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This unsigned statement was written to protest "the practice of taxing the people of the Territories for the support of a Government in which they are not represented." The residents of Kansas Territory complained that they had had no voice in how these tax dollars were appropriated, and they asked this "honorable body" to remit to them these taxes. Since this was during the drought of 1860, they declared that they would use these funds for famine relief.
Date: c. 1860
Item Number: 2691
Call Number: Orville Chester Brown Coll. #301 Box 1 Folder 11
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2691
Agriculture - Environment - Weather - Droughts
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, Orville Chester
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Charitable - Relief - Freedmen's Relief Association
Community Life - Disasters and accidents
Date - 1854-1860
Environment - Weather - Droughts
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Taxation
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Proclamation
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Report
People - Men
People - Women
Places - Regions - Eastern Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Government publications - Reports
Type of Material - Printed materials - Proclamations
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