The Reign of terror in Kanzas: encouraged by President Pierce, and carried out by the southern slave power: by which men have been murdered and scalped! Women dragged from their homes and violated! Printing offices and private houses burned! Ministers of the gospel tarred and feathered! Citizens robbed and driven from their homes! and other enormities inflicted on free settlers by border ruffians as related by eye witnesses of the events.

“The Reign of terror in Kanzas: encouraged by President Pierce, and carried out by the southern slave power: by which men have been murdered and scalped! Women dragged from their homes and violated! Printing offices and private houses burned! Ministers of the gospel tarred and feathered! Citizens robbed and driven from their homes! and other enormities inflicted on free settlers by border ruffians as related by eye witnesses of the events.,” KU Libraries Exhibits, accessed December 3, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/items/show/8799.