. Abraham Lincoln; a history . Lane and others refused the test oath, and wereexcluded from practice as attorneys in the courts;free-State newspapers were thrown out of themails as incendiary publications; sundry pettypersecutions were evaded or submitted to asspecial circumstances dictated. But throughouttheir long and persistent non-conformity, for morethan two years, they constantly and cheerfully only provoked searching discus- printed pages, and which exposed sion, but furnished the occasion the Border RuflBan invasions and for sending an investigating com- the Missouri usurpation in all
. Abraham Lincoln; a history . Lane and others refused the test oath, and wereexcluded from practice as attorneys in the courts;free-State newspapers were thrown out of themails as incendiary publications; sundry pettypersecutions were evaded or submitted to asspecial circumstances dictated. But throughouttheir long and persistent non-conformity, for morethan two years, they constantly and cheerfully only provoked searching discus- printed pages, and which exposed sion, but furnished the occasion the Border RuflBan invasions and for sending an investigating com- the Missouri usurpation in all mittee to Kansas, attended by the their monstrous iniquity, and contestants in person. This com- officially revealed to the as- mittee with a fearless diligence tounded North, for the first time collected in the Territory, as well and nearly two years after its as from the border counties of beginning, the full proportions Missouri, a mass of sworn testi- of the conspiracy which held mony amounting to some 1200 sway in JAMES H. LANE. Or ^li THE TOPEKA CONSTITUTION 433 acknowledged the authority of the organic act, and ch. the laws of Congress, and even counseled andendured every forced submission to the boguslaws. Though they had defiant and turbulentspirits in their own ranks, who often accused themof imbecility and cowardice, they maintained asteady policy of non-resistance, and, under everyshow of Federal authority in support of the boguslaws, they submitted to obnoxious searches andseizures, to capricious arrest and painful imprison-ment, rather than by resistance to place them-selves in the attitude of deliberate outlaws.^ They were destined to have no lack of provoca-tion. Since the removal of Reeder, all the Federalofficials of the Territory were affiliated with the pro-slavery Missouri cabal. Both to secure the per-manent establishment of slavery in Kansas, andto gratify the personal pride of their triumph,they were determined to make these recusant fre
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