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Tic "Pnidbf if G. W. BROWN, Editor, J. H. GREENE, Associate Editor. Lawrence, Satarday, April26, 1836, T E RM81 $200 PES AIINXU, EST ADVANCE. TO& rBZflDEXT, ; t ; JOHN C. FREMONT, TBJECT TO THE BXCISIOK OF THE KATI05- - :r-" AL npxriBLXCA5" CWKYZSTlb'"7 Excllln jI5niS3 inLkwxeaca!ii Since our last issue events of aaexciting nd momentous character, have -been transpiring in Lawrence.., The SherifPf attempted... for the hundredth- time to arrest our citizens under the authority created by th6 Spuiiousiegisliture, and v for tho hundredth lime failed to accom plish Lis purpose, r He called upon Gov. Shannon for-assistance, and Shannon,! - true to hi baser instincts, under the or ders of, the President, placed at his com-? rnahd the Army of tho United; States. :The physical power of the General Gov't haabeen used to grind us into submis sion to a code of bloody, barbarous enr .-.ctments. A mau styling himself "Sher- 4iff of Douglas County," comes into our town, 'with aportiou of the U. S. Aimy Ao -aid him in carrying out his objects, Feizes inoffensive, peaceable citizens whilst pursuing their proper employ ments, and without the shadow of a pre tence of justice or law, drags them be- ; fore a court from whose decisions neither justice nor humanity can be expected. This man,, dressed iu . a little brief -usurped authority, has barely escaped a violent death from. the hands of. an un- ' known; unseen foe." Whether the man who sent a ball whizzing into Jones' body .was a political friend- or opponent, , committing the crime for political pur poses or' to gratify personal and private 'levenge, matters but little. The conse quences will ,b the same. The lesson which it will teach' the unfortunate tool 1 of Oppression, will be valuable hereafter to him not only, but to all others who endearor by Fraud and Violence to crush- out the aspirations of men for freedom. But refraining from extended, com roent at this point; we proceed to detail the transactions of the past week. Uu Saturday last, the 1 9th inst., Jones .came into; Lawrence and endeavored to arrest S. N. Wood, Esq., on a writ issued by one Hugh Caineron, (a bogus Justice of tho Peace,) last November, charging him with aiding in the rescue of Mr. .BRAsrsoy, at that time. Mr. Wood re fused to give himself up, as he did not recognize the authority. An -Ittempt to take him by force foiled, and the "Sher iff" left the premises. The next day, (Sunday,) he came again, and without attempting to make an arrest even be fore ascertaining whether Mr. Wood was in town called upon a number of gen tlemen who were in the street, to assist him in making the arrest! This unusual and unheard of proceeding excited no less contempt than astonishment. Of course, as there was no one to arrest, the men thus deputised could not, if they would, answer tho summons. Jones wem awav the second time, swearing that he would make prisoners of every one of the Abolitionists.0 All was quiet unti Wednesday, when he returned bringing with him a detachment of U. S. troops, from Fort Leavenworth; When they reached the central part of the city, a crowd gathered round them to ascertain their mission. The officer in command, a Lieutenant, read a letter from Col Summer, commaudant of the Fort, ad dressed to the Mayor of Lawrence, of which the following is a copy: IuIIead ijrAR. 1st Cavaixt, ) FOBT lAAiMruJiTH, April "2W, ISJS.f Sra: A small detachment crocccd tn Tj compton thi Bu rning. d the requwuch of the Governor, coder the order of the President, to . Sbbie; me caena ot i) nglaa county in executing wveral wri;, iu which ho ay ho has been ret suted. I know nothing of tho merits of thecal, cad have nothing u do with them. Hn I would rwpectmny impic nu you, ana othtw in authority, the iievcwiity i f yielding obedience to Govcrnxn nt Ours is einDLarirajir mo luiviawuuou wa order, ot tho General went ol law, and if they are ;t at naught, there U an end of &i! order. I feel asaurcd tiut. m rolioetien, you ill not compel me to resort to ivlwiiceju cirjin cot tLcoe." ol the Gov crniciit. 1 um, sir, ver vtsjctfuliy. lour obdt ert , ,r ".v CoL let Cavalry Com. To thailiyorof Lawi.ncc. ;. . -, Joues then proceeded to arrest thoBe whom he had summoned on Sunday to assist him, as follows: John Hutchin son, E. D;. Lyman, J. F. Warren, J, G. Fuller, F. Hunt, A. F. Smith and others. Not a particle of resistance was shown Ho was acting under. U. S. authtrity, backed by U. 8. soldiers, and ur citi sens suomitted without a murmur un just and oppressive though it was. Jal Lt oroumi ail aiissoun witn mm as a pvste, not an individual in Lawrence, with a spark of manhood in him, would have been taken alive out of the city, as a prisoner. lie has had opportunities of becoaiag acquainted wilh this fact many timea - ere this. But ha csma clothed w ith the authority and ' po wer of "the Government of this Nation, aad cur peopla evinced their respect for this pow er and thir