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We perceive also that sectional interests and party passions have been the great impediment to the salutary operation of the organic principles adopted and the chief cause of the successive disturbances in Kansas.
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In this quote, Pierce identifies sectional interests and party passions as major obstacles to effective governance in Kansas.
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