. 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. ^ ri'vTTLhfs lilSTOUY OF KANSAS. send hundreds of teeming population more easily than the Bouth could send its tens. The advantages were won by Missouri, because she was ready to begin inmiediately; the act was passed, whereas the free state men were obliged to travel im- mense distances, only to reach the debatable land, but in the end triumphed, alt
. 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. ^ ri'vTTLhfs lilSTOUY OF KANSAS. send hundreds of teeming population more easily than the Bouth could send its tens. The advantages were won by Missouri, because she was ready to begin inmiediately; the act was passed, whereas the free state men were obliged to travel im- mense distances, only to reach the debatable land, but in the end triumphed, although the battle had cos; hundreds of human lives and at the very least $2,000,000 before Abraham Lincoln s election ended that contest to commence another on the same issue extended and largely improved. Leavenworth was a fort before the days of settlement, and around that point the Missouri men established one of their earli- est towns, with a mixture of the free state element in smal pro- portions. was a proslavery scttlemeni almost entirely, and at one time it was dangerou.^ for a free state sett er, or ti-av- el-r to express hi« views slavery within the linnts ot the'village, but it has entirely outgrown that unhappy condition, and is now largely indebted to the once objectionable element for the con<lition of prosperity to which it has attained, as one of the chief commercial towns in the state. Lawrence and iopeka owed their existence from the beginning to free state enterprise, the first being the great center of the struggling settlei-s when the mobs came over from Missouri and the armed bands from the ^ar south to overawe the opposition which could not be argued down Topeka was the seat of the first attempt at a state government, and it is now the capital of the state which its courage greatly helped to form. When the first legislature, after its removal to Shawnee, made infamous laws against the liberty of the press, a-^ainst free speech, and
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