This letter, written by O. H. Browne from Ridgeway, Shawnee County, Kan. Territory, is a call to action. Browne was convinced that he and John Adams Halderman and others were being "swindled" out of their shares in the Lecompton Town Company by the refusal of permission to redeem the shares for taxes and that "little Bob [Robert] Stevens, law partner of Gov[ernor Wilson] Shannon, is the mischief making monkey that has caused all this difficulty." Although Halderman is apparently inclined to let this matter go, Browne wants to file a lawsuit on behalf of all who have been treated thusly, and if that doesn't work he is "ready to join any company that may be organized and deal out justice to the Lecompton Town Company according to the rules of equity as recognized and administered by Judge Lynch."