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No man rendered greater service to the cause of freedom than Major Stearns in the great struggle between invading slave-holders and the free settlers of Kansas.
He has done the work of a true man, -- Crown him, honor him, love him. Weep, over him, tears of woman, Stoop manliest brows above him!