Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-22

~ W Q8Aw1s Ifl.s 49, 1900 IN
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zplaoA, that al doubt of tie death Of toe noble
and generous Phinipsis at An end, Il Is no
hazard 10 say that, among those here, BY whom
he was known. no man WAS more highly rea-
pecsed for his yiftness Essn1tAcs Free Trader
one Of the strongest Pro<siayery Sheets in the
COUNTRY, IL forced to adr1is this. But Whist I
write for is to make public the reDarsable lens
.ity of Phillips views on Slavery, as related to
me by himself Just before he last went 70 Kan
sas. Allprobably know he first wentthere IS
"a Douglas Democrat believing in the principles
known as Popular Sovereignty. But he went
further than This. He distinctly told me he
had no conscientious nor moral scruples agairst
holding slaves himself; and, although expecting
and intending to vote the Free State ticket OF
all times, because he regarded Slavery as po-
litical evil, yet he expected to purhase and own
slaves himself provided the majority should
make Kansas Slave State. With these inoder-
ate views, the Pro-SlayerY parts in Kansas fear
ed to let bold man live. From cowardiy
man they had less to fear, even if he was far
less tolerant Of their Slavery extension views
What refutarioE is this Of the current Doug
las assertion that any man can go to Kansas in
safety whatever his views on Kansas may be, It
he only behaves himself peaceably. No one
here dares deny the peaeeable character of the
murdered Phillips. ai.' SO ..if52zfie2
AFT &sau OK q No ~ Bronson MuRRAr.A
Dear Friends:-1 suppose you have heard ere
this, through the papers, of VIM! Phillips
DEATH and it is my painful duty to write ito
you md give you the pariiculars,y4as s,si a s5l5
Ii happened on the second day Of this month,
which was the day for elccti1g Mayor and Conn
linen in this city. William did not 20 to the
polls at allnei.her did he intend to-. About IL
clock, A.. NJ, party of the ruttians, some
thirty in number, all mounted and armed, rode
up in front of the house and halted, when two
of them disnlounted and came up the steps with
their rt1skets in tn ,ir hands, William, Jared,
and myself were standing upon the porch at the
time, and as they came up the steps, we step
ped back into the house. William and myself
went NJ, to our room, and the two ruiiians fol-
lowed us up stairs; when We got to our room
William caught up his gun and ordered them
buck, when they retreatcd. Jared was in his
bed room on the ground floor, and some one
outside saw him through the window and fired
at him, wounding him in the left arm; this was
the first shot fired. tftes
About this time they made another attempt
to come into the house, and whether William
shot first or they at him first, l could not tell,
but he shot twice, wounding one and killing the
other dead. Several shots were fred at him at
the same time; one ball entering his eye, and
several buckshot pierced his breast and shout
der, killing him instantly. He was near the
front window at the time, and was shot by
those in the street. I cannot describe to you
my feelings as l saw him lying dead before me.
caught him in my arms and dragged him into
our room scarcely knowing what did; and by
that time there were several of the rulians in
the chamber and it would have been folly for
me to have fred on then,5 for if had should
have been killed instantly. l was taken out
side ofthe house, and they threatened to shoot
me on the spotbut finally did not Jared was
then brought out with his left arm broken, the
ball having passed through just above the ell
bow joint, and two buckshot entered his side.
He had his arm amputated above the elbow,
near the shoulder, and is getting about very
we'll now. Hes sits up two hours at time, and
walks about the house. The shot in his side
does not seem to give him much trouble. We
were kept prisoners for several days, but we
have not been molested since You will ask
what was their object in making the attack; well,
they claimed that they came to search for arms,
but they made no demand for arms, and | shall
always believe that they came here on purpose
to kill William, for some ofthe gang were along
that helped to tar and feather him. I fear tina
it will kill his wife if she hears of Williams's
death. / think it will not be best for her to
hear of it for the present at least. Don't forget
to write soon. .-......, ..s...,.'...t ..
Yours in friendship,