. The student's American history . and called loudlyfor its repeal. But they wanted the repeal to be made withouthaving the proviso of Popular Sovereignty tacked to insisted that the Constitution gave slave-holders (incommon with all other owners of property) the right to taketheir negroes into the Territories when they pleased. Theydeclared that they would never submit to the humiliation ofasking leave of any one to exercise that right.^^ 425. Sewards attitude; excitement at the North; pas-sage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854); results. — When 1854.] THE UNION, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
. The student's American history . and called loudlyfor its repeal. But they wanted the repeal to be made withouthaving the proviso of Popular Sovereignty tacked to insisted that the Constitution gave slave-holders (incommon with all other owners of property) the right to taketheir negroes into the Territories when they pleased. Theydeclared that they would never submit to the humiliation ofasking leave of any one to exercise that right.^^ 425. Sewards attitude; excitement at the North; pas-sage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854); results. — When 1854.] THE UNION, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 375 it became apparent that a majority of Southern members wouldvote for the bill, Seward exclaimed: Come on then, gentlemenof the slave States, since there is no escaping your challenge,I accept it in behalf of the cause of freedom. We will engagein competition for the soil of Kansas, and God give the victoryto the side which is stronger in numbers as in right. ^^ Thedebate on the bill raged for nearly five months. During that. Territory opened to Slavery by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of I 854. The Compromise Measures of 1850 opened Utah and New Mexico to slavery when theyshould be admitted as States (see § 422). Oregon was free territory by Act of Congressof 1848 (see § 391). time the North was seething with indignation, and mass-meetingafter mass meeting protested against the repeal of the MissouriCompromise Act (§ 324). The opponents of Senator Douglas branded him as an enemyto the cause of freedom and of free soil. The demonstrationsagainst him were so violent that he said : I could travel fromBoston to Chicago by the light of my own burning effigies. ^^^The bill passed the Senate (March, 1854) by a vote of 37 to14; in May (1854) it passed the House by a vote of 113 to \ 376 THE students AMERICAN PIISTORY. [1854-. 100. The Southern Democrats and Whigs voted for it; halfof the Northern Democrats were for it and half against it; whilethe Northern Whigs and Free Soilers al
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