If black slavery in a part of the States is incompatible with white freedom in any State, then let black slavery be abolished from all.

As men espousing the principles of the Declaration of the Fathers, we can do nothing else than accept these issues." The men who saved Kansas to freedom were not abolitionists in the restricted sense.

Governor Walker found in 1857 that a considerable majority of the free-state men were Democrats and that some were from the South.

Nearly all actual settlers, from whatever source they came, were free-state men who felt that a slave was a burden in such a country as Kansas.

For example, during the first winter of the occupation of Kansas, an owner of nineteen slaves was himself forced to work like a trooper to keep them from freezing; and, indeed, one of them did freeze to death and another was seriously injured.
In spite of all the advertising of opportunity and all the pressure brought to bear upon Southerners to settle in Kansas, at no time did the number of slaves in the Territory reach three hundred.