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IT is a lawyers' adage: If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts, argue the facts; if you have neither, pound the table. Forgive the Democrats for their current table-pounding. They cannot run on their record, which has two pillars. One is the stimulus that did not stimulate as they said it would (or else unemployment would not be above 8 percent). The report that the recession ended in June 2009 means the feeble recovery began before stimulus spending really started. The second pillar is the health care legislation. This may not be (as suggested by Michael Barone, author of the Almanac of American Politics) the most unpopular major legislation since the Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854. But it remains as unpopular as it was when the administration told America...
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Lewis E. Lehrman lays his cards on the table right from the beginning of his magisterial exegesis of Abraham Lincoln's speech in Peoria, Ill., on Oct. 16, 1854, opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. "I am not a scholar," Mr. Lehrman insists, calling the book "a labor of love, in the works for more than two decades. Mr. Lehrman is too modest, and the hours he spent away from his day job as an economist and financial analyst certainly were well spent.
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I thank columnist Tony Blankley for putting so clearly and strongly the challenge, and the foe, we citizens of America face today ("A house divided, again," Commentary, March 25). His use of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the abolitionist movement as models for today's struggle are quite apt, given the propensity of socialism to enslave the populace of those nations foolish enough to allow the political class to adopt it as a governing force. The stress that nationalized insurance puts upon the middle class of America will be enough to cause great upheaval, but will it lead to violence and civil unrest, as such stress did in Kansas? That all depends on whether this abomination popularly called Obamacare is allowed to stand or the socialists retreat from their insistence on placing the yoke...
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Blood spilled in the Kansas Territory over the issue of slavery here long before the Confederates fired cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C. The Kansas-Nebraska Act didn't just define the physical boundaries of the territory, it set in motion events that would define the moral attitude that would become the state of Kansas and end slavery throughout the nation.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in May 1854, remains one of the most controversial pieces of legislation ever enacted by the U.S. Congress. Whereas the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had outlawed slavery north of latitude 36 degrees in the former Louisiana Purchase, except for Missouri, the Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and permitted the creation of new slave states. Under the principle of "popular sovereignty" expounded by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act affirmed that all questions relating to slavery in the new territories and states should be left "to the people residing therein.
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May 31, 1854: The territory of Kansas is open for settlement the day after President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act allows people living within the territory to decide whether slavery will be legal when it becomes a state. June 1, 1875: A site west of Topeka is selected for a state hospital for the insane. An act passed by the Legislature three months earlier appropriates $25,000 for the project. The first units of the hospital are completed and open by June 1, 1879.
