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Very lengthy speeches on 'Bleeding Kansas' supporting Kansas as a free state...
Very lengthy speeches on 'Bleeding Kansas' supporting Kansas as a free state...
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April 30, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, April 30, 1856 Pages 5 and 6 reports on 'Bleeding Kansas' with extremely lengthy accounts of speeches headed: "The People In Council" "Union For Justice and Freedom" "Great Meeting in the Tabernacle for Free Kansas and Slavery Limitation" "Addresses of Messrs. B. F. Butler, Abijah Mann, Wm. M. Evarts, Hon. J.A. Bingham, W. Curtis Noyes, etc."
Their speeches are included in full taking all of page 5 and most of page 6.
Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 56 people were killed between 1855 and 1859.
Eight pages, very nice condition.
Category: 1857-1860
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