Connectictut electors to James Buchanan regarding their grievances with the Lecompton Constitution, popular sovereignty and slavery in Kansas [copy], 3 July 1857
Connectictut electors to James Buchanan regarding their grievances with the Lecompton Constitution, popular sovereignty and slavery in Kansas [copy], 3 July 1857.
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Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Copy of New Haven Memorial sent to Buchanan by electors of Connecticut regarding their grievances with the Lecompton Constitution, popular sovereignty and slavery in Kansas. Includes the signatures of 43 electors. ...the people shall make their own laws & elect their own rulers...the President of the United States is employing...an army one purpose of which is to force the people of Kansas to obey laws not their own nor of the United States...