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Indiana TJniv ersi ty 
colonists to Kansas from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was J 
greater than that from the entire slaveholding area.^^ The : 
conclusion is inescapable, that, even in a period of increasing | 
sectional conflict marked by stirring events, violent emotions, 
and passionate utterances, the plans of the great majority of 
the individuals and families who sought the frontier were 
determined by ordinary, everyday considerations and motives. S 
It must be assumed that few of the voters in the Territory who had been born |l 
in the non-slaveholding states supported the Lecompton constitution on August 2, 1858. f 
Granting this assumption, at least half the voters in Kansas Territory from slave- ! 
holding states also voted against the Lecompton constitution. However, had all southern- > 
ers voted for it, there were enough voters resident in the Territory from Ohio, Indiana, j 
and Illinois to have defeated the constitution, with no aid from any other quarter. , 
