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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], The New troubles in Kansas. (search)
te. A committee was appointed to wait on the Governor of Missouri and lay the facts before him, and request a supply of arms. The following letter has been addressed to Governor Stewart: Clinton, Mo., Nov. 21, 1860. Sir: I am here to inform the citizens of this State of the following facts, and I have been requested to present them to you as Governor of the State. The abolitionists, under command of Montgomery and director Tennyson, to the number of 300 to 500, armed with Sharpe's rifles, dragoons' sabres, navy revolvers and bowie knives, have suddenly commenced a war of extreme ferocity on the law-abiding citizens of Southern Kansas, in the counties of Lima and Bourbon.--These arrived by the wagon load at or near Mound City about one month since, in boxes marked as donations for Kansas sufferers. Montgomery has been in Boston during a part of the summer, and returned with plenty of money to enlist recruits. Many of his men are newly imported. He has taken posses