TO SUPPORT KANSAS ACT
Soon after passing Kansas Act, however, Atchison led 800 men to invade Kansas to force Kansas to be a slave state.
The plan, clearly created long before Kansas Act passed, was a quick show of force, terrorize, then create a "legislature," apply for statehood, with Kansas, of course, being a slave state.
Stephen Douglas, as Chairman of House and Senate Committee, Kansas Territory would make that a formality.
Great plan, actually.
The problem -- 95% of Kansas Citizens -- as Davis, Douglas, and Atchison well knew, were against slavery.
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Slavery always spread this way -- by force.
Of course force, violence, terror against slaves.....
But the same horrors for whites too -- if whites got in the way.
Idiotically, our text books and major historians fail to make that clear -- or even mention it, in any candid way.
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IN KANSAS TOO
Davis and Atchison would pass the the same thing in Kansas, it's important to know, when they temporarily took control of Kansas.
n fact Atchison's men tortured those who refused to sign a pro slavery pledge.
They killed a man who returned to Kansas, after they forced him to leave.
They tortured a man name Pardee Butler, for not signing the pledge. Pardee was tortured, tied to a log, and left to drown in the river. He was given that slim chance to live, only because one of Atchison's men voted not to kill him.
Torture then throwing him into the river tied to a log -- that is what Atchison's men thought was a kindness -- the others were killed!
Twenty Four voted to torture and kill
One voted torture only -- then throw him in the river to drown -- maybe he will survive. LINK
That's the kind of violence and lunacy done by Atchison's men.
Someone saw him downriver, and got him out of the water.
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Davis Douglas and Atchison assumed Kansas would quickly become a slave state, by the quick invasion, stopping free speech and freedom of religion, using paid killers, and protect those men by US troops.
Problem solved.
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KANSAS CITIZENS--
WERE NOT ABOLITIONIST
Most Kansas Citizens wanted to keep blacks from moving to Kansas -- at all.
Famously so.
Other states -- including Illinois -- did make it illegal for blacks to move into the state. Only very very few whites even dared speak about "social equality" -- such as freedom to interact with whites, to walk down the street with or near white women.
Of the few whites that would dare admit they supported such equality, none were national political figures who dared say so candidly or publicly.
It was dangerous politically to do so, and dangerous to your physical survival.
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Stephen A Douglas made fun of Lincoln for that, during the famous debates (Alton debate)
So Kansas citizens were not going to prevent slavery there, right?
Davis claimed the resistance to slavery was "INTOLERABLE"
Why? Davis explained that -- the Dred Scott decision mandated the acceptance of slavery.
When Lincoln spoke --as he did over 50 times -- about Dred Scott decision as "crafted" to be "machinery" to spread slavery to the Pacific, this is exactly what Lincoln was talking about.
And -- correctly so.
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Jeff Davis assumed the whites in KS would not resist much -- a quick show of force, 800 Missouri men, would do it.
Even when Atchison's men killed Kansas Citizens, Atchison wrote that the killings "would soon be over."
He was wrong.
Davis, then Secretary of War, sent 2000 Texas men to Kansas in 1856. Atchison spent about a year -- after the 1854 attempt to kill enough Kansas citizens to force it to be slave state faild.
Openly, proudly, loudly, and officially Jeff Davis explained it all.
He was not shy. He did not mumble.
Davis and the South had a DUTY -- a DUTY to God to spread slavery to the Pacific.
Slavery was "a Divine Gift" from God to the white race, and black race.
African slaves "are the most contented laborers on earth" Davis insisted. It was only the lies -- the lies about freedom -- that make slaves "dissatisfied."
When Davis, Taney, and Stephen A Douglas pushed Dred Scott decision, Davis instantly claimed Dred Scott decision required violence against those who resisted slavery.
"The resistance to slavery is the intolerable grievance."
No legislature, no Congress, no person, per the Dred Scott decision, can resist slavery --- even though Kansas Citizens, 95% of them voted against slavery -- did not matter.
It was not just Lunatic Trump type talk -- Davis sent 2000 paid men to Kansas to force slavery there.
When even THOSE men did not kill enough Kansas citizens -- and did not terrorize KS citizens to flee
Davis then sent US troops to protect those paid killers, in 1856.
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Until Jeff Davis and South lost the Civil War, amazingly, they bragged, in detail, in context, and repeatedly about who they killed.
Bragged about why they sent and used paid killers.
Bragged why they sent US troops (As Jeff Davis did by 1856) to protect the paid killers.
They did not admit these things -- they fucking bragged about them, to cheering crowds.
Until they lost.
