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 Sofne Political Aspects of Homestead Legislation 2)7 in the struggle for Kansas even without the homestead law to aid the Northern emigrant ; with it, he saw, the North would be invincible. With all this powerful opposition is it any wonder that bills which benefited directly only a class of citizens having little political in- fluence should have waited so long to become law ? John Bell Sanborn.