If murder and assassination is the programme of the day, we are in favor of filling the bill.

Let not the knives of the Pro-slavery men be sheathed while there is one Abolitionist in the Territory.

As they have shown no quarters to our men, they deserve none from us.

Let our motto be written in blood on our flags, "_Death to all Yankees and traitors in Kansas_." Why, then, were not these bloody counsels made good by deeds?
Our circumstances were peculiar.

It will be seen above that it was only the Yankees and Abolitionists in whose bodies the knives of the "Law and Order" party were to be sheathed; and the Yankees in the country were only a handful of men, and were therefore powerless; but between them and these bloody-minded chieftains was interposed a barrier that proved insurmountable.