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This rather lengthy report from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, addresses many issues, especially those surrounding the Lecompton constitutional controversy. With "the Topeka Movement . . . abandoned," the question is what would take its place to resist the Lecompton Constitution if it were accepted by the Congress. The territorial legislature had formally "protested against the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution," and "the Mass of the people are determined" to resist its imposition. Whitman makes many other interesting observations about the political situation regarding Democrats and Republicans and even abolitionists: "men who seek here and now, on this issue, to break the back bone of slavery forever." In addition to the political, Whitman describes his "labor of distributing the clothing . . . for the relief of Kansas," and discusses in some detail the financial situation regarding the Committee, his personal debt, Kansas relief, and support to John Brown.
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Date: February 20, 1858
Item Number: 90594
Call Number: George L. Stearns Coll. #507
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90594
Collections - Manuscript - Stearns, George L
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Charitable - Relief
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Buchanan, James
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Democrat
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Republican
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Leavenworth Constitutional Convention
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Lecompton Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
People - Notable People - Stearns, George L.
Places - Cities and towns - Centropolis
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Minneola (Franklin County)
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Franklin
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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