Well, sir, you must be immune. What sort of term do you think that famous phrase "bleeding Kansas" is suppose to conjure up, oppressed pro-southern Kansans, who lost more lives that freestaters. You know better than that. So you need to hit the books harder. "Border Ruffian": a description of Missouri elites, so commonly used in virtually all the histories was invented by the Civil War's master propagandist, Horace Greeley. John Brown apoligists we find in almost all the books. And when you consider that he was a maniac, this absolutely flabbergasts most of us, even people with Yankee backgrounds 100 percent like me. Quantrill is demonized in most of the histories. Why? You need to read history more critically. You're not fooling anybody.

Don