LECOMPTON

ləkŏmpˈtən, small town, Douglas co., NE Kans., on the Kansas River between Lawrence and Topeka. The pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was formulated (Sept., 1857) there, and was ratified (Dec., 1857) after an election in which voters were given a choice only between limited or unlimited slavery; free state men refused to cast their ballots. President James Buchanan urged Congress to admit Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, but Stephen A. Douglas and his followers broke with the pro-slavery Democrats, and the bill could not pass the House. At a subsequent election (Aug., 1858), Kansas voters decisively rejected the Lecompton Constitution. Kansas was later (1861) admitted as a free state.

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books on: Lecompton  - 341 results

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America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
Book by Kenneth M. Stampp; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: United States--Politics And Government--1857-1861
...245 -46, 250 , 253 , 256 , 257 ; and Lecompton constitution, 278 -81; and northern...Douglas, 297 - 98, 310 ; and split over Lecompton constitution, 309 -10, 313 -14...Kansas, 319 - 20; urges abandonment of Lecompton constitution, 323 ; reports defeat of...
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The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
Book by William W. Freehling; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: Secession, Southern States--Politics And Government--1775-1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes, United States--Politics And Government--1815-1861
...fairly counted. So they shunned the Lecompton polls on December 21. Their absence...crowd held its own referen- dum on the Lecompton Constitution. Topeka voters chose among...secured 10,226 votes to 162 for any Lecompton Constitution. Combining the Lecompton...
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The Middle Period, 1817-1858
Book by John W. Burgess; Charles Scribners Sons, 1897
Subjects: United States--History--1815-1861, United States--Politics And Government--1815-1861
...election of members and officers of the Lecompton "State" government on the day fixed by the Lecompton constitution, January 4th, 1858. They...that time, as we have seen, upon the Lecompton constitution, by order of the Territorial...
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A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia
Book by Craig M. Simpson; University of North Carolina Press, 1985
Subjects: Diplomats--United States--Biography, Governors--Virginia--Biography, Legislators--United States--Biography, United States--Congress--House--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1815-1861, Virginia--Politics And Government--1775-1865, Wise, Henry A--(Henry Alexander)--1806-1876
...phrased editorial on 30 January, endorsed Lecompton. Critics such as Edmund Ruffin and Senator...later, suggested that Wises rejection of Lecompton defied a nearly united South and thus...was the first full-scale attack on Lecompton to come from the South. Throughout the...
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Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War
Book by Michael A. Morrison; University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Subjects: Sectionalism (United States), Slavery--United States--Extension To The Territories, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes, United States--Territorial Expansion
...Northern Locos observed, rightly, that the Lecompton Constitution "is more or less tainted...demanded that his southern friends not force Lecompton on the free states: "Let it be executed...that if northern Democrats did not kill Lecompton, it would kill them. A supporter cautioned...
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journal articles on: Lecompton  - 28 results

