The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-05
THE WAR IN KANSAS.

no doubt that the Slavery Propaganda, led on
by Federal and Territorial authorities, by the
Governor, Marshal, and Sheriff, and furnished
with arms by the Federal Executive, have tri-
umphed over the People Of Kansas, if not sub
jugated them.
An extra from the Office of the Lexington
County Express, received at st. Louis on the
26th of May, states that, after Marshal Donald
son had entered Lawrence, and arrested all
the people for whom he held warrants, he
turned his posse 1.-THE Pro-Slavery men over to
Sheriff Jones, whose attempts TO make arrests
were resisted, his men being fired upon-that
the Sheriff then cannonaded and set fire to the
hotel and the Office of the Herald Of Freedom.
II is added, few lives were lost. No other ac-
count reports resistance to the Sheriff. and we
may therefore infer that the statement on this
point is groundess.
An extra Of the Kansas City Enterprise Of
the 22d, another Pro Slavery paper, received
at st. Louis on the 9th, says that Jones took
about twenty men into Lawrence, and at his
demand General Pomeroy delivered up all the
rifles aud cannon he could collect, for which
Jones gave him receipt; that the latter then
requested Eldridge to remove the furniture
| from the hotel, but this being declined, the
posse then entered and carried the most of it
into the street; that Jones gave express orders
that private property should be jured, and
particularly that Robinson's house should not
be touched; but that, after a portion Of the
posse left, the house was burnt, and during
the excitement one man was shot, and another
was killed by the falling walls of the hotel.
Any one can see that this, too, is a one
sided account intended TO present the conduct
of the mob in as favorable u light as possible.
Both accounts, however, admit the destruction
of the hotel, the office of the Herald IF Free
dom, and the burning of Robinson's house.
One says that the people fired on Sheriff Jones,
the other, that the People delivered up their
arms and the cannon; one says few lives were
lost, the other, that one man was shot, another
killed by falling walls. Both represent Sheriff
Jones as active and energetic. Was his wound,
them half so bad represented2 Was
his back bone really paralyzed, and did he
come near dying, as his friends reported? If
so, his rapid convalescence is miraculous.
May 9th, st. Louis sends forth additional
particulars the Republican, slavery Propa-
gandist,) and the Democrat, (Bentonian,) hav-
ing both received letters from Kansas The
correspondent of the Democrat says, stores
and dwelling houses were indiscrimiuately bro
ken open in Lawrence, and robbed-that one
man, named Johnson, had drafts and land
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S2,000-that Mr. Tophhi appointed last fall
by Governor Shannon, as Colonel of the mill
tia, was robbed of his commission, private pa
pers, watch clothing, and $500 in money
that the house and library of Mr.. Brown edit
or of the Herald IF Freedom, were fired twice,
but each time the flames were extinguished by
the citizens.
1t would appear from this, that the tender
respect of the law-loving Sheriff for private
property was not shared by President Pierces
friends, the posse comitatus. Why should not
private property be appropriated as a reward
for their dsinterested public virtue? "Muzzle
not the that treadeth out the corn"
The Republican of st. Louis, of course,
hri,a,s tLG- =,
that, on the 23d, two hundred Free State men
were collected at Lawrence-( THE second day,
remember, after the reported destruction Of the
place that the Free State men proboblv at
tackled the garrison at Franklin on the nigh.
OF the 22d-(ihe day after the destruction OF
llawrence) -that Judge Cato, of the District
Court at Osawattomie, had been prevented from
holding a session by threats Of violence from
the Free State men-and that it was under
stood that Governor Shannon would order 100
United States troops TO be stationed at Osawat.
tonne, 100 at Lawrence, 100 at Topeka 1t
will be observed that the Republicans state.
nient is made up of mere rumors of very i'm.
probable events--quite different from the exact
statement Of the Missouri Democrat.
teiegraphic despatch from Chicago. Nav
18th, gives a summary of news by the West.
port (Mo.) Times of the 23d. 1t says that the
investigating Committee still at Leaven.
worth that Schuyler and Conway. who had
been seized 10y the mob at Parkville, were set
at liberty on the 20th--that Robinson and
Brown were still prisoners at lecompton-that
the mob had shot a Delaware Indian near
4 a.
wares threaten revenge. 1t proceeds
after the arms in Lawrence had been do.
livered up, Gov. Shannon was requested bv the
citizens TO interfere TO prevent outrages. but he
declined. Mr.. Schuyler then called upon Mr.
Oliver to induce him TO use his influence with
Gov. Shannon, and Mr.. Sherman made the
} same request Mr.. Oliver promised to answer
i'm fifteen minutes but he neglected To do 90
"Previous TO the entering of Lawrence bv
the posse, Gov. Shannon :agreed, if the arms
were delivered to Col. Sumner, only sufficient
number to make the arrests would be allowed
to enter. He afterwards declared that the arms
should he delivered to the posse, and that the
hotel, Herald Office, and breastworks, should
be destroyed"
Then comes the following despatch:
Chicago, Nay 2S.-Ex-Gov. Reeder and
Mr.. Fogg, Secretary of the Kansas Investiea.
ting Committee, arrived here this afternoon
having come through Missouri, narrowly es
Gaping with their lives. Gov Reeder address
ed an immense crowd here tonight. and at
tends the Republican Convention, at Bloom
ington, tomorrow. Thence he goes to Wash
ington. He confirms the reported destruction
: OF Lawrence"
Meantime, from all the accounts received
we learn that no fewer than six murders hav,
been committed
The Washington Union hopes that the ac
counts of burnings and murders are exaggera
ted, but exults over the work of destruction
the rebels are subdued, the North is subjected
, the South triumphant. All that is wanting now
, according 90 the st. Louis Republican, and tn,
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