CHAPTER V.
The Territorial Question .-- An Incident at the White House .-- The Kansas and Nebraska Bill .-- The Missouri Compromise abrogated in 1850, not in 1854 .-- Origin of "Squatter Sovereignty."-- Sectional Rivalry and its Consequences .-- The Emigrant Aid Societies.--"The Bible and Sharpe's Rifles."-- False Pretensions as to Principle .-- The Strife in Kansas .-- A Retrospect .-- The Original Equilibrium of Power and its Overthrow .-- Usurpations of the Federal Government .-- The Protective Tariff .-- Origin and Progress of Abolitionism .-- Who were the Friends of the Union ?--An Illustration of Political Morality..