Speechon The Admission Of Kansas Under The Lecompton Constitution

Author : James Henry Hammond
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334468100
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution written by James Henry Hammond and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1856 If what I have said be correct, then the will of the people of Kansas is to be found in the action of her constitutional convention. It is immaterial whether it is the will of a majority of the people of Kansas now, or not. The conven tion was, or might have been, elected by a majority of the people of Kansas. A convention, elected in April, may well frame a constitution that would not be agreeable to a major ity of the people of a new State, rapidly filling up, in the succeeding January and if Legislatures are to be allowed to put to vote the acts of a convention, and have them an nulled by a subsequent in ux of immigrants, there is no final ity. If you were to send back the Lecompton constitution, and another was to be framed, in the slow way in whichtwe de public business in this country, before it would reach Conn gress and be passed, perhaps the majority would be turned the other way. Whenever you outside of the regular forms of law and constitutions to seek for the will of the people you are wandering in a wilderness - a wilderness of thorns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."