Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-09

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correspondent-of further outbreaks Of rufiian-
ism on the part Of the sclfstyled "law and order
party.
cerber was the day fixed upon for taking 9 vote
rcf mo nrople upcn the new Pre- .Statc Constitu.
ton. Upon that day large body Of the same
Missouri, Border lsufians, alAtely lengaged in the
invasion of Kansas, assembled in the town OF
I.eayenwoyth ,ander pretense Of being honorabiy.'
discharced friins their late highly distinguished
services in the cause of .law and order, and
being so assembled to the number Of hundreds,
and with arms in their hands, these brave men
whom fhe mere report Of Sharps rifles had lately
frightened away from Lawrence, took advantage
of the absence Of the Free State men At dinner,
10 make an attack of wonderful boldness (for,
| thenal upon the room where the box votes was
deposited, and which was guarded at the time BY
I only three persons, Two of these who were.
armed made good their escape the other, who
| was unarmed. the Border Rufians attacked with
their accustomed intrepidity, beat him and would
| have killed him on the spot, had he not been
rescued by a few Free State men, and one pro-
slavery man, who, mustered 20 defend him.
NB BY this great achievement the Border Raifinns
xerc cxaIted 10 high state Of ferocity; nor does
mncl, pluck appear to have been exhibited on
the other side Leavenvorth has but few Eastern
| men. 1t Is the principal seat of the Sqnatter-
| Sovereignty Free-State party, who were so anxi-
| Gus that the Topeka Convention should secure the
counteIiarice and support of Cass and Douglas by
| indorsing the overeignty falsehood Of
! the Kansas Nebraska bill These Douglas Free
State men seem to have been completely cowcd
and frightened and to have submissively knocked
| under to the violence of the ruffians, who APP
near to have succeeded incompletely breaking up
the ballotting in that place on the Free State
Constitution. ~
Leavenwortli, it will be recollected was tho't
by the Lawrence men, according to the state
ments of our correspondent to have rather
shown the white feather during the recent seige
not having done SO much as might reasonably
have been expected from SO large q place in the
way of forwarding aid and reinforcement to the
beseiged Free-State men. And now they expe-
rience the common fate of trimmers who attempt
to sit on two stools-that Of falling to the
| ground themselves. However there is much to
be said by way of apology for the Leayenworth
| men, They are Immediately on the Missouri Dor
/ der, exposed to the whole fury Of the Border
1 Rufian INVASION They seem to have no leaders
on whom they can rely, and worse than that, no
4 Sharp's rifles. Give them these-and we trust
i they will not long want theni-and We doubt
i not, another time they will give better account
Il both ofthemselyes and of the Border Rutfans.
q But the outrages at Leavenworth did not cease
with the breaking up Of the balloting on the Free
State Constitution. A william who had been con
| cerned in an attempt at murder at Kickapoo, a
| village few miles north of Leavenworth, having
4 been arrested upon legal process and examined,
| was committed to the same Jail at Leavenworth,
| in which McCrea was recently imprisoned. His
friends thereupon mustered in force, liberated the
prisoner, and burned down the jail we snail see
what Gov Shannon says to this new rescue. win
he issue another proclamation, and forward an
other Geographic dispatch to the President for
aid? WhatShannon may do is however, not now
of the least consequence. az. +.z. .,s,sz,s-
Whatever may be thought and said as to the
past, for all outrages, burnings and murders that
may occur in Kansas, the people of the United
States will hold responsible, not Shannon, not
Stringfellow nor Atchison, nor any other subor-
dinate or wire-puller, but Franklin Pierce, Pres
ident of the United States, and the Democratic
party, SO called, whose instrument and officer he
is Before the President undertakes to indulge
in maudlin lamentations over the alleged disre-
gard or neglect of the laws on the part of 9TH
ers, let him first give small specimen of Wig
Il or by himself protecting the people of Kansas
/ against Border Rufiian plumber and murder. fasa