An American history . eavoided by free labor, since thelatter would refuse to compete withthe cheaper labor of slaves. Thereal issue of the moment was uponthe question : what industrial sys-tem shall dominate the North-west ? To meet this issue a groupof independent Democrats inCongress drew up an appeal tothe American people denouncingthe Kansas-Nebraska plan as anatrocious plot to exclude from avast unoccupied region immigrantsfrom the Old World and free laborers from our own states. The most energetic slaveholding leaders now took the planup and gave it hearty support. Such were Jefferson D
An American history . eavoided by free labor, since thelatter would refuse to compete withthe cheaper labor of slaves. Thereal issue of the moment was uponthe question : what industrial sys-tem shall dominate the North-west ? To meet this issue a groupof independent Democrats inCongress drew up an appeal tothe American people denouncingthe Kansas-Nebraska plan as anatrocious plot to exclude from avast unoccupied region immigrantsfrom the Old World and free laborers from our own states. The most energetic slaveholding leaders now took the planup and gave it hearty support. Such were Jefferson Davis,Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs. The bill waspassed and President Pierce signed it, May 30, 1854. Seward,in the course of the debate, had used these threatening words, Come on then, gentlemen of slave states, since there is noescaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of the causeof freedom. We will engage in competition for the soil ofKansas and God give the victory to the side which isstronger. .... STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF 393 557. The Rush to Kansas. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill marked a new stage in the slavery went up the cry, Slavery is invading free soil. ManyNortherners who had hitherto been indifferent now becameeager opponents of the slaveholders, and associations wereformed to send antislavery settlers to Kansas. In opposition,slaveholders, especially in Missouri, made haste to fill Kansaswith their partisans. Towns, inhabited altogether by peopleof one faction or the other, quickly sprang up. The chief
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