The Kansas conflict
By: by Charles Robinson.
Publisher: Journal publishing Company
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- Kansas; Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861
Description: This of course is a reprint,  but of profound importance.    Here the man who, more than anyone of the time, led the resistance to the paid men Jeff Davis sent to Kansas at the time.   With a valuable introduction by Eli Thayer.   While there are thousands of other sources -- at the time --- those are largely newspapers, ignored for the most part by US text books as worthy to teach as basic.   South leaders boasted of doing the things Robinson writes about.   It's important to note that while Charles Sumner's 1856 "Crimes Against Kansas Speech" is also about the killing sprees and led by US Senator Atchison, and made possible by Secretary of War, Jeff Davis,  Sumner's speech could not, of course, cover or report on the killings and invasions after the date of Sumner's speech.    As a result, if a student is lucky enough for the teacher to even mention Sumner's Crime Against Kansas speech,  and learn the details of those crimes and invasion by Atchison  Jeff Davis and Stephen A Douglas,  such students would have no way of knowing from that day (day of Sumner's speech) the killings grew much worse -- because the Texas men just arrived.   Sumner described the day of the Kansas Act to May 19 of 1856.  The Texas men arrived that same week,  and Sumner did not yet know of the subsquent killings and torture.  He would soon learn, but the point is,  those futher killings are in other sources, including Robinson's book  "Conquest of Kansas"    Of particular importance is that Robinson points out that the paid men invading Kansas were not the huge problem --  it was the US troops protecting the paid killers,   troops sent by Jeff Davis with the approval of President Pierce that made it so difficult.    There was a drastic change when Buchanan became President -- no longer did Jeff Davis have the power or funds to hire paid men, no longer did Jeff Davis have the President in his control.