willingness to submit to it. by offering ro resistance, and placing no cbstructwni 'iatbe-'wapof ats cempletb nd ekual rrcgte?. ,,Tea .theuuad soldiers" could not have effected the ob ject more surely tlian the half dozen or so that were here. - Numbers had noth ing to do with it. It was the fact of the willingness of theU. S. to employ its power for this purpose, that had weight with us. To legal authority we submit, no matter how oppressive; to an author ity which as cieated by fraud, and. vio lence and usurpation, if peaceable and lawful . means of resistance fail, we will die in our tracks before yielding an inch. We have been branded as a set of out laws and traitors." A': greater calumny was never attempted to be fastened on a community; and in the events of the past" week" we have" hurled back this charge and given to the .world another proof, if another weie needed, of our loyalty and law -abidingnes3. " . .'It was this manifestation of a disposi tion, on our part, to yield submissively to Law, that disappointed and exaspe rated our oppressors. ' They thought- upon what . grounds we cannot possibly cenceive that we would resist the au thority of the; General Government. The whole affair was premeditated and pre-arranged; The Congressional Inves tigating Committee was in Kansas had already commenced its labors. They feared to trust the investigation of their course to an unbiased and .honorable committee. They knew too well what j the result of those investigations would be, hence the necessity of a stroke of policy,' to change the course of things. A muss must be kicked up to hinder the committee from proceeding with its work. If possible, by any means, the Committee must be prevented from re porting until aft?r the adjournment of Couirress, and of course until after the Presidential election; or if that could net be done, they must forestall its action, by placing us in an unfavorable attitude; fo'rcmg us, if possible; ' to abandon our strong arid honorable position, for one o dishonor and aggression. First, they scot a tool, iu the shape of a sheriff,' to harrass us with contemptible writs,'ema hating from no body knows wheie;varid charging us with offences, which) if mul tiplied into each other ten thousand times, would not make a crime in enormity the hundreth part as vicious as the stealing of a pin knowing well there would be individual resistance to the arresting of persons on ' such flimsey pretexts. In this they were not disappointed. Their tool failed to make arrests. "There was no resistance by us as a community what ever, individuals simplv stood upon their rights On their own responsibility, asking and receiving no help from their friends, but defending themselves alone. Next, uninterested spectators were sum marily called upon to lend their aid in capturing a person who was nowhere to be seen. This was an impossibility, and none but the veriest fool would have made the requirement. As a grand stroke, the U. S. troops were brought into requisition to aid in arresting these men who were so summarily and foolishly called upon to assist in doing that which it was im possible to do, and which the pretended official himself had not even attempted. Up to this point, everything had worked to suit them, so they vainly imagined; and the bringing of the troops into the field was expected to cap the climax! We were to have resisted them, accor ding to the programme which had been marked out, and thus place ourselves in direct and open opposition and hostility to the Government of the United States. The Investigating Committee would have proof positive and unmistakeable that the Free State men were the real aggressors, and that the pro-Slavery men were a law-abiding, law-enforcing, peaceable, quiet, lambhke set of fellows! But the "best laid schemes cf mice and men Gatg aft awry." The Free State men acknowledged the o supremacy of this Higher Law, and yielded a ready and voluntary submis Mon. And lastly, foiled at a point where they expected to manufacture the most capital, they resorted to desparate means. The "sheriff" became insufferably in sulting; got drunk, in order the better to render himself odious; drew his revolver frujratryTOnqffen ed a personal" assault; exposed himself with "impunity, to the attacks of those whom he knew to be his deadly enemies, from other than political causes; was aware; well aware, that there were par sons of his own political faith, but eher ishing a deadly personal enmity to him, who had ben dogging'his footsteps all day, never loosing sight of him, de- teinrned to take revenge for some real or imaginary wrongs; knowing this, and having already been fired upon du ring the eve King, he took a seat in an ex posed condition in an unoccupied tent, with a bright light beside him, which, through tho cloth; rendered everything perfectly and plainly visibk from the houtside. In this position he received a bullet in his back fired by an assassin hand. ' " ; Who shall say that the