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A committee made up of John M. Walden, James Fletcher, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Isaac T. Goodnow, Henry J. Adams, T. Dwight Thacher, and Addison Danford prepared this eleven-page manuscript "address to accompany the instrument" adopted at the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention. The statement essentially laid out the philosophical foundations and rationale for the new document. It argued that the facts showed the overwhelming majority of Kansans desired admission as a free state.
Creator: Address committee. John Morgan Walden, James Fletcher, et al.
Date: April 3, 1858
Item Number: 1284
Call Number: History Constitution, Leavenworth No. 570
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1284
Collections - Manuscript
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Leavenworth Constitutional Convention
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Speech
People - African Americans - Slavery
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/1284