The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-19

January IL, 1859. P. Brown. Free State
man, taken prisoner by a gang of Missourians.
hacked to pieces with knives and hatchet,. and
his bleeding corpse flung into his own door
from the effects of which his wife is now a ma.
MAC.
May 20, l856.-John Stewart, formerly of
Bushford, Allegany county, New York, young
man of 20, shot in his saddle, while attem pting
to escape from party of "Joness posse.d
May 10, l856.-Jones, "the only son of his
mother, and she widow" aged Is, shot through
the back, by one of " Jones's posse" because he
refused to give up his horse, with which he sup.
ported himself and his widowed mother.
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
December ", l855.-7erTitorial Register, an
Administration paper at Leavenworth, conduct
ed by Colonel Delahay, mobbed for advocating
a free State presses broken, type thrown into
the river, and editor threatened with murder.
april IA, lS55.-ParkriHe Luninary, at
Parkville, on the frontier, mobbed by Missouri.
ans for similar cause, and the editors, Messrs.
Park Il Patterson, obliged to quit the State.
May 81, l856.-Heraid Of Freedom Office,
Lawrence, Kansas, fired upon with fed.piece
by Jones's posse, and reduced to ruins.
Tribune office, Lawrence, Kansas, mobbed,
ransacked, and set on fire and burned TO the
ground presses, &C., destroyed.
LYNCHlNGS-lS5o AND 1856.
Sixteen free State men, at different times,
have been tarred and feathered, or beaten, or
both, and some of them carried into Missouri.
or set adrift in the river. Among them were
William Phillips, a lawyer of Leavenworth, and
a member elect of the Territorial Legislature |;
the Rev. Pardee Butler, Baptist preacher ;
the Rev. Mr.. Clark, Methodist missionary ;
aud other ministers of the Gospel, of various
denominations. Assaults and battery have
been too numerous to recapitulate, hardly a
day passing without some attack on the Free
State men in the streets or on the high roads,
Among those assailed have been Governor
Reeder, General Pomeroy, &c.
UNLAWFUL ARRESTS
OF Governor Robinson, without warrant.
Of Mr.. Brown, editor Of the Herald of Free
dom, without a warrant.
OF Messrs. Bronson, Hutchinson, Dietzler,
Schuyler, Smith, Baker, and fourteen others,
by Missourians, acting under authority of a pre-.
tended court, for "high treason" in refusing to
obey laws of the Legislature" pretended to
have been elected by the Missouri invaders.
PRETENDED LAWS
September, lS55.-Imposing penalty of death
for assisting slaves to escape.
printing publications calculated to incite slaves
Imposing penalty of death for assisting slaves
to escape from any State, and taking refuge in
the Territory.
Imposing penalty of five years imprisonment
at hard labor for harboring fugitive slaves.
Imposing penalty of two years imprisonment
for aiding fugitive slave to escape from Gus
tody of an officer.
Imposing penalty of FIVE years. imprison
ment at hard labor for writing, printing, or cir
culating, anything against Slavery.
Imposing penalty of two years imprison
ment at hard labor for saying that persons
have not right to hold slaves in the Territory
=. Disqualify0g all from sitting as jurors who
do not admit the right to hold slaves in the
Territory.
Disqualifying all as voters who do not swear
to support the Fugitive Slave Law.
Admitting any one to vote on payment OF
one dollar, no matter where resident, who will
swear to uphold the Fugitive Slave Law and
Nebraska Bill
Appointing Mssourians to be town and
county officers for six years to come.
Re-enacting the slave laws of Missouri en-
nsasse adding that wherever the word estate u
occurs in them, it shall be construed to mean
Territory"