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and quiet, cannot travel on the public roads of Kansas, without 
being caught, searched, imprisoned, and their lives, perhaps, taken. 
No Southerner dare venture alone and unarmed on her roads ! ” 
Such were the false statements made to arouse the passions of the 
border men. 
A short colloquy on the boat between one of the surveyors in 
the employ of Gen. Calhoun, and others, will show the bitterness 
of their feelings. As the boat left Lexington he came into the 
ladies’ cabin, and said to his wife, the daughter of a Wyandot, that 
“ Donaldson was killed.” 
I said to him, “ Will you tell me what Donaldson it is ? ” 
“ John Donaldson,” was his curt reply. 
Not knowing their Christian names, I asked, “Is it the United 
States Marshal ? ” 
He then said, showing a very evident desire to make no explan¬ 
ations, “ He was auditor; ” and his wife, showing more animation 
than from her listless manner one would have supposed possible, 
added, “ He was a very fine man.” 
To my question, “ Were there others injured ? ” the surveyor 
said, “Yes, the abolitionists have killed several other persons.” 
This seemed to me a doubtful story, and I so stated my belief, 
adding, that “ such stories were put in circulation for the purpose 
of exciting another invasion.” Reliable persons had informed me 
that the sacking of Lawrence without resistance to the “ regularly 
organized militia,” was regarded by them as signal a defeat as the 
Dec. invasion; the invaders having made preparations for a siege, 
and the want of defence on the part of Lawrence had again foiled 
their plans. These reports of outrages committed by the free-state 
party seemed but another scheme to bring about civil war. 
The Wyandot lady, with great bitterness, replied, “ These stories 
come from the right side to be true ! ” 
As I was revolving in my mind with what simplicity she had 
revealed her proclivities, a gentleman sitting by said to the sur¬ 
veyor, “ Are these Buford men enlisted in the territorial mili¬ 
tia ? ” 
With some hesitancy, yet a half leer of satisfaction spreading 
itself over his broad, bloa ted face, he replied, “ They are residents 
