MEMORIAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT AID COMPANY, PRAYING INDEMNIFICATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, AT LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 21, 1856
1863 · 37th Cong., 3rd Sess.
by Kansas
37th Cong., 3rd Sess.: SMD29., 1863. 28pp, disbound. Very Good. Northern Emigrant Aid Companies organized settlers' migration to Kansas, in the competition over its slave status. This document records the "sack of Lawrence," the Free-State capitol, and the destruction of the Free State Hotel and printing presses by pro-slavery men. (Inventory #: 16754)