This Day…

Posted on by Chris Enss

1854-The federal government opens a land office in the Kansas Territory to distribute propoerty.  Pro-slavery forces are already taking claims and fighting each other without regard for law.  Manwhile in Michigan, anti-slavery men are meeting to join the Republican Party.  Whigs, Free-soliers, and anti-slavery Democrats hold meetings demanding repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law.