The true Democrat., 1856-06-10
From the St. Louis Evening Pilot, 18th inst
 The Lawrence Affair.

From the St. Louis Evening Piot 2Sth inst.
 The Lawrence Affair.
 The following extra we have received from the Dispatch office, Independence, Mo, and We lay it before readers, believing it to con. tain more reliable account than any we have yet received:
 IMPORTANT FROM KANsAs--TRIUMPH OF LAW
 AND ORDER!
 Independence, Mo, May 23, 1856-We learn from gentleman just from Lawrence, that he passed there on yesterday, late in the afternoon; and that, at that time, the sheriff, Jones' who was not killed, was executing the process of the courts. He had arrested several prisoners, charged with high offences, and had, under pro- cess from the courts, abated several nuisances amongst others, the emigrant aid hotel in re- ahty fort, and built to enable Robinson and his band to hold out against the laws. The two printing presses were destroyed, and large quantity of material. Several pieces of artillery taken, and about two hundred Sharpe's rifles. (When will Parson Beecher and Prof SIlllman get mp another subscription for the benefit of the rutfiansD
 The Herald of Freedom was just being printed, and we have copy of the half printed sheet, from which We will make some ex- tracts in future. Yesterdays proceedings prove Brown to be a false prophet, however.
 No violence was done to any person in the town or to any private property, nor any insult offered to any person.
 Up to the very hour of sheriff Jones' entry upon the scene, they strongly proclaimed their resistance to the territorial authorities, and their valiant determination to die at the end of their guns before they would submit. The presum- ed entry of that gentleman amongst them. however, produced wonderful change in their feelings.
 We learn that the affair was managed in this wise:
 The U. s. Marshal having summoned a posse to assist him in executing the laws, mov- ed on the ground with his posse--in all 4oO or 300 men-and took his position upon the hill overlooking the town. He then went down and made some arrests without opposition, they all declaring that they did not intend to resist him, (which was lie because Reeder had done it not week before, as we'll as others)
 They seemed to chuckle over this, as if much ado had been made about nothing. The mar shal then came up with his prisoners and dis missed his posse; but sheriff Jones was upon the ground and although still feeble from his wound, he took the saddle, and at cnce sum- moned this posse to his aid as sheriff
 He then rode into the town at the head of twenty men, and announced to General Pome- roy and other prominent citizens, his business, which was as sheriff, to arrest certain men there, to take from the rebellious organization their arms, and to abate the fort, or hotel, and presses, as nuisances-that he desired to effect this peaceably if he could, and that they could decide whether it should be done peaceaby or hot ho to make the decision.
 Knowing their man, they who, an hour be- fore, swore resistance, lost no time 10 consent and submit, and the Iosse moved down about o'clock, F. M., and without noise or confusion, proceeded to abate the nuisances, which was done in about two hours and after the prisoners were arrested, they withdrew.
 It cannot be charged now that Missourians had any hand in this, for it is certain that the whole force on the ground was of the territo- ry itself, and did not number one- fourth of the southern citizens therein. It doubtless will be charged to be another Missouri invasion, and we emphaticaly give it the lie in advance.- There are large numbers of our citizens who sympathize with their friends in Kansas, but their sense of right, as well as of policy, pre- vented them from going, and they have not gone. It is the bona fte residents of the tenito- ry who have contributed to this triumph of the laws, and it shows to all the world that they can and will see them executed.
 These northern gentlemen who think it their mission to regulate the affairs of the rest of the world may find that they have mistaken their vocation, if they expect to conquer southern and western men in the open field. They do excel us in the manufacture of wooden clocks and such like enterprises and we have never l.,,k L tch. the history of Kansas, that they are our mas- ters in the polite art of rif1e-shooting, either in skill or willingness of the weapon-and if they are determined to bring this matter to bloody issue, let it come now!
 In truth. what commentary is this surren- der of fortified Lawrence, upon which so much monev labor and wind have been expended, to intmidate, upon the valorous boastings oi Beecher and Greeley. What lesson upon the usefulness and efficacy of that terrible in vention, "Shafpe's rifle," to unstring oul southern nerves! Would it not be better to cross the Puritans with race of men who will use weapons when they are put into their bands and make less ado about their deeds, tt be done in the newspapers?
 How is this stampede of officers and men tC be accounted for on any other ground than sheer cowardlce!
 They have been claiming all along large population in Kansas, and have brought out congress committee to prove It, and yet, oeint in conscience opposed to the laws With TOT ti6ed town, and abundance of arms Tn then hands, and loud proclamations to all the worl' that they would defend it with at least three hundred resident men, and, Gas they claim, two thousand seven hundred and seventy en rolled in their secret league, they tamely sub init to less than five hundred men,
 Their dilemma is that they have lied as t theirnumbers, or slunk away like towards whe the crisis came.
 We commend them to the prayers of Parso Beecher. eF