deed was not perpetrated by apersonal enemy, for ether than political purposes? or that Jones was not expecting U? r AIdjfrom liir pIU ictl Gcura. he fca mada many biitgr en- emies ro die country. He has driven men from claims, bumed houses, assault ed individuals, and rendered himself ob noxious to individuals in a thousand ways;, and in this country, where there is no law, it is not very strange or Very horrible that some ona or more of his enemies should take manner. And 110 " better could possibly have presented was afforded on the evenin iusL, when he was surretinded by a com munity who despised him; when he was courtincr the ill-will, and seeking to draw out the violent feeling of that community and when the deed could be accom plished, and the b!ame"6f it and conse quences of it fall upon that community. That it was a Free State man who shot Jones, we do not for a moment entertain the remotest suspicion. The public sentiment of this city con demns, in unmeasured terms, the assassi nation. No sympathy exists for the man who thus violently undertook to deprive Jones of his life, Not that there is any particular love for him for he is hated as cordially as it is possible for men to hate a scoundrel but there is a love of Order, of Law, of Justice and Peace in our people -and murder and outrage, . assassination and brutality meet with a prompt and unqualified condemnation, by whoever perpetrated. Have the Border Ruffian party accom plished anything by this last stroke of vil lainy? '. Will it not recoil upon them, as all their previous outrageous proceedings have, and result to their own injury, in stead of . ours? Have they not failed to fasten upon us a reputation for outlawry and resistance to legally constituted au thority? and will they not fail also to fasten upon us the reputation of assassi nation and blood-thirstiness? A com munity cannot be made responsible for a crime committed in its midst, by one of its own members,swhen it readily and heartily disavows the act how infinitely less, "theiv can it be held, responsible when the deed was performed by an un known individual! This community, by condemning in the strongest terms, and disavowing immediately nd unanimous ly the dastardly actr in the. judgement of reasonable and honorable men, has exonerated itself from all guiltiness, and maintained its reputation untarnished. . -The excitement attendant upon the progress . of the foregoing transactions was considerable. It seemed to be evi dent that an effort was being made to fur nish a pretextor another invasion; but when the U. S. troops came into the city, and arrested men so easily, affairs began to assume a ludicrous aspect; and the entire performance seemed to be go ing off more in the style of a farce, than otherwise. The attempted assassination of Jones, however, so unexpected, so entirely unthought of, so outrageous?; and so decidedly opposite to the sentiments of the people, aroused such a feeling of indignation against the man who thus sought to strike a death blow to the pros perity of our city, and revulsion at the deed, that they gathered, simultaneous ly, to express their condemnation. Jones was shot about 10 o'clock at night. The wound, at first, was thought to be mortal, but afterwards it was ascer tained not to be so serious He was re moved, immediately, from the tent to the Freo State Hotel", where every possi ble medical attention was at onre procur ed. His "Deputy Sheriff" took the pris- oners to Lecompton, where they were held to bail in the sum of five" hundred dollars each, without undergoing the slightest semblance of a prelimary trial. We hear rumors of an exciting, nature from below, but nothing definite reaches us. Col. Sumner came inur the city about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, bringing a large body of troops with him as far as Sicoxie's, a DelawareIndianr four miles from Lawrence, which force will be promptly on hand to suppress a ny difficulty. We give it as our opinion that we shall have no invasion this time, notwithstanding that was the ulterior ob ject, apparently, of the whole movemeut. The Alton Courier. We wish to direct the attention of our readers to the Alton Courier, published at Alton III., by G. T. Brown, Esq. The editor, for a life-time, has been con nected .with thaDemocraiifl , partv but he'hai chanced to be one of those men who had an independent mind; who dif fered with the.prominent members of his party, and who was too much a Brown to follow leaders who did not reflect his views. The consequence has been, he has been several times read out of the Democrat ic party, but he stands there still thunder ing away against the great wrong inflict ed on the country, by breaking up the crompromises of a past generation. The Weekly Courier is a large, first class paper, thoroughly devoted to the interests of Kansas and the North, is lo cated at a point which is to figure con spicuously in ' the future history . of our infant J;aie, ana is