. The soldier of Indiana in the war for the union . UPSHUR if t 4M^^iA- jA r^ y r ; rc^^o tK^ r^^ pKUl- evP-- ,.--i^ ,^>^ of^ J-\, ,.•■•■■ I /*^>V ief\ i/# ^^^Iji^/^^, THEGV^ fr\ />- 0^ THREE MONTHCAMPA1G^4 IN WEST VA. INTRODUCTION. 7 tions as a State. This party carried the election of 1856Indiana voting with it. Emigrants poured into Kansas from the North, determinedthat it should be a free State; from the South, determinedthat it should be a slave State. Civil war, with horrors andoutrages unparelleled, resulted. Prominent in this strife on theanti-slavery side was an old
. The soldier of Indiana in the war for the union . UPSHUR if t 4M^^iA- jA r^ y r ; rc^^o tK^ r^^ pKUl- evP-- ,.--i^ ,^>^ of^ J-\, ,.•■•■■ I /*^>V ief\ i/# ^^^Iji^/^^, THEGV^ fr\ />- 0^ THREE MONTHCAMPA1G^4 IN WEST VA. INTRODUCTION. 7 tions as a State. This party carried the election of 1856Indiana voting with it. Emigrants poured into Kansas from the North, determinedthat it should be a free State; from the South, determinedthat it should be a slave State. Civil war, with horrors andoutrages unparelleled, resulted. Prominent in this strife on theanti-slavery side was an old man, who, two years later, wasto shake the nation from centre to circumference. This man,hating slavery as a personal enemy which had murdered hissons, as well as an enemy to human rights, conceived it hismission to destroy the monster. With an adaptation ofmeans to the end proposed, worthy of insanity, he tooktwenty-two men, five of them of the oppressed race, organ-ized in Canada a provisional government of the UnitedStates, with himself as Commander-in-chief, and penetratedto the mountains of Virginia, whither he had arms secretlyshipped to furnish those who should join him. Sunday night, October 16, 1859, he seized
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