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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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edtheir tents and began thebuilding of a town, whichthey named Lawrence, inhonor of Amos A. Law-rence, of Boston. By thelast of the month they werejoined by seventy moreemigrants and the work offounding their town waspushed forward with en-ergy. There was not adrone in the little commun-ity. They were all honest,intelligent, God-fearing menand women, and they meantto succeed in the undertak-ing they had begun. Theywere in legal and peaceablepossession of their settlement, and thus far had mo-lested cr wronged no one. They were not to livein peace, however. Beforethey had finished building their houses, theywere startled by the announcement that twohundred and fifty armed Missourians hadencamped within a short distance of them forI he purpose of driving them out of the Terri- tory. The next morning the Missourianssent them a formal notice that the Aboli-tionists must leave the Territory, never moreto return to it. They declared their desireto avoid bloodshed ; but notified the settlers
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SCENE ON THE ALLEGHENY RIVER. that they must be ready to leave the Terri-tory, with all their effects, at one oclockthat day. This the settlers refused to do,and prepared to defend their homes. Themessengers of the^ Missourians found them 646 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. drilling behind their tents and reported thisfact to their leaders. The firm but quiet attitude of the peopleof Lawrence had a happy effect. The Mis-sou rians made no effort to carry out theirthreat, but broke up their camp that night,and withdrew across the border, leaving thesettlers in peace. Meanwhile the town ofLawrence grew and prospered, and the NewEngland Societies continuing to send otheremigrants into the Territory, other townswere founded. Settlers from the SouthernStates came into the Territory very slowly. The general government threw its influ-ence as far as possible in favor of the Pro-slavery party, in the organization of theTerritory, by appointing a majority of theterritorial officers from t

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