[73] Rhodes, vol. ii, 37.
[74] Von Holst, vol. iv, 61.
[75] Von Holst, vol. iv, 322.
[76] The passing off of this obscuration was "hastened and secured" by the initiative of Eli Thayer and Charles Robinson. Under the able leadership of the latter, the political control of Kansas Territory passed into the hands of the Free-State men at the elections in October, 1857.
[77] Thayer, Kansas Crusade, 232.
[78] Burgess, Middle Period, 471-472.
[79] Sanborn, 248.
[80] New York Weekly Tribune, February 22, 1856.
[81] De Bow's Review, August, 1856.
[82] South Carolina Courier, July 5, 1856.