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During this session of the constitutional convention, delegates dealt briefly with the question of "an immediate organization of a State Government," a highly controversial issue, and considered a report on the militia. Lively debate on the latter issue seems to have followed, although not much detail is given here, with Charles Robinson offering an amendment "striking out the word white--" This presumably would have had the effect of making African Americans and Indians eligible for service, but the amendment failed seven to twenty-four. Not surprisingly Lane, Holliday, Delahay, and Parrott were among those voting in the negative. The convention also addressed the franchise and "Negro exclusion," but little detail is provided here. (For more, see newspaper coverage, New York Daily Times, in Webb Scrapbook, v. 6, pp. 237.)
Creator: Smith, Samuel C.
Date: October 30, 1855
Item Number: 1067
Call Number: History Constitutions, Journall No. 570.
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1067
Collections - Manuscript - History
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Topeka Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Military - Service - Militias
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Government
People - African Americans
People - American Indians
People - Notable Kansans - Delahay, Mark William, 1818-1879
People - Notable Kansans - Emery, James Stanley
People - Notable Kansans - Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
People - Notable Kansans - Parrott, Marcus J.
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records
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