The reader will observe that these people had no quarrel with the people of the South: they were bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh.

Neither had they any special quarrel with Southern institutions; only this, that they would rather live in a free State.

They did feel that way, and they could not help it.

But in one thing they had been sorely wounded.

In the invasion of Kansas, and in the carrying the elections by violence, their personal rights had been invaded, and they did resent that.