Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... reached its highest uses in offering a convenient rallying point for the great Northern uprising . That memorable outburst of moral indignation against the slave - oligarchy was no fire of straw . The comparatively insignificant anti ...
... reached its highest uses in offering a convenient rallying point for the great Northern uprising . That memorable outburst of moral indignation against the slave - oligarchy was no fire of straw . The comparatively insignificant anti ...
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... reached the Arkansas . Here provisions began to fail , and the bulk of the expedition re- traced its steps to New Mexico . The route of Coronado , who pushed on with a few picked men , is bestead with uncertainties . Nothing better can ...
... reached the Arkansas . Here provisions began to fail , and the bulk of the expedition re- traced its steps to New Mexico . The route of Coronado , who pushed on with a few picked men , is bestead with uncertainties . Nothing better can ...
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... reached Kansas over the lines of the Emigrant Aid Company was not large . During the summer and autumn of 1854 five companies were dispatched , which com- prised a total of seven hundred and fifty souls . From the opening of navigation ...
... reached Kansas over the lines of the Emigrant Aid Company was not large . During the summer and autumn of 1854 five companies were dispatched , which com- prised a total of seven hundred and fifty souls . From the opening of navigation ...
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... reached the spot where that town was afterwards built . The directions given to C. H. Branscomb , conductor of the company , were , " proceed through the Shawnee Reservation and select the first eli- gible site on the south side of the ...
... reached the spot where that town was afterwards built . The directions given to C. H. Branscomb , conductor of the company , were , " proceed through the Shawnee Reservation and select the first eli- gible site on the south side of the ...
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... reached Lawrence on the day of election , some of whom , it was alleged , voted notwithstanding the brevity of their residence in Kansas . A few of the new - comers , alarmed by the threatening aspect of affairs , immediately fled the ...
... reached Lawrence on the day of election , some of whom , it was alleged , voted notwithstanding the brevity of their residence in Kansas . A few of the new - comers , alarmed by the threatening aspect of affairs , immediately fled the ...
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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...