The Evansville daily journal., 1856-06-18
OBJ d9)ailp JournaI,
From the Albany Evening Journal.
A RECORD OF KANSAS RUFFTANTsw


men" now prove to have been unfounded tb
i Dough Faces boldly characterize all statement
LOT outrages in Kansas as "Republican lies y
That there has been falsehood as well as trut
Esent over the telegraphic lines, by the Nilsson
rians who have control of the ST. Louis end ,
them, is unquestiouable. But these falls
statements do not inyalidate or diminish tn
real catalogue of crime. 10 enable our read
ers to keep the latter in memory, we subioi
below list Of few occurrences, which ar
authenticated by legal evidence, and which ar
not even attempted to be denied. There ar
five times as many other similar ones reported
and tolerably well authenticated But w
wait until they shall be officially and legal,
confirmed, before adding them to the list:
| t .INYASIONS. e
Nov 29TH, 1854
Missourians to the number of over 600 in
wade Territory, armed, drive Judges and lega
voters from polls, and by fraudulent ballots
pretend to elect Whitfield Delegate
MARCH 20rH, 1854.
Nearly 1000 Missourians again invade Ter
rtory and repeat the outrages committed in
Nov. preceding.
OCTOBER 1sT, 1856.
Third invasion of Missourians, accompanied
by similar out,ages ....t
DECEMBER 15TH, 1855 ~
Fourth invasion, by which an endeavor is
made to vote down the Free State Constitu-
ton, but proves failure.
MAY, 21sT, 1856.
Jones, a Missouri Postmaster, heads n arm
ed mob, of Alabama, Carolina and Missouri
men, which marches against Lawrence, pill
lagos and plumbers it, with violence to the
inhabitants, and the burning of several build
ings. ...r ..-.,
MURDERS.
OCTOBER %, 1855.
Thomas Neuman, Free State man stabbed
in the street Of Leayonwortn by gang of Mis-
sourians.
OCTOBER %, 1855.
Child killed while at play, by shot fred by
a Missourian at James Furnham. Free State
man which missed him and entered window.
NOVEMBER 23D, 1866.
Charles W. Dow, Free State man, shot by
f. n. Coleman, pro slavery settler. Murderer
takes refuge with Gov Shannon and is pro-
tected by him.
DECEMBER =, 1855.
James Barber Free State man, assaulted
and murdered by a shot in the back from the
gun Of one of President Pierce's Indian Agents.
NOVEMBER, 1855.
Collins, Free State man, called out from
his mill where he was at work and shot by
L2ughlin, pro-slavery settler.
s...1...- JANUARY l6, 1856.
i. P. Brown, a Free State man, taken pris-
oner by gang of Missourians, hacked to pieces
with knives and hatchets, and his bleeding
corpse flung into his own door-from the eff
fects Of which his widow is now maniac
MAY 20, 1856.
John Stewart, formerly of Rushford, Ale
ghany county, n. Y, "a young man of 20, shot
in his saddle while attempting to escape from
party of Jones posse.'' -,as..
MAY 10, 1856. .--.
Jones' I" the only son Of his mother, and
she a widow, aged 10, shot through the back,
by one of Jones posse, y because he refused
to give up his horse, with which he supported
himself and his widowed mother
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
DECEMBER 22, 1856.
Territorial Register, an Administration pa
per at L. Leagelworth, conducted by Col. d 3la
hay, mobbed for advocating Free State,
presses broked to pieces, type thrown into the
river and editor threatened with murder.
APBHl14, 1856.
Parkyille I4uminary, at Parkyllle, on the
frontier, mobbed by Missourians for similar
cause and the editors, Messrs. Park & Patter .
son, obliged to quit the State.
MAY 21, 1856.
Herald of Freedom office, Lawrence, K. T.,
fred upon with a field piece, by "Jones' ros-
se'' and reduced to ruins.
Tribune office, Lawrence, K. T., mobbed,
ransacked and set on fire, and burned to the
ground presses, &C., destroyed.
LYNCHINCtS-1S5 AND 1856.
Sixteen Free State men, at different times,
have been tarred and feathered, and beaten, or
both, and some Of them carried into Missouri,
or set adr:ft in the river. Among them were
William Phillips, lawyer of Leavenworth,
and member elect of the Territorial Legisla-
ture Rev. Pardee Butler Baptist preacher;
Rev. Mr. Clark Methodist Missionary, and
other ministers Of the Gospel, of various de-
nominations Assaults and battery have been
too numerous to recapitulate, hardly a day
passing without some attack on Free State
men in the streets or on the high roads,
Among those assailed have been Coy. Reeder,
Gen. Pomeroy, &c, &c.
UNLAWFUL ARRESTS.
OF Gov. Robinson, without warrant.
Of Mr. Brown, editor of the Herald of Free
dom, without warrant. .4s
OF Messrs. Bronson, Hutchinson, Dietzler,
Schuyler, Smith, Barker, and fourteen Others.
by Mssourians acting under authority OF a
pretended court, fsr high treasons,' IN reius-
ing to obey laws of the Legislature pretend
ed to have been elected by the Missouri n
yaders.
PRETENDED LAWS.
Imposing penalty of death for assisting
slaves to escape.
Imposing. penalty of death for circulating or
printing publications calculated to incite slaves
10 insurrection.
Imposing penalty of death for assisting
slaves to escape from any State and take refuge
| in the Territory.
Imposing penalty of five years imprison-