We are not safe, and self-preservation requires the total extermination of this set.

Let us act immediately, and with such decision as will convince these desperadoes that it is our fixed determination to keep their feet from polluting the soil of Kansas.
We published in a former chapter the letter of recommendation this same Robert S.Kelley had written, certifying to the good behavior of the people of the county, and the facts of the case were not altered now; save and only this, that a black woman, the slave of Grafton Thomasson, had drowned herself.

This said Thomasson was a drinking man, and when in drink was desperate and dangerous.

What passed between this man, when intoxicated, and this slave woman the public have never been informed.

An altercation grew out of this between Thomasson and J.W.