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E. B. Whitman (letter not signed, but author's identity is pretty clear), an agent in Lawrence for the National Kansas Committee, wrote Franklin Sanborn in Massachusetts regarding his disappointment with the lack of support being given by "our professed friends" in the East. To their discredit, according to Whitman, Massachusetts "supporters" had refused to provide assistance which was desperately needed for the Kansas settlers who had just endured a very "severe winter." He believed false information was being circulated for political purposes by individuals within the Free State movement: "Kansas, bleeding Kansas, is of value to them only so far as it subserves their selfish ends."
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Date: May 10, 1857
Item Number: 4517
Call Number: John Brown Coll. #299 Box 1 Folder 23
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4517
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, John
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Charitable - Relief - Kansas National Committee
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States Supreme Court
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans - Slavery
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Places - Other States - Vermont
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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