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hatred, He could travel, he said, from Boston to Chicago by 
the light of his own effigies. Opposition to the Fugitive-Slave 
Law broke out again. In Boston people of wealth and refine- 
ment resisted officers of the law in their attempts to retake 
runaway slaves. The underground railroad.was started again. 
In several of the States—as in Vermont and Rhode Island—the 
legislatures passed what were called Personal Liberty Laws, 
which had the effect, and which were intended to have the effect; 
of making it difficult for officers to carry out the fugitive-slave 
laws passed by Congress. In spirit the Personal Liberty Laws 
were nullification laws (p. 166). 
Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act it was possible to carry 
slavery into the vast Northwest. The South, therefore, was as 
much delighted by the measure as the North was embittered by 
it. So the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Law was to .‚stir men 
deeply both at the North and at the South on the subject of 
slavery. After 1854 every man in the land had to answer this 
question: Are you for slavery or are you against slavery? 
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Scene of the struggle in Kansas. 
210. The Struggle in Kansas, — The first blows in the slavery 
conflict were struck in Kansas. Even before the Kansas- 
Nebraska Bill became a law, emigrants from Missouri and 
Arkansas were rushing into Kansas with the purpose of making 
it a slave State, while emigrants from the Northern States were