Chapter XXII. The border ruffians
The Opening of Kansas Territory.
Andrew H, Reeder Appointed Governor. Atchison’s
Propaganda. The
Missouri Blue Lodges. The Emigrant Aid Company.
The Town of Lawrence
Founded. Governor Reeder’s Independent
Action. The First Border
Ruffian Invasion. The Election of Whitfield
Chapter XXIII. The bogus laws
Governor Reeder’s Census. The Second
Border Ruffian Invasion. Missouri Voters Elect
the Kansas Legislature.
Westport and Shawnee Mission. The Governor Convenes
the Legislature at
Pawnee. The Legislature Returns to Shawnee Mission.
Governor Reeder’s
Vetoes. The Governor’s Removal. Enactment
of the Bogus Laws. Despotic
Statutes. Lecompton Founded
Chapter XXIV. The Topeka constitution
The Bogus Legislature Defines
Kansas Politics. The Big Springs Convention.
Ex-Governor Reeder’s
Resolutions. Formation of the Free-State Party.
A Constitutional
Convention at Topeka. The Topeka Constitution.
President Pierce
Proclaims the Topeka Movement Revolutionary.
Refusal to Recognize the
Bogus Laws. Chief-Justice Lecompte’s Doctrine
of Constructive Treason,
Arrests and Indictment of the Free-State Leaders.
Colonel Sumner
Disperses the Topeka Legislature
Chapter XXV. Civil war in
Kansas Wilson Shannon Appointed Governor.
The Law and Order Party Formed at Leavenworth.
Sheriff Jones. The Branson Rescue. The Wakarusa
War. Sharps Rifles. Governor Shannon’s
Treaty. Guerrilla Leaders and Civil War.
The Investigating Committee of Congress. The
Flight of Ex-Governor Reeder. The Border Ruffians
March on Lawrence. Burning of the Free-State Hotel
LINEAGE
[Sidenote: 1780.]
In the year 1780, Abraham Lincoln, a member of a respectable
and well-to-do family in Rockingham County, Virginia,
started westward to establish himself in the newly-explored
country of Kentucky. He entered several large
tracts of fertile land, and returning to Virginia
disposed of his property there, and with his wife and
five children went back to Kentucky and settled in
Jefferson County. Little is known of this pioneer
Lincoln or of his father. Most of the records
belonging to that branch of the family were destroyed
in the civil war. Their early orphanage, the
wild and illiterate life they led on the frontier,
severed their connection with their kindred in the
East. This, often happened; there are hundreds
of families in the West bearing historic names and
probably descended from well-known houses in the older
States or in England, which, by passing through one
or two generations of ancestors who could not read
or write, have lost their continuity with the past
