The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-23

tension of avery as fanatica aud bypocrlt'
zeal meddlsrs with politics, they now denoune'
them with equal bitterness for defending tht
Billie against newspaper attacks.
Prom kansas.
Tie ST. Louis Democrat has letters from
a correspondent dated leayenworth, May
10Th and I7ti. 81 eandcusc the items 81
interest
ON the 10th an application was made to
Col. Sumner, u Leavenworth, by the people
Of Lawrence, endorsed by the Compression
al Committee, for o body Of United States
troops to be sent to the vicinity of Lawrence,
TO protect the city from the laoless out
RACES Of an excited and armed mob, which
were gathering 10 iu,adeit.
Col. Sumner replied that he could not
remove troops without an order from the
Governor. 1t is rumored at Leavenworth
that the soldiers cannot be relied upon 10
butcher the people Of Lawrence in cold
blood. hence Gov. Shannon does not call up
on them. but leaves to the Marshal with the
bands of armed men under Buford and 9TH
er military invaders of the Territory, to ex
ecute vengeance upon the Free State men of
that place.
A public meeting was held at Lawrence
which appointed committee to forward q
letter to Donaldson, the Marshal, al Lecomp-
ton, urging him to prevent his forces from
-.
pledging themselves to aid in the arrest of
any perron in their city, against whom there
was legal process, and promising that they
will not resist law.
To this letter the Marshal replied that he
considered them rebels and traitors, did not
believe their promises, and reserved any fur
ther answer till he reached their town.
One Of the Free State messengers who
bore these letters, was arrested on his way
back to Lawrence by an armed company
lie produced pass from the Marshal, but
the leader of the band told him he didn't care
q d-m for that, and forcibly captured him.
Mr.. Brown, the editor of the Herald Of
Freedom, was arrested by mob at West
port, Missouri, and Mr.. Jenkins, u merchant
Of Lawrence, was arrested at Kansas City,
Missouri, by the same law and order ruilians
in.o whose hands the present infamous adj
ministration have been playing at usurpation,
tyranny, lynch law, and assassination, for q
year past.
The Congressional Committee were at
Leavenworth.
Here is the second letter
LEAyf>woRrH, Saturday, May Il, 1856.
To the Editor Of the Missouri Democrat
The kickapoo Pioneer introduces the Mar
shal's proclamation with these words:
SHE evidently Is "a man who has backbone
and further Ae cynces a determination to put
the upstart traitors Of Lawrence down. Like
sibilitv on himself, uhjie q maudiin Cor
crRor dared not do his simple duty
The postscript to the ct cetera proclama-
ton is in these words;
90 No liability for expenses will be in
cured bv the I. 5. Government, until the
expenses Is obtained.'' /. b. d.. L. S. NJ
After noticing a paragraph in which Mr..
A. G. Green, the able associate editor Of the
Herald Of Freedom, states that Mr. g. w.
Brown, when at Alton. visited the murdered
Loyejoy's grave, the kickapoo Pioneer makes
these blood-thirsty comments;
sob thou hollow hearted, hypocritcal,
cantng, whited sepulchre Beware In
Loyejoy's fate read the one IN store for you;
unless the bullet and the cord be reserved for
your masters, and We be purified BY FIRE,
which YOU truly deserve"