"Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel".

The article exposes how white Northerners engaged in mob violence against white Southerners in Bleeding Kansas during the 1850s and 1860s and its effect on the state's political history during the Civil War. Topics discussed include expansion of slavery, labeling of white Southerners as secessionsists, anti-Black violence and white supremacy campaign, the Lawrence Massacre, lynching and anti-secesh hatred, and struggle of proslavery forces, abolitionists and free staters for dominance.