This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxii. kansas the field of conflict. emigration. resistance. elections. fraud. violence. buildings burned. cannon fired. free state officers imprisoned. legislature dispersed. no help from congress. sumner struck down. recovers. assailed again. dies A martyr. condition of the country. freedom rallies. presidential election. maine. position of the south. slave-trade. The great field of conflict between slavery and liberty before the nation from 1854 to 1861 was in Kansas. Thirty-four years it had been covered by a national law of liberty, but the country was base and besotted enough to allow its slave masters to blot out that law and throw the whole vast region north of 360 30' open to slavery. The pretense w