Tihan that which bends above our eastern hills. This prairie. this fhir domain. had its civil birth in the red passion of fratricidal strife. and a State. fitted incomparably by nature as a theater for peace and contentment. came to the Nation as "Bleeding Kansas." But the vastness of it. itral resources were not long unrecognized. After the Civil War the Immigration which cane into Kansas was largely that of the soldiers of the Union Army. men who had been tenpered by the mighty rigors and discipline of war. They launched. individually and collectively. not only into the development of the State. but into politics. and there followed in that period of the history of Kansas a day of tile most spirited political contest. conducted with a partisan discipline which was. in its severity. almost military. The Republican Party dominated.
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