Posted on 05/01/2016 7:27:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Homer, please cancel those Havana tickets, I was just in Cuba (Missouri), had a nice break, a short rest, and then back to work.
No need to go further...
;-)
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Fascinating.
Wow......
Say what?
False reports?
Propaganda war?
In politics, even in 1856?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that politics was going on here, between Democrats & Republicans.
;-)
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
A Fearful Adventure 1
To the People of Massachusetts 2
The Week [Assault on Sen. Sumner] 2
Chicopee News 2
Link to Chicopee Weekly Journal
Either the Chicopee Weekly Journal didnt publish on May 31, 1856 or the Chicopee Public Library didnt get a copy of it for their archives. Either way, this does it for May.
Ballots are better than bullets. John Brown is a study in what happens when men despair of obtaining justice via an ordered, peaceful political system.
One could say that the War commenced with the attack on Mr. Sumner, not with the attack on Fort Sumter.
After Kansas admission, the state mental hospital was placed there. I doubt that was because Pottawatomie Brown once lived there; the Free Staters didn't think he was crazy. Probably more because it was an early Free State settlement.
. Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
But one should not, unless one is using the word "war" in a metaphorical sense, as in "war on women", or "war on poverty", "war on belly-fat", etc.
Insurrection, rebellion, domestic violence, lawlessness, vigilantism, etc... sure.
But strictly, war is an action between sovereign states, and is often officially declared as such.
Imho, that's the reason why the Confederacy on May 6, 1861 formally declared war on the United States, or in their own language, "recognized" that war existed.
Formally declaring war is the act of an independent state, intended to distinguish itself from accusations of being mere "rebellion" or "insurrection".
Rebels don't declare war, and neither do states formally declare war on rebellions.
But states do declare war on each other, hence the Confederacy's action of May 6, 1861.
The United States officially treated it all as rebellion, and never formally declared war.
Well, be that as it may, I’m betting the Senator felt that war had been declared and enacted upon him.
And this particular outrage certainly had a significant effect on later events.
Today we might use the term “hate crime” to describe that caning.
But we would be reluctant to use the word “war” just as we don’t always use the phrase “war on terror.”
Our Democrat administration prefers to call it “kinetic overseas contingency operations.”
But more to the point, that good senator was far from the first to receive a slave - holder’s caning.
It was never considered an act of “war”, just the normal discipline of masters for their “property”.
Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume II
Since our nation's governmental elites have made things of more than sixty million innocent, helpless, defenseless little boys and girls in their mothers' wombs, how long until they make things of all of us?
I've been trying to nail down my family history in KS to see if any of my forebears were involved in this part of our history. My great-great grandfather was born in Stark Co. OH in 1818 and died in La Cygne KS in 1886. That is close to the MO state line. His son, my great grandfather, was born in Davis IN in 1852 and died in Adrian MO in 1928. That is just a short distance from La Cygne KS. With those dates and the fact that La Cygne was not founded until the railroad was established there in 1869 I suspect that the Simpsons, er, Deardorffs didn't arrive in the area until after the Civil War.
My family were real latecomers, my Mom and Dad moving to Kansas from Indiana. Things had long since calmed down with Missouri. I remember watching Diamonds Are Forever in KCMO and when Blofeld told Bond he could demonstrate his weapon but it was over Kansas and no one would notice the Missouri folks thought that was pretty funny. A long way from 1856 when Kansas dominated national headlines.
Someone in Topeka told me a few years ago that more Kansas pioneers came from Indiana than any other state. I always found that very interesting.
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