Its climate, its soil, and its easy access to the older settlements, would have made it the favored course for the tide of emigration constantly flowing to the west, and in a brief period it would have been admitted to the Union as a free state, without sectional excitement.
Sherman discusses the favorable conditions for Kansas to become a free state without conflict.
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