Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

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arrant regularly issued, who, on our return, was rescued by a party of forty men who rushed up

you for THREE THOUSAND MEN to carry out the laws. Mr. Hargis, the bearer of th

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ardson, reciting the story told him by Sheriff Jones, together with additional storie

. Jones, Sheriff of Douglas County, together with the number of your forces, and render him all the aid and assistance in your power in the execution of any leg

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in Missouri, and it meant Missouri militia and not Kansas militia. Moreover, the Governor knew, or at least ought to have known, what an unreliable man this Sheriff Jones was. Jones was Postmaster at Westport, an

en. Eastin, editor of the Leavenworth Herald, and commander of the second brigade, Kansas militia, must

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are committing depredations upon persons and property, burning down houses and declaring open hostility to the laws, and have forcibly rescued a prisoner from the Sheriff. Come one, come all! The outlaws a

r and Richardson, Brig. Gen. Eastin, Col. Atchison, Col. Peter T. Abell, Robert S. Kelley, Stringfellow and Sheriff Jones. They had bro

d Smith, the rescuers of Branson, and who were residents of Lawrence, left the city, and there were none there against whom Sheriff Jones had any writs to execute. Dr. Robinson was appointed Commander-in-Chief for the defense of t

the battle of New Orleans. They had seen their rights wrested out of their hands by a mob of ruffians, and now they were proposing to settle the matter in that court of last resort that is the final and ultimate appeal of the nati

got of the real state of affairs at Lawrence was conveyed t

ider reliable, that the outlaws are well fortified with cannon and Sharpe' rifles,

propriety of calling upon the military of Fort Leavenworth. If you have the power to call out the governme

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y were picked men from all the Kansas settlements. Our old friend, Caleb May, was there, as grim and as self-possessed as Andrew Jack

ady to march at a moment's notice. And now this simple-minded Gov. Shannon, Ex-Governor of Ohio, who had come to Kansas to waste in a few short months the ripe honors he had been so

nse of Lawrence. It is proper to pause and consider the character of this man, who shone for

as bankrupt in reputation, bankrupt in property, and bankrupt in morals, and he came away from unhappy family relations. Notwithstanding, he brought with him boundless ambition, and a consciousness in his own heart that he possessed genius that might lift him up to the highest pinnacle of honor. His first effort was to reorganize that political party that was in control of the Government at Washington, and that he had so faithfully served in Indiana. As respects slavery, he proba

wear the outside seeming of virtue. But this strange man never pretended to be anything else than just w

. Lane, in the highest sense of the word, an orator. He spoke once in Chicago when the people were most excited over the Kansas troubles. A great crowd came to hear, and he swayed the

, died by his own hand. The people believed that he had gone wrong and betrayed them, and they withdrew from

t as the above, appealed to a gentlemen whose high position in public life and kind

on and distrust. I recognized fully the marvelous energy and equally marvelous influence of the man, but I distrusted his sincerity and lacked confidence in his integrity. When I met him, or listened to one of his impassion

ling of good and evil was now the leadi