Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-06-20

l.. SUMMARY OF KANSAS OrTRAGEs.-The fol-
lowing is a plain record of the more promi-
nent crimes and outragcs committed upon the
people Of Kansas, with the purpose to force
slavery upon them. They are authenticated
by legal evidence, and no denial of them is
attempted by the persons implicated
INvAsfoNs.
Nov. 90. 1854. Missourians to the num-
Der of over 1000 invade the territory, armed.
drive the judges and legal voters from the
polls. and by fraudulent ballots pretend to
elect Whitfield delegate to Congress.
Morch 80. 1855. Nearly 1000 Missouri
ans again invade the territoay and repeat
the out RACES committed in November proceed
ing.
/ Oct. /, 1855. Third invasion of Missouri
ans. accomplished by similar outrages.
/ Dee. Il 1855. Fourth invasion. Nv which
an endcavor is made to vote down the free
state constitution but proves at failure
| May q. 1856. Jones. Missouri post
master, heads an armed mob of Alabama.
Carolina and Missouri men, which marches
against Lawrence. pillaces and plumbers it..
with violence to the inhabitants, and the
burning of several buildings
Oct. > 1855. Thomas Ncuman free state
man, stabbed in the street of Leavenworth
by gang Of Missourians
Oct. .. 1855. Child killed while at play.
at Leavenworth, by shot fired by Missouri
an at James Furnam, free state man,
which missed him and entered window
Nov. %, 1855. Charles W. Dow, free
state man, shot by F. n. Coleman, pro-
slavery settler. Murderer takes refuge with
Governor Shannon and is protected and
made an officer of the militia.
Dec. 1855. James Barber, free state
man. assaulted and murdered by shot in
the back from the gun of Clark, one OF
President Pierce's Indian agents.
Nov. 1855. Collins, free state man.
called out from his mill where he was a,
work and shot by Laughlin. pro-slavcry
settler.
Jan. Il. 1856 E. A. Brown, a free state
man, taken prisoner by a gang of Missouri.
ans hacked to pieces with knives and hatchets
and his bleeding corpse flung into his owr
door-from the effects of which his widow j,
now a maniac.
May 20, 1856 John Stewart. formerly
of Rushford, Alegany county, n. Y, q
young man of twenty, shot in his saddle
, while attempting to escape from party o
zones posse
May 10, 1856 Jones, ''the only son o
his mother, and she widow" aged 49, shot
through the back by one Of Jones posse,
because he refused to give up his horse, with
which he supported himself and his widowe1
mother.
The murderers in in nearly all these in
stances are known but no attempt is made t.
bring them to justice.
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
Dec. %, 1855. Territorial Register, az
administration paper at Leavenworth, con
Quoted by Col. Delahay. mobbcd for advocat
ing free State, presses broken to pieces
| cd with murder
April II, 1855. Pa1kvills Luminary, a
Parkville, on the frontier, mohbed by Mis-
, sourians for similar cause, and the editors
Messrs. Park and Patterson, obliged to qu
the State
May 81, 1856 Herald of Freedom Office
Lawrence, X. T., fired upon with field piec,
, by Clones posse and reduced to ruins
Tribune Office, Lawrence, X. r., mobbed
ransacked and set on FIRE, and burned to tn,
ground presses &c. destroyed.
LYNCHlNGs
) Sixteen Free state men. at different times
have been tarred and feathercd, or beaten, o.
both, and some of them carried into Missouri
: or set adrift in the river. Among them wcr,
William Phillips, a lawyer of Leavenworth
and a member elect of the territorial legisla
, ture; Rev. Pardee Butler, Baptist preach
: er; Rev. Mr.. Clark, a Methodist missionary
!, and other ministers. Assaults and batter,
have been too numerous to recaptulate, hard
ly day passing without some attack on Ere,
State men in the streets or on the high roads
Ameng these assailed have been Gov. Reeder
} Gen. Pomeroy, and Others
UNLAWFUL ARRESTS.
OF Gov. Robinson, without warrant
Of Mr.. Brown, editor of the Herald o
Freedom, without a warrant.
OF Messrs. Bronson, Hutchinson, Dietzler
Schuyler, Smith, Baker, and fourteen others
by Missourians acting under authority of
pretended court. for ''high treason in re
tusing to obey laws of the Legislature elect
cd by the Missouri invaders
, DEsPoTIc LAWS
Imposing penalty of death for assistin:
slaves to escape.
, Imposing penalty of death for circulating
or printing publications calculated to incit,
slaves to insurrection.
Imposing penalty Of death for assistin;
slaves to escape from any State and take re
, fuge in the territory.
Imposing penalty Of five years imprison
e ment at hard labor for harboring fugitiv,
slaves.
Imposing penalty of two years imprison
: ment for aiding a fugitive slave to escape the
, custody of an officer.
q Imposing penalty of FIVE years imprison
, ment at hard labor for, writing, printing, OIL
circulating any thing against slavery.
Imposing penalty of two years imprison
ment at hard labor for saying that person.
have not right to hold slaves in the terrific
> ry.
Disqualifying all from sitting as jurors who
do not admit the right to hold slaves in tn,
territory.
Disqualifying all as voters who do no,
swear to support the fugitive slave law.
Admitting any one to vote on payment Of
S 81, no matter where resident, who will swea,
to uphold the fugitive slave law and Nebras
ka bill
Appointing Missourians to be town and
r comfy officers for six years to come.