Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1856-05-22
FROM KANsAs-ANoTHER OUTRAGE.

FROM KANsAs-ANoTHER OUTRAGE.
A correspondent Of the New York Tribune writ,s
from Lawrence, Kansas, under date Of ThursdaY
evening, May Sth.-
When the Committee adjourned at Teeumseh last
evening, learned that Messrs. Sherman and Oliver
were going down to Lecompton to thke testimony
from Gov Shannon and Secretary Woodsen in the
morning, Being anxious to hear it taken, I walked
TO Wilmington last night, and thence to Lecompton
this morning, but the proposed examination did not
take place, and Messrs Sherman and oliver left
early for Lawrence. Lecompton was not very full
Of people. Judge Lecompte was holding Court in a
rough boarded, small framed buildng, but heard
Of business Of note being yet on the docket Few
Of tho prisoners had got In it was early tBy the
bye, the prisoners allowed 10 20 on on paFoie
there is no PLACE to keep them, BY which kind ar
rangoment they have the privilege of bearing their
own expenses) found part Of the Southern EN-
igration here, saw some twenty of these young
men strclling about there might have been few
more OF them in the place somewhere. A Pro-Slaye.
ry man, with whom had some conversation, in al
ludng to the results of the Committee of Inyestiga
tion remarked cts just as feaIed-them Mis-
souri, fellows oYerdonei it,"
Ialmost shrink from chronicling another outrage ,
but the task OF faithful ohronioer makesit my duty
The Rev. Pardee Butler, who was mubbed at Atobi-
son las ia and sent down the Missouri on q raft
has again been outraged there lie had been in ILL.
nois preaching. fer some time, and was returning
TO bis family, who have been living On his claim en-
Stranger Creek Passing through Atchison, on the
80 uit, he was seized in the street by mob, who
without any pretence to investigation, taTred and
teathered him. The Notorious Bob Kelly, editor of
Ihe Sqaatfer Sovereign, took an Motive part, and
euingtello~ looked on smoking. The mob con.
sisted chiefly Of that part of the yeung eouIhernets
who arrived at Atchson. Mr.. Butler escaped and
reached Lawrence yesterday.
The Congressional Investigation Cemmittee warn
proceeding vigorously with the work they have in
Charge ~ the latest accounts from the troubled ter
nory The evidence goes very far towards estab-
ilahlng & 9 truth Of many charges repeatedly made
Nv lad ala
nrst witness who was examined before this Commit.
zee, testified that he was a member Of Secret So.
ceiy formed 10 Missouri tho express object Of which
was to make Kansas a Slave State,-and that he had
reason to believe that it existed also In ether South.
ern states lin Virginia, in Tenness Kentucky and
Arkansns. He came from Missouri TO Kansas 10 vote
was sworn in on the spot one Of the officers oil
eleeiiOni and knew of many others who came FROM
Jdisaonrl aud voted William Lyons, another wit
ness, testified that at the election, March, 1855 he
saw Mr. Shelby, who told hi m he had come on.
hundred miles 10 vote, and shat 800 Missourian
would vote on that day:"-he himself knew tina
over 100 wen. to Douglas, where the polls wore held
that day TO vote Augustus Wat:les, living in tn,
eeeJnd Dls'iiit, testified after examination OF thu
census returns, that there but rs legal voter
IN that Distrlct:-aud yet several hundred votoi
we're cast AT the poll Mr. Hammond MuEzy testi
hes that Just as he got there Mr.. Mace offered II
Yote,-and that
when the poo Slavery party Jaw that His vot,
was sFee State vote, they said he shoull mot yot
IL; several men toOk hold Of him by the collar auc
pulled him away; he took hold of me and we yer,
Doth pulled away together from the poll; they eret
out, Cuths throat, tear the DID heart out OF him
sa" one man draw a knife upon him, without doinl
any injury; saw alan with a lever, trying to DRY
up corner Of the cabin; others cried out Don't dt
until you nave ORDERS; cav Ellison come out oI
the cabin with the ballot-box in his hand and cry
out 'Hurrah for Missouri" Ellison was one of The
Judgesi heard Jones (now Sheriff say he would Civ
IDe Judge i've minutes 70 resign die; Jones gave
enc more minute, and they then left; these Judges
humsIV mil ERaa Co.
mere when the other Judges were appointed; the
crowd then commenced voting; saw no Free State
man vote"
Here the Missouri mob obtained entire control Of
the POLAND, with Sheriff Jones at their head, com
psed two OF the Judges, under threats Of death e
resign, and then put TWO others in their place IL
.ne seventh District, Marcus IL. Rose testifes tina
there could not have been over 80 legal voters in M,
District, and that 234 votes were cast. j. b THU
testihes that over 200 Mssourians eneamped nea
ms place, and told him they had come there express
ly 10 vote.
There is large mass of testimony to the sa.ne ef
teet Showing that the Free State men were Above,
no Freedom az the POLLS that their judges were drive
away, and that hundreds upon hundreds of illega
n9tes were cast by invaders in nearly every district
cd men. - N''D
10 pursuing the investigation, Gov. Reeder OK
anime, the witnesses The correspondent Of the St
smoking pipe, with a stem four feet in length :
MT Diver conducts tho examination for Gen, Whit
held. One of the witnesses gave tho following nc
count OF now Whitheld's election was managed:
Lewis A. Prather, called and sworn. Camo h
Franklin 9th Of July, 1855, from Missouri; was be
low Indepen lenoe. Missouri, in September last:
body Of men overlook me, of whom asked, wher
are you going They told me they were from Salin
county, Missouri, aud were going to Kansas to vote
saw them again near Westport their numbers ha,
Increased; knew they veted; stood near the polls
FRANKLIN and saw them; before we got to Westpor
ssw n'mp Stock and Kemp rope hanging out ofon
which ma hono -,
Aooiitionists-Titha Robert Grant, he teld me who
ne learned how much opposed was to their oon
ing mere to vote, should be rewarded with the rop
hrst II did mot look out; they claimed the right I
vote under the acts of the Territorial IngisIRtu
there were about sixty; they did not claim 10 be citl
Hensi asked them particularly about that; one q
them SAID, we have claims in the Territory, anothe
lald, Jim, what is the use Of telling that lie? vol
KNOW we are going to vote the as we did on th
10Th OF March, and return; they said they were "a
Ing to tear down Lawrence, and slide the town iat
the RIVER they wanted to know why the Free Stat
men were not gsing to vote on the same day as the
did, answered that the Free State party expecte
% elect Gov Reeder on that day; they sud, d
Gov Reeder, he will not be alive on that day m
Robert Grant said he would kill him whenever h
could get chance, and. the more Abolitonists b
could Kill at fire the better: they asked me if
was going to vote on the LIST; told thom no; the
then said was worse than an Abolitionist; for
was Southern traitor. On M ondn y, when tho poll
were open was called upon TO as judge of eIes
toni refused to serve in consequence Of the oppos
ton to the law, and the Missouiians being there 1
vote they threatened me in aonse9uence-Mr. Whit
lock, member OF Territorial Legislature, in particu
lar; when the polls were opened, placed mysel
where L could see who voted, and stood with pencil
And paper in hand to note who voted; m ade sixty
three foreign voters, and from twelve to fifteen 70
sldent voters; some Of them who came up with m,
did not vote at Franklin, but voted at other places
rs 4 was informed
A Mr.. Moore gave the following testimony in 70
gard TO the inyasion;-