With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Eli Thayer, a “Free-Stater,” crusaded to bring the Kansas Territory into the Union as a state that banned slavery. Through broadsides and other means, he attempted to block the extension of slavery into the Western territories. Thayer also organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which brought 2,000 anti-slavery settlers to Kansas.
After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Eli Thayer, a “Free-Stater,” crusaded to bring the Kansas Territory into the Union as a state that banned slavery. Through broadsides and other means, he attempted to block the extension of slavery into the Western territories. Thayer also organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which brought 2,000 anti-slavery settlers to Kansas.