shown in the history of Massachusetts, Virginia, Georgia, New

York, New England States, and South Carolina; The Declara-

tion of Indeper dence embodies the sentiments of the People

in regard to Slavery; Suppressed Article; Action of Conti-

nental Congress against it; Effort in 1784 to Prohibit Slavery

from the Territories of the United States; Prohibition of 1787;

Slavery Triumph in the Constitutional Convention; South

Carolina and Georgia Cede their Territory to the Union on

Conditions; Slave Trade followed by Slave Breeding....

CHAPTER IV.

TRIUMPH OF SLAVERY IN 1820-Missouri Petitions Congress for

Admission; Referred to a Committee; Report not acted upon

that Session; Petition renewed at next Session; Slavery

Restriction Introduced; Bill Lost; Arkansas Territory Organ-

ized; Magnitude of the Missouri Question; Popular Excite.

ment during the Summer; Position and Arguments of the two

Parties; The Sixteenth Congress; The Missouri Question

Engages its Attention: Mr. Taylor's Amendment; The Stormy

Debate; Its Character; Selections from the Speech of Mr.

Otis, of Mr. Barbour, and others, Mr. Thomas' Amendment;

The Vole; The two Houses Disagree; The Committee of

Conference; The Compromise; Missouri forms a Constitu-

tion; Objectionable to Congress; Admitted upon Conditions;

She Complies with Them.......

CHAPTER V.

TRIUMPH OF SLAVERY IN THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.- Question

about the Boundaries of Louisiana; Treaty with Spain; A

Southern Move; Mexico Gaina her Independence; Texas Col-

onized-Revolts and Asks to be Annexed to the United States;

The Annexation and Provisions; Opposition to the Annexa-

tion; President's Proposition to Congress to Satisfy Mexico

with Money; Question as to the Character of Labor in the

Territory; Wilmot Provi-o-Lost; Popular Sovereignty First

Enunciated-Not Popular; Attempt to Organize the Terri

tory; Resumed in 1850; Slavery Holds the Missouri Compro-

mise Sacred; Compromise; What the South Gained..........

CHAPTER VI.

KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT-SLAVERY TRIUMPH-Relation of Both Par

ties to the Missouri Compromise; Its first Infraction in 1836;

Petitions for Organizing Territory West of Missouri; Opposi

tion of the South; Bill for Its Organization in the 33d Con-

gress; Validity of the Missouri Compromise First Questioned;

Plighted Faith; S. A. Douglas at First Startles but Resolves

not to be Outbid; His Kansas-Nebrask Bill; Position of the

Two Farties; Motion of Mr. Douglas; Mr. Chase's Motion Mr.

Badger's Motion; Mr. Clayton's Motion; Mr. Chase's Proposi

tion; Bill Passes the Senate; Bill in the House; Parliamen

tary Maneuver of Hon. A H. Stephens; Bill Forced Through;

Congressional Globe; Bill in the Senate; Atchison's Speech;

Signed by the President; Design of Organizing Two Territo-

ries......

CHAPTER VII-1854.

AN ACT TO ORGANIZE THE TERRITORY OF KANSAS...

CHAPTER VIII.-1705-1854.

ANTIQUITIES OF KANSAS-Kansas Antiquities not remote; i he

Name; Discovered in 1705; Explored in 1719; Spanish Expe-

dition and Battle in 1720; The French Establish a Fort on the

Missouri: Expedition of Louis and Clark; First Steamboat up

the Missouri; The Fur Trade; Santa Fe Trade; Indians

Trouble the Trains; Council Grove; Outitting Posts; Mag

nitude of this Trade; For: Leavenworth; Removal of the

Indians from the East; Fort Scott; Fremont; Trains Across

to the Pacific; The Border in the Mexican War and Gold Ex-

citement in California; Description of Prairie Commerce . ..

CHAPTER IX.-1854.

A SURVEY OF THE BATTLE FIELD AND THE CONTESTANTS BEFORE THE

CONFLICT-Kansas Regarded as a Barren Waste; Better known

after California Emigration; People of Missouri; Slavery and

Kansas Territory; Atchison's Speech; Character of the People

on the Border; Effect of Atchison's Speech; His Biography;

Feeling of the People af er the Repeal of the Missouri Com

uromise; Feeling of the Free States; Determined to Contest

its Settlement; Advantages on the Side of Slavery....

