This warrant from May 24, 1856, instructed the marshal of the United States for Kansas Territory: "You are hereby commanded to hold Charles Robinson, now in your custody, to answer an indictment ... In the crime of High Treason." Robinson, a staunch Free-State advocate, was accused of "resisting enforcement of the Territorial laws," in part by claiming to be the legitimate governor of the territory of Kansas and rejecting the proslavery "Bogus Legislature" that had been established in a deeply controversial election on March 30, 1855. Robinson's arrest at Lexington, Missouri, came at the onset of the worst period of violence in the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict.