Life of Gen. James H. Lane, "the Liberator Fo Kansas": With Corroborative Incidents of Pioneer History

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J. Speer, printer, 1897 - 352 sidor
 

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Sida 87 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Sida 78 - Larry's behavior was the most disgraceful, for he stood not upon the order of his going, but went at once...
Sida 125 - This worthy gentleman, who is certainly "as mild a mannered man As ever scuttled ship or cut a throat," swears positively that he did not know either of the defendants; that he belonged to neither party in the affray, and that he fought, to use his own descriptive and unrivalled phraseology, entirely "upon his own hook.
Sida 50 - hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may," is leading to a better understanding and a more favorable consideration of Indian character.
Sida 158 - It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States. Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina.
Sida 17 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited...
Sida 20 - 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...
Sida 261 - Lincoln ; and a thousand years hence, no drama, no tragedy, no epic poem will be filled with greater wonder, or be followed by mankind with deeper feeling than that which tells the story of his life and death.
Sida 69 - Accept my grateful thanks for the honor you have conferred upon me in electing me to preside over your deliberations.
Sida 173 - Section 1. All elections shall be by ballot, and every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, who shall have resided in the State one year next preceding the election, and six months in...

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