. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . THE PRESS OF KANSAS. BY HON. J. K. HUDJiON. One of tlje potent forces that have made the young State of Kansas strong is the vigilant, loyal andintelligent periodical literature of the State. From the stormy and trying Territorial days of the Stateshistory, wheu the fearless pioneer spirits had thrown down the first gauge of real batt
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . THE PRESS OF KANSAS. BY HON. J. K. HUDJiON. One of tlje potent forces that have made the young State of Kansas strong is the vigilant, loyal andintelligent periodical literature of the State. From the stormy and trying Territorial days of the Stateshistory, wheu the fearless pioneer spirits had thrown down the first gauge of real battle to the defendersof slavery, when the contest was beguu here in this Territory between the advocates of human freedomand the pro-slavery forces of the South that ended at Appomattox, the first Kansas newspaper appearedat Leavenworth. It was on the of September, 1854, that the Herald was issued to advocate theclaims of those who wanted to make Kansas a slave State. Pierce was President and Jefferson Daviswas Secretary of War, and all the Federal machinery of the Government was in the hands of the Demo-cratic party, then controlled by the South. A month later the Kansas Tribune made its appearance,and about the same time the Herald of Freedotn and the Kansas Free State were issued at Lawrence
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