Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life. Including a Full View of Its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, EtcCrosby, Nichols, 1856 - 366 էջ Kansas territorial days by the wife of a politically active abolitionist, and governor of the "Free-State" of Kansas, Topeka government, which was disallowed by the United States in 1856. The book concerns the events around this Free State government, the battle in Lawrence, and Robinson's ousting and imprisonment. Robinson would later be nominated and win the official Territorial governorship in 1859 |
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... Meeting - Camp moved to protect it - Log Prison- Cheerfulness Men - - More Prisoners Barricades Dispersion of Legislature , - Lecompton alarmed - " Law - and - order " . . .300 CHAPTER XXII . " LAW - AND - ORDER MEN VIII CONTENTS .
... Meeting - Camp moved to protect it - Log Prison- Cheerfulness Men - - More Prisoners Barricades Dispersion of Legislature , - Lecompton alarmed - " Law - and - order " . . .300 CHAPTER XXII . " LAW - AND - ORDER MEN VIII CONTENTS .
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... protection of a husband's love , or , in caress- ing the children God gave her , call them her own , and make no effort in their behalf ? No. It was not thus , thank God ! Men felt , and women felt . Notwithstanding all that was done ...
... protection of a husband's love , or , in caress- ing the children God gave her , call them her own , and make no effort in their behalf ? No. It was not thus , thank God ! Men felt , and women felt . Notwithstanding all that was done ...
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... protect themselves from mob violence . They do not understand how a people can be brave , yet quiet . With them , loud swelling words are received as evidence of valor ; and they could not therefore comprehend the quiet , yet firm prepa ...
... protect themselves from mob violence . They do not understand how a people can be brave , yet quiet . With them , loud swelling words are received as evidence of valor ; and they could not therefore comprehend the quiet , yet firm prepa ...
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... protection of the judges . After the election these men mounted into their wagons , crying out , " All aboard for Westport and Kansas City ! " Similar frauds were practised in the other districts . In the eighth district , five hundred ...
... protection of the judges . After the election these men mounted into their wagons , crying out , " All aboard for Westport and Kansas City ! " Similar frauds were practised in the other districts . In the eighth district , five hundred ...
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... protect the house , but he could attempt to take it down any time he pleased . " - 16th . We went to Kansas city this morning , and made such purchases as we feared we might not be able to make at Lawrence . We met some very pleasant ...
... protect the house , but he could attempt to take it down any time he pleased . " - 16th . We went to Kansas city this morning , and made such purchases as we feared we might not be able to make at Lawrence . We met some very pleasant ...
Common terms and phrases
abolitionists armed arrest arrived asked attempted band beautiful border ruffian brought cabin called camp Capt carriage citizens committee doctor Donaldson door dragoons drive election emigrants fear feel fire free-state freedom friends gentlemen governor guard heard Herald of Freedom hill horse hour hundred husband invasion Jones Judge Lecompte Kansas city Kansas Territory lady Lawrence laws leave Leavenworth Lecompton Legislature lives look Marshal miles Missouri Missourians morning Mount Oread murder night o'clock officers outrage party passed person Platte city pleasant posse prairie President prisoners pro-slavery protection quiet Reeder rence replied returned rifles river ruffians sack of Lawrence Sam Salters sent settlers Shannon Shawnee sheriff slave slave power slavery soon Stringfellow Sumner taken tent territory threats tion to-day Topeka town troops vote wagons Wakarusa Westport WILSON SHANNON Wood young
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Էջ 360 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Էջ x - God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands ; Men whom the lust of office does not kill ; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor ; men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog, In public duty and in private thinking...
Էջ 185 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Էջ 88 - SsC. 12. If any free person, by speaking or by writing, assert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this territory...
Էջ 12 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be,. and is hereby, forever prohibited...
Էջ 89 - Territory, print, publish, write, circulate . . . any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, or circular containing any denial of the right of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years.
Էջ 365 - March, 1855 : said delegates to assemble in convention at the town of Topeka, on the 19th day of September, 1855, then and there to consider and determine upon all subjects of public interest, and particularly upon that having reference to the speedy formation of a state constitution, with an intention of an immediate application to be admitted as a state into the Union of the United States of America.
Էջ 360 - Leave to the people, who will be affected by this question, to adjust it upon their own responsibility, and in their own manner, and we shall render another tribute to the original principles of our Government, and furnish another guaranty for its permanence and prosperity.
Էջ 86 - SEC. 11. If any person print, write, introduce into, publish or circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published, or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, printing, publishing, or circulating within this Territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, magazine, handbill or circular, containing any statements, arguments, opinions...