CHAPTEE X. 
WAKARUSA WAR —INCIDENTS. 
Dec. 3d .—-Last evening the governor’s proclamation, though 
issued on the 29th, was received. It is one mass of falsehoods' 
and misstatements, and an incendiary appeal to the bad passions 
of the border men to come in to assist him in our destruction. 
Jones goes to him with most malignant untruths of a rescue from 
his hands of the prisoner, by a band of forty men, etc. (It is 
now stated that Coleman was with the posse, and armed hirmelf 
at Franklin with pistols and bowie-knives To act with Jones’ 
posse.) The rescue was ten miles from Lawrence. Two men in the 
rescue are all who have ever been citizens of Lawrence. Gov. 
Shannon, without the discretion which a man possessing even a 
common share of sense would show, issued his bloody proclama¬ 
tion, which deserves no place in the archives of history, against 
the citizens of Lawrence. 
While no effort has been made to make a single arrest, he says 
they are in a state of rebellion against the laws, and utters fierce 
cries of “revolution,” and “civil war.” We would that we had 
a governor less imbecile and senseless. 
On Saturday the immortal Jones came into town. While he sat 
upon his horse, bolt upright, looking defiant, his eyes wandered 
restlessly here and there, as if expecting some unseen enemy, and 
his hands trembled. Some boys, whose fun was brimming over, 
asked him if he was cold. 
His thin lips parted, and an abrupt “No” was uttered. 
“Then have you the chills?” asked they in a sympathetic tone. 
The same sound, and the same monosyllable, only a little more 
abrupt and stern, was issued. 
