The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-05-21

what he believed idle attempts at intimE
and took no unusual precautiop.
He encampcd not far from the town,
and just after dusk, when his position
was discernable from the outside, BY the
shadow of his form cast by the candle
against the inside of lis tent, be -received
the dreadful wound. He exclaimed as
he fell, Hthey have got me at last! L
would not have believed it! But I die
in the vindication of my couutry's laws,
and will they not avenge me?"
Will they avenge him While his
blood was reekiug, and his spirit was
expected each to take its fight
to a more peaceful world, Mai. Sumner
marched down to Lawrence to arrest the
murderer; but found Reeder and Rob
inson holding a meeting to express their
horror and denunciation of the deed,
and charging that tie friends of poor
martyred Jones did it themselves, for
the purpose of creating an excitement
prejudicial to the innocent and deeply
wronged free State party.
The messenger brings, also, a confir-
nation of Harper's assassination, by
persons unknown. VIII Robinson and
Reeder charge that likewise upon the
law abiding citizens? Harper was an
excellent man, residing a short distance
from Lawrence, with his wife and child
rem, and cultivating his farm in peace,
when he was shot down like a dog. He
had no personal difficulty with any one :;
but some of the desperadoes of Lawrence
had said that they would move him, be-
cause he did not quite suit them on the
-" goose question. They did move
him, and In a manner most dastardly,
cowardly and dlubolicaHy. What cared
they for the heart broken wife, whom
they widowed, or the helpless and dis.
pairing children whom they orphaned
Nothing. There was no coincidence of
ferred, 10 sympathy expressed, no relic
given; but a perfect indifference, if not
a delight, manifested by all, except thu
f supreme Judases, Robinson aud Reeder
who make it their business to deprccatt
!, and lament these bloody measures, anC
say that it is through the sweet infuen
; ces of humanity and religion that the,
3 wish to triumph.
These two murderers of inestilnabl
citizens, without the slightest provoca
a ton or justification, has touched a Choir
in the heart of Kansas which vibrate
properly. Many, very many of thes
: who had honestly thought the laws O
t the territory illegitimate, and were vii
ling to oppose them fairly, have bee
mortified and disguised by these bastard
6 ly acts, and have turned against ,hei
y former friends and enrolled themselyc
$ in the ranks of the law and order party
c This party is augmenting its number
uaily-not only from these revolution
of sentiment at home, but from large az
y cessions from Southern States.
Some thousand Southerncrs have Al
rived within tie last week or two, an
c these barbaritics at Lawrence have d,
termined most of them to settle in an
around that town. y spirit is up aud
determination is manifested ~cverywhe1
to maintain the law in future. Its guart
ians will be everywhere. The people
Lawrence will henccfoIth have ey>
about them, to detect the perpctratol
= of thes2 desperate crimes, and the arr
T of the law will have sufficient strengt
to punish them.
-, 1t would be n terrible extremity fc
: the militia to be again called to its sal
port for in that event blood aud ASH
r would alone mark the place where Law
I renee stood, The Kickapuo Ranger
the Douiphan Tigers, the Wathen
: Guards, aud many other companies ar
thoroughly armed and equipped, t
: march at the drum beat to the suppoi
of the authorities.
2 Thcy are Low at their homes engage
about their various professional aud il
= dustrlal avocations, and arc deeply anx
ious that the Institutions of the Tcrritor
c may be able to preserve themselve
: aeainst the frantic assaults of a wild ia
naticism, and that the General Govern
ment will promptly rescue them fror
5 any per:lous extremity. But if calle
1 upon they are ready, to act, and it vii
be an action Of inality.
We are somewhat surprised to see S
large an overland emigration to Califol
a MIA this spring. Very many trains hay
$ crossed here and at St. Joseph, an
: taken up their tedious line of march te
t ward the Eldorado. They come fror
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Were it nc
c for the unsettled state of our affairs
I many of them would locate upon on
/ beautiful and fertile plains; but the
would rather travel farther and cpjo
peace.
!, L cannot close this hasty letter will
: out saying that l believe the next fe'
/ days will be more eventful in Kansa
than any in her Iast or future history
:, We are o in the midst of Il crisis. ]
may have a peaceful or a bloody term
nation. God grant the former but i
either event; it will settL definitely III
supremacy Of the lar.
The investigating Commute will d
nothing until this crisis is past. It wi
then have to shape a different course Z
action from the one it has now laid on
/ for itself. The present one of summon
ing all the voters before it and interrC
eating them, would occupy a year {
time, and cost a vast deal of treasure
without cffecting anything, Mr.. Olive
secs this and would have The inrestiga
ton open aud fair, and upon the plan c
: ajudlcial tribunal, in which witnessc
could be examined both pro and con.
|, CALIFORNIA OVERLAND EMiGRATIoc
Until VIC saw the following paragrap
in the letter of the Palermo, Kansas
correspondent of the ST. Louis Republi
can, wo hal supposed overland cmigra
tion to California bad ceased. The wri
ter says:
We are somewhat surprised to see 81
large an overland emigration to Califor
MIA this spring. Very many trains haV'
crossed here aud at St. Joseph, and ia
L.. - .L1,, EoI5ouc 1.-Two of march tn