What does this political cartoon mean?

Question

Does anyone know the meanings of this cartoon? "liberty the fair maid of kansas in the hands of the "border ruffians"? or what the purpose of it is?

Please help!

Answer 1

""Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas in the Hands of the Border Ruffians"

This political cartoon by John L. Magee is a bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act."

Answer 2

Well it has to do with the Kanas-Nebraska Act of 1854 by Stephen Douglas. It made Nebraska come in as a free state and Kanas was up to popular soveigny, meaning people voted on the issue of salvery. The proslaverites from Missouri, a slave state by the missouri compromise of 1820, flooded over the border to vote in state legislature on the issue thus challenging to free soilers in kanas. The issue errupted in the "Bleeding Kanas issue". In congress Charles Sumner wrote the speech "Crimes Againest Kanas" that insulted the south carolina and it's congressman. Sumner was then beaten with a cane by the nephew of the congressman Preston Brooks. The issue exploded and Sumner became a matyr of the whole sitaution in the North. Meanwhile in Kanas the pro-slaverites set up a gov. in Lemcopten, KA and the free soilers had a gov. in Lawerence, KA. The proslaverites illegally passed the Lecompten Constitution in 1857 which declared Kanas a slave state and tehn sacked the township of the freesoilers. In realiation John Brown, an aboltionist from the Ohio Valley who would later be invovled in the 1849 siege of Harpers Ferry, and his followers laid siege in kanas and started the pottawatomie massacre, murdering proslaverite families. In mid-1859, the Wyandotte Constitution was drafted this document represented the prevailing abolitionist view. It was approved by the electorate by a 2-to-1 margin, and Kansas entered the Union as a free state pursuant to its terms on January 29, 1861. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

maybe post a link to it?