Should a cowardly Yankee be allowed to defy them, and scoff at them, and call them "bull-dogs and blood-hounds," with impunity?
and now, with this man they had to have a settlement.
We have already seen how the contending factions spread murder and violence south of the Kaw River; but from May till September Leavenworth county became a "dark and bloody ground." Immediately after the Fourth of July, Col.

Sumner had been, because of his too great leniency to Free State men, superseded in command at Fort Leavenworth by Persifer F.Smith, a man whose heart was hard as a rock of adamant toward the Free State people, and under his eyes Leavenworth city and county were given up to blood and robbery.
In Atchison county, from the beginning of these border troubles to the end of them, not one man's life was taken, and yet David R.Atchison, Gen.

B.F.Stringfellow, and his law partner, Peter T.Abell, were the leading members of the Atchison town company.

Robert S.Kelley and Dr.
John H.Stringfellow also maintained unchanged their bloody purposes.
We find in the _Squatter Sovereign_, under date of June 10th, the following editorial, and this displays its uniform temper: The Abolitionist: shoot down our men, without provocation, wherever they meet them; let us retaliate in the same manner.

A free fight is all we desire.