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Desperately Ducking Slavery: Dred Scott and Contemporary Constitutional Theory
Journal article by Mark A. Graber; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 14, 1997
Subjects: Citizenship--Laws, regulations, etc., Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Dred Scott v. Sanford--60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1856), Jurisprudence--History, Slavery--Laws, regulations, etc., United States Constitution
...bitterly attacked the fraudulent proslavery Lecompton constitution. The resulting struggle...the Buchanan administration and anti-Lecompton Democrats destroyed the fragile union...allowed a fair election in Kansas on the Lecompton constitution, he would have destroyed...
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Turning Points in the Galesburg Debate
Journal article by David Zarefsky; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 46, 2010
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--Political activity, Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Speech)--Political aspects, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858--Political aspects, Political parties--Illinois, Political parties--Isle of Man, Political parties--Ontario, United States. Congress. Senate
...with President James Buchanan over the Lecompton constitution, or perhaps even fearful...stood for his principles in opposing the Lecompton constitution. Lincoln had fun with this...self-defense of his opposition to the Lecompton constitution and to complaints that postmasters...
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Dred Scott Revisited
Journal article by Harry V. Jaffa; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 31, 2008
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, Dred Scott v. Sandford--60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), Equal protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Equality before the law--Laws, regulations and rules, Original intent (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Political questions and judicial power--Laws, regulations and rules, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--Laws, regulations and rules
...Republicans in the recent struggle over the Lecompton Constitution-the draft state constitution...followed by the glorification of the Lecompton Constitution on the 18th of November, and this clause in the Lecompton Constitution asserting the doctrine...
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"As Dead as Julius Caesar": The Rejection of the McLane-Ocampo Treaty
Journal article by Pearl T. Ponce; Civil War History, Vol. 53, 2007
Subjects: Democratic Party (United States)--International relations, Free trade--Political aspects, Slidell, John--Political activity, United States. Congress. Senate--International relations
...Furthermore, the 1858 battle over the Lecompton Constitution lacerated the administration...Kansass admission to the Union under the Lecompton Constitution. He expended considerable...the Senate was littered with anti-Lecompton Democrats unfriendly to the administration...
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Constitutional Unionists: The Party That Tried to Stop Lincoln and Save the Union
Journal article by Don Green; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Constitutional Union Party--History, Constitutional Union Party--Political activity, Lincoln, Abraham--Political activity, Presidential elections--History, Presidential elections--Political aspects, Presidents--Elections, Presidents--History, Presidents--Political aspects, Seward, William Henry--Political activity, United States history--Political aspects
...Missouri Compromise, and Kansass proslavery Lecompton Constitution. The document noted that...His vote against Kansas proslavery Lecompton Constitution also proved unpopular in...Tennessee legislature. Bell questioned Lecompton, claiming he would back the admission...
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magazine articles on: Lecompton  - 3 results

 
 
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A Fragile Machine: California Senator John Conness
Magazine article by Robert Denning; California History, Vol. 85, September 2008
Subjects: Conness, John--Biography, Legislators--Biography, Senators--Biography
...the proslavery legislature, based in Lecompton, allowed the territorys residents to...administration and establishing an anti-Lecompton wing within the Democratic Party, which...improperly conspired in acceptance of the Lecompton constitution. (16) The anti-Lecompton...
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Bleeding Kansas at 150
Magazine article by John S. Brown; Army, Vol. 56, May 2006
Subjects: American Civil War, Antebellum period, Armed forces, Slavery
...territory. Free-soilers got the best of engagements at Palmyra (June 2), Franklin (June 4-5) and "Fort" Titus near Lecompton (August 16). Pro-slavery forces achieved an even bigger victory at Ossawattamie (August 30), killing more than 20...
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Hot off the Press
Magazine article; The Quill, Vol. 97, March 2009
Subjects: Newspapers
...500 in the New York Herald alone - were published about Bleeding Kansas during those four tumultuous years leading up to the Lecompton Constitution. Craig Miner now offers the first in-depth study of national media coverage devoted to the beleaguered territory...


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Nation at the 'Point of No Return'
Newspaper article by Joseph A. Esposito; The Washington Times, July 4, 1998
...problem was a split between those favorable to Buchanan and his handling of the Kansas controversy and those so-called anti-Lecompton Democrats who opposed the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and supported Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. As Republicans...


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encyclopedia articles on: Lecompton  - 7 results

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Lecompton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LECOMPTON l komp t n, small town, Douglas co...Lawrence and Topeka. The pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was formulated (Sept...admit Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, but Stephen A. Douglas...
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Kansas , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Reeder, established the capital in Lecompton, and adopted proslavery statutes. In...Missouri, the violence subsided. The Lecompton legislature met in 1857 to make preparations...appointed governor, and a convention held at Lecompton drafted a constitution. Only that part...
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Douglas, Stephen Arnold
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Buchanan decided to support the proslavery Lecompton Constitution (see under Lecompton ), on which only the proslavery forces in...one of his major speeches denounced both the Lecompton Constitution and Buchanan, whom he had formerly...
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Walker, Robert John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...as a free state. When President Buchanan refused to support Walkers contention that the proslavery Lecompton Constitution (see under Lecompton ) was fraudulently adopted and should be put to popular vote, he resigned (Dec., 1857). He subsequently...
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Bell, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...supported the Compromise of 1850, objected to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and opposed the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. In 1860, Bell was the presidential candidate of the moderate Constitutional Union party and won the electoral...
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