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KANSAS. 
tory, by J. B. Donaldson, United States Marshal for said territory, 
issued on the 11th day of May, 1856, it is alleged that certain 
‘ judicial writs of arrest have been directed to him by the First 
District Court of the United States, etc., to be executed within 
the County of Douglas, and that an attempt to execute them by 
the United States Deputy Marshal was violently resisted by a 
large number of the citizens of Lawrence, and that there is every 
reason to believe that any attempt to execute these writs will be 
resisted by a large body of armed men,’ therefore, 
“ Resolved , by this public meeting of the citizens of Lawrence, 
held this 13th day of May, 1856, that the allegations and 
charges against us, contained in the aforesaid proclamation, are 
wholly untrue in fact, and the conclusion entirely false'which is 
drawn therefrom ; the aforesaid deputy marshal was resisted in 
no manner whatsoever, nor by any person whatever, in the execu¬ 
tion of said writs, except by him whose arrest the said deputy 
marshal was seeking to make ; and that we now, as we have done 
heretofore, declare our willingness and our determination, without 
resistance, to acquiesce in the service upon us of any judicial 
writs against us by the United States Marshal for Kansas Terri¬ 
tory, and will furnish him a posse for that purpose, if so requested ; 
but that we are ready to resist, if need be, unto death, the ravages 
and desolation of an invading mob. 
“J. A. Wakefield, President . 
“ John Hutchinson, Secretary .” 
The same evening (Tuesday, the 13th) Mr. Cox, a pro-slavery 
man, of Lawrence, was requested by one of our leading citizens 
to ascertain from Marshal Donaldson if any peaceable arrange¬ 
ment could be entered into to prevent his monster posse from 
entering the town. Mr. Cox remained all night with Donaldson, 
and, on his return to Lawrence the next morning, reported the 
following conversation as having passed between himself and 
Marshal D. : 
Mr. Cox asked, “ Will you be able to control these men, if 
they enter the town ? ” 
The marshal replied, “ I don’t know that I will.” 