just tne paper every business man in Kansas should have ly ing upon his counter; cot business men alone, but all should read it, and we sin cerely hepe all who purpose subscribing for an Eastern paper will be sure and send for the Alton Weekly Courier, which is furnished subscribers i 2,00 a year. In consequence of its. facility of receiv ing the latest intelligence by steamer, rail road, and telegraph, it will furnish'u- the news ttytah tw Ut-taiteT--tiwy:ia&a jdget through" tlx Ixraja japm ; : ; a meeting The following : call ; for. of the public to ; take some measures in w Public Meeting raierence 10, uio aii&Lupieu - assassination cau. auuru wnu e u-iuiuucu -of S. J. Joses, on the night of the 23da course can receive no' sympathy from - . 1 . j vi t, t .-th?s people, and they will cut themselves was circulated Uirough the city the next P jj, ; " Sbiliir for the deed. revenue in a secret pLIJUL e ' utirMsof Law-- citi2en of thjs tovrn or ho. may not; tie revenge in a secreijj 6r?dt A mnt;Vfts opportunity on torei tlus wornio at balf pat 10 o . . JTT -- itself than petrai last evening in oor mit. " ; j bj it ig gtin an assassination I am not g of the 23d 1 t.' v here to: lustifv Mr. -'Jones, or his course - Pursuantx to? the . call, the hall was promptly and densely crowded. ;" Hon. A. H. RzEDia was unanimously, nomi nated : Chairman ; of the , meeting, and J on "Curiis, Secretary.. . Upon taking tha Chair, Mr. Reeder addressed the assembly; in substance asfollows: ; : . ' - i - He supposed that all perfectly under stood the object of the meeting, and that he concurred fully andjentirely in the public sentiment which deemed such a meeting necessary. The occurrence which happened in this town last evening, in whatever light it could be viewed, was an outrage on the individuals of this town, upon the public seutiment and reputation of the town, and a still greater outfsg upon our cause. That cause- was olie which sought no aid or countenance at the hands of assassins, for it was too holy, too strong, toojdst to: need Such assistance.'- . " -: It is a cause in which they wanted the help of the Lord", and not of the devil; the help of honest, well meaning men, not of murderers and assassins; the help of orderly, law-abiding, though deter mined men, and not of outlaws and murders. They wanted the sympathies of their friends in the Free. States, who have stood up and justified them, and that sympathy they must obtain by pur suing such a course as would not give any one cause to charge them witi wrong doing and injustice. The sincere "and heart-felt sympathy that they have always had, has been giv en because they were always in the riht that the blood "upon our soil, that cried for vengeacc, has been that of our friends that those whose hands have been staiued by murder and assassinations have been bur enemies and oppressors. It was a matter of pxide and congratu lation; that iniour ranks there were men who denouced; crime; murdar, and as sassination, though they were ready and willing, on all occasions, to slied ; their blood for their political right?;' and the cause in which they were engaged. It was a high and proud position they occu py before the people of the United States, and one they should always seek to maintain He had stood up in the Cap itol of the Nation; when last December the telegraph was loaded down with the lies of their enemies, charging them wiih arson, murdijr,: pluuder and all that could disgrace a man and this community- and had pledged his honor that that was untrue, and that they were a law-abiding, peaceful, though determined people. . Subsequent event showed he was right, and that all the weight of outlaw ry and blood were with their enemies, as it always had been. j . An entirely new phrase has come over the state of things Tho demon of murder; blood-shed and crime seems to be struggling to get out of the ranks of the enemy and enter ours to enter this paradie to poison the foundations that underlay the reputation of the Free State party, -if staining the flag of freedom, blackening our character, and undermi ning -ivAr cause. In God's name, let it be driven out, and keep our banner un stained. Let us preserve our reputation, and maintain the tower of strength in whid"'w&Jiaye so far maintained our po sition. Wexhave suffered wrongs al most. unparalleled and unknown to any peopl since theays of the revolution; your rights have" been trampled upon, yoitr territory invaded, your ballot box riffed, robbed off those privileges which constitute the., lifo of a republic. , Out rage upon putragd( followed quick upon each other, and;yo have been wrongd uutil your wrongawT become tne theme of the fireside, the" newspaper and tho legislature of this xpunlrj. 1 hroughout the States the lata of your wrongs goes upon every breeze All these things have - happened' among you, until you have been provpked almost beyond endu rance. The hVKa oiyour orotners cave cried from the vil for vengeance. In- vaaers nave oeou orougni nere reaay, with arms in their hands, to destroy your property, yourselves and all you hold dear, and for theMestruct!on OI this en tire community.