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Proclamation of Governor Woodson declaring the Territory in a state of insurrection and rebellion......Aug. 25, 1856 House of Ottawa Jones burned by proslavery ruffians......Aug. 29, 1856 Osawatomie sacked by Missourians, and Frederick Brown killed......Aug. 30, 1856 Missourians commence the raids in Linn and Bourbon counties, followed later by James Montgomery's retaliatory measures......August, 1856 William Phillips, free-State, killed at a Leavenworth city election......Sept. 1, 1856 John W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, third territorial governor, promises in his inaugural address justice and fair play; orders the territorial militia to disband and other armed bodies to quit the Territory, and calls for a new enrolment of the militia......Sept. 9, 1856 Governor Geary sends a despatch to the President in which he gives a very correct and impartial statement of the condition of affairs in the Territory......Sept. 9, 1856 Governor Robinson, John Brown, Jr., and H. H