[Footnote 85:  In Connelley’s James Henry Lane, the “Grim Chieftain” of Kansas, the following is quoted as coming from Lane himself: 

“Of the fifty-six men in the Legislature who voted for Jim Lane, five-and-forty now wear shoulder-straps.  Doesn’t Jim Lane look out for his friends?”]

[Footnote 86:  John Brown’s rating of Pomeroy, as given by Stearns in his Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns, 133-134, would show him to have been a considerably less pugnacious individual than was Lane.]

[Illustration:  SKETCH MAP SHOWING THE MAIN THEATRE OF BORDER WARFARE AND THE LOCATION OF TRIBES WITHIN THE INDIAN COUNTRY]

the extra one, called for July, 1861.  Immediately, a difficulty arose due to the fact that, subsequent to his election to the senatorship and in addition thereto, Lane had accepted a colonelcy tendered by Oliver P. Morton[87] of Indiana, his own native state.[88] Lane’s friends very plausibly contended that a military commission from one state could not invalidate the title to represent another state in the Federal senate.  The actual fight over the contested seat came in the next session and, quite regardless of consequences likely to prejudice his case, Lane went on recruiting for his brigade.  Indeed, he commended himself to Fremont, who, in his capacity as major-general of volunteers and in charge of the Western Military District, assigned him to duty in Kansas, thus greatly complicating an already delicate situation and immeasurably heaping up difficulties, embarrassments, and disasters for the frontier.

The same indifference towards the West that characterized the governing authorities in the South was exhibited by eastern men in the North and, correspondingly, the West, Federal and Confederate, was unduly sensitive to the indifference, perhaps, also, a trifle unnecessarily alarmed by symptoms of its own danger.  Nevertheless, its danger was real.  Each state gave in its adherence to the Confederacy separately and, therefore, every single state in the slavery belt had a problem to solve.  The fight for Missouri was fought

[Footnote 87:  Morton, war governor of Indiana, who had taken tremendous interest in the struggle for Kansas and in the events leading up to the organization of the Republican party, was one of the most energetic of men in raising troops for the defence of the Union, especially in the earliest stages of the war.  See Foulke’s Life of Oliver P. Morton, vol. i.]

[Footnote 88:  Some doubt on this point exists.  John Speer, Lane’s intimate friend and, in a sense, his biographer, says Lane claimed Lawrenceburg, Indiana, as his birthplace.  By some people he is thought to have been born in Kentucky.]