- Your good sense, pru dence and bravery averted the blow. Your sufferings have brought you much good, in sympathy, emigration, material aioV"which could not have been ob tained in any other way; and there is no outrage which these invaders can perpe trateupon you, wnicn J"not returato ybufteu folQ, liko seedrTIo good soil onaii ail mis D9 inueu i . ouau Uie sympathies of goocU.tr ke, order-loving men, now rallying by thousands and tens of thousands in the Northern States for your benefit, be cast away ? Shall we take away from, them the arguments with which they .have moved the masses of the people the entire population of the biates for our relief, aud strike out of their ha&ds the " very weapons they are using for our cause, and give them to our enemies to be used against us?. Are we so tired of success so tired of our rep utation as a peaceful, law-abiding people that we should depreciate our cliarac:er, and defeat the object we have in view ? It would be' worse, than madness, after having enjoyed for months jhe fruits ot such a reputation to. exchange it for thai of rowdyism," assassination, and the pal try, miserable satisfaction ' of sending a man who ' i4w-mjtired'.to his last ac count with all miu upon his bead. . 1 is useless' to ask ihVstf 'questions here. All must be saiisced, since this untoward event has taken place, that the entire sen timent of the commTSai'y denounces, and condemns it. v;The community las too liigh a Regard for its oWu reputation; for justiee", aye,; and. far the tejy oj their town, and for the r2nal sucfss of'tHS great and glorious cause, in which they are encmo-oH. tr neril all for such a poor ---3-0 i gratification such an event as last night The doer of the deed" may have been a daring the past winter, when by his 111 wiU towards the people here, his alleged misrepresentations to Gov. Shannon, he brought upon you a force likely to des troy you. .1 am uothereto justiry tne motives that induced him to come here on Saturday, and of doing what he did on Sunday last, of bringing yesterday those Unitad States troops here, and his arrest of your citixens.; I condemn as 't . ' .... neartuy as any omer man m tnis mesi, ing all his proceeding, from first to last. Yet I feel revolted and shocked at the event of last night; and deem that the perpetrator of that assassination is de serving punishment. 1 I do not hold that aiy man should consider he had a right to roam about this community and take the life of any one secretly and by assas sination; whom he deems to have improp erly taken - from him any of his rights and privileges. If such a state of soci ety is brought about here we may as well leavt the .country for we would soon be in a state of barbarism which would render this Territory a vast plain of anarchy, confusion and bloodshed. If the man who committed this deed supposed he could so redress political wrongs, he did not understand his obli gations to society, to the Free : State par ty; he did not know the creed ot ins own party, the position they have taken before the people of the United htates, the broad and solid foundation upon which it has maintained itself up to this time. .Last beptember the Dree o'ate party of this Territory took a position which exists now unaltered and unmodi fied. In the report and resolutions thev adopted, lines distinct and unmistakable are drawn. The future, course of the party was indicated in soma resolutions which Iwill read. : He then read soms resolutions adopt ed by the convention of September last, at Big Spring. Such was the doctrine set forth by the Free State party, that they would never submit to the laws of the Territory.as a permaneat "institution, but would set themselves about obtaining remedies for the purpose of getting rid of them, that the ballot-box and the courts and - all peaceful remedies should be resorted to, and after those remedies had been ex hausted, and they had no choice but to sit down i nder these laws permanently, or resist them by force, they would re sist them without regard to consequences. The people of this lown have been going en quietly, refusing to recognize the ter ritorial authorities, avoiding a conflict with the authorities of the United States, which must be destructive, thus keeping precisely in the right path, and in a po sition where your friends at home and abread ild defend .and justify you. The courts have been sought, and I am sorry to say that little hope of redress is to bo found there. The sheriffs of the counties are partisans, carefully selected for their work, arid they select the jurors who are partizans. The conduct of any of these J udges, aud the lengths they are disposed to go for the purpose of pleasing their own tricnds, needs no com ment from me. You all know what took place in the case of McCrea. Thus has been demonstrated