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By the disloyalty of the Northern States and their citizens and the imbecility of the Federal Government, infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law, to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States.

Classic BS. Slaveholders from Missouri (my home state) initiated the use of violence and mob rule in an attempt to control KS.

These methods were retaliated upon them, they lost the ensuing fight, and then they retreated to the position that they had been unjustly attacked without provocation.

Come to think of it, that's almost exactly what happened in the larger WBTS.

I pick an unnecessary fight. I lose, due to severely underestimating my opponent, and spend the next few centuries portraying myself as the victim of unprovoked aggression.

Nice work, if you can get it.