A Popular History of Minnesota Quotes

“The northern public immediately assumed that Douglas was handing Kansas to the South as another slave state because proslavery emigrants from Missouri were certain to dominate its politics. In the ensuing uproar the disintegrating Whig Party disappeared altogether, and a new antislavery Republican Party was born.”
― Norman Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota: With History Travel Guides

“By 1849, when Minnesota achieved the status of a territory, St. Paul numbered about 900 inhabitants, Stillwater about 600, and St. Anthony about 250.”
― Norman Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota: With History Travel Guides

“Thus, Minnesota was the first state to volunteer soldiers for the Union army, two days before the president issued a public call for seventy-five thousand enlistments to serve for three months.”
― Norman K. Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota