104.
[Sidenote] Gihon, pp.

104-6.
It was on September 9, 1856, that Governor Geary and his party landed at Leavenworth.

Even on his approach he had already been compelled to note and verify the evidences of civil war.

He had met Governor Shannon fleeing from the Territory, who drew for him a direful picture of the official inheritance to which he had come.

While this interview took place, during the landing of the boat at Glasgow, a company of sixty Missouri Border Ruffians was embarking, with wagons, arms, and cannon, and with the open declaration that they were bound for Kansas to hunt and kill "abolitionists." Similar belligerent preparations were in progress at all the river towns they touched.