CHAPTER V.

The Territorial Question.--An Incident at the White House.--The Kansas and Nebraska Bill.--The Missouri Compromise abrogated in 1850, not in 1854.--Origin of "Squatter Sovereignty."--Sectional Rivalry and its Consequences.--The Emigrant Aid Societies.--"The Bible and Sharpe's Rifles."--False Pretensions as to Principle.--The Strife in Kansas.--A Retrospect.--The Original Equilibrium of Power and its Overthrow.-- Usurpations of the Federal Government.--The Protective Tariff.-- Origin and Progress of Abolitionism.--Who were the Friends of the Union?--An Illustration of Political Morality.