that the courts of this Territory area hopeless place in which to obtain anything like law or justice. We have appealed to another tribunal, the ballot box, and have gone to the as sembled representatives of the nation. You sent me there as your representative, to go. to the bar of that great tribunal, and the're, in the face of the entire nation, to ask for that justice we could not obtain from any other tribunal, aud which we have declared we are as yet unwilling to take iito our own hands. That appeal is yet. pending, is untried, and upon it there has been no decision. A commit tee of the representatives of the nation is now among you, upon the very spot where these outrages have been perpetra ted. They can examiue the very foiti fications erected here in the dead of win ter for the defence of your rights. They can go where your ballot-boxes have been rifled and your polls invaded ; to the very spots stained by the blood of your friends, murdered upon the altar of slav ery. They can go through your entire Territory, and hear your complaints, and report th facts to the representatives of the nation, where justice must be done. Iu the midst of this progress, where ev ery thing was going on smoothly, peace ably and satisfactorily, and all good cit izens were congratulating . themselves upon the Cuccesslul progress f this ap-pejiL-lhe- hand -of-omai? jMKewuiby sane, ril-dispdsed individual undertakes to throw down this superstructure we have so carefully built up, and mar our entire prospects by this unjustifiable and atrocious act. It the man who struck that blow did it to help ourcause',he must have been blind and insane in his reason ings, and ignorant of the very first idea of the position and character of the Free State cause. He must bear the conse quences ot his deed. I have no sympa thy with one who would trifle with the lives and property of the people here. We are not bound to let any man, no matter what may be the causa of his ac tions, so act as to mar the prospects of fu ture success.' We have two alternatives presented to us w hich we cannot evade if we would that of stabbing our own cause, destroying our own prwspeets, and doing violence to our own opinions, or, on the other hand, denouncing the author of this act. I am ' happy to find suc)i entire expresfcion of opinion in this com munity.' 1 expected it to some extent, but 1 am surprised, agreably to, to find how unanimously outspoken and sincere is the de'nuiiciatibirot this act. If I knew, the man, 1 wouhl fume him here now, .1 should consider it-a sacred duty which' I owed to each man of you, and jia tha cats is which we are engaged to the cruse rtf justice and honor, to name that man before this whole community, and let him take the consequences of this ill-advised and setf-ad vised act upon his own tieaa. What Tou.will do in relation to this matter,is not for me to dictate. This tken in comes a sheriff, who lias ma! meeting must decide for themselves. I himself obnoxious to individuals ia 9 thank you for the distinction ;yoa have 1 thousand ways, aside from his poliu conferred upon me in calling . upon ma; position. He conies into our streets and to preside over this meeting. I am ) attempts to arrest men here without aDr pleased that so large and respectable an j cause whateveror for some very iQsj assemblage have taken this matter untovnificaut" cause He ccmes with a wh consideration,' and feel that there can be . batch of warrants, to serve them upon no risk in committing this subject iato . community that is exasperated aaian your hands. - ---- i1 for; various reasons.- The p .The Hon. gentleman was frequently - treat him civilly, so far as I know. interrupted by bursts of applause, and J . have learned of no commotion. The resumed -his seat - amid long-continued bnsome little exci cheering and applause.., Mc. v G. P. jbut the community, generally have beea Lowbev stated that he agreed fully with willing to let hini go onand make his r. the opinions offered , by .the President of the meeting, in regard to the outrage perpetrated . here. : Before he took his seat, he would offer some resolutions which he thought would embody the sen timent of the meeting. All present were aware that there were certain acts, offriive and defensivc'allow'ed,' under "a code peculiar to the border States, which, in other communities and in other state of things, would not be tolerated. But murder was no more justified by. that code than any others The act perpetra ted last night he characterized as a cow ardly assassiuation, to shoot in the back, in the dsad of night, an unsuspecting man, against whom the feelings of the community were aroused, - who . was , al most unprotected, and who, therefore, should have been treated' with more 61 humanity and manliness. He offered a series bf ; resolutions, which were read, as follows: . . Eeaolted, That tho attempt tnaJe ia onr town liut evening upon thelifot S. J. Jones, Eoq., whilst claiming to act as the SheriiFvf