Greeley & McElrath (1841-1866) The border ruffian code in Kansas
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08471 Author/Creator: Greeley & McElrath (1841-1866) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 1865 Pagination: 1 v. : 15 p. ; 22.9 x 15 cm. Order a Copy
A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at the hands of invading ruffians from Missouri, using the persuasive arguments of the Bowie-Knife and Revolver- may be judged from the following extracts..." Many pages are disbound. Last page, on verso of fifteen, consists of a map of free and slave states.
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