KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS

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This selection was contributed by Richard Pittaway and produced by Rosana Whitenight and Susan Stafford.

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FROM

THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT

TO

THE CLOSE OF THE REBELLION.

WHO CAME TO KANSAS IN 1857; PASTOR OF PLYMOUTH CONGRETATIONAL CHURCH AT LAWRENCE FROM 1857 TO 1875 AND 1884 TO PRESENT TIME AN EYEWITNESS OF THE QUANTRILL RAID

Published by E. F. Caldwell
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1895
LAWRENCE JOURNAL PRESS

CONTENTS. PREFACE. CHAPTER I. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill. -- The North Aroused. -- The Emigrant Aid Company. -- Eli Thayer, Amos A. Lawrence and Dr. Charles Robinson. -- The First New England Emigrants Reach Mount Oread, Organize a Town Company and Lay Out the Town. -- "What Shall We Call It?" -- Pitching Tents and Building Cabins. -- Pioneer Boarding House. CHAPTER II. Reinforcements. -- The Disgust of the Kid-gloved Contingent. -- First Sabbath Services. -- The First Funeral. -- Town Site Troubles. -- "Shoot to Hit." -- First Election for Delegate to Congress. -- Judge Wakefield. -- The First School. -- Three Newspapers. -- Winter in Tents and Cabins. CHAPTER III. Spring Election, March 30th, 1855. -- Excitement in Missouri. -- An Army of Voters Invade Lawrence. -- Missouri Voters Elect a Kansas Legislature. -- Slavery Triumphant and Exultant. -- Free-State Men Despondent and Indignant. -- What Shall We Do? -- Dr. Robinson's Policy. -- "Bogus Legislature" Repudiated. CHAPTER IV. The Conflict Begun. -- The Dow Murder. -- The Branson Rescue. -- Sheriff Jones Appeals to the Governor. -- The Governor Calls Out the Militia. -- Missouri Responds to the Call. -- The Wakarusa War. -- The Army at Franklin. -- Preparations for Defense. CHAPTER V. Governor Shannon Alarmed. -- Telegraphs the President for Regular Troops. -- They Do Not come. -- The Governor Visits Lawrence. -- Confers with the Free-State Men. -- A Treaty of Peace. -- The Militia Go Home. -- A Love Feast at Lawrence. -- The Murder of Barber. -- Old John Brown. CHAPTER VI. A Hard Winter. -- Conflict Takes a New Form in the Spring. -- The Courts Come to the Rescue. -- Judge Lecompte's Charge. -- The Grand Jury's Indictment. -- High Treason. -- The Sacking of Lawrence. -- Burning of the Free-State Hotel and Printing Offices. CHAPTER VII. The Summer of 1856. -- Outrages Everywhere. -- Lawrence Invested by Pro-Slavery "Forts". -- The Capture of Franklin, Fort Saunders and Fort Titus. -- Titus a Prisoner. -- Governor Shannon Makes Another Treaty. -- Governor Shannon Resigns. -- Daniel Woodson Acting Governor. CHAPTER VIII. Retaliation. -- Martial Law. -- Militia Called Out. -- Missouri Responds. -- Twenty-eight Hundred March on Lawrence. -- Governor John W. Geary Arrives. -- Appears in Lawrence with Troops. -- The Militia Sent Home. -- "The Benign Influences of Peace." CHAPTER IX. The Bogus Legislature Again. -- Governor Geary Comes into Collision with It. -- He is Bitterly Assailed by Pro-Slavery Leaders. -- Resigns in March. -- Walker and Stanton. -- Peace and Progress and Prosperity. -- Lawrence and her Voluntary City Government. -- Martial Law Once More. CHAPTER X. Lecompton Constitutional Convention. -- The Census and Apportionment. -- Free-State Men Ignore It. -- Election of Territorial Legislature. -- Shall We Vote? -- Free-State Men Carry the Election. -- Oxford and the Cincinnati Directory. -- Walker Throws Out the Fraudulent Returns. -- Is Removed from Office. CHAPTER XI. The Territorial Legislature Adjourns to Lawrence. -- The Bogus Laws Sent Home. -- The Lawrence Charter. -- A City Government at Last. -- Samuel Medary Governor. CHAPTER XII. Lawrence in 1858. -- The Ebb of the Tide. -- Spring Immigration which Failed to Come. -- The Underground Railroad. -- Progress in Building; In Churches. -- Temperance in Lawrence. -- The Drouth of 1860. -- The Last Territorial Legislature. -- Kansas Admitted into the Union. -- A Free State. CHAPTER XIII. The Beginning of the Civil War. -- Exposed Condition of Kansas. -- Her Interest in the Conflict. -- The First Enlistments. -- The Battle of Wilson's Creek. -- The Contrabands. -- Lawrence in Close Touch with the Soldiers. CHAPTER XIV. The Lawrence Raid. -- Its Antecedents and Causes. -- William C. Quantrill, Its Unique Character. -- Other Raids. -- Its Unparalleled Brutality. CHAPTER XV. The Lawrence Raid. -- The Approach. -- The Charge and the Surprise. -- The Surrender of the Hotel. -- The Burning and the Killing Begin. -- Four Hours of Slaughter. -- Marvelous Escapes. -- The Heroism of the Women. CHAPTER XVI. The Lawrence Raid. -- The Departure and Pursuit. -- The Scene Left Behind. -- The Burial of the Dead. -- The Ruin and the Loss. -- Sympathy and Help. -- Rebuilding the Town. CHAPTER XVII. Another Summer. -- Lawrence Restored. -- Improvements. -- The New Bridge. -- Enalrgement. (sic) -- New Alarm. -- Price is Coming. -- Preparations for Defense. -- Martial Law. -- Militia Ordered Out. -- The Battles on the Blue. -- A Night of Anxiety. -- "Joy Cometh in the Morning." -- The War is Over. -- Peace at Last. Rick Pittaway's Notes on the Book