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20 Thwart His Purpose; Fight with the U. S. Troops; Hamilton Prepares to Strike; The Murders; The Pursuit; Dispatches to Denver; Captain Walker's Visit to Fort Scott, and Arrests; General Denver's Visit: Meeting at Rayaville; Speeches of Denver and Montgomery; Treaty; Understanding...... 511-526

CHAPTER XLVII-1857-8,

POLITICAL PARTIES-Disintegration of Political Parties; Of the Free State Party; In the Fall of 1857; At the Legislature; Its Action; Constitutional Convention; Difficulty in Uniting, Last of the Topeka State Government; Vote for Delegates; Constitution; Nomination; Election; English Bill; Old Aportionment; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Attempt. to Preserve the Free State Party; & Failure; Observation; Democratic Organization Perfected; Republican Party FullyOrganized; Territorial Legislature of 1859....... 527-538

CHAPTER XLVIII-1858-9.

TROUBLES IN SOUTH-EASTERN KANSAS-They Continue; Murder and Robbery: Arrest of Marshall; Emigrants; Why Slavery Clung to South eastern Kansas; Arrest of Rice; John Brown; His Fort Menaced; Free State Democrats; They Endorse Montgomery; Release of Rice; Little Killed and Store Robbed; John Brown Liberates Fourteen Slaves; That which Followed; Letter from Judge Williams; Amnesty; Flurry at Lawrence 539-518

CHAPTER XLIX-1859.

VARIOUS ITEMS-Provisions of the First Legislature for Auditing Claims; The Commissioner; His Report; Appointment of a New Board of Commissioners; Their Report; Property Destroyed; Sacrifices of Free State Men; Difficulty About the Bands; Election on the Question of Calling a Constitutional Convention; Election of Delegates; Organization of the Convention; Committees; Report of Committee on Ladies' Petition; Votes on the Negro Questions; Northern Boundary; Temporary Seat of Government; Homestead; Election on the Adoption of the Constitution; Election of State Officers;Census.......627-538

CHAPTER L-1860.

THE DROUTH—Legislature Convenes; Adjourns; Convened Again; Character and Extent of the Drouth; Its Effect upon Crops; Extended to Other States; People Poorly Prepared for it; 30,000 Lenve; Others Barely Able to Support Themselves; Benevolent Move of Thadyun Hyatt; Operations of the Relief. Committees; Precipitation and Distribution of Rain in Kansas..560-569

CHAPTER LI-1860-1.

VARIOUS ITEMS-Imprisonment and Rescue of John Doy; Marshal Arus; Fugitive Slave Low; Hanging of Hines; Of Guthrie and C. Carlan; Returned Border Ruffians; Difficulties on the Neutral Lands; Settlers Driven Off; New York Indian Lands; Last Territorial Legislature; Financial Statement of the Territory for Each Year; Wyandotto Constitution in Congress; Admission of Kansas; Character of the Kansas Straggle.. 570-576

APPENDIX 579-581