The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-09-14
The Trouble in Kansas..The
Schism Between the Radicals
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
lars of the Arrest OF Mayor
Anthony at Lawrence.
LEAvENwoRTH, Sept. z
Correspondence of the Missouri Democrat


Col. Anthony, Mayor of this city, was
arrested by two United States detectives,
aided by twenty soldiers. The detectives,
went to the Mayors office and grabbed
him by the collar, saying, Come along
with us, you ara under arrest The May
or demanded by what authority they ar
rested him. One of them answered, by
God, am the authority.
One soldier who aided in the arrest wore
a mask, and with fixed bayonet pointed at
his breast. Two others, with painted faces,
presented their carbines and revolvers to
Anthonys breast. Anthony told him he
did not resist arrest; all he wanted was TO
know who was responsible
Without a word with friend OF mo-
ment's time Jannison and Loste, tn" two
detectives, aided by the soldiers, threw aim
into wagon, and the party moved cut of
town toward Kansas City at rape rate,
arriving there in five hours-a dlstaHce of
thirty-Gve miles.
Anthony was taken to General Ewing S
headquarters. After two hours cOnsulta-
ton with the detective, and telegraphing to
Leayenworth, Anthony was released. An
thopv. during his arrest at Kansas City, was
bv order of Gen. Ewing, prohibited from
having private conversation with any one:
and was not permitted to telegraph or write
to his friends in Leavenworth, without sub,
hitting his letter or telegram to General
Ewing.
The Mayor returned this evening about
o'clock, ard hundreds OF citizens went
out to meet him. The procession, headed
by the Mayor, came into town with bands
of music playing and the roar of artillery.
The MAYORS office and the City Hall were
Illuminated Every man and nearly every
woman in the city assembled at the City
Hall to greet the Mayor. After shaking
hands with some thousands of citizens, the
Mayor addressed the vast throng for more
than two hours, giving statement of the
facts concerning his arrest. He denounced
Ewing as dog, liar and coward, whom he
had kicked into decency, and said Ewing
had agreed to revoke his order declaring
martial law, that he had agreed to remove
all distesteful detectives, and that no.'detec-
tive should hereafter arrest any civil officer
On the night after Anthony's arrest all
the forces were employed in the city to pre-
vent citizens from destroying the property
owned by the officers and detectives enga-
ged in making the arrest. Every body
here, without respect to party, denounces
the arrest in unqualified terms.
The great camp meeting at Paola heard
of the arrest just as the meeting was about
to adjourn-it passed the following reso-
luton unanimously:
"Whereas, Colonel D. R. Anthony, Mayor
of Leaveuworth, has been brutality placed
Under arrest by the masked miscreants of
Ewing, and hurried away from his friends
and out of the city, as convicted criminal
i, dragged to the gallows; ther efore,
"Resolved, That this act of tyranny is
only legitimate manifestation of the pol
icy which has protected rebels in Missouri;
permitted the massacre of Lawrence; order
ed the citizens of Kansas not to kill BUSH
whackers, and which at last has seized as
criminal one of the truest loyslists on the
soil of Kansas, an act unparalleled in afro
city, and the last of the series of usurpa.
tions which loyal men will endure.