From John Ordway to Dear Friend

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Title: From John Ordway to Dear Friend
Creator: John Ordway
Description: This letter, dated January 19, 1856, was written by John Ordway in Roxbury, Massachusetts, to a friend, presumably in Missouri. John inquires about the progress of the railroads in Missouri, explaining that the newspapers choose to focus on “the Kansas troubles” instead of Missouri’s “internal improvements.” Of political sentiment in Massachusetts, John writes: “The extreme men here are few but an antislavery feeling is universal and the Kansas difficulties have rather tended to give it deeper root.”
Date: January 19, 1856
Local Subject: Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement
Women
People: John Ordway
Geographic Subject: Grundy County, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri
Buchanan County, Missouri
Owning Organization: Missouri Valley Special Collections
Location: Peery Family Papers, Box 1: Folder 48
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