. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ould not on terms ich they ;e to east ⢠were not \ to win ; n which racularly (1 be de- ring and stincts of lart of the crs of the icn of the indheads, awell and hose who ne on this rentleman miglit bo diich was en in the hjmpatny been per- Napoleon, aristocrat ..ament in her slaves, nd only in ner se who me feeling TEHniTORFAL HlSTOIiY. 105. The press which represen
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ould not on terms ich they ;e to east ⢠were not \ to win ; n which racularly (1 be de- ring and stincts of lart of the crs of the icn of the indheads, awell and hose who ne on this rentleman miglit bo diich was en in the hjmpatny been per- Napoleon, aristocrat ..ament in her slaves, nd only in ner se who me feeling TEHniTORFAL HlSTOIiY. 105. The press which represented that sentiment in England wag true to tlie union, but it had necessarily very little weight with the unreading south, and !^^issouri drifted on toward her share in the Kansas difTiculty. The faculty fjr organizing had been cultivated with such effect, that it had long been dangerous in that state for any man, wliatever his position, to show a disincli- nation for promoting their domestic institution, " to hint a fault and hesitate dislike" concerning the abominable crime of negro slavery; and now that system of organization was being extended beyond ^Missouri to cover and to blast the territory of Kansas. The Nebraska-Kansas act had come into operation, anu it was time to move if there was to be any substantial advantage gained by the Missourians in the contest with their resolute opponents, the much abused " northern cattle," of whom, in spite of all the bluster so long indulged in, the slave power was very much afraid. Some men, who had only selected lands in the territory, came now in hot haste to occupy and improve their locations. Others, as we have seen, came to hold mass meetings, and to feign a confidence which they could not realize in the righteous- ness of their cause, and the success for which they were prepared to hazard everything. They had learned that a society had been formed in Massachusetts, which had for its object, the rescue of th
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