i believe it was President Pierce. Because the Kansas Nebraska Act happened before "Bleeding Kansas" led by John Brown. BTW John Brown is a terrorist who deserved hanging, not a fan of John Brown.
John Brown was against slavery in the United States. He advocated armed insurrection to overthrow slavery in the U.S. He led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856.
John Brown and his sons entered Lawrence, Kansas and killed people thinking they could stop the vote for slavery. They literally chopped people with hatchets and the newspapers had headlines of "Bleeding Kansas."
John Brown and his sons.
"Bleeding Kansas"
Since we don't have the item from the article you read a general answer is the only thing that can be given. Bleeding Kansas comes from a newspaper headline about the John Brown attack in Lawrence Kansas.
He killed a group of proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek
* Bloody Kansas, * Border Wars, * Free Stater's conflict. * Popular Soveignty conflict. * John Brown's War.
The massacre was led by John Brown & his four sons. There was also three other men from the Pottawatomie Rifles involved.
All provoked increased debate over slavery
John Brown and his sons were abolitionists and within Kansas a miniature "civil war" broke out among pro-slavery people and anti-slavery people. John Brown, originally from the East, was a strong believer, that at any cost, slavery could not exist in Kansas. Despite what seems to be overwhelming "evidence" John Brown and his sons were never arrested or prosecuted for the murders he committed in Kansas.
john brown executed five proslavery settlers 20 miles south of lawrence