By Nathan Richardson
Excerpt from a newspaper article published in 1860; “Armed pro-slavery militias streamed into Kansas from neighboring slave state Missouri to disrupt territorial elections. They stuffed ballot boxes, intimidated voters, threatened candidates, and in at least one instance, kidnapped and killed a free-state candidate for the territorial legislature.”
Fast forward to 1987 and you might be able to find an Op-Ed that I wrote to the editor of the Suffolk News Herald.
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