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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 16: Fremont.—1856. (search)
to Kansas by the Missouri River Lib. 26.107, 110, 129, [135], [147], 171. route was practically closed, and even the Iowa and Nebraska frontiers were watched and picketed. The first free-State reprisals were made by John Brown in what Sanborn's John Brown, chap. IX. his latest biographer calls the Pottawatomie executions —midnight extirpation with the sword, in true Southern May 25, 1856. fashion, of a nest of harborers of Border Ruffianism; and the capture of a raiding company at Black Jack Creek, June 2, 1856. Sanborn's John Brown, p. 241. the first regular battle fought between free-State and pro-slavery men in Kansas. Wanton bloodshed in that Territory, and not antislavery principle, wrought the North to the pitch of resistance symbolized by the vote for Fremont. It carried the clergy off their feet, and opened their churches to meetings for the donation of Sharp's rifles for Kansas—Henry Ward Lib. 26.51. Beecher and Theodore Parker being conspicuous in the Lib. 26.51