Proslavery Law and Order Party Formed

Wednesday, October 3, 1855

David Rice Atchison, one of the founders of the Law and Order Party in Kansas Territory. Photograph by Matthew Brady. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Proslavery activists meet at Leavenworth, Kansas to form the Law & Order Party, which cites criminal violence as justification to target, attack, and arrest persons associated with the Free-State cause.