New school history of the United States . ise did not ac- jAMEs BUCHANAN. coid with the Constitution* KANSAS. 53. Kansas necessarily attracted the close attention of both the Government and the people. The Topeka Consti-tution was rejected by Congress on the score of illegality. ThePro-Slavery Constitution adopted at Lecompton was repu-diated by the people. A constitution framed by a conventionheld at Wyandot excluded slavery. Under it Kansas wasreceived as a State, on the eve of the great civil war. UTAH AND THE MORMONS. 54. Utah, a desolate wilderness beyond the Rocky Moun- * The Dred Scott
New school history of the United States . ise did not ac- jAMEs BUCHANAN. coid with the Constitution* KANSAS. 53. Kansas necessarily attracted the close attention of both the Government and the people. The Topeka Consti-tution was rejected by Congress on the score of illegality. ThePro-Slavery Constitution adopted at Lecompton was repu-diated by the people. A constitution framed by a conventionheld at Wyandot excluded slavery. Under it Kansas wasreceived as a State, on the eve of the great civil war. UTAH AND THE MORMONS. 54. Utah, a desolate wilderness beyond the Rocky Moun- * The Dred Scott case was an action instituted for the recovery of the freedomof himself and family, by Dred Scott, a negro slave, who had been carried to Illinoisby his owner in 1834. The case was carried by appeal to the Supreme Court. ChiefJustice Taney delivered the opinion of the maiority of the court, dismissing thecase for want of jurisdiction, on the ground that negroes were not citizens, andhad no rights which the white man was bound to UTAH AND THE MORMONS, 221 tains, had been occupied by the Mormons. They were a strange people, with a strange creed and strange usages, who sHghted the authority of the United States Government, under which they nved. The sect had arisen in New York in 1823. They had received their doctrine from their prophet, Joe Smith, who found a new revelation in certain golden plates —the Book of Mormon—which he discovered, dug up out of the ground, and interpreted. From New York they wandered to Missouri. They were expelled from the latter State. Their new settlement at Nauvoo, in Illinois, was attacked by Gov- g ernor Ford and the militia. Joe Smith and his _ brother were murdered by the mob in the iail where27 June. they were confined. Brigham Young * becamethe Mormon leader. He guided his fellow-believers, withtheir families and flocks, by untrodden ways, across the desertand the Rocky Mountains, and settled them as a lone andexclusive community i
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