. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . PREEMPTION HOUSE BUILT Br w. R. LYKIN8, LAWRENCE, FROM PHOTOGRAPH IN POSSESSION OF THE KANSAS HISTORICAL MARCH, 1»55, THIS HOUSE WAS THE POLLING-PLACE AT THE ELECTION OF THE FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE, WHEN A THOUSAND ARMED MISSOURIANS VOTED. &J2 ABRAHAM FERRYING MISSOCRI VOTERS TO THE KANSAS SHORE. essary,or explained away upon newly-inventedphrases and absurd subtleties. Where theres awill, theres a way, in wrong and crime, as wellas in honest purpose and deed; and by moredishonest devices than history can st
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . PREEMPTION HOUSE BUILT Br w. R. LYKIN8, LAWRENCE, FROM PHOTOGRAPH IN POSSESSION OF THE KANSAS HISTORICAL MARCH, 1»55, THIS HOUSE WAS THE POLLING-PLACE AT THE ELECTION OF THE FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE, WHEN A THOUSAND ARMED MISSOURIANS VOTED. &J2 ABRAHAM FERRYING MISSOCRI VOTERS TO THE KANSAS SHORE. essary,or explained away upon newly-inventedphrases and absurd subtleties. Where theres awill, theres a way, in wrong and crime, as wellas in honest purpose and deed; and by moredishonest devices than history can stop fullyto record the ballot-boxes were filled, throughinvasion, false swearing, riot, and usurpation,with ballots for Whitfield, the pro-slaverycandidate for delegate to Congress, at nineout of the seventeen polling places — show-ing, upon a careful scrutiny afterward madeby a committee of Congress, an aggregate of1729 illegal votes, and only 1114 legal mockery of an election completed, thevaliant Knights of the Blue Lodge, the fra-ternal members of the Social Band, the phil-thropic groups of the Friends Society, andhivalric Son-, of the South mountedand wagons, and with cheers, andfrom revolver and rifle, returned totheir axe and plow, society lodge and bar-launt, to exult in a victory for over the
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