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After considering a few other issues, such as the selection of Topeka as "the temporary seat of Government," the convention took up the motion from the previous day on the elective franchise, with T. D. Thacher explaining that his select committee had considered the insertion of the word "white" and "unanimously report against its insertion." After some debate over procedure, Thacher offered an amendment that instructed the first legislature to put "the question of universal suffrage to the people at the general elections." The amendment passed, 50 to 29.
Creator: Tappan, S. F. (Samuel Forster), -1913
Date: April 2, 1858
Item Number: 1194
Call Number: History Constitutions, Journal No. 570
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1194
Collections - Manuscript - History
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Leavenworth Constitutional Convention
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Lecompton Constitution
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Government
People - African Americans
People - Notable Kansans - Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
People - Notable Kansans - Tappan, Samuel Forster
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records
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