The army he had gathered refused to acknowledge his authority.

He had raised a storm, the elements of which he was powerless to control; neither could the officers be assembled to receive the Governor's orders from the Adjutant-General.
The militia had resolved not to disband, the officers refused to listen to the reading of the proclamation--they were determined upon accomplishing the bloody work they had entered the Territory to perform.

Nothing but the destruction of Lawrence and the other Free State towns, the massacre of the Free State residents, and the appropriation of their lands and other property, could satisfy them.
Mr.Adams, who accompanied Secretary Woodson to the Missouri camp, dispatched the following: LAWRENCE, 12 o'clock Midnight, Sept.

14, 1856.

To His EXCELLENCY, GOV.