Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-04

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able the people of the Territory of Kansas to form
Constitution and State Government prep ,atory to
their admission into the Union on an eqlal footing with
the original States and against the motion to pn, the
same number of the amendments offered to the BILL and
the yeas and nays upon them.
Concluded
In the closing days OF November, lust be-
tore the meeting of the present Congress. Dow
was shot down in the highway-murdered in
eoio olood-oy Coleman, without cause, and
without warning. Was Coleman promptly ar
rested for this cold -blooded murder by YOUR of
fetal authorities Did Gov. Shannon exert
himselft to bring to justice the murderer? Cole
man was not brought to trial. B1anson, in
whose family Dow lived, under the excite
ment of the moment dropped some rash and
hasty expressions. Branson was arrested
Coleman, the cold blooded murderer, was al
lowed to go with impunity wherever he chose.
The party that took Branson from his home.
from his bed-was met several miles from
Lawrence by several Of his friends and neigh
bors, and invited to leave his new acquaintan-
ces, and join his old friends, and he accepted
the invitation. Then it was that your Gov
ernor Shannon-a man utterly unfit, as you
all know, to be the Governor of that Terrific
ry-tor he could not govern so small a speci-
men of humanity as himsef-issued his hasty
procamation-called out the militia, and tel
egraphed your President for authority to call
out Colonel Sumner dragons. Then it was
that fifteen hundred men from western Mis-
souri, invaded the Territory, marched to the
banks of the Wakarusa, with threats to wipe
out Lawrence, and drive the free State men
out of the Territory then it was that the peo-
pie of Lawrence were compelled to expend
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protect their homes, their families. and their
lives. Then it was that they appealed to Col.
Sumner for protection; but they made the ap-
peal in vain. Col. Sumner waited day after day
with his horses saddled, ready to move 10 the
protection of beleaguered Lawrence the mo-
ment he received his orders from the Presi-
dent; but orders to protect the people of Law
renee never came. Shannon becoming alarm
ed at the storm he had raised, made treaty
with the people of Lawrence, and then sent
TO their homes in Missouri, Atchson and his
retsiners. While these armed bands were
encircling Lawrence, Barber, man respected
and beloved, was cowardly murdered-mur-
dered, it is believed, by Clark, your Indian
agent-a man said to be the meanest Official
character in the Territory but that is saying
a great deal-for Shannon and Lecompte are
there vet. Has the Administration removed
this reputed murderer? Has the Administra-
ton caused any investigation into these char
ges against one Of your otfcialsS Have sena-
tors who have the ear of power requested the
President to remove this man, who is said to
have boosted that he " saw the fur fly" when
the ball from his revolver hit poor Barber in
the back, as he rode along the highway p
From this reputed murderer the President has
received official dispatches, which he has
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free State men. Dow and Barber sleep be-
meath the virgin sod of Kanzas Coleman and
Clark, their reputed murderers, go unpuuish-
ed-one guides border rufianism in its for
says, the other sends dispatches to your Pres.
ident, retains the confidence of this Admins.
ton, and his of6ce-which he doubtless prizes
quite as highly as he does the continued con-
tdence of the Administration.
The dastardly and cowardly assassins of the
heroic Brown, though known, have never
been brought to trial. This gallant son OF the
West--who had periled his life to rescue the
clerk of the election at Leaven worth, on the
18th OF December, for the adoption of the To-
peka Constitution, from the murderous as
saults of men who stood over his PROSTATE
form with uphfted axes-was brutaly chop
ped to pieces at the election of mem bers of the
6dfeitssty tho GGSstttttaaktion, and then
his home in she agonies of DEATH to breathe
out his life in the arms of his distracted wife
His 20 Wraruly aSsasslns are well known They
are the recognized leaders of armed bands:
Your law-and. order Governor offers no re-
ward for their arrest. Your judicial inegru-
ments are too busily engaged in arraigning Tree
State men for "high treason" and construct
i've treason" to bring these cowardly MUIR
derers to justice.
Your Indian agent, Gay, Of Michigan, was
recently murdered in cold blood by some of
these chivalric sons of the South who follow
ed the renowned Buford to the conquest of
Kanzas-to robbery, pillage, arson, and muir
der. His crime was not love of freedom-he
was friend OF the Administration; his crime
was the fatal admission that he came from
tree Michigan-that being presumptive proof,
In the eyes of these hounds, that he was in ia
vor OF making Kanzas free State. His muir
derers have not been brought to punishment.
Your Governor, Shannon, furnished arms and
ammunition to these followers of Buford and
these chivalIic men doubtless thought they
were putting your arms and your ammuni-
ton to good use, when they murdered your
Indian agent for admitting that he came from
the tree State of Michigan. Where are your
ilnbeclle officials your besotted Governor,
your judges. your district attorney, and your
marshal! Has your Administration sunk SO
low that it will not protect the lives or avenge
the death of its own official menials? Sena-
tors have not denounced this murder of a
Government official it was an unfortunate
mistake, no doubt-a very unfortunate mis-
take. The assassins can plead, if they are ever
brought to trial, in mitigation, that it was all
mistake-that they only intended to kill
" free State man Ian Aboitionist -
Their laudable intentions will doubtless be a.
valid plea in bar before your judicial junction
aries in that Territory.
Sheriff Jones, renowned for his brutal man :
ners and unhagging zeal for the support of
law and order, went to Lawrence to arrest s.
N. Wood, on the very day when the commit
tee of the House of Representatives com.
menced their sitting in that town The Sem
ator from Georgia tells us that he was shot,
and that he may die. There are men who do
not believe that he ever was shot, or that he
will die from any such shots. At any rate,
there has been something very extraordinary
in this case. which can never be explained to
the country. But, even if be had been shot
by some one whom he had wronged, are we
to hold the whole community responsible p
Did not the people of Lawrence assemble and
denounce the act ? Did not Governor Robin
son offer a reward of $500 for the arrest of
the persons Was not every effort made to
find out the person who did the deed, and did
not the Free State men, in and out of the
Territory, condemn the act
The ball l hold in my hand was shot
through boy eighteen years old, the son of
a widow. On his way home from Westport,
Missouri, he was stopped by these gentry who
keep guard over the passes into the Territory.
and required to give up what he had. he
gave up his arms. They then required him