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Thus we see the northernmost of the slave-State cities leaping up to catch first the advantages of perfect commercial union under the new regime.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

If Kansas wants a slave-State constitution, she has a right to it; if she wants a free-State constitution, she has a right to it.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

Governor Walker arrived in the Territory late in May, and it required but short investigation to satisfy him that any idea of making Kansas a slave-State was utterly preposterous.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Nothing could more forcibly demonstrate the unequal character of the contest between the slave-State and the free-State men in Kansas, even in these manoeuvres and conflicts of civil war, than the companion exploit to this third Lawrence raid.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

However much they might have party subordination and success at heart, some of them felt that they could not defend before their anti-slavery constituencies the Oxford frauds, the Calhoun dictatorship, the theory that slave property is above constitutional sanction, and the dogma that “Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave-State as Georgia or South Carolina.”

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

These were, as we learn elsewhere, the letters in which some of the Kansas pro-slavery leaders repeated their declaration of the hopelessness of any further contest to make Kansas a slave-State.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

The hopelessness of making Kansas a slave-State was once more acknowledged, the Governor's policy indorsed, and a resolution “against the submission of the constitution to a vote of the people was laid on the table as a test vote by forty-two to one.”

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

All the efforts of the pro-slavery party to form a slave-State seemed to be finally abandoned.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

If Kansas wants a slave-State constitution she has a right to it; if she wants a free-State constitution she has a right to it.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

The Lecompton quarrel, the Freeport doctrine, the property theory, the “slave-State” dogma, the Congressional slave code proposal, must be boldly met and squarely adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890