Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... town - meetings , state legis- latures denounced the repeal of the Missouri Com- promise . Clergymen in great numbers and of all denominations swelled the chorus of protest , a spectacle that caused much unfriendly comment in ...
... town - meetings , state legis- latures denounced the repeal of the Missouri Com- promise . Clergymen in great numbers and of all denominations swelled the chorus of protest , a spectacle that caused much unfriendly comment in ...
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... it . Once fairly there , nobody will disturb them . " This not unpromising scheme elicited ample pledges of coöperation , not one of which was ever redeemed . Several pro - slavery towns sprang up in the terri- DRIVING DOWN STAKES . 27.
... it . Once fairly there , nobody will disturb them . " This not unpromising scheme elicited ample pledges of coöperation , not one of which was ever redeemed . Several pro - slavery towns sprang up in the terri- DRIVING DOWN STAKES . 27.
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... towns sprang up in the terri- tory , situated principally on the Missouri River be- tween Kansas City and the Nebraska ... town in northeastern Kansas ; Leavenworth , ruled mainly though not wholly by Southern sentiment , which more than ...
... towns sprang up in the terri- tory , situated principally on the Missouri River be- tween Kansas City and the Nebraska ... town in northeastern Kansas ; Leavenworth , ruled mainly though not wholly by Southern sentiment , which more than ...
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... towns in Kansas . The facilities offered by the Boston organiza- tion , in addition to the obvious advantages of as- sociated effort , were reduction in cost of trans- portation , oversight by competent conductors , in- vestments of ...
... towns in Kansas . The facilities offered by the Boston organiza- tion , in addition to the obvious advantages of as- sociated effort , were reduction in cost of trans- portation , oversight by competent conductors , in- vestments of ...
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... towns in the territory - Hampden , which disappeared after a little , Wabaunsee , Osawato- mie , Manhattan , Topeka ... town was afterwards built . The directions given to C. H. Branscomb , conductor of the company , were , " proceed ...
... towns in the territory - Hampden , which disappeared after a little , Wabaunsee , Osawato- mie , Manhattan , Topeka ... town was afterwards built . The directions given to C. H. Branscomb , conductor of the company , were , " proceed ...
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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...