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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
Buford's marauders were presented with arms, and paid by the day for sacking Lawrence and desolating the surrounding region; and one of their number, a Mr. Fane, was appointed by the President United States Marshal. Titus was made a Colonel of Militia, and he and his men were promptly paid; while Captain Walker and his Free-State company, organized at the same time and in the same manner, under the same arrangement, have never been remunerated for their services to this day. General Whitfield, bogus delegate, the leader of several gangs of the invaders of Kansas--on whose hands rests the blood of many martyrs, slain by his ruffians — after failing to be returned to Congress, was made a chief in the Land Office at Kickapoo, where he now resides. Mr. Preston, a Virginian, for overhauling a peaceful emigrant train, abusing the Northern people who composed it, and throwing their bedding and clothing on the miry soil, to be trodden on by the cavalry, has also been rewarded wi