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This satirical "Proclamation, No. 2, To my rebellious subjects at Lawrence" mocks proslavery Governor Robert J. Walker's opposition to the independent city charter enacted by the antislavery citizens of Lawrence, Kansas Territory.
Date: July 17, 1857
Item Number: 90346
Call Number: Port Vault K 353.03 W144p 1857
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90346
Collections - Library
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Local Government - Municipal
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Walker, Robert John
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Ephemera
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