Maybe your teacher should have told you?
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Those Texas men were paid - paid by the federal government "as US troops" according to US Senator David Rice Atchison.
See his speech LINK HERE
Jeff Davis as Secretary of War under President Pierce, officially sent US troops, led by General Edwin Sumner --to protect the Texas men.
Here are some of Jeff Davis's paid men in action. They are killing Kansas citizens, this group in 1857,
The paid men were from Texas.
They invaded tortured and killed Kansas citizens, proudly, and specifically, to spread slavery to the Pacific.
Never mind that 95% of Kansas Citizens, as Davis and Atchison knew exceedingly well, were against slavery.
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KILLINGS JUSTIFIED-- REQUIRED
BY DRED SCOTT DECISION.
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None of this was shocking at the time -- already South leaders sent men to Kansas. US Senator Atchison explained, in detail, why they sent men to Kansas, starting 1854.
They sent men to Kansas to, at first, terrorize Kansas citizens to prevent them from rejecting slavery.
The important point is this: Ninety Five percent of Kansas Citizens were against slavery, as South leaders knew exceedingly well.
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Davis and Atchison could have just allowed actual elections, as they claimed Kansas Citizens had a right to do.
Davos amd others claimed they passed Kansas Act to give "the perfect right" for Kansas Citizens "to decide for themselves".
Sounds great but of fours it was a damnable lei
Then Senator Atchison personally led the first of two groups of paid killers to do exactly the opposite.
Atchison officially worked for, and reported to, Jeff Davis the entire time.
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Davis claimed everything Atchison did (meaning the invasions and killings) was "CONSTITUIONALLY REQUIRED"
Not just Constitutionally justified - Constitutionally required.
Davis's "logic" was, as Davis explained repeatedly and in writing -- the Dred Scott decision.
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When terrorizing did not work, Atchison's first group -- the 800 men -became violent, and demanded all Kansas white males sign anti - slavery pledge.
Kansas citizens were tortured, and groups of Atchison men voted on whether to kill or just torture those who resisted pledging support of of slavery.
Atchison and his men made it a crime to speak against slavery. They demanded anyone who did not take Atchison's pledge to support slavery must leave Kansas.
Soon Atchison's men were openly proudly violent, using the initial 800 men Atchison brought into Kansas.
Remember, almost all Kansas Citizens were anti -slavery.
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Even that did not work, so Jeff Davis sent 2000 Texas men, and -- and -- sent US troops to protect the paid Texas men.
All of this was common knowledge at the time. South leaders did not admit it- - they bragged about it. Until they lost.
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Jeff Davis almost spread slavery to the Pacific using paid killers and US troops to protect the paid killers, by 1856.
Horace Greeley, Lincoln, and thousands of other assumed by 1857, that Davis
✔️ because Davis used 2000 paid Texas men to invade Kansas
✔️Because Davis sent US troops to protect the paid Texas men
✔️Because Jeff Davis and Roger Taney got Dred Scott decision to essentially order the fed gov to violently protect the spread of slavery against states rights
✔️ That slavery would soon be spread to the Pacific, and spread to all of US.
It was the most stunning event in US history, how slave power won -- for a while -- using paid killers protected by US Troops.
Then Lincoln was elected 1860. That changed everything.
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1856 was not the first time Davis sent killers to Kansas.
By 1854 -- two years before -- Davis sent Senator David Rice Atchison, his "General of Law and Order" to lead 800 men to invade terrorize, and later kill in Kansas.
Like Davis, Like Douglas, like Kansas Citizens, Atchison was exceedingly aware 95% of Kansas Citizens were against slavery.
There is not a single US Text book that we know of who mentions-- even mentions -- that 95% of Kansas citizens were against silvery.
That is why Atchison had to invade terrorize, and later kill, to force slavery into Kansas and to the Pacific.
Therefore Atchison Stephen A Jeff Davis, Stringfellow, Toombs, Alexander Stephens, Roger Taney had to do THREE thing
1) Send MORE paid killers than before
2) Push Dred Scott to order that blacks are NOT HUMAN beings
3) Send US troops to protect the illegal and violent scum sent to KS by Jeff Davis with blessing of Franklin Pierce
Atchison and US Senator Stephen A Douglas pushed Kansas Act through Congress -- then Atchison fled to Kansas to use 800 men he brought with him.
Atchison, Jeff Davis, and Senator Stephen A Douglas took the Kansas Act to President Pierce to sign.
They convinced Pierce that Kansas Act would allow citizens 'the perfect freedom" to accept or reject slavery.
