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sary for me to enlarge upon our position and our dangers. 

 Governor Geary, you see, has been effectually driven from 

 Kansas, not having received the slightest support in men, 

 money, or influence, from the government at Washington ; 

 while the organized usurpation from Missouri is carrying 

 everything with a high hand, and will, without doubt, con- 

 struct a slave constitution for Kansas ; and a servile Con- 

 gress the majority, I mean and a corrupt administra- 

 tion will accept the infamous code, unless the elections in 

 the Free States should alarm them. I am grieved and 

 mortified that my country now stands before the world as 

 the great patron and supporter of slavery, which, if the pow- 

 ers that are may have their own way, is to be extended 

 and sustained by all the resources and power of the nation. 

 Revolution may come, and, if this pressure should be greatly 

 aggravated, it is not impossible that it will come. God 

 reigns, and out of evil often is seen to educe good ; and so 

 it may be now, but I fear not in our time, and I greatly 

 fear for my large family of the second generation : we of 

 this generation see only the beginning of the end 



