Topeka, September 24, 1856
People joke here as readily as anywhere, though all
pronounce it the darkest time Kansas has ever seen. . . . Geary is conquering
them at last and the leaders are flying from arrest. Just as they had
thoroughly expelled the Missourians, the United States Government steps in, and
arrests their best and bravest. Geary's intention is to give them peace and
bread, at the price of obedience to the laws of the false legislature. He is
making a clear path, therefore, for a contest between the inhabitants and the United
States troops, first or last.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 141
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