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In Perils by My Own Countrymen: Three Years on the Kansas Border

In Perils by My Own Countrymen: Three Years on the Kansas Border

John McNamara
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The writer of the following pages was a Missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in that section of the State of Missouri called the Platte Purchase, during the years 1851-2. This field of labor gave him every opportunity to learn the character and sentiments of those who have made themselves prominent in the late exciting drama in Kansas.

While he resided in North-Western Missouri, there was but one hope expressed with reference to the "coming in," as it was termed, of the Territory which lay on the other side of the river—it was to come in as Free Territory.

In the year 1853, he was invited to a charge in the city of Chicago, and accepted it. It was during his residence in this city that the Kansas Bill was introduced into Congress, designed to break down a barrier to slavery extension, which the Borderers never dreamed of. He was conscious of this fact, and was constrained publicly, at the time, to petition, with others, against the measure. He was not alone in the Church, as was supposed, in so doing. The late lamented Bishop of ew York, with several of his most influential clergymen, petitioned, with many others of our Church, against the bill.

The hopes held out by the Kansas Bill made the people on the border wild. The names of many with whom he was familiar, he saw mingled with those prominent at public meetings of an exciting and daring character. He became much interested in the fate of the Territory. He sought to go there, but not as a partisan. He was recommended by the Bishop of the North-West to the Committee of the Domestic Board of Missions for an appointment to Kansas Territory as a Missionary of the Church. The appointment was made and accepted in the summer of 1854.

Several motives impel him to give to the public a relation of personal adventure and experience during his residence on the border, a period, on the whole, of about three years.

This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.
Language
English
Pages
155
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
September 14, 2014

In Perils by My Own Countrymen: Three Years on the Kansas Border

John McNamara
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From inside the book:
The writer of the following pages was a Missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in that section of the State of Missouri called the Platte Purchase, during the years 1851-2. This field of labor gave him every opportunity to learn the character and sentiments of those who have made themselves prominent in the late exciting drama in Kansas.

While he resided in North-Western Missouri, there was but one hope expressed with reference to the "coming in," as it was termed, of the Territory which lay on the other side of the river—it was to come in as Free Territory.

In the year 1853, he was invited to a charge in the city of Chicago, and accepted it. It was during his residence in this city that the Kansas Bill was introduced into Congress, designed to break down a barrier to slavery extension, which the Borderers never dreamed of. He was conscious of this fact, and was constrained publicly, at the time, to petition, with others, against the measure. He was not alone in the Church, as was supposed, in so doing. The late lamented Bishop of ew York, with several of his most influential clergymen, petitioned, with many others of our Church, against the bill.

The hopes held out by the Kansas Bill made the people on the border wild. The names of many with whom he was familiar, he saw mingled with those prominent at public meetings of an exciting and daring character. He became much interested in the fate of the Territory. He sought to go there, but not as a partisan. He was recommended by the Bishop of the North-West to the Committee of the Domestic Board of Missions for an appointment to Kansas Territory as a Missionary of the Church. The appointment was made and accepted in the summer of 1854.

Several motives impel him to give to the public a relation of personal adventure and experience during his residence on the border, a period, on the whole, of about three years.

This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.
Language
English
Pages
155
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
September 14, 2014

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