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- Scopes of others might be named but
- time and space will not allow further detail.
- Suffice is to say, that but for the efforts,
- so patriotic & unselfish, of the clergymen
- of the few states the work of saving
- Kansas would have been much harder
- & perhaps a failure- even as it was
- It was very difficult in the beginning
- of the movement in 1854 to convince
- any body that there was any chance
- whatever of making a free state adjoining
- & beyond the slave state of missouri.
- It is proof of this that I was more
- than three months raising our first
- Colony of twenty four men who founded
- Lawrence. After this feeble beginning
- the work prospered, & the West, seeing
- faith & hope shown by the East, began
- to send in her tribute of patriotic men.
- Then most of all we were helped by
- the outrages of border ruffians. They in-
- vaded Kansas & elected the officers & gov in
- the territory. They sacked Lawrence.
- They destroyed lives & property. All this
- made our final triumph absolutely
- sure. We of the North are a long suffering
- people when the suffering comes by law
- we stand a Dred Scott Decision on a
- Fugitive Slave Bill. But we are a very
