Geary for his interference in their well-laid plans.
"The broad ground assumed by these rabid leaders of the Pro-slavery party in Kansas was, that an equilibrium of the slave power must be maintained at any sacrifice in the American Union, and this could only be effected by increasing the slave States in proportion with the free.

Whilst, therefore, the South was willing to give Nebraska to the North, they demanded that Kansas should be ceded to the South.

It was of little consequence what number of Northern men located in Kansas--they had no right to come unless with the intention to make it a slave State." This malcontent minority did, therefore, become a dangerous and revolutionary faction, entertaining criminal purposes, which they were ready to carry out by desperate methods.

They were also in possession of dangerous elements of power.

They controlled the Territorial Legislature, and all the Territorial judges were parties in this conspiracy.