Curious that someone like you who thinks he knows what is going on, wasn't aware that the organization concerned about "free soil" in Kansas, was a thousand miles away in New York.
Why should New York concern itself with "free soil" in Kansas? What does New York have to do with Kansas? Shouldn't New York be concerned with it's own territory and not be worrying about territory that has no effect on it?
But wait! Is it possible that somehow Kansas would effect New York?
New York had somehow gotten control over virtually all the Southern export trade, and because of the Navigation act of 1817, virtually all the import trade to the United States came back through New York city. Washington was getting the bulk of it's tax money off of the import trade flowing through New York, and so there were a whole lot of powerful people who liked things as they were in 1860.
If Kansas joined the Southern coalition, that meant two senators and some additional congressmen that might vote for lower tariffs, or to repeal sections of the Navigation act of 1817, and a whole lot of money that flowed into New York, would start flowing back to the Southern states where the products were being produced to pay for everything.
So it was very much in the interest of the wealthy and powerful people who resided in and around the New York area to keep the Southern coalition too small to change existing law.
Could it be that the "free soil" party was just an astroturf organization created to push this "morality" mirage, when the real underlying reason for it's existence was to maintain the existing money flowing into all the right pockets in New York?
"Coffee Party." Moveon.org. "Occupy Wall Street." "Black Lives Matter". "March for our lives." "Climate Change".
The wealthy, big city liberals have *ALWAYS* done astroturf to make it appear like their agenda is being pushed by ordinary people.
Other examples.
Leftists Astroturfing the Supreme Court
10 Fake Grassroots Movements Started By Corporations To Sway Your Opinion
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New Hampshire John P. Hale (FS)
Ohio Salmon P. Chase (FS)
Connecticut Walter Booth (FS)
Indiana George W. Julian (FS)
Massachusetts Charles Allen (FS)
New Hampshire Amos Tuck (FS)
New York Preston King (FS)
Ohio Joshua R. Giddings (FS)
Ohio Joseph M. Root (FS)
Pennsylvania John W. Howe (FS)
Wisconsin Charles Durkee (FS)
I would like you to look at this map.
Why do you suppose all of the Northern states connected to New York either by border or by commercial waterways are blue?
How much shipping goes through this system of waterways?
Like the Erie Canal?
