Buchanan, James - 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. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. 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the people of Kansas to settle; that the admission would bring quiet to the whole country, and then the troops might be withdrawn from that territory for other purposes" (Hinton: History of the United States of America, Volume 2, p. 53). Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 10651. A very good copy .

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