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would see that they had blankets.
To-morrow I shall see them myself if possible.
The following day,
Mr. Higginson visited the prisoners at
Lecompton and found that most of them were young men, ‘the flower of the youth of
Lawrence.’
One of the guards he described as ‘an evil-looking scoundrel with fixed bayonet,’ and said: ‘It is singular how much alike all Slavery's officials look.
I saw half a dozen times repeated the familiar features of my
Boston friend,
Mr. Asa O. Butman.’
Relating the suffering of the new settlers,
Mr. Higginson quoted a man whom he had known at the
East, who had a wife and nine children, but who said, ‘I have in my house no meat, no flour, no meal, no potatoes, no money to buy them, no prospect of a dollar; but
I'll live or die in Kansas!’
And he added, ‘Such is the spirit of multitudes, many of whom are as badly off as this man.’
In a letter to the ‘Tribune,’ dated
Lawrence, October 4,
Mr. Higginson said:—
Last Sunday I preached in this place (though I must say that I am commonly known here by a title which is elsewhere considered incompatible with even the Church Militant). It was quite an occasion; and I took for my text the one employed by Rev. John Martin the Sunday after he fought at Bunker Hill—Neh.
IV, 14; “Be not ye afraid of ”
