CHAPTER XXII.
THE STRUGGLE FOR KANSAS CONCLUDED
[The Lecompton Convention Ordered]—[Robert J. Walker and F. P. Stanton]—[Stanton and the "Free-state" Men]—[Walker's Address]—[The "Free-State" Legislature and Mass-meeting]—[The Plan to Capture the Territorial Legislature by the "Free-state" Men]—[The "Free-state" Men in Majority in the Territorial Legislature]—[The Lecompton Convention]—[The Lecompton Constitution]—[Only the Slavery Article to be Submitted Fully to the People]—[Protest of the "Free-state" Men]—[The Extra Session of the New Territorial Legislature]—[Stanton Removed]—[Lecompton Constitution With Slavery Adopted]—[The "Free-state" Men Capture the Lecompton Government and Reject the Lecompton Constitution]—[Denver Advises the President Against the Admission of Kansas Under the Lecompton Instrument]—[The President's Message of February 2nd (1858)]—[The Passage of the Lecompton Bill by the Senate]—[The Rejection of the Bill by the House]—[The English Bill]—[The Rejection of the Lecompton Constitution by the People of Kansas]—[A Fourth Government for Kansas]—[The Struggle for Kansas Closed]—[Dr. Robinson]—[The General Government]—[Mr. Jefferson Davis]—[The Beginning of Error and Wrong]—[Brown's Atrocities]—[The Forerunners of War.]
According to the dictum of the Court in the great case reviewed in the preceding chapter, slave property was lawful in Kansas during the Territorial period, and could be first dealt with by the constitutional convention, which should prepare the organic law for Kansas as a Commonwealth of the Union.
| The Lecompton convention ordered. |
Already before the promulgation of the decision, the Territorial legislature had provided for the holding of the constitutional convention at Lecompton, and for the election of the delegates thereto. This election was appointed for June 15th, 1857.