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day or two, when persons coming were not allowed to see the 
prisoners, but Mrs. J. and I could go out to the captain’s tent, 
and see them. I was much amused one day, when a gentleman 
from Lawrence with his wife came. He had also with him the 
wife of a gentleman, against whom the pro-slavery party had some 
bitterness, and she was introduced to the captain and lieutenant 
by her maiden name. She was very young and girlish looking, 
and as she was talking pleasantly with the lieutenant, though ear¬ 
nestly, upon the outrageous course of President Pierce, he, in a 
laughing way, said, “ You are a little fanatic, but you ’ll marry some 
Southerner one of these days.” She laughed, and went on talking. 
The lieutenant is of southern birth, but is far from intolerant, and 
no one could have treated the prisoners more gentlemanly. Capt. 
Walker too seemed to feel hurt at this “ shutting down ” upon the 
prisoners, and told me “ he would do anything he could for them, 
but he must obey orders.” Marshal Donaldson came in a day or 
two, and denied having sent any new orders to Cramer, and again 
any one could come in. 
Evans was released toward the last of June. Efforts had been 
made to bail him out, but the bogus Probate Judge, Dr. J. N. 0. 
P. Wood, of former notoriety at Lawrence, fixed the bail at five 
thousand dollars. The love of freedom is a crime in Kansas. The 
probable reason of the release was a disinclination on the part of 
the pro-slavery men to bear the extra expense of prisoners. Not 
being“ traitors,” the United States government could not be charged 
with their support. 
On the 26th, two young men arrived in Lawrence, from New 
York, by means of a pass from Atchison. Sixty men coming to 
settle in the territory, with ploughs, harrows, and all farming 
implements, were turned back, after being disarmed, first at Lex¬ 
ington, then at Leavenworth, by Atchison and Stringfellow. 
The Missourians not only have become plunderers and highway¬ 
men, but pirates, in the service of the present administration. A 
few days after, Dr. Cutter’s party, from Massachusetts, were also 
robbed, and sent back. At Liberty, the cannon on the shore was 
fired, and directions were given to the gunner “ not to fire too 
high, as people were on the opposite bank.” At Weston, Buford, 
