Let us look at them in the electric light of the awful _to-morrow._ Since the Kansas struggle had begun David R.Atchison had made himself the most conspicuous figure.

He was the representative of the John C.Calhoun school of Southern politics, and from the hour of the destruction of Lawrence he was to disappear from public view, as absolutely as that Free State hotel which was burned by his orders; yet he did not die--he was simply _buried alive_ out of the public sight.

He was done with the nation, and the nation was done with him.

He went back and lived on his plantation in Western Missouri, where he was forgotten.

It is said he loved his slaves so well, and petted them so much, that they became masters on the plantation, and not himself.