Notice! to Abolitionists and Freesoilers of Weston

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Title: Notice! to Abolitionists and Freesoilers of Weston
Creator: Many Citizens
Description: This broadside calls on “The Abolitionists and Freesoilers of Weston and vicinity” to meet at the Weston, Missouri courthouse on September 1, 1854 at 7:00pm, “to adopt such measures as they may deem most proper and expedient, and best calculated to Counteract the Effect produced by some of the doings of some of the men connected with the ‘Platte County Self-Defensive Association.’” The broadside was issued by “Many Citizens” on September 1, 1854 in Weston.
Date: September 1, 1854
Local Subject: Picturing the War
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
People: Many Citizens
Geographic Subject: Platte County, Missouri
Weston, Missouri
Object Type: Broadside
Owning Organization: State Historical Society of Missouri – Columbia
Location: Starr, F. C2073: f. 5, Broadsides, 1854
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