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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. : Height: 22.9 cm, Width: 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.

Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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