1856 BLEEDING KANSAS. The Boarder Ruffian Code in Kansas.Pro-Slavery Riots & Election Intimidation. Revival The Greyhound

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1856 BLEEDING KANSAS. The Boarder Ruffian Code in Kansas.Pro-Slavery Riots & Election Intimidation. Revival The GreyhoundA rather scarce Horace Greeley abolitionist imprint designed to expose "The Ruffian Code" used to force and coerce Kansas into becoming a pro slavery state upon its entrance to the Union. The Border ruffians were pro slavery bands of raiders who crossed into Kansas from slave holding Missouri and played a central roll in the riots and violent altercations known as "Bleeding Kanasas." Their crimes involved electoral fraud and intimidation, assault,