2. What great national question affected Kansas at that time? Explain. 3. Explain the attitude of the North and the South toward slavery. 4. What was meant by the “balance of power”? 5. Give the provisions and the date of the Missouri Compromise. How did this Compromise affect Kansas? 6. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Bill provide? Give the attitude of the North and the South toward it. 7. How did this Bill affect the Missouri Compromise? What was the result in Kansas? 8. What was done with the Indians in Kansas? THE SONG OF THE KANSAS EMIGRANT We cross the prairies as of old The Pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West as they the East The homestead of the free. CHORUS: The homestead of the free, my boys, The homestead of the free, To make the West as they the East The homestead of the free. We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom’s southern line And plant beside the cotton tree The rugged northern pine. We’re flowing from our native hills, As our free rivers flow; The blessings of our mother-land Is on us as we go. We go to plant her common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wild The music of her bells. Upbearing like the ark of old, The Bible in her van, We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man. No pause, nor rest, save where the streams That feed the Kansas run, Save where our pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun. We’ll tread the prairies as of old Our fathers sailed the sea; And make the West as they the East The homestead of the free. ――JOHN G. WHITTIER. CHAPTER VII THE COMING OF THE SETTLERS =Little Known of Kansas in 1854.= Kansas in 1854 was, to most people, only a name, a part of the great desert in the Far West, an Indian country. Many of those who had crossed it in emigrating to California had been impressed with the beauty and richness of the country and had written back glowing accounts of it. Some of them had returned from the coast, and were now numbered among our early settlers. When its organization as a territory brought it into such prominence, knowledge of Kansas soon became more general. =Advantages of the South.= The people of the South felt confident that they could make it a slave state, for they had gained many victories in Congress, and the President, Franklin Pierce, was in sympathy with them. Moreover, they were closer to Kansas than were the northern people, and the only state touching Kansas was the slave state Missouri.