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CONTENTS.

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56-63

64-72.

CHAHTER X-1854.

FREE STATE EMIGRATIGN, HOSTILE PREPARATIONS, AND THE BEGIN
NING OF DIFFICULTIES Free State Settlers; Disturbed by Mis-
sourians; Squatter Government; C. H Branscomb; First >et
tlement of Lawrence; Of Topeka; Manhattan ; Grasshopper
Fall; What the Emigrant Aid Societies Did, and Especially
the New England; The Border Alarmed; Platte Argus; The
Passions of the Border Men Excited; Resolutions at Border
Meetings; Reward Offered for Eli Thayer; Threats Towards
A. Guthrie; Platte County Self-Defensive Association; Re-
marks of the Border Chiefs; Lives and Characters of the String.
fellows; Missouri Secret Societies; Real and Avowed Causes
of their Formation; Self Defensives Seize T. A. Minerd and an
Old Citizen; Arraign Rev. F. Starr; Seek to Control Trade;
Citizens Protest Against Them; They Remove their Headquar
ters from Weston; First Invasion of Lawrence.............. 116-130

TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE-Governor Reeder Goes to Washington;
President Urges Him to Resign-But They Cannot Agree Upon
the Terms of Correspondence Grounding His Resignation;
Other Positions Offered Mr. Reeder; He Returns to the Terri
tory Feeling Insulted; Territorial Legislature Assembles at
Pawnee; Both Houses Purge Themselves of the Free State Ele-
ment; Report of Committee on Credentials in the House-Mi-
nority Report; Protest of the Ousted Members; Motion of
Judge Wakefield in Council; Colonel Coffey's Response to
Wakefield's Interrogation; Report of Committee on Creden-
tials; Protest of Free State Members; Move the Temporary
Seat of Government to Shawnee Manual Labor School Over

CAUSES OF REEDER'S REMOVAL CONSIDERED-Causes; Pawnee;
Reeder Interested; Jeff. Davis Orders the Removal of the In-
habitants; Orders not Observed Until the Fall of 1855-When
it is Carried Out; Half Breed Kaw Lands; Reeder's Specula-

tion No Speculation At All; Governor Reeder's Career Praise

Worthy; Members of Legislature Attend to Their Own Inter-

est; Complaints of Their Constituents; Hon. Wilson Shan-

non Appointed Governor; His Biography; A Copy of the

Laws Punishing Offenses Against Slave Property................ 168-176

FREE STATE MOVEMENTS-Continued-People's Proclamation:
Call for an election of Delegates to Constitutional Convention;
The Absorbing Topic Discussed; Election of Delegates to
Congress; An Amusing Incident; Topeka Constitutional
Convention; Character of the Body; Vote on Striking Out
White; On Approving Squatter Sovereignty: Excluding

Free Negroes; The Constitution; Signers, their Occupation, &c. 190-199

VARIOUS EVENES-Free State Emigration; Improvements; Poor
Class of New Emigrants; Disease; Secretary Woodson; Con-
vention at Lexington, Missouri, of Border Chiefs; Secret
Organization; Kansas Legion; Pat. Laughlan's Expose;
Efforts to Involve Free State Men in Legal Difficulties; Policy
of Free State Men, especially at Lawrence; Another Secret
Organization; Its Character and Object; Outrage at Atchison
on J. W. B. Kelley; Resolutions; Rev. Pardee Butler sent

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