Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-07-08
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POMEROY, TUESDAY, july 81 1856 . -a. u [ -
by A. THOMSON.
A Record Of Kansas Isufiianisun.

DI "A. lnUMpON. 5ae lasd
A Record OF Kansas RuflianisWa. +
Awaiting themselves Of The fact that the
rumors Of the alledged death of DR.. Root,
Gen. Pomeroy, and Mr.. Mitchell, the shoot
ing of Jones, and the killing Of "eight Pro-
Slavery men" now prove to have been un-
founded. the doughfaces boldly character
ize all statements Of outrages in Kansas as
"Republcan lies" That there has been
falsehood as we'll as truth sent over the tel
egraphic lines, by the Missourians who have
charge OF them, is unquestonable. But
these false statements do not invalidate or
diminish the real catalogue Of crime. To
enable our readers to keep the latter in
memory we subjoin below d list Of few oc-
currences, which are authenticated by legal
evidence, and which are not even. attemp-
ted to be denied. There are FIVE times as
MANY other similar ones reported, and tole-
rably well authenticated. But we wait un-
til they shall be officially and legally con-
frmed before adding them to the list: '
=, INvAsIoNs. f. ......
November 29, 1854.
Missourians to the number Of over one
thousand invade Territory, armed, drive
Judges and legal voters from the polls, and
by fraudulent ballots pretend to elect Whit
field Delegate, L.-aa
Nearly four thousand Missou,ians again
invade the Territory and repeat the outages
committed in November preceding.
-..--., OcTobER /, 1855. .fa.F
Third invasion Of Missourians, accompa-
MED by similar outrages. .qf.i ...
DECEMBER Is, 1855. J 9..lal,.
Fourth invasion, by which an endeavor is
made to vote down the Free State Constitu'
ton, but proves failure. al.
,.' .lr.f MAY FL, 1856. as.. l.,3
Jones, a Missouri Postmaster, heads ar
armed mob of Alabama, Carolina and Mis-
souri, men, which marches against Law
renee, pillages and plumbers il, with vio'
lence to the inhabitants, and the burning O.
several buildings.
... MURDERS.
.. .. October 2, 1856. .....
Thomas Neuman, a Free-State man
stabbed in the streets of Leavenworth by 9
gang of Missourians.
OCTOBER 2, 1855.
Child killed while at play, by shot fired
by Missourian at James Fernam, a Free
State man, which missed him and entered 8
window.
NOVEMBER 90, 1866.
Charles W. Dow, a Free-State man
shot by F. N. Coleman, Pros Slavery set
tier. Murderer takes refuge with Gov
Shannon, and is protected by him.
DKcEMBER -. 1855.
James Barber, Free-State man, assaulted
and murdered by a shot in the back from
the gun of one Of President Pierce's Indiar
Agents. t b.. .o.r. ,a-..
NovEMBER, 1855.
Collins, a Free-State man, called ou
from his mill, where he was at work, anC
shot by Laughlin, Pro.Slayery settler.
.. ' JANUARY II, 1885. .,
E. P. Brown, Free-State man, taker
prisoner by gang Of Missourians, hacked
to pieces with knives and hatchets, and hi
bleeding corpse flung into his own door
from the effects Of which his widow is nov
maniac. ,Hr ...u .. .........
.nrs MAY 20, 1856. ...a....
John Steward, formerly of Bushford, AL
leghany county, N. Y, young man Of 20
shotin his saddle while attempting to es
cape from party Of "Jones' posse"
/ .s. May 10, 1856. u
Jones, 'the only son of a mother, and sh'
a widow" aged 10, shot through the back
by one of "Jopes' posse," because he re
fused to give up his horse, with which h
supported himself and his widowed mother
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
-o December 90, 1855
Territorial Register, an Administrator
paper at Leavenworth, conducted by Col
Delahay, mobbed for advocating Free
State, presses broken, type thrown into tn
river and the editor threatened with mur
der. . a. S' H
April ID, 1866. ,
Parkville Luminary, at Parkville, on tn
frontier, mobbed by Missourians for simila
cause, and the editors, Messrs. Park & Pat
terson obliged to quit the State. '.t
a-5 ~ MAY2 1856. . '..
Herald of Freedom Office, Lawrence, K
T., fred upon witha field piece by Jones
posse, and reduced TO ruins. s4O ash'.H
Tribune Office, X. T., mobbed, ransacket
and set on fire and burned to the ground
presses, &C., destroyed. pia7 t'a ln1
| LYNcHINGs-l855 AND '56. aM8c
! Sixteen Free-State men. at different times
have been tarted and feathered, or beaten
or both, and some of them carried into Mis-
souri, or set adrift into the river. ANON
them were William Phillips, lawyer Z
Leavenworth, and member elect of th
| Territorial Legislature; the Rev. Parde
| Butler, a Baptist preacher; the Rev. Nj
Clark Methodist missionary, and othe
ministers of'the gospel, Of various denomi
nations. Assaults and battery have bee
too numerous to retapitulate, hardly a da
passing without some attack Oh Free-Stat
men in the street or on The high roads,
Among those assailed have been Gov. Red
der, Gen. Pomeroy, &c. ''aS2 y eng" q.