He murdered people who were minding their own business, duhh!
As for Kansas, you Slavers attempted to hijact the gov't and were stopped. Even Judge Douglas knew it was the takeover of Kansas was a farce and fought his own Party on it.
The Missouri redlegs just took the Act at face value and organized a territorial convention. What, should they have stopped to get permission from someone in Massachusetts first?
The freesoilers did the exact same thing in California and shut out the Southerners completely, then applied for admission to the Union on that basis. Do you, in the spirit of fairness, want to complain about that? Don't be shy, talk to me about California.
Duhh, you brought him up as if the North had something to do with his raid.
As for Kansas, you Slavers attempted to hijact the gov't and were stopped. Even Judge Douglas knew it was the takeover of Kansas was a farce and fought his own Party on it. The Missouri redlegs just took the Act at face value and organized a territorial convention. What, should they have stopped to get permission from someone in Massachusetts first?
No, they should have recognized that the people of Kansas did not want to be a slave state.
Not many people would.
The freesoilers did the exact same thing in California and shut out the Southerners completely, then applied for admission to the Union on that basis. Do you, in the spirit of fairness, want to complain about that? Don't be shy, talk to me about California.
Wow, so the Confederates were trying to spread slavery even into Calif.
What cotton fields were the slaves going to work in Calif?
Do you guys even know what you sound like when you talk about spreading slavery?