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Showing posts with label Border Ruffians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Border Ruffians. Show all posts
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Henry David Thoreau: A Plea for Captain John Brown,* October 30, 1859

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I TRUST that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of C...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Gerrit Smith, August 16, 1858

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I have often thought that the industrious efforts to persuade the people that I have been untrue to freedom in Kansas, present the most rem...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Dr. Heman Humphrey to Captain John Brown, November 20, 1859

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Pittsfield, Mass ., Nov. 20, 1859. Mr. John Brown. My Poor Wounded And Doomed Kinsman , — I should have written you before now if I h...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

Charles L. Robinson to Amos A. Lawrence, January 1858

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Thank God, the battle is over in Kansas and the victory is won. The Lecompton state government is secured, and now all is in the hands of t...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Captian James Montgomery to George L. Stearns, November 20, 1860

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[ Mound City, Kansas , November 20, 1860.] In the winter of ’59, after the second expulsion of Border-ruffians, a county meeting, duly ...
Monday, April 16, 2018

George L. Stearns to John Brown, November 7, 1857

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Your most welcome letter of the 16th ulto. came to hand on Saturday. I am very glad to learn that after your hard pilgrimage you are in mor...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

George L. Stearns to the National Kansas Committee, May 10, 1857

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Since the close of the last year we have confined our operations to aiding those persons in Kansas who were, or intended to become citizens...
Friday, August 18, 2017

William Penn Clarke

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WILLIAM PENN CLARKE was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 1, 1817. At the age of fourteen he went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and learn...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Speech on Affairs in Kansas, at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge Massachusetts, Wednesday Evening, September 10, 1856

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I regret, with all this company, the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas, whose narrative was to constitute the interest of this meeting. Mr. ...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Amos A. Lawrence to Franklin Pierce, April 17, 1855

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Boston , April 17, 1855. My Dear Sir , — As the subject of the recent election in Kansas Territory will probably be brought to your not...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

George L. Stearns to the National Kansas Committee in New York City, May 10, 1857

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Since the close of the last year we have confined our operations to aiding those persons in Kansas who were, or intended to become citizens...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 12, 1861

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Mr. Forsyth had been good enough to invite me to an excursion down the Bay of Mobile, to the forts built by Uncle Sam and his French engine...