...ared in their letters that fighting suasion was the most important institution in the new Territory. In November, another homicide led to the siege of Lawrence by the Border-Ruffian army under Atchison and Stringfellow, and the so-called Wakarusa war. Governor Shannon summoned out the militia (i. e., the Missourians), and made demand on the President for Federal troops. It would be a grave er...