The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-05-09
The News from Kansas.

The /" Sheriff Jones +" who has been shot
at Lawrence, Is q Missourian whose resi-.
dencc is Westport, Missouri, where he has
held the Office Of postmaster. He has never
removed his residence to Kansas, where his
only claim to be considered one Of tho in.
habitants is, that he has staked out claim
in some part Of the territory, and perhaps
engaged in city lot speculations ut Le-
compton or Atchison. lie was elected to
the Office of Sheriff by the notorious " Ba-
ronial Assembly, p he being still citizen Of
Missouri. Even his friends, in their letters
concerning the late affair at Lawrence, un.
dcsigncdly let out the fact that his residence
is still at Wcstport, Mo. In one of these
letters, written from Westport to pro-
slavery paper, we find the following state
ment; General whitcfcld sent dis
patch, by an express rider, to Col. Boone,
Of this place. The latter received It this
morning carly, and Immediately left in n
hack for Lawrence, with Mrs. Jones, the
vito Of the unfortunate Sheriff." II must
be admitted, that IL the " Baronial Assem-
bly," which was entirely tho creature Of
Missourians, is to DO treated as tho "Legis-
hturc Of Kansas" and IL its infamous
edicts are to be enforced as the I" local laws
Of Kansas, IL Is quito consistent that the
+" Sheriffs and other agents employed in
tho business, should DO residents Of Nilsson
RI. This was necessary in order to give the
country o complete illustration of what
Pierce, Douglas, Atchison and the rest Of
the slavery propagndists mean by "Squat.
ter Sovereignty"
Tho Missouri Republican Of May has
IN account OF the meeting Of tho people Of
Lawrence, to express their sense of shooting
of Sheriff Jones. Resolutions oondemnina
this murdcrous act were adopted, and Gov.
Robinson offered reward Of $500 for tho
arrest Of tho culprit. At this meeting Gov.
Rccder said: -,
"lf the man who struck that blow did Il
70 help our cause, he must have been blind
and insane In his reasonings, and ignorant
Of tho very first idea of the position and
character Of the Free State cause. He must
bear the consequences Of his deed. I have
40 sympathy with one who would trifie with
the lives and property Of tho people here.
We are not bound TO let any man, no mat.
ter what may DO tho cause OF his lactions
% to act rs to mar the prospects of future
succcs. We haze fro alternative, pres,u,,d
10 us-which.we cannot evade, II wo would
thai Of add6tny our otrn cause, that Of des.
iroyiHg our orn prospects, and doing vio-
lencc to our own opinions, or dtnosnesng Me
1uthor Of this act"
Gov. Robinson said:
Ell verify believe that not man In Law.
rcnce had anything to do with that tnnnc-
lion. II may be asked would they shoot NJ
,ne d their own men? I have partialIy
limited at the reason. have said. that IN
his matter, q mans life is of no Account
II the slave power of this coup try. IN order
% possess this territory, required that M
Jones should lay down his life, or bc expoced
o tho shots Of his friends, then Mr.. Jones
must expose his life, then those shots must
70 fired. They tried It on free state man;
/ failed. Now II Is necessary, in order to
set up another trouble, that Il should DO
,ro-slavcry man in good earnest and II the
rec state men would not 90 into 1t, why,
will not say they themselves would do Il,
nj j. looks very much rs if that was the
asc." T.