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these men were loitering, and attending most assiduously upon 
some half a dozen groceries. It seemed at first a matter of some 
doubt whether he could pass them; but, with the military salute, 
and gracefully bowing, he went on unmolested, and reached us in 
safety. 
Another fact of some moment, learned to-day, is that as the 
invaders pass the Shawnee Mission, they are all enrolled by the 
governor. 
One’s indignation would exceed every other feeling were it not 
for the wonder that any man can be guilty of such consummate 
folly! 
Spies from the enemy’s camp are in Lawrence every day. They 
gain all the information they can, which, I judge from the mer¬ 
riment of the guard, in talking over the visit of a spy, is not always 
so reliable as it might be. 
Dr. Wood has moved his family out of town. So, also, have 
other pro-slavery men. Dr. Wood is in the camp of the enemy. 
A young man, who claims to be free-state, has repeatedly warned 
a lady of his acquaintance — a widow with small children—of 
the approaching onset, and that no one in the town will be. safe 
from indiscriminate slaughter. He begs of her to remove to a 
pro-slavery residence, a mile out, and there he will insure her 
safety. 
She sends her children to the proposed place of security to 
sleep; but, like a true woman, remains at home, to perform those 
duties which the hour renders imperative. 
This youth, who, notwithstanding his protestations of being a 
free-state man, has had a wondrous fellow-feeling for the pro¬ 
slavery party, — opening his house for their storage of provisions at 
the time of the first invasion, — now complains of illness, and 
neither comes into town, nor goes down to the enemy’s camp. 
Another man, a Mr. Cox, who has been strong in his expressions 
of sympathy with the free-state cause, is now a spy among us. 
He has hoisted upon his store a sign telling who he is, and asking 
that his property may not be destroyed. 
Our fair-weather friends are now obliged to show their true 
colors, and the certain knowledge of their treachery is worth much 
