It was a deep, unspoken, bitter and shame-faced feeling, for it was their old neighbors that had done this.
I often asked myself, Can it be hoped that an election can be held that shall fairly express the real sentiment of the people, if they allow themselves to be held down under such a reign of terror?
The prevalent sentiment of the squatters from Missouri was, "We will make Kansas a free white State; we will admit no negroes into it." These men regarded the negro as an enemy to themselves.

They said: "We were born to the lowly lot of toil, and the negro has made labor a disgrace.
Neither ourselves nor our children have had opportunity for education, and the negro is the cause of it.

Moreover, an aristocracy at the South has assumed control of public affairs, and the negro is the cause of that.

Now we propose to make Kansas a free white State, and shut out the negro, who has been the cause of all our calamities." There was, however, a class of men among them that had pity for the negro.

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