Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 40
... rifles for the use of free - state settlers , the corporation itself religiously held fast , through the whole period of its operations , to the unmilitary func- tions of an ordinary transportation bureau . Had the Missourians followed ...
... rifles for the use of free - state settlers , the corporation itself religiously held fast , through the whole period of its operations , to the unmilitary func- tions of an ordinary transportation bureau . Had the Missourians followed ...
Page 60
... rifles . The reputed military colonies were practically without weapons . Robinson lost no time in dispatching G. W. Deitzler to New Eng- land for arms , ostensibly to protect the polls at the special elections May 22d , but really as ...
... rifles . The reputed military colonies were practically without weapons . Robinson lost no time in dispatching G. W. Deitzler to New Eng- land for arms , ostensibly to protect the polls at the special elections May 22d , but really as ...
Page 62
... rifle at my disposal I should make him a present of it . . . To divide into parties before our admission into the Union would be ruinous and give our enemies the advan- tage . " • Between the 8th of June and the 15th of Aug- ust , 1855 ...
... rifle at my disposal I should make him a present of it . . . To divide into parties before our admission into the Union would be ruinous and give our enemies the advan- tage . " • Between the 8th of June and the 15th of Aug- ust , 1855 ...
Page 89
... rifles , were ready for business in a twink- ling . One of Abbott's men , in the absence of better armament , provided himself with two large stones and proposed to play the part of a cata- pult against the enemy . But , notwithstanding ...
... rifles , were ready for business in a twink- ling . One of Abbott's men , in the absence of better armament , provided himself with two large stones and proposed to play the part of a cata- pult against the enemy . But , notwithstanding ...
Page 91
... horse - pistols to modern rifles , until twelve or fif- teen hundred of them were concentrated in the vicinity encamping for the most part on the - Wakarusa , a small affluent of the Kansas River an WAR ON THE WAKARUSA . 91.
... horse - pistols to modern rifles , until twelve or fif- teen hundred of them were concentrated in the vicinity encamping for the most part on the - Wakarusa , a small affluent of the Kansas River an WAR ON THE WAKARUSA . 91.
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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...