In Perils By Mine Own Countrymen.: Three Years On The Kansas Border.
by By a Clergyman of the Episcopal Church. McNamara, John. John Macnamara
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New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo; viii, 240 pages, blind embossed brown cloth, spine faded, front hinge started, foxing.
"My book is a record of facts. The style is my own, the material was furnished on the Border. The scenes through which I passed were, in some respects, supremely ridiculous, and must be laughable; there were others which were inhuman, and must therefore excite horror. To write of events in any other manner than that in which they occurred, would not be a true history - Author's Advertisement." [ Howes M175; Graff 2645; Wagner-Camp-Becker, 277]. McNamara preached the gospel in northwest Missouri before accepting a call to a church in Chicago, in 1853. In 1854 he was appointed as a missionary to the Kansas Territory. He started a parish at Ft. Leavenworth. "A vehement abolitionist, he became involved in a heated argument with the post commander and was banned from the fort - KANZAS: The Territorial Years, A K-State Libraries exhibit." McNamara became an arch-foe of W. P. Richardson, General of the Kansas Militia, and a flaming pro-slavery advocate. Note: the Appendix presents the Black Laws of the Kansas Territorial Code, the Draco-Kansas Code.
"My book is a record of facts. The style is my own, the material was furnished on the Border. The scenes through which I passed were, in some respects, supremely ridiculous, and must be laughable; there were others which were inhuman, and must therefore excite horror. To write of events in any other manner than that in which they occurred, would not be a true history - Author's Advertisement." [ Howes M175; Graff 2645; Wagner-Camp-Becker, 277]. McNamara preached the gospel in northwest Missouri before accepting a call to a church in Chicago, in 1853. In 1854 he was appointed as a missionary to the Kansas Territory. He started a parish at Ft. Leavenworth. "A vehement abolitionist, he became involved in a heated argument with the post commander and was banned from the fort - KANZAS: The Territorial Years, A K-State Libraries exhibit." McNamara became an arch-foe of W. P. Richardson, General of the Kansas Militia, and a flaming pro-slavery advocate. Note: the Appendix presents the Black Laws of the Kansas Territorial Code, the Draco-Kansas Code.
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- Title
- In Perils By Mine Own Countrymen.
- Author
- By a Clergyman of the Episcopal Church. McNamara, John. John Macnamara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Miller, Orton & Mulligan
- Place of Publication
- New York and Auburn
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- kansas, abolitionism, slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Bill, antislavery, anti-slavery, Kanzas, bleeding kansas, bloody kansas, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Draco-Kansas Code, Pottawatamies, W. P. Richardson, Black Law, Bogus Legislature,
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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