EXCITEMENT IN MISSOURI, ETC. 
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None but tbe intelligent, strong-hearted class of people, who have 
passed into Kansas, could have reached such an acme of endur¬ 
ance. Now another desperate effort is put forth to possess the 
land. Attempts are made unceasingly to drive off the timid, to 
harass the settlers generally, by placing the love of life in the 
scales with a love of freedom ; by keeping in prison the leading 
men, and by preventing the incoming of new free-state settlers by 
every possible means. 
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