As it was, their curses would not be edifying reading in a Christian newspaper.

Lecompton could not give its friends food or lodging.

It had been located in an out-of-the-way and inaccessible place; its proprietors were Sheriff Jones, Judge Lecompton, and men of that _ilk,_ and business men avoided the place as if it had been smitten with a pestilence.

The people of the surrounding country were generally Free State men, and the South Carolinians could not choose, but were forced to return to Atchison.

They had been angry and impatient when their friends in Atchison had constrained them to do things up in such "milk and water" style, and in Lawrence they had been held back in the same manner, and they returned in a savage temper.