Samuel Collins and Pat Laughlin both served on the Platform Committee at the Convention and from the report of the committee, it is clear that he and many of his free-state colleagues, while opposed to slavery, still held very prejudiced views of fls.
Collins was a Western man, a prominent free-state man in that locality, and became an officer in the Legion referred to.
Collins, where the latter gentleman and his sons were employed, and the fact that Laughlin and three or four other pro-slavery men were there, armed, makes it certain that they came there armed.
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