Tanner’s Reviews > A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War > Status Update

Lot of great quotes tonight, but the best is: “This filthy enactment was made in the 19th century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson addressing the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.