. 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. Mffi^^fwpVX lIisroHY. 159 ;ion, were jirnctically of no account, except n« they tcndeil to exaspornto tlio freo state party Htill more, and the connnunii; which woro Hcnt to the eastern and middle states, during the hitter part of IS.'u, disphiy a s[)irit which gr(!W every day mori; eager for tho fray. Tho wliole north wan inovtMl by suc:h reprt
. 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. Mffi^^fwpVX lIisroHY. 159 ;ion, were jirnctically of no account, except n« they tcndeil to exaspornto tlio freo state party Htill more, and the connnunii; which woro Hcnt to the eastern and middle states, during the hitter part of IS.'u, disphiy a s[)irit which gr(!W every day mori; eager for tho fray. Tho wliole north wan inovtMl by suc:h reprtwntations, whicli tohl tlicm of perils and insults, hard to bo endured, being inilieted upon men, with whom many thousands wore suflitiiently intimate to be sure that whatever wrongs had been inflicted upon them, had been entirely unprovoked. The lawlessness of tho ! j)<)pulation was, if })ossible, exaggerated in the corres- pondence of the day, and as a natural result, the more daring spirits of the other side gravitated toward the point of dang(;r. There were men in the northern states whoso souls yearned for coiillicl, and with the excitement now offered, they straightway machlcned into a kind of sacred frenzy. Could sueli cities Kansas and Wcstport have looked ahead to the present day, to have seen how much more advantageous were the conditions of gi-owth which wotild be developed by free labor, those centers of population would have used all their powers to prevent tho consummation at which they now aimed with all their might. Although the trade across the plains to Santa Fo had very greatly concentrated itself in Kansiis City, whence it had only to erosa the Kansas river to enter the territory, so slow was the growth of the settlement under the mjis of shivery, that fifteen years after the Santa P^e trade was opened, in the year 1860, when Kansas territory had but just emerged from a series of disgraceful raids of Missourians from Kansas City and elsewh
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