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III THE FIGHT AGAINST THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY
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In 1856, the Supreme1 Court, under the headship of Judge Taney, gave out the decision of the Dred Scott case. The purport2 of this decision was that a negro was not to be considered as a person but as a chattel3; and that the taking of such negro chattel into free territory did not cancel or impair5 the property rights of the master. It appeared to the men of the North as if under this decision the entire country, including in addition to the national territories the independent States which had excluded slavery, was to be thrown open to the invasion of the institution. The Dred Scott decision, taken in connection with the repeal6 of the Missouri Compromise (and the two acts were doubtless a part of one thoroughly7 considered policy), foreshadowed as their logical and almost inevitable8 consequence the bringing of the entire nation under the control of slavery. The men of the future State of Kansas made during 1856-57 a plucky9 fight to keep slavery out of their borders. The so-called Lecompton Constitution undertook to force slavery upon Kansas. This constitution was declared by the administration (that of President Buchanan) to have been adopted, but the fraudulent character of the voting was so evident that Walker, the Democratic Governor, although a sympathiser with slavery, felt compelled to repudiate11 it. This constitution was repudiated12 also by Douglas, although Douglas had declared that the State ought to be thrown open to slavery. Jefferson Davis, at that time Secretary of War, declared that "Kansas was in a state of rebellion and that the rebellion must be crushed." Armed bands from Missouri crossed the river to Kansas for the purpose of casting fraudulent votes and for the further purpose of keeping the Free-soil settlers away from the polls.
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