In reference to this occurrence, the _Squatter Sovereign_ makes the following remark: We do not fully approve of sending these criminals back to the East, to be reshipped to Kansas--if not through Missouri, through Iowa and Nebraska.

We think they should meet a traitor's death; and the world could not censure us if we, in self-protection, have to resort to such ultra measures.

We are of the opinion that if the citizens of Leavenworth city, or Weston, would _hang_ one or two boatloads of Abolitionists, it would do more towards establishing peace in Kansas than all the speeches that have been delivered in Congress during the present session.

_Let the experiment be tried_.
The Missouri River was thus blockaded against the incoming of emigrants from the free States, and this created intense excitement throughout the North.

The result was, that the immigration to Kansas, instead of being diminished, was largely increased; but it changed its direction, and Iowa City became the _entrept_ for the incoming tide of free State settlers, which now sought an overland route through Iowa and Nebraska, and began to reach Kansas about the 1st of August.
The leaders of the Pro-slavery party made a pathetic appeal to the people of the South to send a corresponding class of emigrants; but the appeal was feebly responded to.