| Antislavery Know-Nothings joined the Republican Party, while Southern members flocked to the proslavery banner still held aloft by the Democratic Party. |
| Very soon after the intelligence of the posture of affairs arrived at Paola wheeled vehicles left that town at flying speed loaded with border ruffians and proslavery friends of Quantrill. |
| At Pottawatomie Creek, Brown and some of his followers on the heels of proslavery mayhem at Lawrence murdered five men known for their proslavery views. |
| He recommended the use of existing committees, the press and networks of publications of all kinds to silence the proslavery lobby. |
| Even some of the most proslavery Democrats of the past are fully up to your ground to-day. |
| Clay's purpose was to maintain a balance between free and slave states and to satisfy both proslavery and antislavery forces. |
