If slavery wins in Kansas and Nebraska, it will control the Union forever.

The greatest battle in our history is about to be fought out in Kansas, a battle to see whether this nation shall be a slave nation, in every state and every town, or free.

Dunlap and I and thousands of others are going down there to take the state of Kansas into our own hands, peacefully if we can, by violence if we must.
We are willing to die to make the United States a free nation.

Come with us!" "But we don't expect to die," urged Dunlap, seeing that this looked pretty serious to me.

"We expect to live, and get farms, and make homes, and prosper, after we have shown the Border Ruffians the muzzles of those rifles.