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Shannon. Whether it required all this time to make out the 
necessary papers, after finding the indictment, we have no means 
of knowing. It was rumored that Gov. Shannon had sent a requi¬ 
sition upon the Governor of Missouri for the return of my hus¬ 
band to the territory. A few evenings after his detention at 
Lexington, a Dr. McDonald, of California, who tended upon him 
when he was shot in Sacramento, and who was temporarily in 
Lexington, called to see him. The people imagined he was some 
person from Lawrence, and that a rescue was in contemplation. 
In a very short time several hundred men had gathered around 
Mr. Sawyer’s house. Mr. S. disliked such a state of things, and 
my husband preferred to go to the hotel; so, with a large guard, 
he went down to the hotel between eight and nine o’clock in the 
evening. The steps were full of men, and he passed in through 
them. After sitting a while in the parlor, conversing with the 
landlady and other ladies, he was attended to his room by a guard 
of three men. After a day or two, he took his meals in the pub¬ 
lic dining-hall. Many of the citizens called to see him, and were 
acquainted with all the plans of the new invasion. They said, 
“ there would be a fight.” 
He told them “ he did not think so ; there would be no occa¬ 
sion for a fight. No one intended to resist the arrests of the 
United States Marshal.” 
They said, “ it would make no difference whether they resisted 
the marshal or not,— they were determined to have a fight. They 
would attack and destroy Lawrence, then the other towns gener¬ 
ally, and drive the free-state men from the territory.” A few of 
them said, “ they did not care for Kansas particularly, or the 
laws, but were determined to get up a fight; then the North would 
be aroused, a general war ensue, and the dissolution of the Union 
would be the result.” Others said, “it was to be a war of ex¬ 
termination ; if the free-state men could sustain themselves against 
the pro-slavery men, they would acquiesce and give it up.” 
Col. Preston returned from his interview with Gov. Price on 
Sunday, the 18th He had orders from the governor, to the 
sheriff of that county, to deliver my husband into Col. Preston’s 
hands. A boat being at the wharf, it was decided to go on board; 
