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Address of the Central County Kansas Committee to the People of the county of Onondaga Author: Hebbard, Russell Date: August 7, 1856 The inflamatory rhetoric of this printed circular provided an antislavery perspective of events in Kansas. It urged the residents of central New York to provide aid to Kansas settlers. It also described plans to encourage a "a large emigration into the territory" to aid free state supporters living there but to also increase the number of "legal voters" for the fall elections. The chairman of the Central County Kansas Committee was Russell Hebbard. The document listed the names of other officers and committee members. Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Port Vault K 325 C333a 1856 Item Number: 102850 Number of images: 1 Keywords: Antislavery; Border ruffians; Election fraud; Emigrant aid companies; Emigration and immigration; Hebbard, Russell; Missouri compromise; New York; New York State Kansas Committee; Syracuse, New York |
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