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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 3772 - 3777
UNITED STATES TERRITORIES & POSSESSIONS - (Cont'd)
3772 - july 12; ed:2/2 - There is a cloud rolling up the northwest of our
political heavens. Pierce and Douglas see it and they talk now of the
Kansas pacification bill and proclaim it as a great pacification measure
for the peace of Kansas. If they are for peace in Kansas, why not support
the biJl in Congress to admit Kansas into the Union. But it is, as yet,
a free state and they are trying to deceive the public after the vote on
their bill, for with all the southern ruffians that have come in they expect
to make a slave state of Kansas.
Nothing but villainy is wrapped up in the new bill and the people of
the North will be deceived into no treacherous peace by its pretensions of
pacification. (14)
3773 - L july 22:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, "Quidan" says: The last
struggle in Kansas hasn't come yet. but when it does, men from all parts
will be ready to do battle for the right. Harvard, Yale, and other
eastern colleges pledge their support. (16)
3774 - L july 30: 1/4 - The meeting at the old court house last night, to
bear Mr. St. Clair of Kansas, was large and respectable in numbers. St.
Clair gave a vivid account of Democratic border ruffians, of their infamous
treatment of free state men, of murders, arsons, rapine, and robbery
commi tted by Gov. Shannon's crew. (2)
3775 - L July 30; ed:2/2 - The Democratic party was taken in by Douglas,
Cass, and Buchanan with the Nebraska bill, just as the Brahmin priest,
who was to offer a ewe lamb for sacrifice. He was met by three scoundrels
and convinced that a cur dog was a lamb. The three stationed themselves
along the road at intervals and when the priest came along the first offered
the dog. While the priest was arguing with him the other came along
and between the three they made him believe his eyesight poor and the dog
a lamb.
"So it is with the Nebraska Bill. A man could call a dog a lamb with
more truth than Douglas calls his iniqui tous scheme a bi 11 of rights.
"How true it. is that honest men believe the lies of knaves because they
are themselves incapable of falsehood." (11)
3776 - L Aug. 1:2/1 - A Kansas Immigration society has been organized.
Men and money are wanted; men of the right sort, who wish to make Kansas
their home, and money to aid them. Persons wishing to subscribe to the
fund, see Treasurer W. H. Stanley. Persons wishing to emigrate, inform
Secretary Dr. T. Sterling, or Charles Hickox, president. (3)
3777 - L Aug. 15; ed:2/3 - We learn from southern Nebraska that border
ruffians, 1,000 strong from Missouri, fully armed and prepared for war,
3ave invaded the territory to stop the free state settlers on their way to
Kansas. The free state men are everywhere being driven from their dwellings
and compelled to leave. (4)
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