Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress : communicating a certified copy of the constitution of Kansas, framed by the convention recently assembled at Lecompton.
Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858. 8 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A very good copy . Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 10651. Item #37663
Buchanan, "urged the admission of Kansas as a state, under that constitution. The president's arguments were, that the slavery question was the only one at issue in the territory; that the free state men, if they had voted and really were in the majority, might have defeated slavery; that they subsequently voted for state officers under the Lecompton constitution; that the people of Kansas, having thus framed a constitution and elected officers under it, should be admitted to the Union; that they have a right to alter their constitution when they will; that the admission of Kansas would localize the question of slavery, leaving it for the people of Kansas to settle; that the admission would bring quiet to the whole country, and then the troops might be withdrawn from that territory for other purposes" (Hinton: History of the United States of America, Volume 2, p. 53).
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