thocounT ty, was the isolated act of some maluioaa and evil-Uisposod individual, unexpected, and on lijokod lor by our coraniunity, and unsusUined by any portion of them. " " Jtttulved, That in tho opinion of tbia commn nity, it was a cowardly and atrocious outrage upon. Mr. Jones aq itwult and injury th public 6entimonS' and reputation of our town, and a crime dewrviag condign punishment. .; tttrjitfd. That uuvitbtoudinthu nnpleaa ant relation which existed between Mr. Jones and onr citizens. if tho attack could have been fore seen or couriered at all probable, we would have neglected no mean to prevent r defeat it; we deeply sympathise with the wounded man, and will a Cold him all the aid and conitWt in our power. . - ' ; ' Ketoltfti., That we .deeply regret taut tno per petrator of this deed i unknown : ana if kuoviH to us, we wo Id unhesitatingly expose and denounce him as the criminal. A'tsUttd, .That it is due to the reputation of our town, and louJij uemanded oy tiie deep and universal indignation which pervades our com munity, that the puilty author should, if fos.si bie. be sought out and surrendered to justice. L'esolitd, That a committe of livo bo ap pointed w hoQ duty it shall be to investigate the circumstances connected with this dcplurabie occurrence, and,, if posaibie, to ferret out the ruilty fcgent ; and we pledge ourselves that; al though not responsible as a community for thi act ol a depraved individual, we wili uae our best eflorU to bhow to the worid that we have no empathy for crime iu any bhape, aud are pre pared to treat the perpetrator with that stern justice which shall not Biop to inquire whether they re friends or foea. , Gov. Robinson, upoa being loudly called for, arose and addressed the meet ing as follows: - . I do not know that 1 have any thing particular to say ou this occasion, except to endorse what has already been so ably said by your presiding efficer. We are engaged in a sort of warfare, in this Stale of Kansas, but it is an honorable warfare on our part, and we will never, as indi viduals, as a communily, or as a partv, let ourselves down from an honorable po sition; wo will never change ourselves from honorable enemies, to cowardly as sassins. No honorable man can justify any such course. It will be insisted that this outrage was perpetrated by one of the citizens of Lawrence, by a Free Statu man, and for political purposes. Ihav? good reason to believe that it was all ar ranged and got up to have this impression ;jo out; but, at the same ' time, I be lieve that no Free State manisa party to this arrangement. Since I have heard of this unexpected outrage, 1 have taken every means in my power to ascertain the facts and circumstances of the case as far as I could, and I have come to the conclusion I have just stated. This way of doing things is nothing new. Late last fall there was an arrangement to get up an invasion. We all understand this, and therefore, I need not go into the par ticulars. It wa3 well understood here in Kansas, that it was thought best that there should be an invasion, and the destruction of some of the citizens of this Territory, and of the people of Law rence. A murder was committed out here some five or ten miles distant. The victim was a Free Stau man then, though they pretended at first, that he was a pro-Slavery man, until the desired effect was produced. The first reports that went into the State below us, were that man,aod murdered by a Free State mani aud that the women and children of pro Slavery men iu this vicinity were being murdered and robbed. ' I; had its effect, created its excitement, and brought on an invasion. But when the affair became i too serious to be contemplated with im- j punity, when it appeared that the whole affair would end in a civil war, then the party having it iu charge, thought it best to look into it a little more closely, and they found that thi people of the Terri tory had no responsibility in the matter whatever that it was an individual af &ir altogether, and that the parties to blame weieon the side of the enemies of freedom that .things passed off with a great many muttering, not satisfactory at all. to our party, and cow comes on another demonstration. These - things ; are not conducted for individual benetit; individuals are as nothings in this mat ter. - The life of any ne man is but as a straw, but as a drop in the bucket. Here is a war agitating the whole coun try, and this is tiie battle ground. v What is the life cf Sheriff Jones, or Charles Robinson, or Gov. Beeder, or any other mau in lhi3 coiitest?-v ' mere nothing. : A com mi ii ee corner hre from Wash ingtoii to invesiiga'e this'matteraiid see nu,w..we. been treated; to eo' who are the oppressed, who are the wron; to see who are in the right The tV moment they lant their feet pon ?? soil of Kansas, that moment thesVont!! ges begin to be fomented. Ev.v?' has been quit up to that moment i 2 rests. Some individuals refuse to be a There is a part of the army of the U. S. u in town to:daj. In timesbf peace.wehava imposed upon us men of war, nd they may re-nain here permanently. A small ! portion of the army, came here a dozen men or so more or less. Whereverthg U. S. authority appeared, the men bowed to it in respect and submission. Not word was spoken, - or a .hand raised agtinst the authorities.