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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 3702 - 3706
UNITED STATES TERRITORIES & POSSESSIONS (Cont'd)
party will be gentlemen or ladies, neither give nor take insult ...
'ask nothing but what is clearly right, and submit to nothing that's
clearly wrong.' With this motto, with my knowledge of Missourians, I
have no hesitancy in promising all who join us a pleasant as well as
qui et trip." (13)
3702 - L Apr. 8:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, F. C. says: I am
a young unmarried man desir0us of doing something for the good of the
country and anxious to go to Kansas. If I had the means I would organize
a small group for this trip. I believe a Kansas aid society should be
built up in Cuyahoga county to aid young men without means to get to
Kansas. I believe a number of young men would go. (10)
3703 - L Apr. 11, ed:2/1 - William Taft and two men from the west will
leave on Apr. 15 for Kansas, paying their own expenses. They would
like to have others join them as every addition lessens the expense of
each. There are men enough in Cleveland who are willing and ready to
go but have not the means and there are men enough in Cleveland who have
the means and are wi 11; ng to furni sh them.
All we want is a committee to attend to the matter. (4)
3704 - L Apr. 14:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, "Hervey" of Lawrence
Kas., says: The free soi 1 element in Kansas is .largely predominant, and
it will require a powerful combination to crush out its honest will.
The pro-slavery influence is strong and organized, and feels the nourishing
indifference of the President's party. A great many powerful interests
call upon the people of the nation to make it free. (6)
3705 - L Apr. 21; ed:2/1 - While other northern cities are forming societies
to furnish food and means of transportation for emigrants who intend to
go to Kansas, Cleveland has done nothing. The South is not wasting time
in this manner, but is forming societies to send men to Kansas for the
specific purpose of making it a slave state. The Massachusetts society
on the other hand, permits the men to enjoy their own political sentiments.
"Will Mr. Douglas be kind Enough to inform the people of the northern
states, whether in his opinion the object of this Missouri Society is to
violate the spirit of the Nebraska Bill." (4)
3706 - L Apr. 25; ed: 2/2 - It has recently been suggested that opinions
of Thomas Jefferson on a great political question may be entitled to
almost as much considerat ion as those of Douglas, who is bi tter toward
the rebels of Kansas and says they must be subdued. The New York
TRIBUNE has in its possession a letter from Jefferson in which he admits
the rebels were wrong but that they suffered from ignorance and not from
wickedness and asks what country can perserve its liberties if its rulers
are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of
resistance.