499


ing  the  bands  were  abuut  two  hundred  horsemen  in  regular  ord^'r;  follow-
were  one  hiindn-d  aiid  liftv  wagons,  carriages,  <ka     They  gnve  repeated
Imvvf  for  KanuM  and  Mi8*<jurl.     They  report  that  not  an  anti-slavery  man  will
in  the  legislature  t>f  Kansas.     Wt;  have  made  a  clean  sweep."

A  kttcr  writttn  at  Brunswick,  in  Missouri,  dated  April  20th,  1855,
id  publislied  in  the  New  York  Herald,  a  pro-slavery  journal,  says:

"  From  five  to  twven  thousand  men  started  from  Missouri  to  attend  the  eleo-
ion,  some  to  remove,  but  the  most  to  return  to  their  faniilieB,  with  an  inlen-
ion.  if  they  liked  the  territory,  to  make  it  their  permanent  abode,  at  the  earliest
BonirQt  practicable.  But  tliey  intended  to  vote.  The  MiRi^ourians  were,  many
them,  Dougla<  men.  There  were  one  hundred  and  Btly  voters  from  thia
[•uiiiy,  Ott<j  huiidfvd  and  seventy-five  from  IInw»ril,  one  hundred  from  Cooper.
