Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... John Carter Brown , of Providence , Rhode Island , as president . In the conduct of the com- pany , the trustees who bridged the interval be- tween the first and second charters continued to be a chief directive and inspirational force ...
... John Carter Brown , of Providence , Rhode Island , as president . In the conduct of the com- pany , the trustees who bridged the interval be- tween the first and second charters continued to be a chief directive and inspirational force ...
Page 101
... of this unknown man , plucked down from the dry - goods box with his speech mostly unspoken , has filled the post - horns of the world - Old John Brown . - CHAPTER VII . SOME HEAVY BLOWS . - THE WAR ON THE WAKARUSA . 101 .
... of this unknown man , plucked down from the dry - goods box with his speech mostly unspoken , has filled the post - horns of the world - Old John Brown . - CHAPTER VII . SOME HEAVY BLOWS . - THE WAR ON THE WAKARUSA . 101 .
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... JOHN BROWN is a parenthesis in the history of Kansas . The immense vibration of his career upon the nation had its source in the Virginia campaign and its ill - fated but heroic sequel , rather than in contributions to the territorial ...
... JOHN BROWN is a parenthesis in the history of Kansas . The immense vibration of his career upon the nation had its source in the Virginia campaign and its ill - fated but heroic sequel , rather than in contributions to the territorial ...
Page 138
... John Brown reached Kansas in the autumn of 1855. He came in response to appeals for arms from his sons , five of whom preceded him to the territory and settled at Osawatomie . He found them in circumstances sufficiently uncomfortable ...
... John Brown reached Kansas in the autumn of 1855. He came in response to appeals for arms from his sons , five of whom preceded him to the territory and settled at Osawatomie . He found them in circumstances sufficiently uncomfortable ...
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... John Brown would have been at home among the armies of Israel that gave the guilty cities of Canaan to the sword , or among the veterans of Cromwell who ravaged Ireland in the name of the Lord . When the " Souldier's Pocket Bible " a ...
... John Brown would have been at home among the armies of Israel that gave the guilty cities of Canaan to the sword , or among the veterans of Cromwell who ravaged Ireland in the name of the Lord . When the " Souldier's Pocket Bible " a ...
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Page 222 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and the right of> the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page 138 - Tis time New hopes should animate the world, new light Should dawn from new revealings to a race Weighed down so long, forgotten so long...
Page 154 - ... about six o'clock next morning, when we prepared to attack them at once, on foot, leaving Frederick and one of Captain Shore's men to guard the horses. As I was much older than Captain Shore, the principal direction of the fight devolved on me. We got to within about a mile of their camp before being discovered by their scouts, and then moved at a brisk pace, Captain Shore and men forming our left, and my company the right. When within about sixty rods of the enemy. Captain Shore's men halted...
Page 6 - A few weeks afterward the committee of thirteen took those two bills and put a wafer between them, and reported them back to the Senate as one bill, with some slight amendments. One of these amendments was, that the Territorial Legislatures should not legislate upon the subject of African slavery. I objected to that provision...