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A Reign of Terror in Kansas.
LAwREEoE, STATE OF KANSAS,
Saturday, May 81.

KANSAS TO Tue NORTH.
There is Reign Of Terror in Kansas. The
prospects of Freedom are gloomy. The Mort h
ern squatters arc yielding to despair. Their
only hope is in Northern resolution. If the
people of the North command their Represen-
tatives to stop the supplies, unless Kansas be
admitted Immediately into the Union, they will
fight and struggle till the end and if the sup
plies are granted, without this provision, they
must yield to the overwhelming foreign forces
united to subdue them.
The position Of the Northern people Of Kan
sas is one Of imminent peril. The troops. the
Courts, the Bius Lodge and the Southern army
under Buford and others, are incessantly en-
ployed in robbing and harrassing them.
If Northeners unite for mutual protection
the troops Immediately disperse them, and a
party Of Missouri or Alabama ruflians, follow
ing in the footsteps of the sOldiery, plunder
and insult them with impunity.
Every man who is capable Of acting as a
leader is either under arrest or under indc.-
ment.
The farmers are forced to be idle in their fields
for several hours daily, in order to keep up a
watch for the approach Of guerillas.
Scouts ride all night in several districts.
Missouri is marshaling her forces again.
Lies, malignant and innumerable, are sent in
lcgions along the border counties, to exasperate
the people of that State against the Free State
settlers and their political opinions.
A civil war or submission to arbitrary ruls,
To despotism on the Bench, military diCtation
and armed mob law, are the only alternatives
before the people from the North, in this Terri
tory, who are resolved, at all hazards, to re-
main here.
Col. Sumner has been removed from Fort
LeavenwortA, and The merciless, Gen. Hnrney has
been appointed 10 succeed him. Hsrney hates
Northern principles as intensely as he hates the
Indians whilst Col. Sumner, on the contrary,
was supposed to be favorable tO the Free State
cause and to Northern men. "We mean to
subdus you" said DOuglas-and Harvey was
chosen to execute the threat.
Unless the free North does her duty, with.
out moments delay. this threat will soon be
fact.
Such is tho belief OF the Northern squatters
in this State. Having stated it, and endorsed
it, will now chronicle facts.
FIVE MEN KILLED.
Horrible stories arc told in Missouri of the
murder five PrO-Slavery men at 0sawoto.
mie. 1t is said that their throats were cat, and
their corpses manged and chopped into inches
OF course, tho Free State party, as a party
every Northern man and every Southern man
with Northern principles-in the Territory. is
accused by the organs Of the rufIisns with his
Imaginary and revolving atrocity.
1t is stated that their houses were entered at
midnight and the victims of this outrage mur,
dered in their beds.
Remained a day at Prairie City, in order to
find out the truth ofthis report sent mes.
senger to Osawotomis to investigate tho cir
Cumstances.
The facts, OF course, refute the Missouri YER.
sion of the affair.
Five men were killed. There is no doubt
Of that fast.
Their names are William Sherman, better
known as Dutch Henry father and two sons
named Doyle and Mr., Wilkinson, a Member
of the House Of Representatives Of the Bogus
Kansas Legislature.
They were shot by al party of Free State boys
at least infer SO, from the cause of thei,
summary execution.
These men have bulled and threatened The
lIVes o. the Northern Squatters in that section
d ever since The invasion of Not smber last :
Y Doyle and his sons have been particularly nc
: tive in harrassing and assaultiug Free Stat
Q men.
n On the day on which these men were killed
t a flag inscribed, "Hsaa Quarters of the PRO
y Slavery Army." was hoistsd over Sherman
d store, A Free State man went in and enouir
a ed the price ofpOWder, The man told him h