It was now the middle of August.

My cabin was completed, and I was ready to go back and bring Mrs.Butler and the children to Kansas.

Bro.
Elliott accompanied me to Atchison, where I intended to take a steamboat to St.Louis, thence going up the Illinois River to Fulton county, Illinois, where Mrs.Butler had been stopping with her sister.
The things that had been happening in the Territory had been so strange and unheard of, and the threats of the _Squatter Sovereign_ had been so savage and barbarous, that I wanted to carry back to my friends in Illinois some evidence of what was going on.

I went, therefore, with Bro.

Elliott to the _Squatter Sovereign_ printing office to purchase extra copies of that paper.