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Prairie, Dust, and Wind
2014
Overview
If proslavery leaders worried about controlling Kansas in the early months of 1856, Free-State settlers constantly worried that border raiders might appear any day. Moreover, until their numbers grew, Free-State leaders counseled that they keep a defensive posture and avoid any aggressive contact with U.S. troops that would give President Franklin Pierce’s slavery-friendly national government an excuse to send troops against them. After all, on January 24 the president’s special message to Congress on the Kansas Territory’s troubles had warned that “organized resistance by force” to federal law and general government authority would be considered “treasonable insurrection,” and it would
