In Perils by Mine Own Countrymen. Three Years On the Kansas Border. by A Clergyman of the Episcopal Church.Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1856 - Biography & Autobiography - 244 pages |
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... miles below Lex- ington . We reached the bar , and it was soon discov- ered that the boat would have to be " sparred over . " This process occupied thirteen hours . The reader can well imagine my anxiety to reach Lexington with the ...
... miles below Lex- ington . We reached the bar , and it was soon discov- ered that the boat would have to be " sparred over . " This process occupied thirteen hours . The reader can well imagine my anxiety to reach Lexington with the ...
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... miles distant , and lodged at a little inn on the river bank . The next morning it was raining ; and at seven o'clock the Sam Cloon blew her whistle . I went on board . I found the boat laden with immigrants for Kansas , and others ...
... miles distant , and lodged at a little inn on the river bank . The next morning it was raining ; and at seven o'clock the Sam Cloon blew her whistle . I went on board . I found the boat laden with immigrants for Kansas , and others ...
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... miles from Weston . We must perform this journey by land . The only con- veyance which we could procure was a lumber wagon , and a very frail old buggy . The coffin was fastened on behind the buggy , and one or two ladies and a driver ...
... miles from Weston . We must perform this journey by land . The only con- veyance which we could procure was a lumber wagon , and a very frail old buggy . The coffin was fastened on behind the buggy , and one or two ladies and a driver ...
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... miles distant , and arrived at four A. M. of Sunday morning , the 15th October . I went directly to the hotel , the St. George , where I found my wife , waiting for me most anxiously . I went at once to the sexton to have a grave dug ...
... miles distant , and arrived at four A. M. of Sunday morning , the 15th October . I went directly to the hotel , the St. George , where I found my wife , waiting for me most anxiously . I went at once to the sexton to have a grave dug ...
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... miles interior , on the Big Blue , Kansas : a rude pen - and - ink draft of the future city was displayed by him , and small portions of copper ore exhibited , and declared to abound close by the city - limits . Shares in the town held ...
... miles interior , on the Big Blue , Kansas : a rude pen - and - ink draft of the future city was displayed by him , and small portions of copper ore exhibited , and declared to abound close by the city - limits . Shares in the town held ...
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Page 225 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Page 51 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 234 - Territory, print, publish, write, circulate . . . any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, or circular containing any denial of the right of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years.
Page 234 - SEC. 12. If any free person, by speaking or by writing, assert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this Territory...
Page 239 - ... allowed and decided by the said Supreme Court without regard to the value of the matter, property, or title in controversy; and except also that a writ of error or appeal shall also be allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States from the decision of the said Supreme Court created by this act, or of any judge thereof, or of the district courts created by this act, or of any judge thereof, upon any writ of habeas corpus involving the question of personal freedom...
Page 234 - If any person print, write, introduce into, publish, or circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published, or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, printing, publishing, or circulating within this Territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, magazine, handbill, or circular, containing any statements, arguments, opinions, sentiment, doctrine, advice, or...
Page 233 - ... custody of any officer or other person, or shall entice, persuade, aid or assist such slave to escape from the custody of any officer or other person who may have such slave in custody, whether such slave have escaped from the service of his master or owner in this Territory or in any other State or Territory, the person so offending shall be guilty of felony and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years.
Page 52 - And every body praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.' ' But what good came of it at last ? ' Quoth little Peterkin : — ' Why that I cannot tell,' said he,
Page 102 - And I am sure that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Page 233 - If any person shall entice, decoy, or carry away out of any State or other Territory of the United States, any slave belonging to another, with i'ntent to procure or effect the freedom of such slave, or to deprive the owner thereof of the services of such slave, and shall bring...