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Category : Andrew County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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History of Andrew and De Kalb Counties, Missouri
History of Andrew and DeKalb Counties, Missouri
Author: History of Andrew and de Kalb Counties, Missouri; from Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Sundry Personal, Business and Professional Sketches
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230112220
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...his especial mission was to stir up partisan hatred, and attack their favorite institution. While this charge was emphatically denied both by the reverend gentleman and the church, the denial did not satisfy the pro-slavery men, a number of whom, upon one occasion, forbade him attempting to fill his regular appointment. This, of course, aroused considerable feeling, and in the melee which followed, an old gentleman by the name of Holland, in attempting to interpose in behalf of the minister, was shot and killed by the mob. Mr. Sellers was then seized by the crowd, and subjected to many indignities, among which was a coat of tar administered to his face, head, neck, and other parts of the body. After satisfying their vengeance in this cruel manner, the mob compelled their victim to mount his horse and leave at once, on pain of immediate death. The minister, as may be supposed, lost no time in leaving the place, and, falling into the hands of friends a few miles from the village, was kindly cared for until able to leave the country. His sufferings under the terrible ordeal were intense, and it is said that he never entirely recovered from the efiects of his cruel treatment. This transaction, while severely condemned by all peaceably disposed people, served to intensify the already bitter partisan feeling throughout Andrew and neighboring counties, and for several months thereafter it was the fruitful source, not only of local disturbances, but of newspaper comments throughout the State as well. In the fall of 1856 occurred another melee at Rochester, growing out of a political difference, in which Samuel Simmons, a pro-slavery man, was killed by William Hardesty. After the shooting Hardesty was arrested and incarcerated in the county jail...
History of Andrew and De Kalb Counties, Missouri
Author: History of Missouri Illustrated
Author: Goodspeed Publishing CompanyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780893086718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Given by Eugene Edge III.
Goodspeed's 1888 History of Andrew and De Kalb Counties, Missouri
Author: The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: M-Q. nos. 3104-4527. 1908
Author: Stanislaus Vincent HenkelsPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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