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has been discontinued. A colored woman, whom he assisted to 
gain her freedom, and two little Indian girls, are still in his fam¬ 
ily. Since this emigration to the territory commenced, their 
house has been a pleasant home for many on their way thither; 
some remaining with them six or eight weeks. Their kindness 
will be gratefully remembered by many. 
29 th. — The Missourians, for some days, have been passing into 
the territory. They talk loudly of “ fighting, and driving out 
the free-state men.” They go armed and provisioned. There is 
nothing truer, however, than that “ stillest waters run deepest; ” 
and the most courageous men usually have no occasion to boast 
of their courage. 
30 th. — It is the election day in the territory. We shall hope 
to hear something by to-morrow from Kansas. There are several 
families stopping here, mostly from Indiana, with some pleasant 
ladies among them. Their peculiarities of speech cause us to 
smile occasionally, while I dare say our Yankeeisms are as strange 
to them. This “ feeling powerful bad ” and “ mighty weak ” 
sounds oddly to us; so also when they say, “ a right smart chance 
of calicoes.” There is a little English woman boarding here. 
She- is young and girlish. She was bom in India, of English 
parents, and, upon their death, she came to this country. She is 
very artless and childlike in her manner, and, I fear, will see some 
hardships in frontier life. 
31s£. — It is a warm, sunny day. The spring flowers bloom in 
every sheltered nook. A lemon-colored flower, like adder’s tongue 
in New England, bends its graceful stalk before the gentlest 
breeze. We have been out over to the high grounds overlooking 
the main road into the territory for miles; and it is full of people 
of most desperate look. They come on horseback, in wagons, in 
carts; in fact, every sort of vehicle seems to have been put in 
requisition to convey these men into the territory. Now and 
then a carriage of more pretensions appeared, and was probably 
occupied by some of the leaders of the gang. The horses, as well 
as the men, looked wearied out with their journey. 
Will these frauds be allowed ? or are they a part of the system 
connived at by a corrupt administration to force slavery into 
