Walker has said, 'Vote next week.' What for?
Have we not made our constitution?
And do not the people of freedom like it?
Can't we submit this to the people, and who wants another ?" But now he had become at the first reticent, and finally said: "Vote." This singular man that constantly kept on exhibiting his desperate determination to resist the bogus laws, really kept in his heart the one supreme purpose to make himself the oracle of the prevailing sentiment among the Free State men.

When, therefore, Gen.

Lane said, "Let us vote," it was good evidence that this had become the prevailing sentiment among the Free State party.
A convention was held at Grasshopper Falls, August 26, 1857, at which this was the main question, and it was decided in favor of voting at the coming election of Territorial officers.

The Hon.

Henry Wilson had recently visited Kansas from Massachusetts, and he had earnestly entreated the Free State men to vote.