. Book of the Royal blue . THE HERO OF HARPERS The Outlook atched the roads. during the 40s. In 1844-45, when JohnBrown appeared on the scene, things wereat their very worst, and the center of dis-turbance was at the town of Lawrence. The two parties to the conflict were, ofcourse, the Pro-Slavery and the Free Stateparties; just then the Pro-Slavery men hadthe upper hand. There were only abouteight hundred legal voters: Kansas was aterritory. More than four thousand Mis-sourians came over into Kansas, seized thevoting polls, openly defied the governor,and elected a citizen of Texas as
. Book of the Royal blue . THE HERO OF HARPERS The Outlook atched the roads. during the 40s. In 1844-45, when JohnBrown appeared on the scene, things wereat their very worst, and the center of dis-turbance was at the town of Lawrence. The two parties to the conflict were, ofcourse, the Pro-Slavery and the Free Stateparties; just then the Pro-Slavery men hadthe upper hand. There were only abouteight hundred legal voters: Kansas was aterritory. More than four thousand Mis-sourians came over into Kansas, seized thevoting polls, openly defied the governor,and elected a citizen of Texas as a delegateto congress from Kansas. They created acode of slave-sustaining laws, atrocious inthe extreme. They confined in the cellarof an old store in Leavenworth, men whowere prominent in the Free State party,and the wives and children of theseprisoners were likewise imprisoned, in anold flat-boat which was moored in the of the Free State men were com-pelled to get out of Kansas; others hadtheir homes burned. Bloodshed was notuncommon, an
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