The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-07-04
lnvasisss.
NoyKxBER %, 1854.

NOVEMBER ~, 1904.
Missourians 70 the number Of 1000 in
wade Territory, armed, drive Judges and
legal voters from Polls, and by fraudulent
ballots pretend to elect whitefeld Delegate.
MARCH 30, 1855.
Nearly 1900 Missourians again invade
Territory and repeat the outrages committed
in November preceding.
0cToBKs, i, 1855.
Third invasion Of Missourians, accompa.
MED by similar outrages.
DxcKxBKR Is, 1855.
Fou,th invasion, by which an endeayor ]:
TO vote down the Free State Constitution
but proves failure.
Mar 81, 1856.
Jones, sNIissouri Postmaster, heads an
armed mob Of Alabama, Carolina and Mis-
souri, men, which marches against Lawrence,
pillagcs and plumbers il, with violence 10
the inhabitants and the burning Of several
buildings.
Msrders.
OCTOBER 9, 1855.
Child killed while at play, by shot fred
by q MiSouri,n ut James EIrnam, Free
State man, which missed him and entered a
window.
NOVEMBER %, 1855.
Charles W. Dow, Free State man, shot
by Z. n. Colem,n, Pro-Slavery settler
Muro'' 'rer takes refuge with Gov. Shannon
and Is D. detected by him.
DECEMBER, 1855.
James B,rb, V, Free State man, assault
ed and murdered 6y shot In the back from
the gun of one Of 4 ''erces Indian Agents.
NOVEMBER, 1885.
Collins, FreeSt.te man. called out rom
his Mill, where he was at wo TX, and shot by
Laughlin, a Pro-Slavcry settler.
JANUARY II, 1856.
Z. p. Brown, Free State man, taken
prisoner by gang Of Missourians, hacked
TO pieces with knives and hatchets, ana his
bleeding corpse flung into his own door,
from the effects Of which his widow is now
u maniac.
MAY 90. 1856.
John Stewart, formerly Of Rushford, Al
legany county. y. ", young man Of 20,
shot in his saddle while attempting to es-
cape from party Of "Joues' posse"
Mar 10, 1856.
Jones, '.the only son Of his mother, and
she q widow" aged 10, shot through the
back, by one Of "Jones's posse" because
he refused to give up his horse, with which
he had supported himself and his widowed
mother.
Pristing Omees Ds-trs,ed.
DEcExBER %, 1855.
Territorial Register. an Administration
paper ut Leavcnworth, conducted Nv Col.
DEL.iIAY, mob,d for advocating Free
State, presses broken to pieces, type thiown
into the river, and editor threatened With
murder.
APRIL IL, 1855. II
ParkriRs Lumnary, at Parkyille, on the
frontier. mobbcd by Missouri ms for similar
cause, and the editors. Mcssrs. PARK 4 Par
rrRsoy, obliged to quit the State.
Mar 81, 1856.
Herald Of Freedom Office. Lawrence, X.
T. fred upon with field piece by '.Jones's
posse" and reduced TO ruins.
Tribune Office Lawrence, X. T.. mobbd,
ransacked, and set on fire, and burned to
the ground, pres, &C., destroyed.
Ly Uehiag---isss aud so.
Sixteen Free State men, ut different times
have been tarred and feathcred, or beate.,
or both, and some Of them carried into Mis-.
souri,, or set adrift in the river. Among,
them were William Phillips, a lawyer OF
Lcavcnworth, and a member elect of tho
Territorial Legisl ,turc; Rev. Pardee But
Ter, Baptist preacher; Rev. Mr.. Clark, n
Methodist Missionary, AM other ministers
OF the Gospel, Of various denominations.
Assaults and battery have been TO numer-
Gus to rccapitulate. hardly day passing
without some attack on Free State men, in
the street or on the high roads. Among
those assailed have been Gov. Reeder, Gen.
Pomeroy, &C., &c.
Usiawfsl Arvesfs.
OF Gov. Robinson, without warrant.
OF Mr.. Brown, editor OF the Herald of
Freedom, without warrant.
or MeSrs. Bronson, Hutchinson, Dietz-
Ter, Schuyler, Smith, Baker, and fourteen
Others, by Mis~ourians acting under author
ity OF pretended court, for "high TREASON"
in refusing to obey laws of the .sLcgisla-
TURF pretended to have been elected by the
Missouri invaders.