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Tuesday, March 5, 1974
University Daily Kausan
1863 Quantrill Raid on Lawrence: A Tale of Infamy
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Quantrill sent two men ahead to check for an ambush. The men reported that all was quiet. About 5 a.m., Friday, Aug. 21, the order was given to rush the town.
With space age precision, several bands left the main group and quickly saturated all areas of Lawrence. A group of 11 rushed to Mt. Orca to watch for approaching Union troops. The main group, meanwhile, headed to Horseshoe Bridge House Hotel on Massachusetts Street.
Near 10th and New Hampshire streets, they came up 22 unarmed and sleepy Union recruits. Seventeen of the helpless recruits were massacred.
The rattlers rode on to the Eldridge House, yelling and shooting all the way up the hill.
Quantrill was amazed to see a white flag appear from a window, signaling surrender.
QUANTRILL, amazingly, had caught Lawrence totally unprepared. The inhabitants were asleep and, worse, all the town's weapons were stored in an armory and not divided among the兵营. Quantrill was so determined that no citizen could reach the armory.
After the surrender of Eldridge House, Quantrill gave the order to kill every man and burn every building in town, but to spare the women. While his men carried out his orders, Quantrill ate breakfast inside the Eldridge House.
Every place of business that would burn was set afair. Looting was widespread. Men were shot down in the streets, even those who tried to surrender. The 400
Meanwhile, across the Kansas River, 12 soldiers and some Delaware Indians watched the palligaging, unwilling with so few men to cross the river to oppose the raiders. Instead, they shot repeatedly across the river, and the section of town along the river bank.
mandraiders had gained control of the town as fast that no resistance could be given.
THE SOLDIERS killed one raider who was attempting to cut down a U.S. flag that hung on a flagpole at the north end of the bridge. The only raider killed during the massacre.
Levi Gates, who lived about a mile from Lawrence, grabbed his gun and headed for town after he noticed the commotion. Upon arriving, he fired two shots at a group of
raiders. He missed and was shot and killed.
In an additional act of brutality, the raiders
A group of raiders arrived at Mayor Collamore's home, intent on murdering him. The mayor, however, had hidden in a well beside his home. When the raiders burned his house, however, flames shot into the well, suffocating the mayor.
Another group called on the home of Judge Louis Carter, a recently married young man and a reporter for the Kansas Supreme Court.
The raiders told Carter they wanted water, and Carter complied. Then, without warning, a raider shot and wounded Carter, who promptly jumped into his home. The raider pursued Carter through the house and into the back yard where Carter collapsed from
CARTER'S WIFE threw her body over ins, but the raider lifted her arm and shot him.
Not all incidents ended so tragically, however. In downtown Lawrence, as a group of raiders were preparing to execute a young man, an orphan girl who lived with him familiarly rushed to the young man's arms, screaming for the raiders not to kill her brother.
The orphan and the young man bad, in fact, never seen each other previously. The child is not the only one.
the orphan girl were later married.
As 9 a.m. approached, four hours after the invaders had begun pillaging, raiders on Mt. Oland reported that Union troops were approaching eight miles to the east.
Almost as quickly as they had arrived, Quantrill and his men fled to the south, leaving behind at least 143 dead, 25 wounded, 80 widows, 250 others and nearly $2 million worth of property damages. A hundred residences had been destroyed and all but two Massachusetts Street businesses were burning to the ground.
Be Careful, You Might Be Breaking the Law Outdated Ordinances Still Clutter Up City's Books
There are ordinances now in effect for the city of Lawrence that prohibit fortune telling, publications about crime, cohabitation by unmarried couples and indecent language in the presence of females and children.
Barkley Clark, associate dean of School of Law and a city commissioner, would like to see these and other city ordinances either cleaned up or removed entirely. In the past, they are vague, out dated or of questionable legality.
But what most concerns him is the ordinances that the city isn't in a position to properly enforce. It undercuts public respect for the law, he says, to have that kind of ordinance on the book.
A good example, he says, is the cohabitation ordinance, which states that "No man and woman not married to each other shall abide or cohabit unlawfully with each other in this city."
"That's really kind of a mockery." Clark says, "and it probably should be eliminated." The ordinance obviously isn't enforced, he says, and it's possible that it never was, even though it dates from the 19th century.
ANOTHER ORDINANCE states that "any person who shall, in this city, use profuse, vulgar, indecent or obscene language in the streets or other public places, or in the presence of any female or of any child under the age of 16, shall upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a middemean."
"Not that we are in favor of indecent language." Clark says. But the ordinance is another one that the city can't enforce effectively. The danger is that they could be violently electrolyte, he says, against only a few individuals.
The city's ordinances, according to Clark, are the laws of the city which regulate in a general sense activities, groups of people and transactions in the city. To get in the ordinance book, he says, an ordinance first is authorized in mission, which then allows, except in cases of emergency, the public readings of the ordinance before final approval.
There are other ordinances which Clark thinks have questionable legal bases.
Ordinance号 14-703 makes it unlawful for any "fortune-teller, palmist, phrenologist or clarvoyant to carry on or practice his business, trade or profession within the city."
"THAT ONE, I SUPPOSE, would outlaw transcendental meditation within the city as well," Clark says. It also could provide the city problems of constitutionality, he says, if someone really wanted to challenge it.
Court cases have already been decided which lead Clark to think that the qualifications set for city commissioners are valid.
