The Confederates weren't right either. Mostly because they were just as authoritarian as the Unionists were. They were mostly upset that the power of the plantation class was waning.
The southern states paid militias to go fight in Kansans against the locals who wanted to vote it into being a free state (as most pioneers did). As a result, they started the a civil war in Kansas years before anyone else. This was followed up by burning the entire city of Topeka to the fucking ground because the southern militants blamed the Kansans for starting the war.
Not to mention the Fugitive Slave Law and Dredd Scott decision were wholly unconstitutional and utterly invalidated States Rights & Sovereignty.
Point of order, it was Lawrence that was burned, not Topeka. It actually got attacked twice in fact. Once during Bleeding Kansas as it was the Free State capital, and the second time by William Quantrill and his raiders during the Civil War (like you said, because they blamed us for there even being a Civil War because we didnt just roll over and take it).
The Confederates weren't right either. Mostly because they were just as authoritarian as the Unionists were. They were mostly upset that the power of the plantation class was waning.
The southern states paid militias to go fight in Kansans against the locals who wanted to vote it into being a free state (as most pioneers did). As a result, they started the a civil war in Kansas years before anyone else. This was followed up by burning the entire city of Topeka to the fucking ground because the southern militants blamed the Kansans for starting the war.
Not to mention the Fugitive Slave Law and Dredd Scott decision were wholly unconstitutional and utterly invalidated States Rights & Sovereignty.
Point of order, it was Lawrence that was burned, not Topeka. It actually got attacked twice in fact. Once during Bleeding Kansas as it was the Free State capital, and the second time by William Quantrill and his raiders during the Civil War (like you said, because they blamed us for there even being a Civil War because we didnt just roll over and take it).
My bad. I forgot which capital.
Thanks,