The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-19

called upon me- WIN nine otness 70 sc. - Yo{h 49,
Jacob Brsnson, under peace warrant ssasd py hugh
Caa.eoa nstice Of te peace, tbat BE proceeded With
said sheriff 10 Hickory Peln 10 said county and mere
rested said BransOn With whom they proceeded 10 The d.
recion q Lawrence; when house on the Wakarusa
an armed mob of persons amounting 10 between thirty
and forty rushed om behind said house. and by force did
rescue SAID Banen out Of the hands q SAID shssn
Branson and refuse to deliver him to said sheriff that the
said sheriff told the sald mob that he held said Branson
un der peace warrant properly issued BY legally au
thorsed officer aud that he was sheriff OF said county of
Douglas and charged with the execution OF said writ
The leader Of raid mob replied 70 said officer that they
knew him Mr. Jones' but not sheriff OF Douglas coun-
ty He then told them that be would call out the militia
TO enforce the law Their reply that he could not get
TO enforce said laws lie told them, then that he
would call the governor for assistancs to which thesaid
mob replied that they had no laws and no officers and TO
pitch in Said mob stood with their guns cooked and pre-
sented at the time Of said rescue.
This deponen further saith, H. w. Buckley, OF said
county OF Douglas was with said sheriff at the time Of said
rescue as one Of said her posse that during the same
night on which said rescue was made said aant saw
light in the direction or said Buckley house. and that he
fully believes said house at that time burned that
he believes from circumstances within his knowledge that
said house together with his own burned by persons
concerned with said mob and that he has to be-
ieve that of said houses fred by said Branson
aforesaid assisted by German commonly called Dutch
Charley and they counseled and advised thereto by
Farley This aant further says that the time Of
the of said prisoner he house Hickory
Point and that he there saw three women who told him
that there had been an armed force that day notified them
to leave and all other prosasery families in the neighbour
hood and since said families have left said neghborhood
and fled to the State Of Missouri Said aan that he
believes there at that time ia sand about
fifteen prosavery families, nearly all of whom have fled
aforesaid to the State Of Missouri for protection Said
armed force was represented 10 consist OF from one hum
dred to one hundred and ffty armed men:
Sworn and subscribed before me, s. G. Cato, Associate
Justice of Kansas Territory
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Territory Of Kansas, So: Z"
Be 1t remembered that this sixth day of December
in the year A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me-
of said Territory of Kansas Harrison Buckley, Of lawful
age who being by duly sworn, saith that ne Is c
the county Of Douglas and has resided therein since
3Oh day of March last and has resided during all that
tune at Hickory Grove that he informed good au-
thority and which he believed to be true, that Jacob
Branson had threatened his life both before and after the
death of the latter understood that Branson that
deponsnt should breathe the pure air three minutes
after returned this deponent at this time having gone
down to Westpor Missouri That il was these threats
made in various shapes that made this deponent really
fear his lfe and which induced him to make affidavit
against the said Banson and procure peace warrant to
and be placed in the hands of the sheriff of Douglas
county. That this deponeut with the said sheriff Is
j. Jons the time the said Branson was arrested which
took place about two or three o'clock in the morning That
Branson 10 bed when he arrested by said sheriff
that pistol other weapon was presented at the said
Branson by any That after the arrest and after
the company with the sheriff had proceeded about
five miles 10 the direction of Lecompton the county
of Douglas county, the said sheriff and his posse
were set upon by about between thirty and forty
men, who came out from behind house, all armed
with Shapes rifles, and presented their guns cooked
and called who they were and said Branson replied
that they had got him prisoner and these armed men
called on him to away Branson then went
their side and Sheriff Jones said they doing some
thing the would regret hereafter In resisting the laws
that he sheriff OF Douglas county and as such had ar
rested Bronson These armed replied that they had
laws sheriff. and governor, and that they knew
no laws but their guns The sheriff being overpowered,
said 10 these That if they took him by force OF arms be
rode off This deponent further states that there have
been three houses burnt in the Hickory Point settlement
this Opponents house, another belonged to Joshua
Hargis, and the third to said Coleman All had In the
world burnt up leaving vile aod children without
clothing. This deponents wife and four children fed to
Missouri where they still remain with their relatives The
house of deponent burnt down. il is said shortly be-
fore daylight in the morning The wives and children OF
both Coleman and Hargs also fed 10 Missouri where they
still remain. There about fifteen or sixteen lawabi-
ding families in The settlement called the Hickory Grove
settlement about the time these differences sprung they
have all been rced by and threats of these armed
men, fee with their wives and children TO the State OF
Missouri for protection, acd still remain there These arm
ed have repeatedly in my presence said that they
would resist the law by force and there law Ia this
Territory These threats have been repeatedly made by
these men for the last three months And further this de-
ponent saith not.
II. H. BUCKLEY
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above stated
before me- j. NJ Burre associate justice supreme court
Kansas Territory.
Me,.rs lam, aDd Pogiosou n Tie prsslIenf