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Kansas
U.S. America. So named from the Konsos, an Indian tribe of the
locality.
Kansas
Bleeding Kansas. So called because it was the place where that
sanguinary strife commenced which was the prelude of the Civil War of
America. According to the Missouri Compromise made in 1820, slavery was
never to be introduced into any western region lying beyond 36 30'
north latitude. In 1851, the
slave-holders of Missouri, by a local act, pushed their west
frontier to the river-bank, and slave lords, with their slaves, took
possession of the Kansas hunting grounds, declaring that they would
“lynch, hang, tar and feather any white-livered abolitionist who
presumed to pollute the soil.” In 1854, thirty New England
free-soilers crossed the river in open boats; they were soon joined
by others, and dared the slavers to carry out their threats. Many a
fierce battle was fought, but in 1861 Bleeding Kansas was admitted into
the Union as a free state. (W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, vol.
i. chap. 2.)
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