Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery
Kansas voters rejected the fraudulent Lecompton Constitution by an overwhelming margin of 10,226 to 138 on January 4, 1858, in a referendum that exposed the pro-slavery document’s lack of popular support. The constitution had been drafted by a pro-slavery territorial legislature that consisted …
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Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas voters
Lecompton Convention
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