..., 1854, wrote Gen. Pomeroy, was closed to us by overpowering numbers and impending force. At the first election of the legislature, March 30, 1855, organized bands of armed and lawless men from Missouri , entering the territory, exercised complete control over the ballot-box; and in the autumn of the same year gross outrages were perpetrated by the border ruffians at Lawrence, and several unoffending...