. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. CHAPTER XL THE KANSAS STRUGGLE. Freedom and Slavery Wrestle with Each Other—Bleeding Kansas—The Troubler of Slave-Owners — The Irrepressible Conflict —Lincolns Slowness and Reticence. MEANWHILE, immigrants from free States andslave States were pouring into Kansas. In spiteof the incursions of the pro-slavery men, the hardy immi-rants from Iowa, Northern Illinois, and New Englandwere clearly in the majority. Something must be done tostem this tide and to turn it back upon the free was readily resorted to. The swashbucklers
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. CHAPTER XL THE KANSAS STRUGGLE. Freedom and Slavery Wrestle with Each Other—Bleeding Kansas—The Troubler of Slave-Owners — The Irrepressible Conflict —Lincolns Slowness and Reticence. MEANWHILE, immigrants from free States andslave States were pouring into Kansas. In spiteof the incursions of the pro-slavery men, the hardy immi-rants from Iowa, Northern Illinois, and New Englandwere clearly in the majority. Something must be done tostem this tide and to turn it back upon the free was readily resorted to. The swashbucklers whotrooped over the border from Missouri and Arkansas wereas ready to stuff ballot-boxes with fraudulent votes andmob free-State men as they were to vote. One thing theywould not do—work. The free-State men were, indeed,actual settlers. They took up land, planted crops, andbuilt log-cabins for their families, evidently intending tostay. The borderers, on the other hand, were roughriders, sportsmen, gamblers. They spent their time indrinking,
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