In the declaration, it claims, “infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States” it references the Bleeding Kansas confrontations and talks about how the Northern states unfairly associated Kansas as a free state by violence and how it did not enforce the law. This helps to show the fear the south had over the issue of slavery as they saw the north violently pushing for abolition in new states admitted into the union. Which would result in the antislavery vote possibly outnumbering the proslavery vote, which pushed the south to
In the declaration, it claims, “infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States” it references the Bleeding Kansas confrontations and talks about how the Northern states unfairly associated Kansas as a free state by violence and how it did not enforce the law. This helps to show the fear the south had over the issue of slavery as they saw the north violently pushing for abolition in new states admitted into the union. Which would result in the antislavery vote possibly outnumbering the proslavery vote, which pushed the south to