Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3. You can also browse the collection for November, 1855 AD or search for November, 1855 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
e. Only Free State men, though all legal voters were invited, took part in these proceedings, which were altogether provisional, and awaited the confirming action of Congress to give them vitality and force. As no executive act was attempted, they involved no resistance to legitimate authority. Meantime, while these proceedings were in progress, the rage of the pro-slavery party growing more violent was specially directed against Lawrence, the centre of Free State activity. Late in November, 1855, armed Missourians, twelve hundred or more in number, gathered before the town, nominally in response to the summons of a pro-slavery sheriff calling for a posse to assist in executing a process,—really, however, for the purpose of destroying the town and wreaking vengeance on its people; but finding the place protected by forts and the inhabitants earned with Sharpe's rifles which had been sent from the free States, they found it discreet to retire a few days later, yielding, after a p