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  1. all these had said over & over again that
  2. the repeal of the Missouri compromise would
  3. doom Kansas to slavery & they were not
  4. ready to admit after the passage of the bill
  5. that there was any possible chance of
  6. saving her to freedom by any possible
  7. efforts of the Emigrant Aid Company, or of any
  8. body else.
  9. The causes which led to the apathy or hostil-
  10. ity of these two classes of honest haters of sla-
  11. very will become apparent upon a little
  12. examinations. The antislavery politicians
  13. & journalists had been accustomed to
  14. contend against slavery by legislative pro-
  15. hibition or in other words the “Wilmot Proviso.”
  16. This was their God; & without his help
  17. it was not considered possible for freedom
  18. to keep pace with slavery. Every year
  19. it became more and more apparent that
  20. this deity was being pushed harder &
  21. harder like Poe’s man,
  22.              “Whom unmerciful disaster
  23.               “Followed fast and followed faster
  24. Till at last he was utterly destroyed by
  25. the repeal of the Missouri compromise.
  26. These politicians had always called
  27. the Wilmot Proviso “the bulwark of freedom.”
  28. It did not occur to them thus freedom,
  29. god-given, was a giant who needed no
  30. bulwarks for his protection & could find
  31. in them nothing but an obstruction & a