PLATTE CITY, [Mo.], March 4, 1855.
DEAR HUNTER: The Elections in Kansas came off on the 30th
ult, the pro slavery ticket prevailed every where as far as heard from, by
overwhelming majorities; we stormed Lawrence or New Boston as it is called; The
Abolitionists did "hang their guilty heads," now let the Southern men
come on with their slaves 10,000 families can take possession, of and hold
every acre of timber in the territory of Kansas, and this secures the prairie.
Missouri will furnish 5000 of the 10,000; and the whole State will guarantee
protection. We had at least 7,000 men in the territory on the day of the
election and one third of them will remain there. We are playing for a mightly
stake, if we win we carry slavery to the Pacific Ocean if we fail we lose
Missouri Arkansas and Texas and all the territories, the game must be played
boldly. I know that the Union as it Exists is in the other scale, but I am
willing to take the holyland. You never saw a people better up to the mark than
ours. It was hard to get up but now the only difficulty is to keep within
bounds. When the returns are all in I will send them to you. You will no doubt
see your humble servant held up by the Abolition press as a Bandit, a ruffian,
an Aaron Burr, dont believe a word of it. I have saved hundreds of their necks,
and kept their cabins from being burnt to the ground; there was not the least
disturbance where I was present, and that was on the Nemaha, elsewhere in a few
instances the hickory was used upon the most impudent of them.
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* A Senator in Congress from Missouri, 1843-1855.
SOURCE: Charles Henry Ambler, Editor, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1916, in Two Volumes, Vol. II, Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter (1826-1876), p. 160-1
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