GENERAL DISCOMFORT — MURDER OF DOW. 10f5 
character, who throws his whole influence upon the side of vio¬ 
lence and disorder, and is aiming to form the domestic institutions 
of the territory. Collins, a free-state man, was shot, not long 
since, by Pat Laughlin, and no notice was taken of it by the 
government. If Coleman should be arrested, have we not good 
reason to believe, though the evidence was clear as the sunlight 
that his hand was stained with the blood of a fellow-creature, 
that Judge Lecompte would so pack a jury as to clear the cul¬ 
prit ? The design of the pro-slavery men is to drive out all who 
are firm and true to the principles of freedom, and in this design 
the officials sympathize. Justice weeps at the shameless course 
of her executors in this territory. 
24 th. — A friend is over from Blanton. The citizens of that 
region and Hickory Point are much aroused by the murder of 
Dow. He was a mild and peaceable young man, much esteemed 
by those who knew him. He had recently received a letter from 
his friends, in which they urge him to come home, as they fear 
his life is in danger. Our friend S. has just answered the letter, 
and borne to them also the sad tidings of their son’s decease by 
the bloody hand of slavery’s minions. Another martyr has fallen 
on the green plains of Kansas for those rights which Heaven 
vouchsafes to every human creature with his breath of life. A 
meeting to take into consideration the bloody deed, and their 
murderous designs, as the lives of other free-state men are sought 
after with vile,- fiendish threats, is called for next Monday, Nov. 
26. The murderer has fled to Missouri. 
27th. — Tuesday morning. At about four o’clock, this morning, 
was awakened by the hurried tramp of horses’ feet approaching 
the house. A loud knock upon the door soon followed, with the 
instantaneous halloa, so common in this western country, used 
instead of the more courteous civilities of conventional life, saving 
the rider the trouble of dismounting. Becognizing the voice, my 
husband asked, “ What’s wanted ? ” 
The voice outside replied, “Jones, with a party of Missourians, 
had taken from his house a Mr. Branson. He has been rescued 
by a party of free-state men, and they are now on their way here. 