CHAHTER X-1854.

74-86

87-95

.... 96-105

PRO-SLAVERY, EMIGRATION, AND EMIGRANT AID SOCIETIES-Emigra

tion from Missouri; Politicians hold Squatter Meetings; Reso-

lations of the First Convention in Kansas; Abolitionists;

Founding of Leavenworth; Of Atchison; Free State Men not

Idle; Appeals of the Press; Organization of Aid Societies;

New England Emigrant Aid Society; Its Design, Character.

and Mode of Operating; Emigrant Aid Company of New

York and Cincinnati; Union Emigration Society; Their

Primary Object; Not Iilegal nor Dishonorable.........................

CHAPTER XI-1854.

106-115

FREE STATE EMIGRATIGN, HOSTILE PREPARATIONS, AND THE BEGIN
NING OF DIFFICULTIES- Free State Settlers; Disturbed by Mis-
sourians; Squatter Government; C. H Branscomb; First Set
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. Minsrd and an
Old Citizen; Arraiga Rev. F. Starr; Seek to Control Trade;
Citizens Protest Against Them; They Remove their Headquar
ters from Weston; First Invasion of Lawrence................... 116-130

CHAPTER XII.-1854.

INAUGURATION OF GOVERNMENT-No Government for four months,

but all was orderly; Territorial Officers Appointed; Biography

of Governor Reeder; His Arrival at Leavenworth; Tour

through the Territory; Proclamation for Election, not Palata-

ble to Pro slavery Men: The Convention at Leavenworth; Its

Correspondence with Governor Reeder; The Candidates for

Delegate to Congress; Slavery not an Issue; The Election;

Frauds; Sua.mary of the Returus; J. W. Whitfield Elected;

Popular Sovereignty Exemplified; Courts Opened........................

CHAPTER XIII-1855.

ELECTING TERRITORIAL I EGISLATURE -Mild Winter; Census Taken;

R-turns; Anecdote; Disaffection of Pro-Slavery Men; Pros-

lamation for an Ele tion of Territorial Legislature; Slavery

Made the Issue; Preparations in Missouri; Invasion of the

Territory and Stuffing Ballot boxes; At Lawrence; Bloom-

ingt; Sixteenth District; Eighteenth; Abstract of Election

Returns; Excuse for Illegal Voting; The Emigrant Aid So

cieties Took no Part in the Election; Free State did not all

Vote; A Fair and Ful: Vote Would Have Given a Free State

Majority; Testimony of the City Attorney of St. Joseph; On

Demand of Members Elect Governor Reeder Issues Certificates,

Except in Six Districts; Protests; Pro Slavery Men Incensed;

Refuse to Participate in the New Election...

CHAPTER XIV-1855.

THE CONSEQUENCE--Feelings of Free State Men; Their Demeanor:

Rejoicing on the Border; "Squatter Sovereign" Advises Ex-

termination; A Convention to Intimidate Reeder; Destruction

01 “Parkville Luminary"; Warning to Methodist Preachers;

Meetings at Weston and Liberty; Murder of Clark; McCrea's

Escape; Pro-Slavery Men Enraged; Notify Mr. Phillips to

Leave; Another Meeting; Vigilance Committee appointed;

Phillips Carried to Weston, Tarred and Feathered, and other-

wise Outraged; The Action Endorsed by a Public Meeting;

Difference in the Manners of Free State Men and Pro-

Slavery Men.

131-137

138-153

154-158

CHAPTER XV-1855.

TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE-Governor Reeder Goes to Washington;
President Urges Him to Reeign—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; Clonel Coffey's Response to
Wakefield's Interrogation; Report of Committee on Creden-
rials; Protest of Free State Members; Move the Temporary
Seat of Government to Shawnee Manual Labor School Over

the Governor's Veto; Design of Calling Legislature at Pawnee;

Legislature at Shawnee Mission Frames a Code of Laws; Their

Oppressive Features; Governor Refuses to Recognize Them

as a Legal Body; They Consult the Supreme Court of the Ter

ritory Which Renders a Judgment in Their Favor; Legisla.

ture Memorialize the President for Mr. Reeder's Removal;

Mr. Reeder Removed.....

