“For the sake of the Union, it ought to be restored. We ought to elect a House of Representatives which will vote its restoration. If by any means, we omit to do this, what follows? Slavery may or may not be established in Nebraska. But whether it be or not, we shall have repudiated - discarded from the councils of the Nation - the SPIRIT of COMPROMISE; for who after this will ever trust in a national compromise?”
- Abraham Lincoln, 1854
What is Lincoln’s biggest complaint about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It would likely result in the spread of slavery into Nebraska.
It overturned a compromise, and people might not trust compromises made in the future.
It would result in the election of a new House of Representatives.