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ponen, was with the said sheriff Is Jores) at the ms
The said apson was arrested which took place about
three o'clock in the morning That ranson was In bed
when be arrested by said sheriff that pistol or
other weapon presented at the said Banson b any
kater the arrest and after the company with te
sheriff had proceeded about five miles In the direction o.
Leeompon the county seat OF Douglas county the sara
sheriff and bis posse were set upon BY about between y
and forty men, who out from behind house, all arm
ed with Shapes rifles and presented tbelr guns
and called out who they were and said bronson fepeu
that they bad got him prisoner and these armed men
Llr SIDE and sheriff Jones said they were aoing some
thing they would regret Lereafter IN resisting me laws
that be sheriff OF Douglas county and as such had ar
rested These armed men replied that they had
no laws sheriff and governor, and that they knew
no laws but their guns The sheriff being ovepowered said
10 these men II they took him by force Of he had
more TO say, something to that import and then we
rode This deponent further states that there have been
three houses burnt in the Hickory Point settlements
was this deponens house. another belonged TO Joshua
Hargis, and the third TO said Coleman All had IN the
world burnt up leaving my wife and children without
clothing. This deponents wife and four children lied to
Missouri where they still with their relatives The
house of deponent burnt down, II is said shortly
before daylight In the morning The wives and children
OF both Coleman and Hargis also fed to Missouri where
they still remain There about fifteen or xeen law
abiding families in the settlement called the Hickory Grove
settlement about the time these differences sprung mp
they all been forced by terror and threats of these
armed men, flee with their wives and children to the
State Of Missouri for protection and still remain there
These armed have repeatedly in my presence said
that they would resist the law by force and there was
law in this Territory These threats have been repeatedly
made by these for the last three months And further
this deponent saith not II. A. BUCKLEY.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above stated,
before J. NJ Burre associate justice supreme court
Kansas Territory.
CAnP CLARKE, December 3, 1855.
DEAR SIR: hasten to write you by express that is
its way twelve O'Clock at nght My house is a
fertilization. | am compelled keep guard with
tinels all night Unless the volators of the law dis
armed the country is ruined. The troops should with
draw without this being DONE partisan war will con-
nue murders houseburnings, and all the ouages Incl
dent to civil war will follow, we 1.-THE aw-abding mem
will have to withdraw from the Territory to great pc
cuniary distress. 9...
The outlaws have marked our men they keep their
movements secret and know who is first be
tackled, where il will be made We have learned from
ample authority that than hundred of Sharpes
rifles distributed in this Immediate neighborhood. My
nextdoor neghbors have them in possession and only
two days ago armed men surrounded member Of my
family with threatening language and ended the interview
with threat to dispose of myself We the law-abidng
men, appeal you and insist that nothing less than the
surrender of the held by the traitors satisfy
the country They in open rebellion they have these
for the special purpose OF resisting the laws and
avengng supposed injuries With these arms in hand,
they have orcbly rescued prisoners from the hands OF
officers they threaten others they protect
ing men who have broken custody and 10 every
they traitors and giving aid aud comfort to traitors
In haste, your friend and obedient servant,
GEORGE W. CLARKE
Gov WlLsos SHANNON Shawnee Mission
NIB commend my family to your protection.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Territory of Kansas:
Be il remembered that the 7th day of December A.
ID. 1855, personally before s. g. Cato of the
associate justices of the supreme of the Territory
Kansas, Samuel Jones sheriff Of the county of Douglas
and Territory aforesaid of lawful age who being by
duly sworn depoeth and SAITH that the 2sh day of
November, A. d. 1855, he received from the hands of
Hugh Cameron legal appoined justice of the peace for
said county OF Douglas peace warrant issued by said
justice OF the peace and him directed sheriff Obtained
upon the oath Of one H. II. Buckley against one Jacob
Branson and Immediately after receiving said he
summoned posse Of men, and proceeded the
said Branson and made The and his lie and
bis posse met by mob Of forty men, with
Sharpes rifles, who forcbiy rescued the prisoner
his hands and dered his recPture, swearing at the
same time that they recognised law in the Territory
officers from the governor the lowest officer and
lied only upon their rifles as the law of the land ana
would at all times defend themselves from being arrested
by process issued by any officer OF the said Territory
that he Immediately made requisition Gov. Wilson
shannon for sufficient force 10 enable him the
said Jacob Branson aad other process in bis
as sheriff of said county that the said Jacob Branson
taken into the town Of Lawrence in said county, and
there as he verify believes he informed by good
authority tried and acquitted by the citizen. of the said
town without any legal investigation; that OF some
een or twenty threatened to tar and feather and naict
other punishment upon the justice Of the peace issued
the warrant that he sheriff has been repeatedly
suited by the citizens Of the said Lawrence and
tutehtcheu violence III attempted % execute
process in his hands against any citizen Of that place
and be verify believes that he would be resisted
and violence committed upon his person. IN at
tempting TO execute legal process in said town that
the citizens OF that place and vicinity all with
Shapes rfcs for the avowed purpose resisting the
scahon Of the laws Of this Territory that they are daily
being drilled for that purpose alone that the mob
rescued the said Jacob Branson Of his hands he verify
believes were induced TO do The citizens Lawrence
ana that the public newspapers Of that place openly
mend and call upon the citizens resist the laws of
Ierrtory and that the prisoner Jacob Branson and
portion OF the mob who rescued him from bis custody he
verify believes to be this time in the Of Lawrence
or secreted by the citizens of that place aud that wsrke
preparations are being madeby the citizens of Lawrence
Tor be purpose Of resisting the execution Of the process
bis bands and that would be prudent attempt
execute said without very strong of armed
men 70 assist BIN j. JONES,
Sheriff, Douglas county, Kansas Territory.
Sworn and subscribed before me- s. O. Cato associate
justice OF the supreme court OF Kansas Territory.
RACE ron THE CRUMBS JAcssosss --The negro ym-
pnthzers at Pttsburg called Jsckson editor Of the old
Globe to the chair and the half-breeds Philadelphia