The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-09-03
The Lawrence Massacre.

Our readers, the most of them, are no
| doubt familiar with the tale Of horror of
the sacking and burning Of the city Of
Lawrence, Kansas, by that. 6end incarnate,
the Rebel guerilla QUANTRILL, and the
inhuman massacre of Its inhabitants. A
band of mounted Missouri guerillas, mum
bering three hundred, under QuAHTRELL,
made q rapid and unexpected raid into
Kansas week before last, burning and
pillaglng everything in their way. They
reached Lawrence after nightfall, taking
the city entirely by surprise. After pill
! laying the place, and shooting down the
citizens, without regard to age or sex, the
inccndiary torch was applied, and Law
renee she principal city in the State
reduced to ashes. Many of the inhab-
itants are known to have perished in the
Cares. Two hundre1-and- fifty dwelling
| houses and ffty business houses were
destroyed, and Cup to the latest accounts
one hundred and etghty-ome persons killed !!
The details of the cold-blooded murder
are horrible and almost beyond credence
the heart sickens at the revolving atroci-
ties committed.
Upon the departure Of the murderers,
a small force was Immediately assembled
by Gen. JIM LANE, who gave pursuit, to
| avcpge the outrages committed by the
| death Of each and every one Of the
! fends Several collisions have occurred
between the opposing forces, resulting in
the killing of about eighty of QUANTRELL s
band and now, the Rebel chief, fearing
for his ultimate safety, has disbanded his
gang, and taken to the bush. Over three
hundred horses and nearly all his i'll
| gotten plunder at Lawrence have been
recaptured, and the indications are that
soon no. man Of the gang will be left to
"tell the tale"
The following extract from = private
letter relative to the subject, will be found
interesting:
! LEAvxswoRTH, KANSAS, AuSust %, 1868.
| OF course, you have seen by tele-
| graph, and the papers sent you, an account
| of the inhuman massacre at Lawrence. l
have heard no e1tenuating circumstances, no
| features which redeem IL from an appearance
/ of the ost atrocious and cOld-biooded mas
| sacre which has ever disgraced the annals of
| any country Or any age. In barbarity 1t
| exceeds the Utah Silver Lake Butchery-
| the conduct of the Rebels can only find .
parallel in tho savage atrocities Of Nena
| Sahib during tho Indian revolt in 1857.
Iucide nts of the murder come in 30 fast,
| and are SO multiplied by new arrivals from th e
scene, that it is impossible to give partc ulars.
| Hereafter the facts and incidents will be
collatsd and published in lasting FORM an
evidence OF the degradation to which human
| ity may descend, and that mankind clailling z
! to be civilized are even more barbarous and
| hendish than the savages of the Southwest
| Men were ruthlessly and remorseles sly shot
| In their own doorways, in the presence of th cir
wives and children. They were pursued like
| beasts IN the street, and deliberately mur-
| dersd, and their bodies left where they fell
to be either consumed in the FIRE, or charred
! by the heat beyond recognition. wall
| goes up fr ON Lawrence to-day, which will
| reach Heavens high throne, and call down
| celestial vengeance upon the sccursed de-
| stroyers of innocence, and that wall will
| reverberate in the ears of loyal people,
| knitting them more firmly in the deep resolve
| that never while traitor lives, will they lay
| down the sword, cease to pursue, attack
| and destroy. Kansas can protect herself
| She can administer like for like, and unless
the military arm of the Government is sue
cessfully interposed to protect her, she will
again, in the strength of her brave and free
people, sound the tocsin of war, and make in
| Missouri a track of fire ana blood which shall
| be visible to the world and stand for ages in
| the record as specimen of Kansas ven
geance.
The inhuman and atrocious aggregate be-
wilders and stupefes.the senses, and we can
| only wonder whittier we tending and try
to remember when men, formed in The image
of God. have been guilty of such Infamous
| violations of the laws and usages of war.