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Originally Posted by Cochise
it was supposed to be a compromise, only the vote didn't go the way it needed to for the compromise to really be a compromise, right?
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Yep, Neb was supposed to, and did, vote to go Free and then word came out that the North was flooding Kansas with abolitionists to ensure Kansas was Free also. It wasn't quite like that but a certain number of militant abolitionists came out leading to Topeka and Lawrence among other places. The Slave supporters, mostly coming at least through Missouri, were looking to stop them and they were just as militant. Kind of like sticking Sharon and Arafat on a deserted island with guns.