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And there were a lot of powerful Southerners in the Senate.
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So he drafted six days later, January 10 of '54,
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a second version of the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
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and he gave a direct statement of popular sovereignty.
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Quote: "The decision on slavery
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shall be left to the people residing therein."
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Now he's moved one step further
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and said there's going to be a vote out there,
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and however they vote that'll determine.
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Again, his fellow Southerners said,
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"No, not enough." And there's a famous episode
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where as a kind of spokesman for the Southern point-of-view,