Oligarchy, under the form of the most unlimited democracy" (153).Īs this remark suggests, beneath the "popular sovereignty" Now governed partly by a military despotism, partly by an outside
As one free-state partisan grumbled in 1857, "Kansas is Intersected and at times conflicted with the federal government'sĪttempts to administer the territory and to keep the peace among feuding Kansans' duelling efforts to govern themselves Territory) held numerous censuses, elections, and constitutionalĬonventions (5). (especially on the question of whether to allow slavery in the Self-government," Kansas settlers representing competing interests In what Ponce evocatively calls "a flurry of The political travesty did not stem from a lack of governance butįrom an excess of it. In the 1850s, setting the stage for the even bloodier American Civil Ponce goes beyond the blood to examine theįailures in governance that allowed violence to scourge Kansas territory Nineteenth-century history as "Bloody Kansas." In this Nebraska (which leaned toward being free) most often figures into The territory west of Missouri (a slave state) and south of DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press,Ģ014. To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial APA style: To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial Kansas.To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial Kansas." Retrieved from MLA style: "To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial Kansas." The Free Library.
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