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The letter, written by Cyrus Holliday from Meadville, Pennsylvania, discusses the results of the 1856 Presidential election and its anticipated impact on the Kansas issue. Holliday describes to Franklin Crane, a prominent Topeka doctor, a meeting in Boston where he was encouraged to make Kansas a free state. Many of those present at the meeting were influential figures in emigrant aid companies. The letter also discusses efforts to make Nicaragua a slave state in order to achieve a compromise with the South. In addition, Holliday mentions making speeches on behalf of John C. Fremont and Kansas.
Creator: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
Date: November 14, 1856
Item Number: 90757
Call Number: Franklin Loomis Crane Coll. #320 Box 1 Scrapbook
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90757
Collections - Manuscript - Crane, Franklin Loomis
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Buchanan, James
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans - Slavery
People - Notable People - Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Places - Other States - Pennsylvania
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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