Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-26
A Record of Rufianisnl.

The Pierce Buchanan presses AZ Il 20 disbceve or IN
make their readers believe, that T. cpUrted outrages in
Kansas and Washington cxas atoms or "Repubcan
hes" Most sincerely do wish - re Lies ard thai
there basis for them We Il II 81, any -
ation, for effect, injue al or personal oppo-
nent Any who will stoOI Sab sSort for perso, 81
sympathy or political effect j. ire should be
spurned by every honorable . Unfortunately for onr
buchanan friends the rcpcrs Political Rueia-
ism il Kansas and IL Nash;ngi4,, are
Gan Ger true talen
We cheerf1y admit that these reports appear fabulous
seems almost impossible to believe that the daily record OF
crime OF deliberate murders Of organized nYasons upon
the rights of peaceable czenof government troops called
out IN arms o protect the mobof the sacking towns-of
the lynchng cZenso the unwarranted arrests without
process OF awof the destruction presses it is dcult
to BRING the consderae mind believe atrocities
are tolerated in our land much that they prompted
ana actually done by and under the order of
national government But alas Is true The damuing
facts are sealed i'll blood The wiow and the orphan The
prison walls Wondering ashes the aceing victim tyranny
ami more all attest the truth the reports which daily
reach us aud call aloud for retbuton Nor does ythe
OF me realty reach u.s. Ten tines many similar
ourages perpetrated The gnaon cannot distort
or eXagserate the reality The "ruth stranger than c-
ton" We sUf( list of deeds that burn anthem
ticated by legal evidence. Thegart Of the Congressional
Committee now in Kansas viii add hundred fold 10 the
catalogue Of enorutes aud executive sites; Int we
call the readers attention. TO fsss - bet. Tribune
sSax ao.n - the number OF over 1000
invade Territory, armed, drive judges ana, legal voters from
polls, and by fraudulent ballots pretend to elect Whitfield
March 30th 1s35-Neary 1000 Mssourans again invade
Territory and repeat the outrages committed in November
lst 1s53.-Thrd invasion Of Assourians accompa-
| MED by similar outragcs.
Dec 10 ls55.-Fourth INVASION by which an endeavori is
made to vote down the Free state Constitution but proves
a failure.
! May 81 1S56--Jones a Missouri postmaster heads an
armed mob Of Alabama, Carolina and Missouri men, which
marches against Lawrence pagcs and plumbers it, with
oence to the inhabitants the burning OF yeral buildings.
MURDERS
Oct 2nd, 1S55Thcs, Newman, Free State man. stabbed
in the street OF LeavenNorth by gang Of Mssouriaus
Oct End, 1S55-Chd killed while at play, by a Missouri
who fired at James Fnham, Free State man. which
missed him and entered a window
/ - 4 Free man CHI
by T. n Coleman proslayery settler: murderer takes
uge with Coy Shannon, and is protected by him
mill, where he at work. and slFot by Laughn, pro-
Dec = IS55-James Barber Free State man, assaulted
and murdered by shot in the back from the gun Of u
President Perce's Indian Agents
Jan. H. S55E 2. Brown Free State man. taken pris-
oncr by gang OF Missourans hacked to pieces with knives
and hachets, and his bleeding corpse thrown into his
door, from the effects OF which lis waoH IS maniac
May 20, lS56.John stewart forH y Of BIshiord, Ale
ghny Co., y " young OF ~ sho. in his saddle while
nay -, 1ssGjones the only sen Of bis mother she
widow aged 10 shot ~. the bach 10y Of Jones
posse, because lie refused 70 give a lis f-sc with which
/ he supported himself and his widowed mother
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
Dec % lS55Territorai Re gster, an Administration
per at LeaVenwort conducted 10y Col Deahay mobbed fer
advocating free state presses broken to pieces type thrown
into the river, and the EDITOR threatened WIN murder
Apr IA, lo56Parkvie iuminary, at 9arNyilc, on the
frontier moSbei by Missouraus for similar GAUGE and the
editors Nessrs PARK and Patterson obliged % quiz the STATE
hay FL, leo6Hcra!d Of Freedom office Lawrence, Il l.,
Guccd to ruins
Tribune Office, Lawrence X T., mobbed ransackcd and
SET Oh e, and burned to the ground Presses & destroyed
IHNCHlNGs--ls 55 and 1886.
Sixteen Free men, at different times have been tar
red aud !eathered beaten both and Of them car
rie'l INTO Missouri, adr in the river. Among them
William Phip- LAWYER Of Leavenvsortl and mem
Der elect of he Territorial Legislatures Rev. Pardce Butlor
Baptist preacher; Rev. 2r Clark, Methodist missionary
ana other ministers OF ,he Gospel Of yarols denominations
Assaults and battery Sva been TOO numerous to recapu
ate hardly day passing without attack Free state
men in tie streets the high roads Among those assa
cd have been Gov Ree'!cr Gen. pomeroy, DC, &c
UNLAWFUL AEREsrs.
or Coy. Robinson, without q
warrant
OF Aessrs Bronson Hutchinson De,zler schuer Smith
thory Of pretended court 'h treason in refusing
to obey the laws Of the "Legature pretended to have
been elected by the Missouri invader
PEkrENpbD LAWS.
sept, ls55-Imposng penalty Of death for assisting
Imposing penalty death FOR circulating or printing pub
hcaiios calculated to incite slaves TO insurrecton
Imposing penalty Of death for assisting slaves TO escap
rom any state and take refuge in the Territory.
imposing penalty Of five years imprisonment at hard IL
Dor Tor Larhoriag fugitive slaves.
imposing penalty Of two years imprisonment Tor aiding
lugtiVe slave to escape from custody Of officer.
Imposing penalty of five years Imprisonment hard abo
oT Nriuns printing or circulating anything against slavery
Imposing penalty OF years Imprisonment hard la
Dor Tor Saying that persons have not right 10 hold slave
Dsqaaifyng all from sitting isrors who do sdmi
me right to hold slaves in the Territory.
psqnafyng all as voters who do 10: swear TO supper
Admitting any to vote payment Of 81, no matte
where resident, who viii uphold the fugitive
law and Nebraska bill.
Appointing Mssourans be town county offers fo
SIX years come.
ke-enacting the slave laws Of 7ouri, masse, addr
mat wherever the word state s shall be constI
ed TO mean Territory"
g 1TreSt Of the Supposed -Hgf,rer Of APplebee i
Chicago On Thursd.v Ar.n named McEvo
: was arrested at Louisville, on suspicion of hi
e being tie murderel OF Nj. Appebee. of Chicago
AS far as we can learn the suspicious are thest
that McEvoy went to borrow money from Ar
plebee, of whom he had before borrowed money
to purchase canvass, and that he kllleG him t
T obtain what he had