Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-08-30
The Civil War in Kansas--Faise Re ports of
the Rufiinns.

with presiden, Pierce's private secretary, as
the president was too busy TO attend to an APP
peal from the citizens of Kansas to save them
from the horrors of civil war The documents
show very clearly that the recent preparations
of the Mssouriaos and their allies from the
south were made with determined purpose to
sweep the territory with fire and sword, and
drive out or extermnate all the fee state set
Tiers. The robberies committed By their a1
vance force, and especially the murder Of Mr.
Hoyt, exasperaied the free STATE men to resist
ance, aud brought the crisis sooner than the
ruilians contemplated, giving the settlers an ad
vantage which we can hardly hope they will
maintain against such numbers as Missouri can
muster against them. Annexed to Mr. Army's
statement is the affidavit Of Robert Morrow OF
Illinois, an eye witness Of the skrmish at Frank
lin on the l2h, Of which such exaggerated ac-
counts were circulated by the ruilian presses of
Missouri. His account is this
The town of Franklin was one Of the posts
of The rufians; they occupied block-house at
this place. This bllck-house the free state
men attacked aud carried on the nigh, OF the
10th inst They lost one one msn killed
Edward Sackeii, formerly from Detroit, Miehi-
gan-and two were wounded and seven others
slightly injured. The rulians were strongly
fortified and escaped injury. Only four were
wounded but all surrendered and we're allowed
TO depart. The free state men took sixty stand
of arms, one cannon, quantity of gunpowder
and large amount of stores. The most Of
the arms had been stolen from Lawrence in
May last, and we're identified. The story Of
the ST. Louis Republican and other papers in
regard TO the killing of the postmaster and roll
berries Of the mail. &c, are untrue. Not a
building, not a citizen, nor the property Of any
citizen was moles,ed. The assault was con
fined to the block house-it began there and
ended there"
or this and the other skirmishes that follow
ed the most inhamatory and false accounts were
circulated in Missiuri; the aboliiionists were
represented as burning tho houses Of the pro-
slavery men, killing mon, women and children,
and committing every horrible enormity. One
OF these reports was that Lane's men had taken
and destroyed Lecompton, taking secretary
Woodson prisoner, burnt houses, etc. but a
later dispatch from ST. Louis coniradicts all this
l-Lecomptnn was not taken nor destroyed,
nor any houses burnt. And yet on the 10Th
Atchison and his associates iss, ed from Lee
compton the following appeal TO the people
of Missouri:
NEAR LEcoMPToS, August l6, 1856.
FRiLADs or Law AND ORDER, tine abolitionists
have come on us this morning about daylight,
whipped and taken prisoners our men. Lecomp-
ton is taken, and deserted by the women and chill
dren. Lanes men are about 800 strong. The U.
:. troops have also been whipped. Will yon come
to our rescue before are all murderedl We are
out Of powder and lead, and every kind of ammu-
milton. Our friends are now stationed in sheriff
Jones's house, as many as can, and will fight 10
the last viii you help us '-if so, come ut once
Unless we get help We will all be murdered The
foregoing is reliable.
d. II. Atchison, W. H. Russell. Jos. c. Ander-
son, A. G. Boon.
Influenced by ihsse falsehoods the ruiIians of
Missouri were mastering in force for another
descent upon Kansas. The Kansas committee
Of Lafayette county, Mo-, issued an appeal clo-
sing in this style;
''We say to you that war, organised, maiurei,
settled lcar, is now waged upon us by the aboli-
tionists, and call ON all who are not prepared to
see their friends butohered and to be themselves
driven from their homes, to rally instantly to the
rescue Come then 10 The reseuei Up men Of
Lgfayeiiei Meet at Lexington, on WEDNESDAY, At
II O'Clock, August 10Th. BRISG YOUR HORSES
WITH you, YOUR GUNS AND YOUR cLoTuISG-all
ready to go on to Kansas. Let every man who can
possibly leave home, go now to save the lives ofour
friends. Let those who cannot 20, hitch up their
wagons, and throw in a few provisions, aud get
more as they come along by their neighbors, aud
orlng u to Lexington on Wednesday. Let others
bring horses and mules, aud saddles and guns
all to come on Wednesday. We must 20 immsdi-
Gteiy there is no time to spare, and no one must
The result Of these new and alarming move.
menls, and the truth or fasehood of the re-
ports OF the release of the free slate prisoners
and the other reported successes of the free
state men, will he awaited with anxiety. But
II is most evident that very little idea of the
true state OF events can be CLEANED from the
lelegraphic dispatches from Missouri, and we
can only receive the facts by the mails, slow
and uncertain at The best. That the most fear
iul of all the struggles through which the
people of kanzas have passed is now upon
them is but too evident.
Advices from Lawrence 10 the l7tb inst.
received at ST, Louis, mention that nearly 500
ree STATE men marched upon what is called
Col Titus camp, near Lecomplon, and took
inc party there assembled-twenly in all
prisoners. They defended themselves from,
the log -houses some time, and wounded ten or
the free state parly-among them Cant. I n
schombree, recently from Richmond, Indiana
VINO II is thought cannot survive. Col. Titus
Is also badly injured. The injuries 10 The 9th
las