[Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler by Pardee Butler]@TWC D-Link bookPersonal Recollections of Pardee Butler CHAPTER XXI 6/8
A horse had been stolen by the Kickapoo Rangers from Gains Jenkins, of Lawrence.Gov.Geary requested Bro. Rhea to recover the horse, and he did so with some peril to himself, and made a journey to Lawrence to restore the animal to its proper owner.
He sought to make it evident that the men of his party wanted justice done. But Dr.Gihon also tells us that there was at the Wakarusa a small faction of irreconcilables, who, if they could do nothing else, could at least curse. "Gen.
Clarke said he was for pitching into the United States troops rather than abandon the objects of the expedition.
Gen. Maclean didn't see any use of going back until they had whipped the Abolitionists.
Sheriff Jones was in favor, now that they had sufficient force, of wiping out Lawrence and all the Free State towns. And these and others cursed Gov.
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