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This letter from Samuel C. Pomeroy to Thaddeus Hyatt was written from the Planters House hotel in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, on March 6, 1858 (not 1859, as marked), and deals with a variety of subjects, financial and political. Pomeroy began with comments on banking, property, and railroad promotion, and ends with observations about Kansas politics and the Lecompton Constitution, which he believed was finished. "Kansas is as sure to freedom as Plymouth Rock." Even if the proslave constitution passed Congress, all it would do is re-ignite the forces of freedom: "Kansas is safe to the free state party. So don't spend any more time, strength or money about it. The victory is won! . . .The millennium for the free labor interests of the Country will begin in 1860!"
Creator: Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
Date: March 6, 1858
Item Number: 90475
Call Number: Samuel Pomeroy Coll. #476
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90475
Business and Industry - Banking
Business and Industry - Railroad
Collections - Manuscript - Pomeroy, Samuel
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Lecompton Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
People - Notable People - Hyatt, Thaddeus
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Quindaro
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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