Transcribe Fenn, Robert. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1855-11)

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This threw overboard quite a large number of her crew who were picked up by the enemies vessels. As you have doubtless seen by the papers the Hanaas difficulties are threatening to assume even a more bloody aspect than heretofore, the settlers are arming themselves with patent rifles and revolvers and are determined to defend their rights at any cost large contributions for the purchase of arms have been made in various parts of the north. The people of Kansas in this opposition to the encroachments of the slave power have my fullest sympathy. I hope every Missourian who attempts to interfere with the Kansas elections will be shot dead on the spot, judging from the numerous outrages which have already been committed with the connivance, or at least without the interference of the general government, it seems to me that the settlers are not only justified in such a course but that such an one is their only choice. We at the north must show the South that we are realy in earnest as regards the one opposition to the further extension of slavery. If this is done in a few instances there will be few found fool- nardy enough to attempt a second interference. The feeling at the north with regard to the encroachments of slavery is daily becoming more intense and implacable. The resolution to oppose at every hazard the further extension of the slave power is becoming stronger and stronger. In consequence of the fossilization, so to speak, of public opinion at the North there are at present many especially at the South </s he> who believes or profess to believe that the coming congress will be the last. that the political earthquake whose ominous rumblings have so often startled the sentinel on the watch tower of liberty is close at hand and will not ere long shatter in pieces that glorious temple of freedom whose firm foundations our fathers laid with their noble deeds and cemented with their precious blood, and within whose sacred precincts they fondly hoped every victim of royal or religious persecution might find a refuge. But alas </s w > how have we fulfilled their fond hopes? like the jews of Christs day we have turned the temple into a den of thieves a stand for merchandise and money changers. The Godess of Liberty has