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CHAPTER X
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For a time Douglas was the most unpopular of political leaders and was apparently repudiated by his party.

The first name designating the opponents of the Douglas bill was "Anti Nebraska men," for which the name Republican was gradually substituted and in 1858 became the accepted title of the party.
The provision for two territorial governments instead of one carried with it the idea of a continued balance between slave and free States; Kansas, being on a geographical parallel with the slave States, would probably permit slavery, while Nebraska would be occupied by free-state immigrants.

Though this was a commonly accepted view, Eli Thayer of Worcester, Massachusetts, and a few others took a different view.

They proposed to make an end of the discussion of the extension of slavery by sending free men who were opposed to slavery to occupy the territory open for settlement.

To attain this object they organized an Emigrant Aid Company incorporated under the laws of the State.


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