Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . fy him that any idea of making Kansas aslave State was utterly preposterous. Had every-thing else been propitious, climate alone seemed torender it impossible. But popular sentiment waswaiter to als0 overwhelmingly against it; he estimated thatBjuSe°f,n the voters were for a free State more than two top. us. one. All the efforts of the pro-slavery party toform a slave State seemed to be finally he could not make Kansas a slave State, hisnext desire was to make her a Democratic Stat
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . fy him that any idea of making Kansas aslave State was utterly preposterous. Had every-thing else been propitious, climate alone seemed torender it impossible. But popular sentiment waswaiter to als0 overwhelmingly against it; he estimated thatBjuSe°f,n the voters were for a free State more than two top. us. one. All the efforts of the pro-slavery party toform a slave State seemed to be finally he could not make Kansas a slave State, hisnext desire was to make her a Democratic the only plan to accomplish this was tounite the free-State Democrats with the pro-slaveryparty, and all those whom I regarded as conserva-waiker, tive men, against the more violent portion of theimSSot: Republicans. He, therefore, sought by fair wordsto induce the free-State men to take part in theelection of delegates to the constitutional conven-tion. His inaugural address, quoting the Presi-dents instructions, promised that such electionshould be free from fraud and violence; that the. ROBERT J. WALKER. THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION 97 delegates should be protected in their delibera- chap. ; and that if unsatisfactory, you may by a j^uSfraisubsequent vote defeat the ratification of the con- 185^a8enatestitution. fSSSt This same policy was a few weeks later urged at ,p?, where a mass meeting of the free-Statemen was called to support and instruct anothersitting of the insurrectionary free-State Legisla-ture elected under the Topeka Constitution. TheGovernor found a large assemblage, and a veryearnest discussion in progress, whether the Legis-lature should pursue only nominal action, such aswould in substance amount to a petition for redressof grievances, or whether they should actually or-ganize their State government, and pass a completecode of laws. The moderate free-State men favoredthe former, the violent and radical the latter, the
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