Exactly the opposite happened, Almost immediately it was clear Kansas Act was a vile fraud designed to justify torture and killing to SPREAD slavery, and spread it against states rights.
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Remember the name --US Senator David Rice Atchison. Senator Atchison bragged about his invasions and killings to spread slavery to the Pacific, using the first group of killers
The first 800 men did not get the job done -- the job being to terrorize or kill enough Kansas Citizens that South leaders could declare KS a slave state.
Never mind that 95% of Kansas Citizens were against slavery.
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IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT
What do you know about Charles Sumner?
Above: Senator Sumner being beaten on Senate floor, for his "Crimes Against Kansas Speech"
NOTICE THE PERSON LAUGHING?
THATS STEPHEN A DOUGLAS
Sumner, for two days, spoke in detail about specific invasions, crimes, tortures and killings since Stephen A Douglas and Senator Atchison passed the Kansas Act.
It's important to know -- Senator Atchison led the killers, and bragged about it.
Q, Why did Davis send that second group of men in 1856?
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A. Secretary of War Jeff Davis and US Senator Atchison needed a second group to invade Kansas, because the first group who invaded did not get the job done.
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Very basic. Nothing is more basic. Nothing is more poorly taught in US text books.
Two groups of men sent to Kansas. Paid men. Paid because 95% of Kansas Citizens were against slavery.
When Kansas Citizens could vote without Atchison's paid killers there to terrorize and kill those who even spoke against slavery publicly, Kansas could and did KS become a Free State, based on 95% vote by citizens to be a free state.
US President Buchanan -- and United States Congress -- then officially accepted Kansas into the Union - as a free state. Jan 29, 1861
Exactly as Stephen Douglas stated in 1854, 95% (19 of 20 is the term Douglas used in 1854) Kansas Citizens were exceedingly anti slavery.
True -- most Kansas citizens also were against any blacks moving into the state.
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HOW DO WE TEACH THIS?
US text books get an "F."
✔️Not a word in any US text book we can find that 95% of Kansas citizens were against slavery... perhaps the most basic fact possible.
✔️Not a hint, much less a clear statement, that Davis or Atchison would need to hire anyone to invade.
✔️ Not a hint that Charles Sumner's two day speech was about the FIRST set of killers, and that 2000 paid killer arrived in Kansas days later, for much more deadly attacks to kill those who resisted slavery.
✔️Not a hint that Jeff Davis not only sent the paid Texas men -- he also sent US troops 1856 to protect the paid killers.
Essentially, everything that mattered most to South leaders, as they did and bragged about doing at the time, is not even mentioned, much less taught at basic.
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INTOLERABLE
Even more idiotic -- our text books act as if anything South did, they did it for states rights.
Utter horse shit.
Specifically proudly, in great detail, officially, Jeff Davis explained repeatedly Kansas citizens not only must accept slavery, but claimed "the intolerable grievance" was their "resistance" to slavery.
Davis's logic, which he made clear -- was the Dred Scott decision.
The Dred Scott decision "changed everything" --wrote Jeff Davis. Dred Scott decision essentially ordered that federal government must protect the spread of slavery, including the SPREAD of slavery by violence.
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At first Douglas insisted reports of killings and invasions were lies. Atchison, claimed Douglas, was the most peaceful and patriotic man" he ever met.
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MACHINERY ( PLAN) TO VIOLENTLY SPREAD SLAVERY
Per Lincoln, the machinery to spread slavery was made of two parts:
1) Kansas Act 1854
2) Dred Scott decision 1857
Stephen Douglas was at the center of both.
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The South ALREADY -- ALREADY -- ALREADY was at war to spread slavery since 1854
It's important to know -- even after Kansas Citizens voted 95% against slavery...
-- even after Kansas became a free state in January of 1861
-- even after President Buchanan and US Congress officially accepted Kansas as a free state because of those vote....
✔️Jeff Davis still insisted Kansas "accept and respect slavery."
✔️Jeff Davis never accepted any vote by any group, any legislation, against slavery, even when 95% of Kansas Citizens rejected slavery
✔️Jeff Davis specifically cited Dred Scott decision for his "logic" that the fed gov must protect the SPREAD of slavery
✔️ Exactly as Lincoln explained, over and over, because of Dred Scott decision and Kansas Act, South would spread slavery to the entire US -- North South East and West.
✔️ Davis boasted of exactly those things.
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ALREADY -- ALREADY South leaders used paid killers and US troops (sent by Secretary of War Jeff Davis) to protect the paid killers.
ALREADY -- ALREADY -- South leaders boasted officially and to cheering crowds they were at at war (at war is their term) to spread slavery to the Pacific.
