But Sheriff Jones is reported to have said: "Had not Shannon been a fool I would have wiped out Lawrence." It is reported that Stringfellow said that "Shannon had sold himself and disgraced himself and the whole Pro-slavery party." Atchison accepted the terms, saying to his followers: "Boys, we can not fight now.

The position that Lawrence has taken is such that it would not do to make an attack on them.

But boys, we will fight some time!" The peace was to be broken at the earliest opportunity..