Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-06-13

a few occurrences, which are authenticated
by legal evidence, and which are not even at
tempted to be denied.
Invasions.
Nov. Goth, 1854.
Missourians to the number Of over 900
invade the Territory, armed drive Judges and
legal voters from the Polls, and by fraudulent
ballots pretend to elect Whitfield Delegate.
MARCH 30th, 1855.
Nearly 1000 Missourians again invade
Territory and repeat the outrages committed
in Nov. preceding.
OCTOBER lst, 1855.
Third invasion of Missourians, accompa-
MED by similar outrages.
DECEMBER 18th, 1855.
Fourth invasion, by which an ondeavor is
made to vote down the Free Constitution,
but proves failure.
MAY 81, 1856.
Jones, a Missouri Postmaster, heads an
armed mob of Alabama. Carolina, and Mis-
souri, men, which marches against Lawrence,
pillages and plumbers it, with violence to the
inhabitants, and the burning Of several build
ings.
Murders.
OCTOBER I'd, 1865.
Thomas Neuman, a Free State man, stabbed
in the street of Leavenworth by a gang of
Missourians.
OCTOBER ID, 1855.
Child killed while ut play, by a shot fred
by a Missourian at James Furnam, a Free
State man, which missed him and entered a
window.
NOVEMBER Odd, 1855.
Charles W. Dow, a Free State man, shot
by +. n. Coleman, Pro-SlAverY settler. Muir
derer takes refuge with Gov. Shannon and is
protected by him.
DECEMBER -, 1885.
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, a Free State man. clllcd out from
his Mill where he was at work and shot by
Laughlin, a pro-slavery settler.
JANUARY II, 1856.
f. p. Brown. a Free State man, taken pris-
oner by II gang Of MisSourians, hacked to
pieces with knives and hatchets, and his
bleeding corpse flung into his own door-irom
the effects of which his widow is now II M
MAC.
W w LOU.
John Stewart. formerly Of Rushford, ALLIE
gany Co., n. Y, a young man of 20, shot in
his saddle while attempting to escape from a
party of 'Joncs's ppssr,'
May 10. 1886.
Jones, 'thc only son of his mother. and she
n widow aged -, shot through the back. by
one Of 'Joncs's posse, hccause he refused to
give up hls horse, with which he supported
himself and his widowed mother.
Printing Offices destroyed.
DECEMBER %, 1855.
Territorial Register, an Administration pa
per at Leavenwurth. conducted by Col. della
NAY, mobbed for advocating IA Free State,
presses broken to pieces, type thrown into
river, and editor threatened with murder.
APRIL IA, 1856.
Parkville Luminlry. at Parkville. on the
frontier, mohbel by MlSsourians for similar
cause. and the editors, Messrs. PARK Il PAT
TERsoN, obliged to quit the State.
MAY2l, 1856.
Herald of Freedom office, Lawrence, X. T.,
fired upon with a field piece by 'Jones's posse
and reduced to ruins.
Tribune Office, Lawrence, X. r., mobbed
ransacked and set on fire, and burned to the
ground. Presses, etc, destroyed.
Lynchings-ls55 and SO.
Sixteen Free State men, at different times,
have been tarrcd and feathered, or beaten, or
both, and some of them carried into Nilsson
ri, or set adriIt in the river. Among them
were William Phillips, a lawyer of Leaven.
worth, and u member elect of the Territorial.
Legislature Rev. Pardee Butler, a Baptist
preacher Rev. Mr.. Clark, a Methodist Mis-
sionary, and other ministers of the Gospel
OF various denominations. Assaults and bat
terry have been too numerous to recapitulate
hardly a day passing without some attack OF
Free State men IL the streets or on the higt
Y roads. Among those assailed have beer
+ Gov. Reeder, Gen. Pomeroy, &c, &c.
! Unlawful Arrests.
or Gov. Robinson, without a warrant.
: or Mr.. Brown, editor of the Herald OIL
:. Freedom, without Il warrant.
or Messrs. Bronson, Hutchinson, Deitzler
I Schuyler, Smith, Baker and fourteen others
| by Missourians acting under authority of 6
pretended court, for ''high treason" in re
, fusing to obey laws of the ''Legislature'
= pretended to have been elected by the Mis-
G souri, invaders.
Pretended Laws.
5 SEPTEMBER, 1853.
. Imposing penalty of death for a~ssistin.
slaves to escape.
Imposing penalty Of death for circulatin!
, or printing publications calculated to incit
slaves to instruction
Imposing penalty Of death for assisting
slaves to escape from any State and take re