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The territorial legislature, elected by admitted and wholesale fraud, unseated all free-state members whose election was contested, and proceeded to pass laws upholding and fortifying slavery.
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This statement highlights the fraudulent practices in the territorial legislature that undermined free-state representation in Kansas.
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This reduced the question to ratification or secession.
Why should we now make any concessions to them?
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 act and the veto amounted to an appeal to the people, and in an instant the country was on fire.
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