. 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. Sits 's JlisToiiv or every man in congress to work with a will against tlic party ot the south, anil oi Missouri more espceially : " Where t!ie emit of demoeiaey dwelt on the lips Of the ;; of feUeis ami lliu of ; The liglit of battle was now on the faces of men; disgnisea were ; Douglas was (;n the sid
. 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. Sits 's JlisToiiv or every man in congress to work with a will against tlic party ot the south, anil oi Missouri more espceially : " Where t!ie emit of demoeiaey dwelt on the lips Of the ;; of feUeis ami lliu of ; The liglit of battle was now on the faces of men; disgnisea were ; Douglas was (;n the side of wrong, as he had Lcen all his life, doing the work ot a giant, and earning the defeat of which he died, when the men whom he had served with hardly a scruple deserted him in the crisis of his fate; Sumner was soon to be answered by the deadly assault made him by Preston S. Brooks, in the very halls of legislation; AVilson was to bo challenged to meet death, because he denounced the outrage ; but eve°y movement was tending toward the end, and the lobby- ists from Kansas were very valuable adjuncts. The governors of free states were appealed to by the executive committee, and only from Indiana was there one word of rebuke for the very natural action so initiated; from the other executive officers of free states came words of encouragement an,l hearty assurancesof constitutional support. Governor Wright of Indiana, like the priest and the Levite, passed by on the other side, havmg no sym- pathy to bestow upon the men who had fallen among thieves, ex- cept'the hollow suggestion, "that if the people of the territory were aggrieved, it was the duty of the president of the Lnited States to redress ; Assuredly, that was the presidents duty, but would he dare to attempt its discharge ? The commit- tee had not allowed him to remain unasked, for, on the 21st of January, the facts of the intended invasion were clearly stated in a dispatch to that official, and a &
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