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The dragoons replied, “It is not our business to arrest 
citizens.” 
With oaths, the sheriff again told them to take the places 
designated; but their reply, “ We are to protect you, and how can 
we do it, it* we are stationed so far away?” mollified his anger 
somewhat, as he remembered he had not had his life insured. 
His courage, too, was exemplified by an attempted arrest of 
one of the rescuers last winter. He called at the house of one 
of the men on the Wakarusa, against whom he had a process, 
and Mrs. A. opened the door. Salters inquired, “ Where is Mr. 
A.?” 
She knew the sheriff by sight, and was determined he should 
not see Mr. A., and said, very calmly, “ He is in the house.” 
“ I want to see him.” 
“What do you want to see him for?” 
“ I have business with him.” 
“Well, you can’t come in.” 
Some other like conversation followed, when Salters turned 
away to report that Mrs. A. had a pistol in her hand, and he had 
been in danger of being shot. W 7 hen he knocked, Mrs. A. was 
putting wood in the stove, and went to the door with a little stick 
in her hand. Thus are our people continually harassed at the 
instigation of the administration. For several days the troops 
were about, attempting to find some one to assist the sheriff 
in arresting; although, in the manliness of their hearts, they 
loathed such service, and sympathized in the expression of one of 
them, on their first arrival at Lawrence, “ We have never been 
ashamed of the United States service until now. We never 
were in such vile work before.” Indignation fires the hearts of 
many of our people. The feeling is so strong, that continual 
efforts, on the part of the leading men, are necessary to restrain the 
men from resistance, and the danger is imminent that some one, 
pressed beyond the verge of human endurance, may, in an un¬ 
guarded hour, yield to his impulses, and a hasty but ill-judged 
resistance bring on us the horrors of civil war. 
Called, a few days since, upon a friend, who was living in a 
house, which was scarcely a shelter from the storms, and whose 
