I checked out a web site that has select Daily Times articles, but it did not have the referenced article. However, scaning the coverage in the wake of the raid, the theme of vengenace jumped off the page:
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The excitement in the city yesterday, from when the news of the burning of Lawrence was received, until late last night, was of the most intense character. A feeling of deep sympathy for our sister town of Lawrence, in this her hour of bereavement, exists among all classes of our citizens, coupled with an intense anxiety for vengeance.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
All men in favor of the Lex Talionis will report at the market House this evening, mounted. Sharp's Carbines and Revolvers will be furnished.
D. R. Anthony, Mayor.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 23, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
All day yesterday excited crowds were congregated on the streets, discussing the very sad affair at Lawrence, and anxiously asking for further news. There is the most intense feeling among our citizens, and a settled determination that the guerrillas must be exterminated and their rendezvous destroyed. No quarter will be given; no prisoners of war taken.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 25, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
General Orders, No. 11.
Headquarters District of the Border,
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25, 1863.
I. All persons living in Jackson, Cass, and Bates Counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon, included in this District, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mill, Pleasant Hill and Harrisonville, and those in Kaw Township, Jackson county, North of Brush Creek and West of the Big Blue, are hereby ordered to remove from their present places of residence within fifteen days from the date hereof...
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DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Rumor of Killing and Burning in Cass Co., Missouri.
We have a rumor that the Union forces have entered Cass County, Mo., and burned 150 houses, and killed about that number of persons.