...then, gentlemen of the slave states ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it on the behalf of Freedom. We will engage in competition for...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right." CHAPTEE II. THE FIRST INVASION. THE cabins of squatters had begun to dot the face of the country, and...

...there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it on behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition on the virgin soil of Kansas, and God give the victory...side that is stronger in numbers as it is in right." If he had only acted up to this language, we should have seen another state of things in the United...

...To-morrow's sun will rise in dim eclipse over them. .... The day of compromises has passed forever Come on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States ! Since...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right!" The act became a law May 30, 1854. The South greeted it with bonfires and triumphal guns ; the North...

...To-morrow's sun will rise in dim eclipse over them. .... The day of compromises has passed forever Come on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States ! Since...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right ! " The act became a law May 30, 1854. The South greeted it with bonfires and triumphal guns ; the...

...until the close of July, 1856. By William Phillips, Special Correspondent of the New York Tribune, for Kansas. 'Come on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States;...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right!' — Speech of Wm. H. Seward, in the United States Senate, 185k. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1856."...

...the Missouri Compromise became useless, "since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it on behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition for...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." By the passage of that act the wall which had excluded slavery from the free Territories...

...to slavery at any cost. The North had met the challenge in the words of Senator Seward, who said, " Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave States ! Since...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." The people of Western Missouri, of whom glimpses have been given in former chapters, were...

...gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalfoffreedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." The people of Western Missouri, of whom glimpses have been given in former chapters, were...

...gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalfoffreedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." The people of Western Missouri, of whom glimpses have been given in former chapters, were...

...senate of the United States, you accepted the challenge of the slave power in these memorable words : " Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave states ; since...side that is stronger in numbers as it is in right." Six years have elapsed, and to-day we present you Kansas free, to grace your triumph, with a constitution...