Excerpt from Reply to in Boston Advertiser Marc Parrott, whose felicity Of expression you well remember, said to me that the kansas-nebraska act made Kansas the Belgium of the contest. It did make Kansas the battle ground between freedom and slavery. It did not banish from Congress the solution Of the question and give it to the Squatter Sovereigns, as the authors Of the act hoped. Kansas managed to make the issues broad enough to vex the administra tion, keep Congress in a constant broil, disrupt the old parties in the ...
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Excerpt from Reply to in Boston Advertiser Marc Parrott, whose felicity Of expression you well remember, said to me that the kansas-nebraska act made Kansas the Belgium of the contest. It did make Kansas the battle ground between freedom and slavery. It did not banish from Congress the solution Of the question and give it to the Squatter Sovereigns, as the authors Of the act hoped. Kansas managed to make the issues broad enough to vex the administra tion, keep Congress in a constant broil, disrupt the old parties in the North and organize the new Re publican party. Kansas could not win the victory alone, against Missouri and the administration. It had to seek the aid of the growing party of Freedom in the North, The growth Of that party depended much on the policy of the Free State men in Kansas. We had to feel the northern pulse before deciding what to do, so our leaders were always under more or less duress. True, Buchanan was elected, but, as Blaine said, the Republican party came out Of the contest with the hope and elation Of victory. We nearly captured Illinois, compelling Douglas, subsequently, to oppose the Lecompton constitution, thereby splitting his party and insuring the election of Abraham Lincoln. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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