Hello Friends
Another big problem has come about! Stephen Douglas got the Kansas Nebraska Act passed that says these two states will be determined as slave or free by popular sovereignty. As a result Northerners and Southerners are moving out of where they live and are going to Kansas and Nebraska in order to get more of there people there to determine the vote. My husband asked me if i wanted to move out there today, even though i am a huge supporter of abolition the violence is getting worse and worse each day and it would be very dangerous. They are currently placing votes right now in Kansas to decide the preliminary government (i have my fingers crossed it will be an anti slave government because that will give us the advantage). UHH OHH word just came in that a pro slavery government was elected............. not fair!!!! They are now only going to pass laws benefiting slavery. But the abolitionists came up with a good idea. They created their own government calls the Free State Party this was good because now the pro slavery government wasn't completely in charge but it also cause a lot more chaos since there was now two governments. This chaos made the violence begin to get even worse!(im glad i stayed in Massachusetts) Our senator from Massachusetts Charles Sumner gave a speech in congress stating his opinion on the Kansas Nebraska Act (we do have freedom of speech right?) And what does this guy Preston Brooks from the South do?! He goes up to Charles Sumner and starts beating him with a cane!!! Us northerners were outraged! He was practically beat to death for nothing at all! Thats all for now though ill write again soon!
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