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Douglas famously told Sumner, after the first day of the speech, that Sumner should be beaten like a dog.
The next day -- as Stephen A Douglas laughed, Sumner was beaten like a dog. See the big smile on the face of the short pudgy Douglas.
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May 19 and 20, 1856 Senator Charles Sumner gave the famous 2-day speech, where, in great detail, Sumner gave the horrific details.
If you don't believe that, if you don't already know about two separate groups of paid killers to invade KS, blame your teachers and text book.
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ATCHISON DID NOT BURN ALL HIS PAPERS
ATCHISON DID NOT BURN ALL HIS PAPERS
Atchison would flee to Texas -- desert his job as General in Confederate Army-- and apparently burned almost all of his papers.
One that remained was Atchison reporting to Jeff Davis about the progress of those paid men killing in Kansas.
Atchison's written report showed Atchison was proud of his men killing Kansas Citizens -- killing women too. Atchison reported that it would all "be over" soon.
Atchison was wrong. It would not be soon over. But Atchison was soon gone from Kansas, stayed the rest of the war in Texas, safe and sound.
Meanwhile, the war he and Jeff Davis started, with help of Stephen A Douglas, killed over half million men.
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Atchison's 800 in 1854-1855 men were not enough.
The important thing about the 800 men -- it was not enough. So Davis sent 2000 more men --1856, this time paid men from Texas.
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Also Davis sent US troops to officially protect the killers. Davis sent US General Edwin Sumner for that job.
Brilliant move -- the US soldiers protecting the paid Texas men almost worked.
According to the first governor of Kansas, Charles Robinson, he had to make sure Kansas citizens did not fight or disobey the US troops. The Kansas citizens did defeat the paid killers, but it took three years.
The paid killers left when they quit getting paid. Kansas citizens outlasted the paid killers.
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HOW TO JUSTIFY IT
Jeff Davis wasn't a mad man. He had to justify the paid men. President Pierce had to agree to send the paid men AND send US Army troops (Davis was Secretary of War) to protect those Texas men.
Davis declared South had a duty -- to God -- to spread slavery.
Davis told Pierce that Kansas citizens were killing and terrorizing slave owners in Kansas
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"Dred Scott decision changed everything"
Jeff Davis.
The resistance to spread of slavery was "the intolerable grievance" wrote Jeff Davis famously.
Kansas Citizens had no right to reject slavery -- even if 95% of them were anti-slavery, because of Dred Scott decision.
FUNDAMENTAL
Fundamental to understand how Jeff Davis justified the invasions of 1854 and 1856, and justified the paid killers from KS.
Fundamental to know that even in 1861 officially South leaders demanded the SPREAD -- see the word SPREAD -- of slavery.
Never to keep.
Always to spread.
Anyone that says or thinks Civil War was about South keeping slavery is badly educated. Nothing was more clear, South leaders themselves explained it over, and over, in detail and proudly.
They went to war to SPREAD - to SPREAD slavery to the Pacific. As a duty to God (Jeff Davis said) and justified by Dred Scott decision.
Not sort of. Not kind of. Not in a way. That is why Davis sent the paid killers, that is why the paid killers invaded Kansas, that was their War Ultimatums even in 1861 -- slavery MUST spread, regardless of popular soverighnthy.
Remember, 95% of Kansas Citizens were against slavery. South leaders all knew that very well -- that is why Davis sent paid men from Texas, and protected them with US troops. Kansas Citizens were overwhelmingly against slavery.
Did these Kansas men commit crimes? Did they steal, rape, torture?
According to Davis, no. Their crime was they resisted the violent SPREAD of slavery.
Davis claimed, the resistance to slavery was "Intolerable."
Not just intolerable -- but THE intolerable grievance for the entire South, that justified sending paid killers, and US troops to protect the paid killers.
Never mind that 95% of Kansas citizens were anti slavery.
Davis (and everyone else) were exceedingly aware of that. It was basic.
The mass of Kansas Citizens were anti - slavery, with more coming in every day.
South leaders, try as they might, could not get nearly enough South men to move to Kansas.
So Davis and Atchison HIRED Texas men to invade Kansas. Atchison bragged of it, and Jeff Davis justified it by the Dred Scott decision.
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You need to know that, too.
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Constitutionally the resistance to the spread of slavery intolerable (because of Dred Scott decision.)
Religiously intolerable (because of the bible.)
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PRO TIP
Davis ALREADY sent US army troops to protect the paid killers, 1856 long before the Dred Scott decision.
Davis would justify the killers to spread slavery -- by Dred Scott decision.
But the killers ALREADY invaded, and ALREADY killed to spread slavery.
