The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-06
The Dead Alive Death on Pale Horse Also on
Pale Brandy

@n0 O0aH A4AVe -Oe2tn on a PaIe Horse ALSO on
Pale Brandy.
There was one remarkable fact connected
with the sacking of Lawrece, in Kansas, that
the leader of the party was the notorious
JoneS-the identical man who was recently
shotby some unknown person for attempting
ing whom an immense amount of capital was
expected to be made off the Free State men,
although they disowned the act. The ruffian
friends Of Jones put out piteous dispatches
about the poor mans condition. Never poor
devil suffered the tortures of Jones. Jones
spine was crushed-Jones' limbs were paral-
yzed in consequence-Jones' fortunes were APP
palling-Jones' groans were ringing in the
ears of the correspondent Of the Missouri Re-
publican while he wrote-Jones was dying
and too PROSTATE to kick-Jones was dead
he had finally summoned up sufficient strength
to "kick the bucket" Poor Jones had a sad
time Of it, and the sadder the news of his I'M
lucky situation, the louder and angrier the
shouts and anathemas of the ruffians and their
sympathizers, at the unparalleled outrage of
the Abolitionists who had thus maltreated the
mortal parts Of the immortal Jones. AS
though q thousand souls were all swallowed
up and concentrated into the one big soul of
Jones, he was a mighty subject of sympathy
and indignation. His friends forgot that for
this one man so basely wounded and killed so
very dead, they had killed dozen "Aboli-
tionists, to say nothing of tarring and feath-
ering many more, stealing horses, plundering
houses &C., &c.
But Presto The shot Jones-the spinal
crushed Jones-the paralyzed Jones-the
shrieking, groaning Jones-the dead Jones'
the wept for, the cursed about the to-be-re-
venged-in- blood Jones-is suddenly seen rid
ing on horse back at the head of posse of
scurvy- looking men from the borders of Mis-
souri-aye, riding many miles, making arrests
in Lawrence, vigorously attackinga hotel with
cannon, hitting its walls at distance of TWEEN
ty ards thirty times out of thirty-two shots;
help ing to murder man who was seen fee
ing from house breaking open trunks ; rob-
bling women of their shawls jumping on and
off his horse with that dreadful spine of his !;
and doing more swearing than would fill the
lids of the biggest family Bible in the country!
Was there ever before such resurrection p
Did dead man ever before do such deeds" !?
Did ever poor paralyzed body, with a crush
ed spine, perform such prodigies of gymnastic
activity
Now, the only way to account for all this
is-Jones was never shot at all Our own
impression is, however, that Jones agas shot
that he was :" shot in the neck, - and that
there was afterwards decided weakness in
the back, and probably pretty general paral-
yzation of Jones' limbs, at least enough to
prevent him walking with that degree of dig
nifty comparable with the position of a Kan
sas Sheriff But that Jones was shot in the
back, or in any other place but the neck, we
totally disbelieve. We believe it all a dirty
trick of the Ruffians to arouse a more deter
mined indignation against the "Abolitionists,"
and to create the belief that any officer of
Kansas attempting to do his duty would be
shot by the Abolitionists. The trick would
have been carried on much farther, and Jones
probably died several times to crafty his
friends, but his services were needed to carry
out the Lawrence outrage. This was terri
BILE mistake on thepart of the ruffians. 1t ex-
posed the whole trick-yet to adopt such a
trick, proves that they have no real outrages
for which to hold the Free State men respon-
sible, bat are compelled to vamp up and act
out horrible affairs on their own account, to
arouse Indignation against men who will not
initiate the crimes Of the ruffians.