people here were
leased to get rid of them. They left this
lorning without paying their tavern bills.
he landlord followed them to the steam
oat, and collected something from a few
f them before the steamer got under way
n St Louis. They openly said they ex
eeted to fight the Abolitionists in Kansas.
hey had it all their own way here. A +,
w days since a party of young men went ,
lrough here from Tennessee. They ap- h
cared to be a better looking set than the
arolinans, though they said they were 60
70 to fight to make Kansas Slave State.
One Of the numerous calls toarms, issued
} the people of Missouri by the Rufian
,a1ers we subjoin. 1t was adopted by a
leeting at Lexington, and addressed "to
le citizens of Fayette County" We give Y
My the concluding portion: '
Now is the time for ACTION. We 9
.ust hare men to 90 the Territory inamedi- !
tely, or all aOM be lost. The intention of .
le AboIilionists is to drive us from the +
erritory and carry the next election, and =
ct possession of the reins of government. :
his we must not submit TO. If we do, .
.ansas is lost to the South forever-and f
1r slaves in upper Missouri will be useless f
us-and our homes must be given up to /