Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-25
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! Awaiting themselves Of the fact shat the RI.
Inors Of the alleged death of Dr.. Root, Gen,
Pomeroy, and Mr. Mitchell, the shooting Of
Jones, and the killing Of .eight pro-sisvery
mem now prove 10 have been uufounded, The
doushfaces boldly characterize all statements Of
outrsges in Kanses as "RsPubIican lies"
That there has been faisehoodsas well rs truth
seat over the telcgraphic lines BY the Missouri.
ans who have charge Of them Is unquestionable.
But these false statements do not invalidate OF
diminish the real catalogue OF crime To enable
| our readers to keep the latter in memory, We
| subjon below { list Of few occurrences, which
! are authenticated by legal evidence, and which
| are not even attempted 70 ba denied. There are
i've timos as many other similar oaes reported,
and tolcrably well authenticated. But We wait
until they shall be officially and legally confirm
ed before adding them to the HIST
INvAsIoSs.
November 20, ,lS54.--Aissouvians to the num-
Der Of over one thousand Invade the territory,
armed, drive judges and legal voters from polls,
and by fraudulent ballots pretend to elect Whit
field, delegate.
sourians again invade the territory and repeat
the outrages committed in November preceding.
October l, ls35.--Third invasion OF Missouri.
ans accompanied by similar outrsGes.
December Is, ls55.--fourth invasion, by
which an cndeaycr u made 70 vote down the
FREQ state constitution, but proves failure.
May q, ls58.-Jones, a Missouri postmaster,
heads an armed nob Of Alabama, Carolina and
Missouri men, which marches against Lawrence,
pillages and plumbers it. with violence to the
inhabitants. and the burning Of several build.
ings.
MURDERS.
0ctOher IakH --Thamap Newman fro>.
state man, stabbed in street of fLeavenworth BY
gang oil Missourians r. -
October 2, lS55.--Child killed while at play,
by shot fred by Missourian at James Fur
nam. free-state man, which missed him and
entered window. e,i ssft1r
November 90, ls55--Charles w. Dow, free.
state man. shot by F. n. Coleman, . pro-slavery
settler. Murderer takes refuge with Gov. Shan.
non and is protected by him. zp;
December -, lS55.-James Barber, free state
man assaulted and murdered by shot in the
back from the gun Of one Of President Pierces
Indian Agents.
November, iS55.--Collins, a free.state man,
called out from his mill, where he was at work,
and shot by Laughlin, q pro-slavery settler.
January II, ls56.-E. P. Brown, free-stats
man, taken prisoner by q gang OF Missourians,
hacked to pieces with knives and hatchets, and
his bleeding corpse flung into his own door
from the effects Of which his wife is now ma.
MAC.
May 20, ls56.-John Stewart, formerly Of
Bushford, Allegheny County, N. 7. a young man
of 20, shot in his saddle while attempting TO es-
cape from party of "Jone's posse"
May 10, l856.-Jones, 'the only son of his
mother, she a widow" aged 10, shot thro'
the back, by one of "Jone'si posse" because hs
refused to give up his horse, with which he
supported himself andhis widowed Iuothes.
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
December 90, ls55.-Territorial Register, an
administration paper at Leavenworth, conduct
ed by Col. Delahay, mobbed for advocating
free state, presses broken, type thrown into the
river, and editor threatened with murder.
April IA, 1s55-Parkville Luminary, at Park.
vile, on the frontier, mobbed by Missourians
for similar cause, and the editors, Mcssrs. Park
& Patterson. Obliged to quit the state.
May 81, ts56.--Herald of Freedom office,
Lawrence, X. T., fred upon with ield-piece by
Jones posse and reduced to ruins.
Tribune office, Lawrence, <. T., mobbed, ram
sacked and set on fire andburned to the ground;
presses, &c, destroyed. ,+--,+5
LYNCHINGs-iS55 AND '5g.
Sixteen free-state men, at different times,
have been tarred and feathered, or beaten, or
both, and some of them carried into Missouri,
or set adrift i'll the river. Among them were
William Phillips, lawyer OF Leavenworth, and
a member elect of the territorial legislature;
the Rev. Pardee Butler, Baptist preacher tho
Rev. Mr.. Clark, a Methodist missionary, and
other ministers of the gospel Of various denomi-
nations. Assaults and battery have been too
numerous to recaptulate, hardly day passing
without some attack on the free-state men In
the streets or on the high roads, Among those
assailed have been Governor Reeder, Gen. Pom.
eroy, &c. s.t e:ss-g.s- l&sss
UNLAWFUL ARRESTS,
Of Gov. Robinson, without warrant.
Of Mr.. Brown, editor of the Herald of Free.
dom, without warrant.
Of Messrs. Bronson, Hutchinso-, Dietzler,
Schuyler, Smith Baker and fourteen others, by
Missourians acting under authority Of pretend
ed court, for 'high treason, in refusing to obey
laws of the Legislature" pretended to have
been elected by the Missouri invaders.
e.s.-,..- PRETENDED LAWS. Ical
September, ls55.-Impcsing penalty of death
for assisting slaves to escape. zr4
Imposing penalty of death for circulating or
printing publications calculated to incite slaves
to insurrection. ses3 tsfj sfF
Imposing penalty of death for assisting slaves
to escape from any state and take refuge in the
territory.
Imposing penalty of five years imprisonment
at hard labor for harboring fugitive slaves.
Imposing penalty of two years imprisonment
for aiding fugitive slave to escape from custody
of an officer.
Imposing penalty Of FIVE years Imprisonment
at hard labor for writing, printing or circulating
anything against slavery. eli
Imposing penalty of two years imprisonment
at hard labor for saying thai persons have not
a right to hold slaves in the territory.
Disqualifying all from sitting as jurors who
do not admit the right to hold slaves in the ter
ritory.
Disqualifying all as voters who do not swear
to support the Fugitive Slave law.
Admitting any one to vote on payment of one
dollar, no matter where resident, who will swear
to uphold the Fugitive Slave law and Nebraska
bill
Appointing Missourians to be town and coun-
ty officers for six years to come.
Re.enacting the slave laws Of Missouri, en-
masse, adding that wherever the word "state"
occurs in them it shall be construed to mean
territory"
SECRETARY MARcY's IDEA OF A LEARNED Man.
Secretary Marcy (said certain member Of
Congress who shall be nameless, to certain
correspondent of ours who is nameless1 is not
only n distin DuiShed stafesuuan hut he Iovas b,-