The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-06-04
Original Miscellany.
Written expressly for the Herald Of Freedom.
COPYRIGHT SECURED ACCORDING TO LAw.l
THE JAY-HAWKER;
A TALE OF
SOUTHERN KANSAS.
BY P. P. FOWLER.
Continued
CHAPTER XII.

The question has been asked, "who is
the chief actor" in those scenes of turbu-
lance and disorder, 'rapine and murder,
which have been introduced to the notice
of the reader? That question will soon
be answered.
Permit, also, the presentation of a reason
why the Jurisdiction of the District Court
Of Douglas county was extended, for
criminal purposes" over the counties vf
Lykins, Linn and Bourbon.
In order clearly to understand this
movement the results which grew out Of
it, and to know more fully the chief con-
spiratOr and his illustrious compeers in
this work of rapine aud blood, we must
sweep aside once more the vail over the
oblivious past, and look back-away back,
before a general deed of amnesty had
purged and bleached the blood-stained
form of felony.
We go back, then, to the time when the
noted military Board" was in ample and
august power, aud in the full tide of sue
cessful experiment, to the times of the
"Squatter Court" to the time when Par
son Grabhorse was prisoner, and when
Tevolutionists, disunionists and thieves
were lowering around south eastern
Kansas. Emissaries, duly empowered by
the Military Board, were busily at work
in various parts of the Territory, organ
izing the militia, and the names of those
who were not enrolled, or were hostile to
the movement, were to be registered and
sent to headquarters
A secret organization went hand in
hand with this military movement, Of
whichit was in reality an essential part,
which included the subordinate chiefs
and leaders, as well as the rank and file
of the whole party.
This large and comprehensive circle was
calculated to exercise powerful pressure
upon those who were not initiated-whc
were outsiders-while they, the members
of the league, were in turn instructed
swayed, and directed by another inner
circle which embraced but few individ.
uals, and which was, in fact, the head Of
the entire organization. This small circle
is, in fact, the sanctum sanctorum of Jay
hawkism.
Within this small circle went the High
Priest Of the Cabal-"not without blood. y
From this small clique emanated the
plans, the orders, the instructions which
moved the whole mass of the subordinate
organization. Those few individuals con-
stituted the head, the mysterious power
the secret spring which moved, directed
and controlled the whole formidable anC
terrible machinery.
BY their law, secretly enacted, artfully
concealed from outsiders, and which wa
to be secretly executed by their subordi
nate forces, almost all things were to b.
pursed with blood, and without shed
ding of blood, was 20 remission"
Within this circle, among the Higl
Priests of this sanctum within the secre
and mysterious vail, there were quasi
anc a real head. Let us, by virtue of
hstle practical clairvoyance, take pee
within the vail and mark what is trans
Plnng there; but, first let US listen b
those individuals who sit in that Law
Omce-who, with cautious looks and 10,
voices, are deeply engaged in converse
non. Dove know them? One of then
we readily recognize as Gen. Kane; tn
O'ner is hidden partly behind hairy
iOxy looking appendant about the moutl
and chin-he is long. lean and gaunt.-
something amuses him. for his beard
"ass, and his gimlet eyes twinkle. Veri
~ it is friend Sly.
de is speaking: AZ think, Genera
your suggestion is a very good one. w
nsed some one upon whom we can thro'
'ne responsibility of every movement tina
may prove unsuccessful, if any prove
mus while We can father every successfu
seneme. For instance, you are in realit
tue head to direct-the oracle to divine
the idol to whom the worshiping organi
aaaon look. Your name is password I
the mysteries Of our organization; 20
s the grand chief whose order require