Saturday, August 1, 2015

George L. Stearns to Harvey B. Hurd, September 30, 1856

State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms,
Boston, Sept. 30, 1856.

Dear Sir, — At a meeting of this committee it was voted. That the arms purchased by Dr. Cabot, in accordance with a vote of the committee, passed September 10, be forwarded to the Kansas Central Committee at Lawrence, with instructions that they be loaned to actual settlers for defence against unlawful aggressions upon their rights and liberties.

GeorGe L. Stearns, Chairman.
H. B. Hurd, Esq., Chicago.


SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 368-9

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