{"id":996,"date":"2007-04-16T21:08:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T02:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/996"},"modified":"2007-04-16T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T02:08:14","slug":"gerrit-smith-on-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/gerrit-smith-on-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrit Smith,  on Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>August\u00a0 8, 1856<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A speech by Smith, at the Kansas Convention, in Buffalo.\u00a0 In it, Smith urges a mustering of arms to confront the situation in Kansas, where the Government has failed.\u00a0 &#8220;Most of you are relying largely on political action, and especially on the next election, to save Kansas.\u00a0 Unhappy reliance!\u00a0 &#8230;You are looking to ballots when you should be looking to bayonets; counting up votes, when you should be mustering armed, and none by armed emigrants; electioneering for candidates for civil rulers, when you should be enquiring for military rulers. 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