THE ATTACK UPON LAWRENCE. 
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sage from this to the unseen life, that the placid countena tee wore, 
not the aspect of death, but the beautiful repose oP a dreamy sleep. 
Illinois furnished the first victim. Will she hear the startled 
cry of young Jones, “ 0 God, I am shot! ” and the desolate 
plaint of the widowed one, now mourning like Israel’s singer, “ My 
son, my son, would God I had died for thee ” ? Will she do her 
uttermost to strike down the black piratical flag, borne aloft by her 
traitorous son, continually hissing, “ I will subdue you ” ? 
Hew York, in the murder of one of her young men, is reminded 
of the peril of all who bow not their knee to the Moloch of 
slavery. 
The Messrs. E. returned to Lawrence. The people still loving 
the United States government, and having declared that they would 
never resist its authority, although the tyranny of the present 
administration is without its parallel in history, they refused all 
the proffered aid of the neighboring settlements, notwithstanding 
ihey well knew that with a small force they could have wiped out 
all these “territorial bands of militia” as easily as the melting 
away of the mist before the sun-rising. 
It was necessary that the peace should be preserved under all 
these provocations, that the whole country might realize the sin¬ 
cerity of their declarations to obey the general government, not¬ 
withstanding the upholders of the administration have so loudly 
stigmatized them as “ traitors ” and “ rebels.” It was necessary that 
the whole country should be convinced of the real meaning of the 
words, “ enforcing the laws,” used so often by United States offi¬ 
cials in the territory, as well as at Washington. 
The proposition was made to have men armed, and at a proper 
distance from Lawrence to protect the inhabitants, should any out¬ 
rages be attempted after the arrests were made. This seemed 
plausible; but would the apathetic, money-loving North believe 
this was the real object for which any means of defence had been 
prepared ? Would not the border ruffian papers in the North, even 
the few which taint the moral atmosphere of fair New England, 
howl with another cry of rebellion in Kansas? So the people of 
Kansas feared; and the cool, calm heads of Lawrence decided,' 
while the pale faces of two unburied victims attested to the malig- 
