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non “ had not called upon persons residents of any other state to 
aid in the execution of the laws.” Yet several gentlemen from 
Missouri come up with him to Lawrence, and in council treat for 
peace. When our officers go to Franklin, at his urgent request, it 
is to meet, at their head-quarters, the captain and officers of his 
army. Does this look like any variation from the truth? The 
governor is complained of bitterly by the men who say that on 
the first evening of his return from Lawrence to the head-quarters 
on the Wakarusa, he stated distinctly the arms were to be given 
up. The rabble, with many expressions of dissatisfaction, have 
sought their homes. The leaders, suffering from the smart of 
mortification, consider themselves sold, Judas-like, by one who 
should be the soul of honor, integrity and justice, and whom they 
trusted as a strong ally in the subjugation of this freedom-loving 
and down-trodden people. Feeling that their defeat has indeed 
been ignoble and signal, they, nursing secret discontent, and 
thirsting for revenge, will plan a new invasion, new schemes of 
villany. There is no settlement of the difficulty. It is only the 
present lull of the late storm, gathering, it may be, greater fury. 
While the border leagues are still in being, and they as strongly 
determined now, as for a year past, to make Kansas a slave 
state; while the settlers in Kansas have grown yet more strong 
in their devotion to the principles of freedom from the infamous 
measures taken by Gov. Shannon, and the other officials, to forci¬ 
bly wrest them from them, there is no certainty of peace. Since 
Gov. Shannon has brought a mob against Lawrence; since he, 
with Judge Lecompte and other appointees of the President, 
have fraternally sympathized with Atchison and Stringfellow, 
the depth, the intensity of the feeling of our people against such 
a tyrannical rule cannot be estimated. 
The seeds of difficulty are sown broadcast, and no one can tell 
what trivial circumstance shall cause a sudden, terrible outbreak. 
There is ignorance among this excitable class of men in the bor¬ 
der counties, but the ignorance is not the principal cause for fear. 
Such men as Col. Boone of Westport, who was Gov. Shannon’s 
chief adviser, rule these men; and when Col. Boone came to Law¬ 
rence with his portly bearing and most dignified manners, one could 
