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to take him from the jail and lynch him; when, foreseeing this, 
McCrea escaped. He came to this place, which has been re¬ 
garded by all onr friends as the Sevastopol of Kansas, expecting 
to find safety and repose. But we can offer none. The same 
power which sought his life so desperately, seeks ours w r ith the 
same malignity. We abide the hour with patience, and feel sure 
that all the tears, the anxieties, the sleepless nights, and weary 
days, of the heart-stricken wife, now left in uncertainty as to 
her husband’s fate, are all counted by Him, “ who seeth the end 
from the beginning,” and that they who have mingled this cup of 
bitterness will find their reward. 
Everything has been so quiet to-day, having no extra com¬ 
pany, save some gentlemen to tea, that we forget we may be on 
the verge of a civil convulsion; that, ere another Sabbath 
sun arises, we may be homeless, ay, and friendless, if our ene¬ 
mies perform a tithe of that they threaten. 
A friend has sat here all day, quietly writing for the eastern 
press. He takes great interest in the success of the cause, and 
has several times been in the camp of the enemy, spying out the 
land. He has brought back interesting “ notes of travel,” and 
passed through some hair-breadth escapes. He has a genial, happy 
nature, peculiar to the Scotch, and, as he tells his adventures with 
a slight brogue, and a quick, rapid utterance, enlivened by his 
sense of the ridiculous, one cannot help feeling that he is sur¬ 
rounded by Gov. Shannon’s half-tipsy military, or hears the 
sounds of music drawn out of a violin by some fierce disciple of 
Paganini, and sees the gaping crowds of men, armed with bowie- 
knives and pistols, nodding their admiration. 
To-day was set for the attack, and the day has passed. The 
weather has become much colder, and I fancy there are some in 
the camps who would be glad if they were home again, by a cheer¬ 
ful fire. The men in the camps are getting impatient, but slowly 
are they reinforced in small numbers. They come with an ap¬ 
pearance of reluctance, but the offer of a dollar and a half a day 
and a land warrant is said to be the successful inducement to aid 
in this infamous invasion, and its author no less infamous. 
