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Much on 'Bleeding Kansas'... Letter from P. T. Barnum...
Much on 'Bleeding Kansas'... Letter from P. T. Barnum...
Item # 700057
May 13, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 13, 1856
* Bleeding Kansas
* Missouri border invasion
* War on slavery
* P.T. Barnum
Pages 4 & 5 contain a wealth of reporting concerning the slavery vs. anti-slavery factions as Kansas worked toward achieving statehood.
Page 4 has a nearly half-column article relating to this, and page 5 has column heads: "IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS" "Gov. Robinson Arrested by Ruffians" "Attempted Assassinations" "Southern Emigrants in Distress" "Effects of Gaming & Drinking". It also has two other letters datelined from Lawrence, Kansas, concerning the troubles there.
Page 4 has a letter signed in type by: P. T. Barnum, which is headed: "The Alleged Letter From Jenny Lind" which Barnum disavows. Lind was the singing sensation of the day, brought over from Europe by Barnum.
Eight pages, very nice condition.
AI notes: Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent clashes in the Kansas Territory during the mid-1850s, especially in 1856, as pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. Triggered by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery, the conflict saw events like the pro-slavery attack on Lawrence, the retaliatory Pottawatomie Massacre led by abolitionist John Brown, and even violence in Congress with the caning of Senator Charles Sumner. The turmoil highlighted the failure of popular sovereignty and intensified national tensions, serving as a precursor to the Civil War.
AI notes: Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent clashes in the Kansas Territory during the mid-1850s, especially in 1856, as pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. Triggered by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery, the conflict saw events like the pro-slavery attack on Lawrence, the retaliatory Pottawatomie Massacre led by abolitionist John Brown, and even violence in Congress with the caning of Senator Charles Sumner. The turmoil highlighted the failure of popular sovereignty and intensified national tensions, serving as a precursor to the Civil War.
Category: 1857-1860
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