2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, William Boise, 4p. folio, Levenworth, Kansas, April 6, 1858, and reads in part: “...my convictions are that there is not another Territory or State to equal it in the United States...boundless tracks of high rolling Prairie, insterspersed with numerous streams...The land in this county was bought three years ago for the sum of $1.25 per acre and now sells readily at $25.00 per acre...the rise of land is very great and consequently the improvement of the country must be equally rapid....I have been up to see the fort about 3 miles above this place...one of the thriving towns of ‘Bleeding Kansas’...I suppose you are anxious to hear about the political troubles of Kansas....it is true that there has been a hostile feeling among the people of the territory but nothing equla one half of what has been represented to us...people have been blinded and gammoned by the leaders but I think they now all fully understand how matters have been working and the Pro Slavery party are as hostile towards the Missouri Ruffins and the Lecompton Constitution as are the Republicans in fact the southerny that are here seem to be honorable and gentlemany and although they wish it a slave state the want to make it so fairly or not at all...I believe it would be easier to make Illinois a slave state than Kansas...You are probably aware that Calhoun has given difficulties to a majority of free state men in both branches of the legisture of the Territory and you are no doubt further informed taht congress has declared the right of the Territory to charge or abolish this consitution that people have concluded not to resist teh Const. but come in under it and then abolish it at the first meeting of the legislature in this way all trouble will be abviated and the state secrued to freedom. And for the future when they being to harp about ‘Bleeding Kansas’ you may conclude that it is all ‘gammon’ got up for political effect...” VG.
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