|
|
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource."
|
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854, Redux
|
|---|
| Parent(s) |
Issue
|
| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Mar 27, 2010 07:35am |
| Logged |
0
|
| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Tony Blankley |
| News Date | Saturday, March 27, 2010 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of the socialist crisis of the Republic. At our constitutional founding, the evil of slavery had been crudely evaded. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise was enacted that prohibited the abomination north of 36/30 degrees latitude (about the middle of Missouri).
But with the western push of the frontier, a new compromise was needed. So the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 decreed that the "popular sovereignty" of each territory should decide whether they would be slave or free states. But then, adherents of both the abomination and freedom migrated to Kansas to struggle -- with their bodily presence -- for their respective causes. First there was politics. Then the political rhetoric turned violent. Then real violence ensued. Kansas became known as Bleeding Kansas. John Brown, most famously, applied unjustified, murderous violence for his righteous cause of ending slavery and was hanged, but the Civil War ensued because, as Lincoln sagely explained:
"A House divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure; permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
|
| Share |
|
|
2¢
|
|
| Article | Read Full Article |
|
| Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
|