- Mr. Jones came here with the authority of the United States in his hands, and, that authority has been respected, so far as I know. Everything appeared to be ; working in such a way as to prove a failure ou the part of our enemies. -They had hoped that we would resist, and take a position against the United States authorities.and thus they could, place us in the wrong.- But everything was quiet. 7 A corporal could go, without his guard, through the city and arrest every man iu Law rence. What was to be done? 1 hap. pened to ba outbf town last evening, at:d 1 suppose I shall not be charged with tho offence committed then. . But 1 under stood that an individual,-' who is obnox ious to individuals, as individuals, on ac count of individual disputes, and onac count of his harrassiug the members of the community, by little-, insignificant writs, took his position last evening in an exposed tent,; without a' guard near him; even when one shot had been fired he still had no precaution taken, but -placed himself in an exposed situation, and while thus exposed, a shot was fired and took effect. I trust, I pray, that it will not result seriously. Now -it is-inferred that it was done by the' people of Lawrence. Is that reasonable? (Cries of no, no. ) There were men of their own stamp here; strangers in our midst, unknown to" the people of this communi. ty. I verily believe that not a man in Lawrence had anything to do with that transaction. (Cries of 'never,' neTer.') It may be asked, would they shoot atono of their own men? I . have partially hinted at the reason. - I have said that, in this matter, a man's life is of no ac count. If the slave power of thi coun try, in order to possess this Territory, required that Mr. Jones should lav down his life, or be exposed to the shots ofhij friends, then Mr. Jones must expose bis life, then those shots must be fired. They tried it on a Free State man; it failed. Now it is necessary, in order to get up another trouble, that it should be a pro Slavery man, in good earnest; and if the Free State men would not go into it, why, I wiir not say they themselres would do it, but it looks Very much as if that was the case. Of course no man in this community would approve of thi affair; and I would here say, believing as I do, that thi attack was the work of an assassin, to make capital against those of us engaged in this Free State movement and if I did not believe it, I would da the same thing I will here say, that by the authority vested in me,. as Governor of the Sate of Kansas, I propose to offer & reward for the detection of the assassin; and if approved by this com munity,! will offer a reward of 8500, for the detection of the assassin, and his conviction in the courts, of. the United State. I - have no fears as to who that man will beI have "no fears as to. what party he belongs; and if I had; it would make no difference with me. - We want no such men in our party , and I de net, believe we have any there., :i -. AIM have to say ia this matter Is, that I entirely approve of the course pursued by our citizens, so far as I know it, so far as I have seen it since these United States officers have been here. -1 sav.' treat the United Slates authority with all respect. I will bow to it until I am ready to say that there is no hope but in re volution. Then we will prepare in tro J earnest, and not-commence by assassinations. tir 'it . w e win act like men then. But we hara not reached that period yet, and until then I would respect the Authority of the United States as I would respect the au thority of my B ible, or any other author ity. I see that this community will do the saisa thing, aad 1 am glad to kns ' The Governor took his seat amid cheer ing and applause. : .; , : T. . The resolutions were unanimously adopted. " ; ' A resolution was also - unanimously adopted requesting Gov. Bobiason,.as Governor of the S'ate of Kansas, to of fer a reward of 8500 for the apprehen sion and conviction of the person wh committed the assault or sheriff Jones, in the courts of the United States. The followinggentlemen were appoint ed on the committee authorized by the resolutions: G. P. Lowrcyv Q. Vf. Deiti- ler, James F. Lega?, Norman Ail sn, Samuel Sutherland. ' "' ' The meeting then adjourned. 1 ! .The Committee appointed to examine-, fntb the matters connected with this un-. ft rtunate affair are now busily engaged in the inyestigationand will usa every possibla exertion to ferret out and bring to light whatever of mystery there Eiay be attached to it. .They desire . all persons who know' anything about the matter to report to them at once. . - u it I