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Cushing affirms, that the Republicans have no argument but the "cry of Slavepower!" which is as eloquent a one as the old Roman's Delenda est Carthago, to those who know how many years of bitter experience, how many memories of danger and forebodings of aggression, are compressed in it.
The older view that Douglas was simply playing into the hands of the "slavepower" by sacrificing Kansas, is no longer tenable. In his "Repeal of the Missouri Compromise", P.O. Ray contends that the legislation of 1854 originated in a factional controversy in Missouri, and that Douglas merely served the interests of the proslavery group led by Senator David R. Atchinson of Missouri.
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