The predominant sentiment demanded that Kansas should be free, and the excitement aroused by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was quickly rekindled when the South approved the murderous methods intended to make it a slave State.
This quote reflects the strong public sentiment in favor of Kansas's freedom during a tumultuous period in American history.
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As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
Of imposing appearance, he looked like a man formed to rule.
The act and the veto amounted to an appeal to the people, and in an instant the country was on fire.
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