[lentulusgracchus]

But for the South to scream "coercion" when they had been guilty of far worse in Kansas (the infamous Lecomption constitution for example) and Missouri takes a lot of Chutzpah.

You mean like Pottawatomie Creek. Like Harper's Ferry.

Yeah, that's chutzpah, all right.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

You mean like Pottawatomie Creek. Like Harper's Ferry.

Yeah, that's chutzpah, all right.

Lessee, southerners in congress (who yammered about states rights and the rights of people to make decisions on their own) tried to ram a constitution down the throat of Kansans that would make Kansas in effect a slave state.  The southerners who repealed the Missouri compromise were themselves guilty of far more blatant manipulations of slave issues then ever the north were.  Where was the southern horror at trying to blatantly manipulate Kansas?  At least at Harper's Ferry the Northerners almost universally condemned John Brown.  They even condemned their brethren who expressed sympathy for John Brown.  Nothing of the sort can be said for the south in the Kansas question.

And comparing Kansas to Harper's Ferry is like comparing the genocide of a state to the murder of a few.