"Wilder's Annals," the best extant Free State authority, puts it at this.

"The Free State or Republican party has carried every election in Kansas since this date (1857), usually by two to one." But here is a majority of six to one; and we must go outside of the Free State or Republican party to find it.

Dr.John H.
Stringfellow wrote at this time to the Washington Union against the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution.

He says: "To do so will break down the Democratic party at the North, and seriously endanger the interests and peace of Missouri and Kansas, if not of the whole Union." Judge Tutt, of St.Joseph, Mo., had said to the South Carolinians: "I was born in Virginia, and have lived forty years in Missouri.

I am a slave-holder, and a Pro-slavery man; and I desire Kansas to be made a slave State, _if it can be done by honorable means_.