The Liberator (newspaper)/September 18, 1857/Kansas

Kansas. A gentleman who has just returned from a tour through the border counties of Missouri states that nothing is talked of there save the proposed invasion of Kansas the coming October. The Blue Lodges are being reorganized, and every thing gives evidence that extensive preparations are being made to control the election in Kansas. On the other hand, the military organization, formed by the Free State men for the protection of the ballot-box, is rapidly being completed. Affairs in the Territory are evidently tending towards a terrible crisis, and the October election may witness its denouement.