Nicole Etcheson, "Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era"
Posted on 11/21/2015 11:35:55 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Before when free-soil men invoked the right of revolution in defense of their political rights, proslavery men condemned them for defying the legitimate government. But proslavery men feared the loss of their right to own slaves as much as free soilers feared the loss of the right to exclude slavery.
At Hickory Point, [Kansas] a squabble over land claims ignited these political quarrels. A settler named Franklin M. Coleman had been squatting on land abandoned by some Hoosiers, who subsequently sold the claim to Jacob Branson, another Hoosier. In late 1854, when Branson informed Coleman of his legal claim and attempted to move into Coleman’s house, Coleman held him off with a gun. A group of arbitrators later awarded part of the claim to Branson, but the boundaries between his land and Coleman’s were not determined. Branson invited in other men, including a young Ohioan named Charles W. Dow. Branson belonged to the free-state militia, a connection he used to intimidate Coleman, although Branson later testified that there had been no problems between Dow and Coleman – until the day of Dow’s murder.
On the morning of November 21, 1855, Dow went to the blacksmith shop at Hickory Point to have a wagon skein and lynchpin mended. While there he argued with one of Coleman’s friends, but left unharmed. As he walked away, he passed Coleman on the road. Coleman snapped a cap at him. When Dow turned around, he received a charge of buckshot in the chest and died immediately. His body lay in the road until Branson recovered it four hours later. Coleman claimed that Dow had threateningly raised the wagon skein (a two-foot piece of iron) as they argued over their claim dispute, forcing him to act in self-defense. Fearing that he could not get fair treatment at the free-state settlement of Hickory Point, Coleman and his family fled to Missouri.
Nicole Etcheson, “Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Eraâ€
If the employee died or left before the end of his indenture, the master got both his own 50-acre premium and the acreage that would have gone to the employee.
Nicole Etcheson, "Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era"
This is posted with the WWII ping list to alert you that if you want to be on the new Civil War ping list let me know. I will repeat this once more and then retire the WWII list.
add me in please!
I have that Lincoln book sitting on my bookshelf. I think I'll get around to reading it as your new series gets underway.
I liked the map of what the U.S. looked like in the 1850s. On a lighter note, I have a modern name for the Mason/Dixon line. I now call it that IHOP/Waffle House line because it seems that as soon as I cross the PA border and into Maryland and the Virginias, the roadside IHOPs disappear to be replaced by Waffle Houses.
By the way, I'm a big fan of the Waffle House chain and having breakfast in one is something I always look forward to when I travel to the South.
Yeah, WWII got to be practically a full time job. No more of that, for now anyway. I hope to inject variety into the series but so far only "Bleeding Kansas" has provided excerpts for specific dates in 1855. There are a few for next year from some other books but not many. I expect that to change as I get deeper into it. In the meantime, I got a recommendation for www.newspapers.com that could provide material for us. It is said to cost $10 a month and has 40 papers for this date. I don't want to get into that myself, but if anyone else is inspired to post 160-year-old newspaper articles the new ping list is on my profile. I believe that would be an appropriate use of the list.
Add me please....... very grateful regarding your efforts to educate and share !
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Very nice. Thank you. Assuming the facts as laid out in Bleeding Kansas are correct, it seems like the reporters got some of the facts mixed up. Hard to imagine that happening today. *cough*
Please add me if I’m not already on it. I look forward to this series of threads.
As best I can tell, Pennsylvania has more Waffle Houses than IHOPs, and Maryland-Virginia has more of both than Pennsylvania. FWIW.
testing, testing, one, two...
Well, look at this!
From December 4, 1855, a Montgomery Alabama news report on the events in Kansas.
Please note that this is a very serious matter to those people, they leave no doubts as to the issues, and their side in it:
It would seem your 1855 copy machine was of higher quality than mine.
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We'll see... might just be that particular newspaper article was preserved a bit better, so as they say: past performance is no guarantee of future results... :-)
Nicole Etcheson, "Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era"
A steady diet of such contributions alleviates my fear that this series lacks variety.
Colonel Albert Gallatin Boone (1806 - 1884)
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Albert Gallatin Boone was appointed by President Buchanan in 1860 to draft a treaty with the Cheyenne and the Arapahoe Indians for the cession of Colorado to the United States. This he succeeded in accomplishing, and was appointed agent over those Indians, but was subsequently removed by President Lincoln on political grounds.
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