KANSAS; ITS INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR LIFE. INCLUDING A FULL VIEW OF ITS SETTLEMENT, POLITICAL HISTORY, CROSBY, NICHOLS AND COMPANY. 1857. PUBLIC LIBRARY 170300 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by CROSBY, NICHOLS & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY, BOSTON. Checked May 1913 CONTENTS. Great American Desert-Opening of California Colonel Fremont's Route- - - 1 Its Repeal Blue Lodge-Meetings in Missouri, . THE FIRST ELECTION AND FIRST INVASION. New England Aid Company - First Parties - Lawrence - First Election- Baptist Mission - Election-day-Threats Against Gov. Reeder-Members Elect of Legislature - Mission Church - Death of Mrs. T.-Scarcity of Provisions-Arrival of a Friend man from Massachusetts - Silver Mist-City People in Kansas - Spider- wort-Company-Sabbath-School-Heavy Showers - Homes-Steamer- Election-Tour in the Country- Emigration-Visit to a Friend-Hard- ships of Settlers-Preaching on Capitol Hill-Death of Dr. Clark, 43 - Cold Weather-Communion Cholera-Rattlesnakes-Sickness - Oppres- sion- A Night in an open House and heavy Shower - Morning Ride- Fourth of July - Pro-Slavery Rage Visit at Dr. B.'s-Rumors of War- - - Rains Laws Government Officials Convention at Lawrence Street Broils-Leavenworth Herald-Camp Meeting-Gov. Shannon - Hunga- rian Doctor -Gov. Shannon at Westport Western Emigrants - Free Negro-Gov. Shannon Visits Lecompton - Delegate Convention at Topeka Prairie Fires - Cold — Constitutional Convention-Military Supper - Mr. C. ill-General Sickness Returned Emigrants-Death of Dow - Branson Judge Lecompte at November Court-Grand Mass Convention at Leavenworth -News from the Border-Woodson's Despatch - Reinforcements at Law- Enemy's Camp-Missouri Despatches - Meeting at Lawrence - Gen. Clark shoots his Friend-Strong Defences will save Bloodshed-Mc- Gov. Shannon's Proclamation-"Sheriff Jones" at Lawrence- A Vermonter -Pro-Slavery Men leave Town - Our Men drilling - Guard fired upon -The Messrs. P. escape from Missourians Western Neighbors - Messen- PREFACE. THIS work, now offered to the public, has been written amid all the inconveniences of tent life. Its pages were penned during a three months' residence of the authoress in the United States Camp, at Lecompton, with her husband, one of the state prisoners. If a bitterness against the "powers that be" betrays itself, let the continual clanking of sabres, and the deafening sound of heavy artillery in the daily drills of the soldiery, aids in crushing freemen in Kansas, the outrages hourly committed upon peaceable and unarmed men, -the daily news of some friend made prisoner, or butchered with a malignity more than human, the devastation of burning homes, by the connivance of the Governor, under the eye of the troops, and no power given them to save an oppressed people, be placed in the balance against a severe judgment. If the simple recital serves to strengthen in any the love of liberty, or to arouse in others a hatred to tyranny, then will its mission have been accomplished. "God give us Men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy ; |