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Showing posts with label Missourians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missourians. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, September 24, 1856

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Topeka , September 24, 1856 People joke here as readily as anywhere, though all pronounce it the darkest time Kansas has ever seen. . ....
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 31, 1856

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August 31 Some good news and some bad — the good being that our private advices state that things really are much better than is repres...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Journal of Amos A. Lawrence, November 25, 1859

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Looked over the report of the committee of Congress which went to Kansas in 1856 to investigate the troubles there. I did this in order to ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

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...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Amos A. Lawrence to David R. Atchison, March 31, 1855

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(cottage Farm Near) Boston , March 31, 1855. My Dear Sir , — I take the liberty to address you upon a subject in which I have a common ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Amos A. Lawrence to David R. Atchison, March 31, 1855

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( Cottage Farm Near) Boston , March 31, 1855. My Dear Sir , — I take the liberty to address you upon a subject in which I have a common...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Saturday, May 9, 1863

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Started again by stage for Munroe at 4.30 A.M. My companions were, the Mississippi planter, a mad dentist from New Orleans (called, by cour...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

John Brown: “The Lawrence Foray,” January 1857

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THE LAWRENCE FORAY. I well know, that, on or about the 14th of September last, a large force of Missourians and other ruffians, numberi...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Owen Brown Jr. to Mary Ann Day Brown, August 27, 1856

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Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa , Aug. 27, 1856. Dear Mother , — The last news we had from Kansas, father was at Lawrence, and had charge o...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

John Brown to Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, February 20, 1856

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Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, 20th February, 1856. Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I write to say that a...