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NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE

NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE

 

LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE

 

TOPEKA, KANSAS, July 14, 1856.

Do you know for what Mr. J. Speer, Editor of The Kansas

Tribune, and a dozen or more others -- some of the best men in

Kansas--have been compelled to flee from their families and

homes and become exiles in a strange land? If you do not, the

sub-joined letter will initiate you into the secret. How the

original letter was obtained I know not, but I have seen it, and

the following is a verbatim et literatim copy:

 

LECOMPTON, April 20, 1856.

"Maj. J. B. Donaldson:

"My dear Sir: Sam'l N. Wood is now in Lawrence, and I

wish you to send me the writ against him. I arrested him yes-

terday, and he was rescued from my hands by a mob. The Gov.

has called upon Col. Sumner for a company to assist me in the

execution of the laws. I have writs gotten out against Robinson

and some twenty others.

"In haste, y'r ob's,                  SAM'L J. JONES."

 

Well, the writ against S. N. Wood was sent to "Y'r ob's", but

when he went to arrest that gentleman legally, he found him --

not at home. He before arrested, or attempted to arrest S. N.

Wood, without a warrant or any show of authority whatever, but

"some twenty others" not being clear-sighted enough to perceive

any difference between a private citizen and a bogus second-

handed Sheriff acting without the "papers", took occasion to give

him their views upon the subject and he concluded to leave. But

the same spirit (bad whiskey) that makes a packed Grand Jury

find an indictment against a hotel and two printing presses, and

try ex parte and order the destruction of the same for being

nuisances, all at one heat, made a preliminary Grand Jury and

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