"The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress, to the People of the United States":

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The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress, to the People of the United States, was a document that opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which effectively could have allowed slavery into the Kansas Territory by letting the territory's residents decide the issue of slavery for themselves (popular sovereignty). This was contrary to the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in that region.