The ordinance states that a city commissioner must be at least 28 years old at the time of his election and a candidate must have passed at least three preceding election. Both requirements could be questioned in light of the 26th Amendment, Clark says.
"On the other side of that coin," Clark says, "is the right to be voted on."
A federal district court in Michigan, Clark says, already has ruled that a three-year residency requirement for city commissioners in that state is unconstitutional. It based its decision, he says, on a recent Supreme Court ruling which overruled a one-year residency requirement to be able to vote in Tennessee.
The Supreme court held that the state could only require as much time as it needed to get a name registered on and the voting lists. The Michigan court, Clark says, in response to the court's right to vote, but to the right to be voted on as well.
ANOTHER CITY ORDINANCE prohibits the purchase", exhibition or preparation of any book, pamphlet, magazine or paper "devoted principally or wholly to the publications of crime news, pictures or stories of bloodless or crime". Clark says serious questions could be asked in rationality of that ordinance in light of freedom of speech.
Other city ordinances need to be clarified, he says, including the city's vaguity and loitering ordinances, its ordinance prohibiting "lewd or lascivious" conduct in its district, its ordinance dealing with indecent publications.
That ordinance states that, "No person shall bring or cause to be brought into this city, or buy, sell or cause to be purchased in this city by a person who shows, exhibits, paints, or distributes design, copy, draw, photograph, print, etch, engrave, cut, carve, make, publish or otherwise prepare or assist in preparing, or subscribe for any indeed book, pamphlet, magazine."
That's pretty exhaustive list of how "indecent" material isn't to be used in the city, but Clark's concern is that the ordinance doesn't offer an equally satisfactory definition of the word "indecent."
It's important the city determine its definition, he says, because of last year's ruling by the Supreme Court granting local governments the power to define and control obscene materials.
CLARK SAYS HES WOULD LIKE to go over all the city ordinances this summer with the city attorney and a few law students. Clark wants to rephrase ordinances that are vague or sloppily worded and either "cull out" or amend the ordinances that aren't enforced or are of questionable legality.
Any changes would have to be approved by the city commission, Clark says, which could repeal or amend an ordinance simply by issuing a new ordinance to that effect. Clark isn't sure whether the changes would have to be dealt with one ordinance at a time or whether they could all be handled under one general ordinance.
The League of Kansas Municipalities recodifies the city ordinance book at the end of each year, incorporating the previous year's ordinances and bringing the others up to date with state legislation.
Diaries Depict Ireland of 1919-1921
By STEVE FRY
Kruger Staff Recorder
Two diaries discovered last year at Spencer Research Library have provided previously unknown information about a prominent Irish political leader after the Irish Rebellion of 1916. They were written from September 1919 to January 1921.
The diaries were found by Virginia Glandon, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student and a teaching assistant in the history department, and are part of the P. S. O'Hegarty collection, an assortment of books about Irish history and folklore. The diaries were written by John Dillon, Irish Parliamentary party leader.
Glandon found the diaries in Spencer Library in April 1973 and has spent nearly a year preparing a paper on them. Dillon never identified himself in either of the diaries, but he later wrote about the diaries and compared the handwriting with longhand known to be Dillon's.
GLANDON AID the books were Dillon's "private political diaries, purely and simply" and that they were important biographies of his major biography based on his known papers.
The diaries consist of one hardbound book and a hardcover resembling the modern-day bluebook used for essay tests. The diaries are written in longhand on widened paper.
Dilion served as a member of the House of Commons in the British Parliament. He was an ambassador to France.
from the early 1880s to 1918 and was very active in the Irish home rule movement
Dillon worked for peaceful and constitutional formation of a parliament in Ireland to solve the immediate problems of that country, she said. He became chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the spring of 1918. However, after the Irish War of Independence, he rebelled, and Dillon and his party lost the general election in the fall of 1918.
DILLON WAS ALSO one of the outstanding leaders in the Irish Land War, according to Glandon. He helped pass laws creating "peasant proprietorship," a statute allowing Irish peasants to buy land, she said.
The diaries tell about political developments throughout the world and Dillon's comments on these developments, Glandon said. Some events about which Dillon commented were the Russian Revolution, Versailles' Treaty and the Anglo-Irish War.
When open fighting broke out between British soldiers and Irish guerrillas in the Anglo-Irish War, which lasted from 1919 to 1921, the diaries say Dillon was uncertain what would happen. Jandson said. He opposed the violence and harmed martial law imposed by the British.
According to Glandon, Dillon wrote that Woodrow Wilson hadn't been forceful enough with Lloyd George of Britain and Georges Clemenceau of France.
In the last entries of the second diary.
Dillon recorded political events that occurred but didn't comment on them. This was something unusual for Dillon, according to Glandon.
THE DIARIES came to Spencer Library in a book collection compiled by P.S. Regigary, Irish postmaster and bookseller. Irish Hegemony acquired the two diaries is unknown.
Glandon, a Ph.D. candidate in history, will give a presentation on the diaries at the 12th Annual Meeting of the American Committee for Irish Studies on May 2-4 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va.
The discovery of the two diaries in Spencer Library didn't surprise Ann Hyde, manuscript cataloger for that library. The book contained unread manuscripts and books, she said.
CHARLES MOORE, California architect, will discuss "The Architect as Educator" at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. His lecture is part of the Visiting Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
THE SIERRA CLUB will meet at 7:30 tonight in the South Park Recreation Center. The proposed Kansas Power and Light Company below will be the subject of discussion.
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K ST A T E
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Sponsored by: Humanities Lecture Series
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