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KANSAS. 
United States Marshal Donaldson issued his proclamation of 
falsehoods. 
« PROCLAMATION ! 
“ TO THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS TERRITORY. 
“ Whereas certain judicial writs have been directed to me, by 
the First District Court of the United States, etc., to be executed 
within the County of Douglas ; and whereas an attempt to execute 
them by the United States deputy marshal was violently resisted 
by a large number of the citizens of Lawrence, and as there is 
every reason to believe that an attempt to execute these writs will 
be resisted by a large body of armed men; now, therefore, ths 
law-abiding citizens of the territory are commanded to be and ap¬ 
pear at Lecompton, as soon as practicable, and in numbers suffi¬ 
cient for the proper execution of the law. 
“ Given under my hand, this 11th day of May, 1856. 
“ J. B. Donaldson, 
“ U. S . Marshal for Kansas Territory .” 
My husband, going upon business to the East, was also taken 
prisoner on the tenth of May, by a gang of Missourians at Lex¬ 
ington. They declared he was running away from an indictment, 
and by their whole conversation showed themselves better ac¬ 
quainted with the designs of Judge Lecompte and Gov. Shan¬ 
non than the people of this territory. They sent w r ord to this 
tool of theirs, who bears the title of governor of the territory, and 
he recognized them as his agents and accomplices. 
Letters written by H. C. Pate, filled with utter falsehoods, cal¬ 
culated to arouse the passions of the border men, were published in 
the St. Louis Republican. In a letter dated Palermo, K. T., May 
5, and published in the Republican , he made an untrue statement 
with regard to Jones, then stated that a man by the name of 
Plarper had been shot in or near Lawrence, and went into doleful 
strains on the want of compassion of the people of Lawrence for 
the bereaved wife and children ; all of which was a sheer fabrica¬ 
tion — no man of the name of Harper having lived in Lawrence, or 
any man been molested; and another proof was given of the old 
