The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-23
From the Lecompton Union.l
CHAPTER OF OUTRAGES

A1u S0c1ety 81 Vee0 Engl0nd ana
their Myrmidons, claiming to be
Free State men and friends Of HUI
manaty.
Norem6er, 1s54-The New England
Emigrant Aid Society sends a large
number Of their hirelings to vote at the
election for members of Congress, who
after voting on the 29th of the same
month. started back to the East next
day.
citizen of the Territory, brutally MUIR
dered a few miles from Lawrence by one
Kilby, a hired tool of the New England
Emigrant Aid Society, who has since
fed the Territory.
March IS, 1S54-Malcolm Clarke,
one of the best citizens of Leavenworth,
murdered by one Cole McRea, a higher
law lecturer and %rufian, who has broken
Jail, fed the Territory, and when last
heard from was lecturing admiring
throngs of Black Republicans in Wis
consin.
March, l355.-TLs New England
Emigrant Aid Society sends hordes of
voters to the Territory, a number of
whom obtained Buffalo Robes in Kansas
City and Westport and returned them
after the elections held on the 30th
March, and returned to the East.
ApriI 1855.-The secret military
organization entered into by the hired
tools Of the New England Emigrant Aid
Society in the Territory, bound together
by the most horrid oaths to resist the
regularly constituted authorities of the
Territory by force and bloodshed, and
protect and defend each other in their
midnight atrocities-for which purpose
they abundantly provided themselves
with secret signs and grips, by which
they could at all times recognize each
other, and more effectually carry on
their ~disorganizing and revolutionary
schemes.
April, 1s55.-The New England Aid
Society men erecting a Stone Fort
in the town of Lawrence, under the dis
guise of a Hotel, building it with nu-
merous port holes and a parapet upon
the top behind which their myrmidons
could Gre with safety upon the legal au-
thorities and thus prevent The execution
Of any legal process in the town of Law
renee.
Hay and June, iS55.-Sharp's rifles
and other deadly weapons arrive at Law
renee, having been sent By Emigrant
Aid Society to their secret military or
ganization in the Territory, to aid them
in executing the revolutionary orders of
their masters in the East.
September, is55.-Thc miuions ofthe
| Aid Society held the notorious Big
Spring Convention, and resolved that
they would resist the laws to a '6Loody
issue" The same Convention, after ig-
noring the laws, appointed the 9th of
October for holding a pretended election
for a member of Congress, and appointed
an Executive Cimmittee, with Jas. Fl.
Lane, Chairman, to designate districts
and pretended judges for said illegal
election. The same Convention nomi-
mated 4. II. Reeder as their pretended
candidate for Congress, who accepted the
same in a very inaammatory and reFolu-
t%iouary speech.
October 8, l955-Said pretended cleo
ton was held and some 2,9CO pretended
votes polled for y. II. Reeder, az a bo-
gus Delegate to Congress, and. at the
same time members were elected to a
pretended Convention to forn a State
! Constitution.
Octo5er %, lS55.-Orc Collins, OF
D~oniphan, an officer IN th9 Secret Army
of Abolitionists hrutallY attempted 10
murder Pat Laughlin, an associate in the
same organization, who, becoming dis
gustcd With IFS reasonable aud diaboli-
cal schemes, exposed them to the world,
:. Ill $1,000 -
and grips.
Nocem5cr, ls55-The pretended
Convention met ut Topeka aud adopted
a constitution for the bogus State of
Kansas.
Nouem5er p, ls55.-A number of
outlaws calling themselves Free State
men of the Hickory Point Deighbor
hood, Douglas county, in a public meet
ing assembled, and adopted resolutions
declaring that there were 10 laws in the
Territory, and appointed a committee to
punish summarily all persons whom they
might, see proper to designate as ofon-
ders or criminals.
November 25,.1855.--Jacob Branson,
an officer of the Emigrant Aid Society's
Secret Military organization, threatens
the life of a Mr.. Buckley, who has q
peace warrant issued against him by q
magistrate, Hugh Cameron, of Law
renee.
Noucmber 27, 1S55.-Sherif Jones
arrests said Branson upon said peace
warrant, and while taking him before a
Justice of the Pease, was attacked by a
party of outlaws, armed with Sharpe
rides, re~volvers, Sc, headed by one S.
n. Wood, of Lawrence, who forcibly
rescued said Branson from his custody,
declaring at the same time that there
was no GoEernor, no Judges, aud no
Courts in the Territory and no law ex-
cert their Sharpe's rifles.
November p, 1855.-The citizens OF
Lawrence in a public meeting endorsed
the Hickory Point Resolutions. Said
meeting was addressed by s. n. Wood
the leader of the band who rescued
BFanson from the sheriff, and by jacob
Branson himself, and from that day the
members of the secret military 0rgaui.
zation throughout the Territory begar
Immediately to assemble at Lawrence.
for the purpose OF resisting the execu-
tion of the laws, aud protecting Branspn,
Wood and other yiolators of the law iu
their lawless aud revolutionary conduct.
The outlaws thus assembled took refuge
in the stone fort erected by the Aid So.
ciety which also furnished them with
Sharpe's rifles and other deadly weapons
but fnally finding themselves over
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