. 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. M EANWHILE, immigrants from free States and slave States were pouring into Kansas. In spite of the incursions of the pro-slavery men, the hardy immi- rants from Iowa, Northern Illinois, and New England were clearly in the majority. Something must be done to stem this tide and to turn it back upon the free States. Violence was readily resorted to. The swashb
. 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. M EANWHILE, immigrants from free States and slave States were pouring into Kansas. In spite of the incursions of the pro-slavery men, the hardy immi- rants from Iowa, Northern Illinois, and New England were clearly in the majority. Something must be done to stem this tide and to turn it back upon the free States. Violence was readily resorted to. The swashbucklers who trooped over the border from Missouri and Arkansas were as ready to stuff ballot-boxes with fraudulent votes and mob free-State men as they were to vote. One thing they would not do—work. The free-State men were, indeed, actual settlers. They took up land, planted crops, and built log-cabins for their families, evidently intending to stay. The borderers, on the other hand, were rough riders, sportsmen, gamblers. They spent their t
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