Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-05-22
From the Squatter Sovereign, April %.
Hostilities again commencedink Nan

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Kansas in once more in commotion-tht
traitors of Lawrence have again set the
laws of the territory at defiance. and this
time have added murder to their crimes
Sheriff Jones, of Douglas county, than whom
Drawer man never lived, has been murder.
ed while in the discharge of his official du.
ties-shot down by the thieving paupers o.
tie North, who are shipped TO Kansas to in
fringe upon the rights of Southern settlers
murder them when opportunity offers
steal their property, and, il possible, to raise
storm that will cease only with the Union
itself.
The excitement in this city, during the
past week has been very great. Rumors o.
various kinds have reached Us, and although
we believe difficulty had occurred, we were
not prepared to hear of such lamentable
news-the death of the patriot Jones. HIS
DEATH MUST BE AVENGED. HIS
MURDER SHALL BE AVENGED, ii at the sacTl-
fee of every abolitionist in the Territory
If the pro-slavery parity will quietly sit still
and see our friends, one by one, murdered by
these assassins, without raising their arms
to protect them, we much mistake their char
acter.
Will Ihey again allow Northern Gouer-
nor to cheat them out of their just revenge1
We answer emphatically, NO! If the Gov
ernor of this Territory and the administra-
tion at Washington any longer attempts to
force US to assure the position of our laws
before we can have justice done US, the
sooner such contingency arises the better.
We are now in favor of leveling Lawrence,
and chastising the traitors there congregated
should 1t result in the total destruction OF
the Union.
If we are to have war let it come now
while the memory of our murdered friends
Clark and Jones, are fresh in our memories
we can coolly and delerminedly enter into
the contest, let is result as it may. We dc
not approve of the course of the Governor in
calling on the United States troops to en-
force the laws of the Territory; it looks to
US virtual admission that the law and or
der party of Kansas are not strong enough
in themselves to enforce order.
We commend the above choice article to
those persons who denounce the Free State
movement. Mark their threats! They viii
level Lawrence and cha stise "the traitors :
even though it should RESULT IN THE DEs.
TRUCTIoN OF THE UNION" These Missouri
ans slaught cred Barbour in ccol blood, anC
the Free State IN en- resented it not, for the
sake of the cause ins which they were en-
gagged. They murdered young Brown in a
manner more fendish than any the savages
ever conceived, ard threw his mangleC
bleeding corpse at the feet of his wife--ye et
t he Free State men bore this, hard as il
was. They invaded Kansas, and took pos
session of the ballot boxes, yet, Free State
m en- thinking that She supremacy of the law
would eventually be recognized submitted &c
the outrage. Now we have an instance of d
solitary person, in the darkgsss Of night
shooting 2Iissourian who claims 10 be
Sheriff in Kansas, and Notwithstanding the
Free State Party promptly denounce the
murderer, and offer reITN-d for his detec.
ton, ye: for that one isolated oct OF somt
vindictiye parsonage, Lawrence Must bt
leveled. "every abolitionist in the Territor,
must be sacrificed" even though it should
result in ":he destruction OF the Union.
The Squatter Sovereign is under the pat
ronage of the Federal Government; ant
thus i: may be seen that franklin Pierce
feeds destruction of the Union. Oh, had ;
Northern Republican paper made use o
such language, it would nave been heraldet
in flaming capitals in every Border Ruffiar
paper from Maine to Texas, and formed the
text for all the Black Democratic stumT
speeches of the campaign. As it is, how
ever, we find it in the columns of the OhiC
Statesman without comment.