1 The congressional proslavery compromises had brought only temporary appeasement.

2 He planned to make the settlement on the western bank of the Missouri a showcase for the pro-slavery forces.

3 The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.

4 The most ardent proslavery advocates admitted that slave labor was not as efficient as free labor but then insisted that the slave system had advantages that outweighed this deficiency.

5 When proslavery forces sacked the "free state" town of Lawrence, guerrilla warfare ensued.

6 Such reasoning provided proslavery advocates with a response to those who condemned slavery on economic and moral grounds.

7 The success of the proslavery guerrillas inspired Brown, with four of his sons and two other accomplices, to murder five reputedly proslavery settlers who lived along Pottawottamie Creek.

8 The northern legislative position essentially hinged on the unfairness of increasing proslavery representation in Congress under the terms of the Three-fifths Compromise.

9 These debates lend credence to the view that the southern states would not have ratified the Constitution without the proslavery compromises.