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From Washington, D.C., Gaius Jenkins, the man who would be shot and killed by Jim Lane on June 3, 1858, writes Robinson regarding an business investment issue (apparently a Wyandotte Float, perhaps involving the Quindaro land investment) of theirs before Congress. Jenkins devotes most of his letter to "the Kansas question," and "that bogus [Lecompton] constitution. Former Kansas Territory governor Robert J. Walker, whom Jenkins "called on" in D.C., branded it "the most damnable absurdity and rong [sic] that he had ever known committed in a Republican government. . . ."
Creator: Jenkins, Gaius
Date: November 29, 1857
Item Number: 90325
Call Number: Charles & Sara Robinson Coll. # 488 Box 1 Folder 5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90325
Collections - Manuscript - Robinson, Charles and Sara
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Lecompton Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Walker, Robert John
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Places - Other States - District of Columbia -- Washington
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/90325