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Source citation
“Free vs. Slave,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, March 26, 1859, p. 2: 4.
Newspaper: Publication
Atchison Freedom’s Champion
Newspaper: Headline
Free vs. Slave
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
4
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
FREE VS. SLAVE. – In 1850, when the young Free State of Iowa had but 102,000 inhabitants, the slave State of Texas has 212,392. In salubrity of climate, fertility and resources of soil, and extent of country Texas is infinitely superior to Iowa, yet now Free Iowa has over 600,000 inhabitants, while a census just taken shows the population of Texas to be 458,620. Here is a lesson for those who think the pro-slavery Democracy should rule Kansas. Let them study it.
