Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... . It shows the chief places of historic interest , longer exist . some of which no STATE UNIVERSITY , LAWRENCE , Kansas , September , 1885 . L. W. S. KANSAS . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . THE eminent Union - vi PREFATORY NOTE .
... . It shows the chief places of historic interest , longer exist . some of which no STATE UNIVERSITY , LAWRENCE , Kansas , September , 1885 . L. W. S. KANSAS . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . THE eminent Union - vi PREFATORY NOTE .
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... Lawrence , of Boston , came to the rescue and ad- vanced out of his own pocket the funds necessary to put life into it . No organization was ever effected under the first charter . It saddled objectionable monetary liabilities upon the ...
... Lawrence , of Boston , came to the rescue and ad- vanced out of his own pocket the funds necessary to put life into it . No organization was ever effected under the first charter . It saddled objectionable monetary liabilities upon the ...
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... Lawrence , and Nathan Durfee , Fall River . The list of directors was subsequently enlarged to thirty - eight , and included the additional names of Dr. S. G. Howe , Rev. Edward Everett Hale , Bos- ton ; George L. Stearns , Medford ...
... Lawrence , and Nathan Durfee , Fall River . The list of directors was subsequently enlarged to thirty - eight , and included the additional names of Dr. S. G. Howe , Rev. Edward Everett Hale , Bos- ton ; George L. Stearns , Medford ...
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... Lawrence . Of these anti - slavery villages the oldest , and for a time the chief , was Lawrence . Upon the first day of August , 1854 , the pioneer party , twenty- nine in number , sent out by the Boston society , reached the spot ...
... Lawrence . Of these anti - slavery villages the oldest , and for a time the chief , was Lawrence . Upon the first day of August , 1854 , the pioneer party , twenty- nine in number , sent out by the Boston society , reached the spot ...
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... Lawrence was finally agreed upon in honor of the treasurer of the Emigrant Aid Company . " I think I was the first to suggest your name for the city , " Dr. Robinson wrote Mr. Law- rence October 16th , 1854 ; " though I have never urged ...
... Lawrence was finally agreed upon in honor of the treasurer of the Emigrant Aid Company . " I think I was the first to suggest your name for the city , " Dr. Robinson wrote Mr. Law- rence October 16th , 1854 ; " though I have never urged ...
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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...