. Bill Nye's history of the United States. resident on theDemocratic ticket, runninf{ arainst General Scott, o o the Whig candidate. Slavery began to be dis-cussed again, when Stephen A. Douglas, in Con-gress, advocated squatter sovereignty, or the rightfor each Territory to decide whether it would be afree or a slave State. The measure became a lawin 1854. That was what made trouble in Kansas. Thetwo elements, free and slave, were arrayed againsteach other, and for several years friends fromother States had to come over and help Kansasbury its dead. The condition of things for sometime was ex
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. resident on theDemocratic ticket, runninf{ arainst General Scott, o o the Whig candidate. Slavery began to be dis-cussed again, when Stephen A. Douglas, in Con-gress, advocated squatter sovereignty, or the rightfor each Territory to decide whether it would be afree or a slave State. The measure became a lawin 1854. That was what made trouble in Kansas. Thetwo elements, free and slave, were arrayed againsteach other, and for several years friends fromother States had to come over and help Kansasbury its dead. The condition of things for sometime was exceedingly mortifying to the citizen whowent out to milk after dark without his gun. 243 244 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Trouble with Mexico arose, owing to the factthat the government had used a poor and unreli-able map in establishing the line : so GeneralGadsden made a settlement for the disputedground, and we paid Mexico ten millions of dol-lars. It is needless to say that we have sinceseen the day when we wished that we had it EXCEEDINGLY MORTIFYING TO THE CITIZEN WHO WENT TO MILK WITHOUT HIS GUN. Two ports of entry were now opened to us inJapan by Commodore Perrys Expedition, andcups and saucers began to be more plentiful inthis country, many of the wealthier deciding atthat time not to cool tea in the saucer or drink itvociferously from that vessel. This custom andthe Whig party passed away at the same time. The Republican or Anti-Slavery party nomi-nated for President John C. Fremont, who re- BEFO THE WAH. 245 ceived the vote of eleven States, but JamesBuchanan was elected, and proved to the satis-faction of the world that there is nothing toprevent any unemployed mans applying for thePresidency of the United States ; also that if hislife has been free from ideas and opinions he maybe elected sometimes where one who has beencaught in the very act of thinking, and had itproved on him, might be defeated. Chief-Justice Taney now stated that slaves couldbe taken int
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