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hundred infantry, telling them “ he had no further use for them, 
but Sheriff Jones has writs to execute, and they were at liberty to 
organize as his posse.” 
Sheriff Jones, who, through all the border papers, had been 
reported “ dead,” and “ dying,” rode forward, and was received 
with yells of applause. He spoke to the motley group of his 
attempted assassination, and informed them of certain writs in 
his hands, and asked their aid. 
About one o’clock, at the head of a posse of twenty or twenty- 
five mounted men, armed with United States muskets and bayo¬ 
nets, this immortal sheriff rode into Lawrence, to the door of 
the hotel, and asked for Gen. Pomeroy. This gentleman soon 
answering the summons, Jones said, “ I have been resisted sev¬ 
eral times in this place, and attempts have been made to assas¬ 
sinate me. Now I am determined to execute the law, if it costs 
me my life. I demand of you, as the most prominent man in the 
place, the surrender of all the cannon and Sharpe’s rifles you 
have; ” and, taking out his watch, he added, “ I give you five 
minutes to decide whether you will give them up.” He said, 
moreover, “ I am authorized to make this demand by the First 
District Court of the United States .” 
Gen. Pomeroy went to the committee room, and, returning in a 
few minutes, said, “The cannon will be delivered up, but the rifles 
are private property, and will be retained.” The cannon was 
taken out of its safe retreat by Gen. Pomeroy. Cheerfully, until 
then, our people had looked on; but it was too humiliating to give 
up this brass six-pounder, which had been welcomed with shouts, 
during the fall invasion, strengthening their means of defence 
when the peril was imminent. The curses of the few free-state 
boys yet remaining in town (most having left when they found no 
defence was to be made) were muttered, but deep, and the dis¬ 
satisfaction was general. 
In the mean time, the forces, variously estimated from five 
hundred to eight hundred, had been marched down to the base 
of the hill and formed into a hollow square. Gen. D. R. Atchi¬ 
son made the following speech, which was received by the unceas¬ 
ing yells of the crowd: 
