...ral Clarke, but from whose decision there was an appeal to Washington. Fort Scott, at this time, was the headquarters of the ruffians in Southern Kansas; among them, the Hamiltons, the Littles, and Brockett , all of whom had been members of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention; Brockett, the Hamiltons, and Clarke having attested their devotion to slavery by murdering Free State citizens in cold blood....