party have a majority. Lawrence is the hotbed of all the abolition
movements in this Territory. It is the town established by the
abolition societies of the East, and whilst there are respectable
people there, it is filled by a considerable number of mercenaries who
are paid by abolition societies to perpetuate and diffuse agitation
throughout Kansas and prevent a peaceful settlement of this question.
Having failed in inducing their own so-called Topeka State legislature
to organize this insurrection, Lawrence has commenced it herself, and
if not arrested the rebellion will extend throughout the Territory.


And again:

In order to send this communication immediately by mail, I must close
by assuring you that the spirit of rebellion pervades the great mass
of the Republican party of this Territory, instigated, as I entertain
no doubt they are, by Eastern societies, having in view results most
disastrous to the government and to the Union; and that the continued
presence of General Harney here is indispensable, as originally
stipulated by me, with a large body of dragoons and several batteries.


On the 20th July, 1857, General Lane, under the authority of the Topeka
convention, undertook, as Governor Walker informs us--

to organize the whole so-called Free-State party into volunteers and
to take the names of all who refuse enrollment. The professed object
is to protect the polls, at the election in August, of the new
insurgent Topeka State legislature.