The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-06-17

ought not 10 make fussl Do you think
we ought to be silent about such things r
said Philipps t.
The Major suddenly turned the convesa-
HUNTING REPoRrER--A FLIGHT FOR LIFE.
On Wednesday morning last the Pro-
Slavery rabble, including a company Of South
Carolinians, under Capt. Warren F. Wilkee,
held q meeting in Leavenworth, 10 order to
take measures to drive out the Free State
men from the city.
A Pro-Slavery man who attended it, in
formed the Committee that Col. x-Doctor)
Stringfellow and Major Richardson were the
leading spirits who controlled its action. :.
They made out list of fifty names-all
Of them respectable and permanent citizens
Of Leavenworth, many Of them men who
had invested their entire capital in the city
and resolved that they should be seized forth
with and notified to leave.
Thirty men were captured before IL o.
clock. Among them was M. F. Conway,
Marcus T. Parrott and H. Miles Moore.
Conway is one of the Judges olect of the
State organization. ~
Z Parrott was a prominent member Of the
Kansas Constitutional Convention.
H. Miles Moore, is Attorney General Of
the State of Kansas. ~
They arrested Moore and Parrott as they
were talking to Mr.. Sherman. Sherman in
dignantly asked them if they had any legal
process against Mr.. PARROTS No. Against
NJ. Moore No. Against Judge Conway
No.
"Bv what authority, then, you dare ar
rest themw asked Mr.. Sherman.
81 am acting under ORDERS" replied Capt
Wilkes, of South Carolina. 81 have got a
list of names of men to be arrested, and I
mean to arrest them" And he did.
Parrott, after short imprisonment was
released on the condition that he would leave
the Territory. He did leave. will be great
ly disappointed if his absence will not be moro
formidable to the ruffians than his presence
although they hated him on account of his
personal courage, ability, and principles
The South Carolinians regurd him as traitor
for he was born in the Palmetto State.--
Proud and sensitive, this insult, believe,
will give tongue to his eloquence-for Parrott
is an able orator, an accomplished scholar, and
his story will prove more than a match for
Bufords company, il be should determine to
plead the cause Of the squatters, in the North
ern States.
Conway was arrested at Parkville, in going
to the Territory, on suspicion Of flying from
it, and at Leavenworth, in preparing to go
East on business, was arrested on suspicion of
intending to remain in Kansas! These ruff
ans are hard to please.
Conway was ordered to leave Immediately.
He started from Leavenworth, but stopped
at Kansas City, and returned to Lawrence
He has gone up to Lecompton to see Mr.
Shannon.
About noon, on Wednesday, party came
down to arrest Mr.. Phillips, but he evaded
them as the wise men evaded the old King
by going home by another way.
Several persons came up to his boarding
house during the recess, and advised him 70
leave town Immediately, rs the ruffians were
searching for him in every direcrion and had
sworn that they would make an example of
him as warning to other "Aboliton" letter
writers.
In walking down Town, Mr.. Phillips saw
party of men going up to his boarding house;
and knowing that il he attended the session of
the committee, he would bo arrested within
an hour, changed his course and made toward
the Fort. I
The Fort is three miles from the town. In
going there, eight men who were standing
on the road, few hundred yards ahead Of
him, formed in line in order TO intercept him.
The road runs through dense crowd of sun
erwood"-bushes, young beach trees and
He darted among them; and be-
fore the Ruffians could overtake him, ran
across. n field, and concealed himself among
the shrnbbery, at another part of the road,
near the spot where they had formed in line.
He lay fiat on the ground for nearly an
hour-and heard horsemen and the company
IF eight, on foot, pass and repass every few
minutes.
At last they gave up the chase.
SWELL" said one Of the eight men, ~ guess
ne has got off to the Fort but he'll 10 sartn
% come into town at dark, and then we'll
yrab him." u M c9.laar3
"There's many slip 'twixt the cup and
he lip" thought the interested and attentive
suditor who lay concealed among the bushes.
As soon as he was satisfied that his pursu-
rs had returned, he went to the Fort and
lept there all night. ea
Next morning he was told by one Of the
quatters in the ncighborhood, Pro-Slavery
nan who dill not know him, that the law and
rider party lad made thirty arrests, wiihoas
my legal process, in Leavenworth, but that
hey had not caught the one they wanted most
"A fellow Phillipps-who wrote Abolition
etters 10 the N. Y. Tribuuei "But thev are
ure to get him." said the man with chuck
c, "and then he may look out" 'h
Phillips thought, | presume, that it would
nswer his purpose precisely as well to look
ut Immediately instead Of after an arrest.
Another person, Free State lady, at
those house he called, told him that dozen
orscmcR had been searching for him in all
irections on the previous evening. az
He remained out Of town till noon, when
ome one informed him that all was quiet.
He went in. His. friends compelled him
o leave immediately He procured dis