Davis used the excuse of Dred Scott decision to justify several years of killing Kansas Citizen, by a decision that did not even exist.
When Davis, Taney, Stephen A Douglas (Lincoln named these men as those who concocted Dred Scott for the specific reason to spread slavery-- against states rights) got Dred Scott decision handed down,
Davis immediately used it magically to excuse and justify his past and future killings and invasions.
No legislature, no vote of the people, no Congress could limit the spread of slavery -- even the 95% of Kansas Citizens who voted against allowing slavery, that did not matter.
The Dred Scott decision mattered. In all of US, North and South.
Which, of course, was exactly the plan, exactly the purpose of the words in Dred Scott decision.
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You can find Davis written statement about "the interoperable grievance" in his book "Rise and Fall of Confederate Government."
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Atchison's two biggest problems.
1) 95% of Kansas citizens were against slavery and voted against slavery to become a free state
2) Atchison could not convince nearly enough Southern men to invade, terrorize, later torture and kill, to spread slavery.
It's important to know, these were paid men.
It's also important to know, Jeff Davis sent US troops (see below) to protect the paid men
If you don't believe that, see this speech by US Senator David Atchison-- he brags about it. Brags they are to be well paid, paid as US military.
Atchison's speech to the newly arrived Texas men has been in Kansas Historical Society since 1889.
The first governor of Kansas - he was also the first President of Kansas Historical Society. His name was Charles Robinson.
Robinson was in Kansas the entirety of time Atchison and Jeff Davis had their paid men in Kansas. Robinson became the leader of those who opposed Atchison and his paid killers.
Robin's book about those invasions and killings, is available free download on Google Books. Or you can buy a hard copy, reprinted.
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There is no question whatsoever that by 1856, Jeff Davis sent 2000 Texas men to Kansas.
There, since 1856, the US Senator who led those Texas men, David Rice Atchison, was already in command of 800 men who invaded Kansas earlier.
Atchison and Davis both wanted thousands more Southern men to come to Kansas, since 1854.
They could not arose over a handful to come at their own expense, despite Atchison going to Texas and trying to recruit face to face.
Hence they needed to pay Texas men to invade.
Davis and Atchison both tried to get Southern men to travel to Kansas to violently spread slavery "For the entire South" as Atchison boasted.
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The point is -- without paid men, Davis and Atchison had no way to force slavery into Kansas -- because 95% of Kansas citizens were against slavery.
NOTHING IS MORE BASIC.
The Kansas citizens against slavery not only voted 95% against slavery, they personally fought the paid killers despite Jeff Davis sending US troops to protect the paid killers.
WHY DRED SCOTT MATTERS
Jeff Davis and Roger Taney made sure of specific language in the decision. Lincoln explained this over, and over, and over.
Then Lincoln explained it again, and again. Lincoln even named the men who came up with this language, and why they did it.
Lincoln named Roger Taney, Stephen A Douglas, and Jefferson Davis.
Dred Scott decision directed that blacks are not to be seen, must not be seen, as human beings. Blacks must be seen as PROPERTY -- specifically not human beings.
As property the federal government must protect the transportation and ownership of that "property"
Instantly, overnight, it became functionally impossible for any legislature, any state, any territory, any Congress, to resist the spread of slavery.
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AS DESIGNED
AS INTENDED
INSTANTLY USED
As intended -- as designed -- Jeff Davis quickly and proudly claimed because of Dred Scott decision, it was now "an intolerable grievance" for Kansas citizens to resist slavery.
IT did not matter if 90% or 95% or all of Kansas Citizens were against slavery, and voted against slavery.
The decision of the court was final
It became a "Constituional requirement" for the federal government to protect slavery -- which meant to enforce even the insane laws that South leaders passed that made it a crime to preach or speak publically against slavery.
Davis, therefore, had not just a right to send the paid killers to Kansas, not only a right to send US troops to protect those paid men, he claimed, as part of the federal government, he (and Pierce) had the DUTY to do so.
Even after the war -- when Davis was asked if the invasions and killings into Kansas despite 95% of Kansas citizens being against slavery, Davis responded those invasions were "Constitutionally required"
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Unless we understand that --that Lincoln exposed this, and Jeff Davis boasted of it, and Davis sent paid killers protected by US troops to invade and kill to spread slavery -- we can't even understand the Lincoln Douglas debates, where Lincoln explained all this repeatedly.
Much less can we understand what the hell happened since 1854, when Davis first sent paid men to Kansas, and in 1856, when Davis sent US troops to protect the 2000 men he sent to terrorize and kill in Kansas.
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