Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-05-14
KILLING INKANsAS.


State citizen Of Kansas, was shot down in the
highway near Hickory Point, Kansas, by Col
man, Pro Slavery man,-Dow being unarmed
at the time and in no manner threatening OF
molesting Colman. Neither the Z. S. author
tiles in Kansas, nor those pretending to hold
under the Missourians' Legislature, have Of
fered 4 reward for the arrest Of the murderer,
or taken any step calculated to bring him to
justice. But they did arrest Bronson. Free
State man with whom Dow boarded, on q
trnmped-up charge OF having threatened the
life Of Colman, and were taking him to prison
when he was rescued by a number Of his tel-
low citizens.
Three or four weeks later. Barber, Free
State settler from southwestern Ohio, was ri
ding home from Lawrence to his cabin on the
prairie, three or four miles of, when he was
shot dead from his horse by ro-Slayery Z.
s. Indian Agent. No attempt has been made
bring this assassin to justice.
Still more recently, the Frec-State party
were holding an election at Easton, near Leav-
enworth, when they were set upon by armed
Pro-Slavery party. The Free-State men mus
tered in such strength that their adversaries
recoiled from the conflict and left the Free
State men in undiSputed possession OF the
ground. The latter soon after scattered to-
ward their several homes, supposing all danger
of collision was over. But the Pro-Savery
party had kept together and were lying in wait
for such portion of the Free-State party as
they could attack with impunty. Mr.. Brown,
a leading Free-State settler from Ohio, fell in
to their snare. He was surrounded, captured,
chopped to pieces with knives and hatchets,
and at length driven home in his own wagon
and laid down at his door to die, which he did
soon after. His wife into whose presence he
was thus thrust is now maniac. No reward
has been offered; no attempt to convict the
perpetrators of this fendish murder has been
made by the Federal or Territorial authorities,
up to this hour.
But at length Slavery man, the bogus
ssSheritf" Jones, has been shot, by some un-
known person, but who is probably a Free
State man. He was in Lawrence, seeking to
bring on a collision between the Free-State
men and the Federal Government, by arresting
persons in the name and by authority of the
bogus Territorial Legislature. Every man in
Lawrence was ready to submit to the service
of any process cmanating from the U. S. au-
thorities, and it would have subserved every
purpose but one to have had these writs issued
by the U. S. judges, but Jones evidently
sought not to be obeyed, but to be resisted.
Finding the people indisposcd to recognize his
Shawnee Mission authority, Jones sent to the
nearest fort for q. S. troops and, with them at
his back, arrested whomsoever he pleased
Intense excitement and Indignation pervaded |
the town, and that evening Jones was shot as |
aforesaid. Thereupon the Free-State party |
held great meeting, condemned this coward |
ly assassination, and resolved that the perpe- |
traitor should be brought to justice. Gov.
Robinson promptly issued 4 proclamation, OF
Fering reward of $500 for the detection and |
apprehension of the culprit. And we have
ligh hopes that he will thus be detected and
punished.
Such is the contrasted course of the two ad-
Terse parties in Kansas with respect to the
hedders of blood among them. We trust it
will continue SO contrasted to the end Y.
Tribune.