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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
e----guards. But that scene was nothing when compared with the charge on the----Guards. Oh, God! My friend shuddered violently. Everybody who is familiar with the history of Kansas has heard of the----Guards. They were a gang of Missouri highwaymen and horse-thieves, who organized under the lead of---------, the Kansas correspondent of a leading pro-slavery paper, when the Territorial troubles first broke out in the spring of 1855. After sacking a little Free-State town on the Santa Fe road, and committing other petty robberies and misdemeanors, they were attacked, in the summer of ‘56, by a celebrated Free-State captain, and defeated by a force of less than one-half their numerical strength. They were kept as prisoners until released by the troops. Capt.----, satisfied with his laurels, then retired from the tented field. But the company continued to exist and still lived by robbery. Shortly after the Xenophon of the Kansas prairies left them, they elected, as their