Description
A Kansas Outrage. - - The Lawrence correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette gives an account of an outrage committed at Stranger Creek, on the 4th (January 4, 1857), by a company of Platte County Missouri ruffians, which was likely enough to give occasion to further difficulties.
The Missourians attempted to seize John Williamson, whose father was a Choctaw Indian and his mother a negro, alleging that he was a fugitive slave - that he did not belong to any of them, but they knew who he did belong to, and meant to take him back to Platte County.
Williamson seized one of their revolvers and ran, but they fired upon him with rifles and wounded him dangerously. Williamson succeeded in getting to Lawrence. The Missourians returned to Leavenworth, where they were endeavoring to raise a party to go to Lawrence and carry off Williamson by force.
The Gazette's correspondent adds: “The borderers are threatening to give us another winter’s devastation and bloodshed. Coleman, the murderer of Dow, and several others, of the same stamp, are publicly walking the streets of Leavenworth, and no notice taken of them by the bogus authorities.”Date(s) of Creation
1/9/1857
