CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & PYE
NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THE WESTERN METHODIST Book CONCERN

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER XXVI.

Page.

The Condition of Affairs on Shannon's Arrival-Why he was

appointed-His Disgust and Resignation-Mustering in South-

ern Emigrants as Kansas Militia-Woodson again Acting

Governor-Attempt to provoke Free State People to Armed

Resistance, by Orders to Colonel Sumner to disperse Legisla-

ture-Foiled by Robinson-Siege of Lawrence by Missouri

Invaders-Pillage and Destruction-Organizing of Free State

Men under Lane and Others-John Brown at Pottawatomie,

and Black Jack-Shannon's Proclamation-Alarmed-Colonel

Sumner's Success in suppressing Disturbances-Strict Im-

partiality-Report to Washington-Removal—General Smith-

Davis outwitted by Scott through Four Years-Plans of the

Slave-leaders-Closing of the Missouri River to Emigration-

Making and Unmaking of Governors-Navigation of the Mis-

souri—“Jim Totem.”.

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CHAPTER XXVII.

Railroad Building-Lane_“Emigrant Aid Society'-Colonel

Coolpa-Border Bands under Name of Kansas Militia dis-

missed-General Smith's Report-Davis's Anger and Chagrin-

Governor Geary–His Proclamation-Liberation of Robinson

and all Free State Prisoners-Geary's Removal delayed by

Presidential Election-Why he had been appointed-Atchison

defeated and “Border War ended-Lecompton Legislature.... 26

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Bucbanan's Administration-Losses in the “Border War”-Par-

ties and Party Divisions at that Time-Fillmore-Abolition-

ists-Nominations and Nominating Conventions in 1856–

Their Relation to the Slavery Question.

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