The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-06-17
KANSAS REVISITED.
LAWRENCE, State OF KANSAS, /
Monday Evening, June 4.

Y3 Monday Evening, June 4.
Editors of Chicago Tribune. ie
If any of my letters appear disconnected,
or end abruptly, you must attribute the fact
to irregularity Of private conveyance, not tc
rhetorical affectation.
! Yesterday morning had number Of incl
dents, partly written out but none of them
complete. was waiting for additional nfor-
nation; but friend was preparing to leave
town, SO / was obliged to send you as many
paragraphs as were completed, without at
tempting to connect them till the latest news
was received.
The Post Office is a nuisance. The Post
masters between Kansas and the East, are
either a brotherhood Of thieves, or there is
one most unscrupulous and audacious robber
among them. During my second visit to
Kansas, l lost at least thirty correspondence
letters, and | presume / would have been
! equally unfortunate if had trusted them a.
gain.
OF three letters posted between St. Louis and
Kansas City, have ascertained that two
were intercepted on the route.
The night before Lawrence was sacked, the
mail was robbed at franklin. The ruffians
boastcd that they had found out everything
the Yankees intended to do their means Of
defence, or their helplessness rather by break
ing open and reading the letters the citizens
had passed the previous day. "Every one
told something" said one fellow, and some
found out everything
As We must trust exclusively to private
conveyance, we cannot afford to lose single
chance. In writing my last letter. had not
time to describe the condition of affairs at
Leavenworth; the escape ofMr. Phillips f.om
the Border Ruffans; the result of the expe-
dition to defend Mr.. Storrs; the capture of
Capt. Jcnnigan, of Columbus, Georgia, and
several other interesting and unwritten Incl
dents
FREE STATE oUTRAGEs.
You will hear reports of innumerable out
RACES committed on pro-slavery men-of
Southerners driven from claims, robbed, men,
accd and oppressed in every variety of style.
Stories to the prejudice of the Free State
Squattcrs, are being circulated in the Border
Counties. They are false. Every guerrilla
party we meet, we intend TO disarmand drive
out of the Territory, and every article of pro-
perty stolen from Lawrence will be recovered
III
arc outrages, VIC intend TO commit them;
but these are the only outrages we will per-
petrate.
REIGN OF TERROR IN LEAvENwoRTH.
As soon as the rufians who plundered
Lawrence, returned to Leavenworth City, a
reign of Terror, was instantly inaugurated.
| received notice, from save-hoder-a Mis-
souri, friend-that your correspondent had
been spotted" and that, if was not eau
tious would be assassinated before week
passed over, by some of the pro-slavery rab-
bic. have been threatened so often, that
did not pay much attention to my friends ad-
vice.
On the following day, Free State boy
overheard a conversation between Gen. Whit
field and Mayor Richardson, in tho course of
which, the Mayor said:
'As long as that ID little Abolitionist,
R--h, sits there, writing, writing, all the
time, we can't get anything done. We must
get him out Of tie ray"
A still more significant warning was given
me on the slime afternoon. knew the fell
lows too well to expect any mercy, or honor
able treatment from them if / was captured,
or in their power, and therefore went over to
Lawrence TO expose their vlainy here, and
left Mr. Phillips at Lcavenworth to report
their mis-deeds on the 30th. March. Mr..
Phillips was not known personally, to so
many of them as am, and he thought that
he could remain there in comparative safety.
But he soon found that he was mistaken
On the morning of the 26th May, the sub
Joined insoent Threat which is copied verba-
tn, ct iterat;n', was posted up on the door
of the Office Of the Investigating Committee
M IC MAY 20.
Messrs. Howard & Sherman. Sirs with |
feeling of Surprise and Disgust wee have
been noticing the unjust manner in which |
you have been Conducting this Investigation
Wee wish to inform you that you can no
longer sit in this place ga
Wee therefor request You to alter your
obnoxious course in order to avoid the consc-
quences which may otherwise folloy-
Capt. Hemp; in behalf
Of the citizens
Leavenworth City,
l9if 1856.
The manner in which this warning was
treated by the members Of the Committee
was highly indicative of tho character of the
men who compose it. Sherman, young and
impulsive, read il, curled his lip, walked in
to the room, and spoke Indignantly Of the
cowardly threat TO his friends.
Howard, phlegmatic and cool, looked at
it, scraped his chin while reading it, took
out his penknifc, opened it slowly, cut down
the notice, folded it up carefully, put 1t into
his vest pocket and never alluded to the SUBJ
ject at all. flef iit srr re
Oliver when he read il, looked vexcd, and
did not commit himself by ut
tering word. -
HEMP FOR REPORTERS.
On the same day on which this notice was
posted up, Major Richardson was sitting in