Kansas-Nebraska

It was those issues that drove the Whigs out of business -- even though they thought the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act at the national level would guarantee their success for the foreseeable future.

Tony Blankley: Which Party Dies? 2011's Uncharted Political Waters Tony Blankley 2010

A more appropriate guide at present may be the Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854): a work of persuasion that explains intelligibly a policy of reform whose effects lie in the future.

David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

It may be the most destructive deal to come out of Washington since the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Raising the Medicare Age: 8 Reasons It's the Worst Presidential "Bargain" Since 1854 RJ 2011

Charles Sumner was a senator from Massachusetts, an ardent abolitionist who delivered a three-hour long and at times personally insulting speech on the floor of Congress lambasting the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its authors.

Senatorial abuse and apostrophe misuse « Motivated Grammar 2009

Rhett and Yancey had been working on separation ever since the 1850 convention held in Nashville - despite a strengthened Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealing prohibition of slavery north of 36 degrees 30 minutes and the infamous Dred Scott decision.

Frank Williams: Why did South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas choose to secede? 2011

It may be the most destructive deal to come out of Washington since the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Raising the Medicare Age: 8 Reasons It's the Worst Presidential "Bargain" Since 1854 RJ 2011

It may be the most destructive deal to come out of Washington since the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Raising the Medicare Age: 8 Reasons It's the Worst Presidential "Bargain" Since 1854 RJ 2011

Had he not been "aroused," as he put it, to speak out in 1854 against the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act before seeking a Senate seat, he likely would have remained a full-time lawyer and earned fame and fortune at the bar.

Five myths about Abraham Lincoln 2011

It may be the most destructive deal to come out of Washington since the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Raising the Medicare Age: 8 Reasons It's the Worst Presidential "Bargain" Since 1854 RJ 2011

It was those issues that drove the Whigs out of business -- even though they thought the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act at the national level would guarantee their success for the foreseeable future.

Tony Blankley: Which Party Dies? 2011's Uncharted Political Waters Tony Blankley 2010