“Come all you bold robbers and open your ears,
Of Quantrell the Lion heart you quickly shall hear.
With his band of bold raiders in double quick time,
He came to lay Lawrence low, over the line.
Of Quantrell the Lion heart you quickly shall hear.
With his band of bold raiders in double quick time,
He came to lay Lawrence low, over the line.
Oh, Quantrell’s a fighter, a bold-hearted boy,
A brave man or woman he’d never annoy.
He’d take from the wealthy and give to the poor
For brave men there’s never a bolt to his door.
A brave man or woman he’d never annoy.
He’d take from the wealthy and give to the poor
For brave men there’s never a bolt to his door.
It was 147 years ago today that
Captain William Quantrill led nearly 400 Missourians from Missouri over
the Kansas line to Lawrence , Ks. Although potrayed in the media at the
time as an inhumane act, the fact of the matter is that it was no more
inhumane than the crimes that had been committed against Missourians for
nearly three years prior to Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence.
Information posted by author Paul R. Peterson at www.quantrillsguerrilas.com states:
“Lawrence citizens have always
emphatically insisted that the only victims during the Lawrence raid
were “peaceable, unarmed citizens.” History proves them wrong.
More @ Across Our Confederation
Buy the time of the Lawrence Raid the war in the "west" had been raging for over a decade. The murders of slave owners by John Brown and his sons were not the first. The war in Kansas ,Missouri, Kentucky and many of the "border states" was well under way in 1861 and went on long after Lee's surrender. I think that many of the "wars" and "feudes" (spell?) of the late 19th and early 20th century were a continuation of the civil war that had been going on since at least the 1850's ---Ray
ReplyDeleteGood points.
Delete150 years have passed since Quantrill's raid on Lawrence. Yet, emotions and opinions on those long-ago events still run high. There are many lessons that we who live in far more "modern" times need to learn from those past events. Lessons of a powerful federal government run amuck and usurping the rights of States and individuals. It happened then and it can (and is) happening again! We need to be vigilant, and more importantly, prepared and willing to defend our Constitutional rights from "all enemies, foreign and domestic"!
ReplyDeleteLots more information on events leading up to the raid on Lawrence and the aftermath! http://www.nevadadailymail.com/story/1744489.html
http://penningtons.tripod.com/scv1.htm
www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-generalorder11.html
Thanks.
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