CHAPTER XVI-1855.

158-167

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

CHAPTER XVII-1855.

FREE STATE MOVEMENTS-Oppression of Free State Men; They Pe-

tition in Vain; Determine to Protect Themselves by Peace-

able Means First; Convention at Lawrence on the 8th of June;

National Democratic on the 27th; Free State Jien on the 11th

of July; Mass Convention on the 14th of August; The Union

Mass Convention on the 15th takes Preliminary Steps for a

Constitutional Convention; Organization of the Free State

Party; Platform; Very Conservative; Reasons; Report of

Committee on State Organization; On Legislative Matters of

the Teritory; Provides for Election of Delegate to Congress;

Reeder Defended from Charges and Nominated; Judge

Smity's Speech; Reeder's Response; Topeka Delegate Con-

vention 19th of September; Its Resolutions...

CHAPTER XVIII-1855.

177-189

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

CHAPTER XIX-1855.

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

afloat on the Missouri River; Collins Killed by Laughland;

How Shannon's Appointment was Viewed by the People of

the Border; H18 Arrival at Kansas City; Commits Himself to

Slavery; Pleases Pro-Slavery Men; Address to the " Law-and-

Order People;" Call for a Convention; Object of the Move-

ment; The Convention; Remarks by Shannon, Calhoun, Par-

rott, Judge Lecompte and Woodson.......

CHAPTER XX-1855.

............

BEGINNING OF THE WAKARUSA WAR-Disputes About Claims; Hick·

ory Point; Origin of Difficulties; Coleman kills Dow; Murderer

Flees to Westport and Surrenders Himself to Sheriff Jones;

Offense to the Dead; Funeral; Convention; Jones-His Char

acter and History; Starts to Lecompton With His Prisoner;

Obtains a Writ to Arrest Branson; The Arrest; The Rescue;

Excuse for the Rescue; Lawrence and Its Action; Design in

Making the Arrest; Sheriff Jones Writes to Missouri for Help

and to the Governor for Three Thousand Troops; Governor's

Letter to Major General Richardson: Excitement in Missouri

-Inflammatory Appeal; Shannon's Proclamation; Woodson's

Letter to Atchison.....

CHAPTER XXI—1855.

200-212

..... 213-225

WAKARUSA WAR-Missouri's Response; The Forces in Camp About

Lawrence-Object in Surrounding the Town; Editors of the

Squatter Sovereign in the Field; Lawrence Dismisses the Res-

cuers and Prepares for Defense; Sends Couriers Through the

Territory and Calls for Assistance; The Response; Leaven-

worth Delegation; Report of the Committee on Governor's

Proclamation; Petition to the President; Colonel Sumner So-

licited to Interfere; Memorial to Congress; Preparations at

Lawrence-Its Forces and Fortifications; Sheriff Jones in

Town; Ruffians fear to attack; General Eastin's Letter to

Governor Shannon; The Latter Telegraphs to the President

-Writes to Colonel Sumner; Sumner's Reply: Shannon Act-

ing upon Sumner's Suggestion, writes to Sheriff Jones and

Richardson; The Replies of these Two Gentlemen; Shannon

again Writes to Sumner; Committee of Safety's Letter to

Governor Shannon; The Deputation from Lawrence, and

Their Representation to the Governor; The Interview; The

Governor Sees that He has been Imposed Upon; Goes to

Wakarusa Camp; Labors to Quell the Commotion; Again

Asks Aid of Colonel Sumner; Ruffians Attempt to Intercept

His Dispatch; Sumner Refuses to Move; Anderson's Letter;

The "Black Flag" to be Raised; Pomeroy Intercepted; Indian

Chiefs Offer Aid to Lawrence; Clark's Pottowatomies... ... 226-242

CHAPTER XXII-1855.

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THE MISUNDERSTANDING Thomas Barber; His Wife; Parting
Scene; He Goes to Lawrence; Particulars of His Murder;
The Widow's Agony; Effect Upon the Free State Boys; Depa-
tation Sent to Conduct the Governor into Town; The Confer-
ence; The Governor is Satisfied of His Mistake; He Returns
to the Pro-Slavery Camp; His Orders to General Richardson;