William Clarke Quantrill

This letter is from William Clarke Quantrill to his mother. Quantrill writes from Stanton, Kansas on January 26, 1860. He acknowledges "the wrongs committed" by the proslavery party, but argues that the abolitionists are "the most lawless set of people." He criticizes their sympathy for John Brown, calling him a murderer and a robber, and declaring that he "should have been hung years ago."

January 26, 1860

Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Guerrillas
Women
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement

William Clarke Quantrill
John Brown

Kenneth Spencer Research Library

William Clarke Quantrill Collection, Box 1, Folder 13; RH MS 75

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