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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 5 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
r State, and under this constitution they asked for admission into the Union, as such. The strife between freedom and slavery was then transferred to the national capital. Reeder made a contest for a seat in Congress with the delegate chosen by the illegal votes. Meanwhile, elections had been held (Jan. 17, 1856) in Kansas under the legally adopted new State constitution, and matters seemed very dark for the pro-slavery party in Kansas, when President Pierce, in a message to Congress (Jan. 24, 1856), represented the action of the legal voters in the Territory in framing a State constitution as rebellion. All through the ensuing spring violence and bloodshed prevailed in the unhappy Territory. Seeing the determination of the actual settlers to maintain their rights, armed men flocked into the Territory from the slave-labor States and attempted to coerce the inhabitants into submission to the laws of the illegally chosen legislature. Finally Congress sent thither a committee of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pierce, Franklin 1804-1869 (search)
formation of a free-State government in Kansas as an act of rebellion. During the Civil War ex-President Pierce was in full sympathy with the Confederate leaders. He died in Concord, N. H., Oct. 8, 1869. Special message on Kansas. On Jan. 24, 1856, President Pierce sent the following message to the Congress on the affairs in Kansas: Washington, Jan. 24, 1856. To the Senate and House of Representatives,—Circumstances have occurred to disturb the course of governmental organizatiJan. 24, 1856. To the Senate and House of Representatives,—Circumstances have occurred to disturb the course of governmental organization in the Territory of Kansas, and produce there a condition of things which renders it incumbent on me to call your attention to the subject and urgently to recommend the adoption by you of such measures of legislation as the grave exigencies of the case appear to require. A brief exposition of the circumstances referred to and of their causes will be necessary to the full understanding of the recommendations which it is proposed to submit. The act to organize the Territories of Nebraska
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
eks, on the 133d ballot, Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, is elected (Feb. 2, 1856) speaker by a plurality of three votes over William Aiken, of South Carolina. [This session was the stormiest ever held.] Proclamation of President Pierce against the invasion of Nicaragua......Dec. 8, 1855 President Pierce, in special message, recognizes the pro-slavery legislature of the Territory of Kansas, and calls the attempt to establish a free-State government an act of rebellion......Jan. 24, 1856 President Pierce by proclamation warns all persons against unlawful combinations against the constituted authorities of Kansas......Feb. 11, 1856 American National Convention at Philadelphia, Pa., on the first formal ballot nominates Millard Fillmore, of New York, for President, and Andrew J. Donelson, of Tennessee, for Vice-President......Feb. 22, 1856 Capture and sack of Lawrence, Kan., by the pro-slavery party......May 21, 1856 Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, beaten down
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
r at Leavenworth entered by a mob, press and type thrown into the river......Dec. 15, 1855 Convention at Lawrence nominates State officers under the Topeka constitution. The conservative free-State men bolt and nominate a free-State, antiabolition ticket......Dec. 22, 1855 Dr. Charles Robinson elected governor under the Topeka constitution......Jan. 15, 1856 Message of President Pierce to Congress, endorses the bogus legislature, and calls the Topeka movement revolutionary......Jan. 24, 1856 Whitfield takes his seat in Congress, and Reeder announces that he will contest it......Feb. 4, 1856 United States forces in Kansas, by order of Secretary of War, are put under requisition of the governor......Feb. 15, 1856 Free-State legislature meets at Topeka; Governor Robinson delivers his message, and A. H. Reeder and J. H. Lane are elected senators......March 4, 1856 Henry Ward Beecher sends twenty-five Bibles and twenty-five Sharp's rifles to a Connecticut party emigra