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Collection Reference Number GLC07992.01
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1857 
Title Connectictut electors to James Buchanan regarding their grievances with the Lecompton Constitution, popular sovereignty and slavery in Kansas [copy]
Date 3 July 1857
Author Connecticut electors  
Recipient Buchanan, James  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description 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..."
Subjects Government and Civics  President  State Constitution  Bleeding Kansas  Westward Expansion  African American History  Slavery  Military History  Law  Missouri Compromise  Abolition  
People Buchanan, James (1791-1868)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme Government & Politics; The Presidency; Slavery & Abolition; Westward Expansion; Law; African Americans
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859