Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-06-18

unquestionable. But these false statements
do not invalidate or diminish the real cata-
logue of crime. To enable our readers to keep
the latter in memory we subjoin below a list
of few occurrences, which are authenticated
by legal evidence, and which are not even at
tempted to be denied. There are five times as
many similar ones report ed, and toleraby
well authenticated. But we wait until they
shall be officially and legally confirmed before
adding them to the list:
ISvAsIoNs.
NOVEMBER 90, 1654.-Missourian TO the
number of over one thousand invade Terrific
ry, armed, drive Judges and legal voters from
Polls, and by fraudulent ballots pretend to c.
lect Whitfield Delegate.
MARCH 80, 1S55.-Nearly four thousand Mis-
sourians again invade Territory and repeat the
outrages committed in November preceding.
OCTOBER 1, lS55.-Third invasion of Mis-
sourians, accompanied by similar outrages.
DECEMBER 10, 1S55.-Fourth invasion, by
which an endeavor is made to vote down the
Free-State Constitution, but proves failure.
MAY 81, 1856.-Jones, Missouri Postmas-
ter, heads an armed mob of Alabama, CARROLL
ma and Missouri men, which marches against
Lawrence, pillages and plumbers it, with vio-
lence to the inhabitants, and the burning of
several buildings.
MURDERS.
OCTOBER ., 1S55.-Thomas Neuman, Free
State man, stabbed in the streets of Leaven-
worth by a gang of Missourians.
OCTOBER =, 1S55.-Child killed while at
play, by shot fired by Mssourian at James
Furnam, a Free State man, which missed him
and entered window.
NOVEMBER %, 1S55.-Charles W. Dow,
Free-State man, shot by F. n. Coleman,
Pro-Slavery settler. Murderer takes refuge
with Gov. Shannon and is protected by him.
DEoZMBER =, IS55.-James Barber, Free
State man, assaulted and murdered by shot
in the back from the gun of one Of President
Pierce's Indian agents.
NOVEMBER, 1855. = Collins, a Frce-State
man, called out from his mill, where he was at
work, and shot by Laughlin, a Pro-Slavcry
settler.
JANUARY II, 1S56.-E. P. Brown, n Free
State man, taken prisoner by gang of Mis-
sourians, hacked to pieces with knives and
hatchets, and his bleeding corps flung into his
A
ow is now a maniac.
MAY 20, 18j6.--John Stewart formerly of
Bushford, Alegany County, n. Y, young
man of 20, shot in his saddle while attempting
| to escape from party of ''Jones's posse"
MAY 10, 1S56.-Jones, ssthe only son of his
mother, and she widow" aged 10, shot thro'
| the back, by one of 'sJones's posse," because
he refused to give up his horse, with which he
supported himself and his widowed mother.
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
DECEMBER %, 1S55.-TerritoriaL Register,
an Administration paper at Leavenworth, con-
Quoted by Col. Delahay, mobbed for advocat-
ing a Free State, presses broken, type thrown
into the river and the editor threatened with
murder.
APRIL Il, 1S55.-Parkrille Luminary, at
Parkville. on the frontier, mobbed by Missou-
rians for similar cause, and the editors, ,Messrs.
Park & Patterson, obliged to quit the State.
| MAY 81, ls56.-Herald Of Freedom office,
Lawrence, X. T., fired upon with a field piece
by "Joness posse' and reduced to ruins.
Tribune office, Lawrence, X. T., mobbed,
ransacked and set on fire and burned to the
ground, presses, &C., destroyed.
ITNCHINGS-Iooo AND 90.
| Sixteen Free-Statc men, at different times
have been tarred and feathered, or beaten, or
| both, and some Of them carried into Missouri,
or set adrft in the river. Among them were
William Phillips, a lawyer of Leavenworth
and a member elect of the Territorial Lcgis-
lature; the Rev. Pardee Butler, Baptist
preacher; the Rev. Mr.. Clark, a Methodist
missionary, and other ministers of the gospel,
of various denominations. Assaults and bat
| terry have been too numerous to recaptulate,
hardly day passes without some attack on
Free-State men in the streets or on the high
roads. Among those assailed have been Gov.
Reeder, Gen. Pomroy, &c.
UNLAWFUL ARRESTS.
| OF Governor Robinson without warrant.
| OF Mr. Brown, editor of The Herald Of Free
dom, without warrant
/ OF Messrs. Bronson, Hutchson, Deitzlcr,
Schuyler, Smith, Baker, and fourteen others,
| by Missourians acting under authority of a
pretended court, for ssbigh treason,'' in refus-
ing to obey laws of the ssLegislature'' preten-
ded to have been elected by the Missouri in
vaders.
PRETENDED LAWS.
| SEPTEMBER, 1S55.-Imposing penalty OF
death for assisting slaves to escape.
Imposing penalty of death for circulating
or printing publications calculated TO incite
| slaves to insurrection.
Imposing penalty of death for assisting
slaves TO escape from any State and take re-
fuge in the Territory.
Imposing penalty of five years imprison-
| ment at hard labor for harboring fugitive