Congressional Serial Set Volume 1150 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...Marshal Donelson, though not present at the scene, was evidently, and is, in the eyes of the law, guilty as an accomplice. He aided and abetted, among other ways, by notifying the posse that he had "got through with them, but that Sheriff Jones had some processes to serve, and that they would hold themselves in readiness to go with him."--(Phillips's Conquest of Kansas, p. 292, Boston, 1856.) "To evade the pledge given by the marshal that he would not let his posse enter Lawrence, they were disbanded by him after the arrests were made, and enrolled as a sheriff's posse by Jones. The next day they were again enrolled as the posse of the marshal."--(K. C, p. 39.) The investigating committee of 1856, who were in Kansas at the time of the destruction of the hotel, and who, indeed, a short time previously, held their official meetings in it, make the following statement as to the lawlessness that bore sway, and as to the character of Sheriff Jones: Speaking of the first Lawrence invasion, they say: " Among the many acts ofjawless violence which it has been the duty of your committee to investigate, this invasion of Lawrence is the most defenceless. A comparison of the facts proven, with the official statements of the officers of government, will show how groundless were the pretexts which gave rise to it. A community in which no crime had been committed by any of its members, against none had a warrant been issued or a complaint made, who had resisted no process in the hands of a real or pretended officer, was threatened with destruction in the name of law and order, and that, too, by men who marched from a neighboring State, with arms obtained by force, and who, at every stage of their progress, violated many laws, and among others, the...