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for freedom will never be effaced from the memories of the dwellers 
in this far-away land. 
23 d. — More messengers are in from Easton ; men driven from 
their homes upon peril of their lives, and with continued threats 
of violence. They come to Lawrence, as to a city of refuge. Mr. 
Sparks is now in peril from bands of armed Missourians. Some 
twenty-five men go up from here and Topeka. One man, who 
came down to notify the people here, escaped from a band of 
twelve men in hot pursuit, — something after Gen. Putnam’s mode, 
of revolutionary memory, — by leaping over a precipitous bank, 
while the enemy did not dare follow. While they were looking 
for a smoother descent, he had time to escape. After Mr. M. 
had been obliged to leave his home, some of the ruffians went to 
his house, asking “ if they could come in to get warm.” Mrs. M. 
replied, “ they could do so by giving her their guns.” As they 
sat by the fire, they told her “ they had killed her husband.” 
However, she gave no credence to it. 
Major Enbinson, of Tecumseh, died to-day. He has been ill 
most of the time since the invasion of Lawrence, the disease hav¬ 
ing been contracted from exposure at that time. For some time 
he was sick at the Cincinnati House ; but there is little room there 
for sick people, and no quiet; and the noble woman, who has sac¬ 
rificed much for the cause, in the exposures of last winter and 
this, and the constant absence of her husband, offered her cabin, 
under the shadow of the hotel, as a place of rest and quiet to the 
sick stranger. The unconsciousness of disease was upon him much 
of the time, and when his mind was dull to things about him, far¬ 
away scenes were fresh in his memory, and friends he had long 
loved were ministering by his bedside. He talked much with 
his mother, when clouds darkened his mental vision. He said to 
her, “ Take off my shoes, mother, for I am tired and weary, and 
I cannot travel further.” So, with this sweet consciousness of loved 
friends around him, his life’s journey closed. 
24^A — It was a little milder this morning; and, not having 
been out since the cold weather came, I proposed to T. to take me 
to call on a friend, and to the stores. Not knowing my arrange¬ 
ments, the doctor had lent both horse and carriage; and, as I 
