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On 'Bleeding Kansas'... Deseret to be a Mormon state? On the beating of Charles Sumner...
On 'Bleeding Kansas'... Deseret to be a Mormon state? On the beating of Charles Sumner...
Item # 700063
May 29, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 29, 1856 Inside has reports relating to the slavery vs. anti-slavery factions as Kansas worked toward achieving statehood.
Page 4 has a report concerning the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, as part of the "Bleeding Kansas" tragedy. Page 6 has considerably more with column heads: "Important From Kansas" "Lawrence Defenseless" "Incidents of Warfare" "Errors of War--Murders--Highway Robberies" "Particulars of the Attack on Lawrence" "Threatened Destruction of Topeka" and more.
Page 5 has a report: "From Kansas" concerning the same". Also a brief report: "Interesting From Utah--Movements For the Formation of the State of Deseret", which would later become Utah. But the Mormons wanted their own state under their own terms which included polygamy. Utah would not join the Union until 1896 due to the polygamy issue.
Page 4 has a report headed: "The Sumner Report--His Condition". This relates to the beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate the week prior by Preston Brooks. It took Sumner 3 years to recover from his injuries.
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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