Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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soldhim at a mock auction. They put Rev. Mr. Butler on a raft and sethim adrift on the Missouri River. The Legislature elected by the Mis-sourians voted that the laws of their State should be the laws of Kansas.An act was passed prohibiting the printing of anything against slavery.Any one found with a book or newspaper containing an article againstslavery was to be imprisoned not less than two years, and wear a chainand ball attached to his ankle. The Governor, Wilson Shannon, ap-)>ointed by President Pierce, was using his power to make it a SlaveState. He ordered the militia to aid the marshal in driving out the FreeState settlers. Rifles and revolvers were purchased for those who fa-vored freedom. The Missourians kept a sharp watch on the steam-boats going up the Missouri, and they were sent by team throughIowa. A pro-slavery grand-jury indicted two newspapers for print-ing articles against slavery. A deputy marshal of the United States, CONFLICT BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY. 14:)
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JOHN G. WlUTTIEi; with 800 men and four cannon, eiiu-ied Lawrence, destroyed the print-incr-presses, set Mr. Elch-idges hotel on fire, and piUaged the houses ofthe citizens. Some of the Free State men, burning for revenge, killedlive of tlie ruffians. The ^Lissourians, under Captain Pate, seized a son 144 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. of John Brown, marched him rapidly across the prairie in a burningsun, and treated him with such inhumanity that he became insane.Brown, with twenty-seven men, came upon the Missourians, took twenty-two of them prisoners, and captured their horses and supphes. Anothercompany of ruffians hacked another of Browns sons to pieces with theirknives, threw his mangled body across a horse, took it to his own door,and tumbled it to the ground at the feet of his young wife. Civil war had begun. Men were shot by lurking assassins; houseswere deserted; the smoke of burning dwellings darkened the sky;women and children w^ere fleeing from their homes to escape fromthe inhu

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