16 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened, small stain at upper right corner of front wrapper. OCLC 43906948 This Minority Report of the Select Committee of Fifteen on the Kansas Question, particularly their opinion on the Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state and President Buchanan's aggressive support of it. The report presents the historical context of the Kansas Question along with the evidence undermining the validity of the Lecompton Constitution, based on the voter fraud afflicting its initial ratification in late 1857 and its clear defeat by more than 10,000 votes in the second referendum held in January 1858. "That the President has been misinformed and badly afvided 'in relation to the condition of parties in Kansas.' Thou he says 'a great delusion seems to pervade the public mind,' it is quite apparent that the public might with greater justice say,' thou theyself beholdest not the beam that is thine own eye.'" KANSAS QUESTION - Kansas Territory was officially established in 1854 with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act provided that each territory would decide the issue through the constitution under which it would enter the union. Kansas Territory, because of its proximity to Missouri, a slave state, became a political and literal battleground for pro- and anti-slavery forces. Contested elections, armed conflict, and recruitment of and support for settlers from both the North and the South contributed to the label of "Bleeding Kansas." The battle for Kansas was waged also in the halls of Congress, the national press, and anywhere people gathered to discuss or debate the issues of the day. All of this increased the tensions between the North and the South, which eventually led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Kansas conflict further polarized the nation and weakened the American two-party political system, which was already unravelling under the pressures of sectionalism and westward expansion. The Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, with its pro-Southern, state rights bent, was well entrenched, but the Whig Party of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster lost its sway during the late 1840s and early 1850s. Dissidents from both parties ultimately organized as the Free Soil Party in 1848, and the new party united around the Wilmot Proviso (a ban on slavery in the territory acquired as a result of the Mexican War). Although their candidate, former Democratic president Martin Van Buren, ran a distant third, the introduction of a significant third party was a harbinger of political things to come. In less than six years, despite the efforts of Clay, Webster, and others who fashioned the Compromise of 1850, the two party system reached its breaking point with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. During the months surrounding the 1856 election, several incidents in Kansas Territory and in Washington, D.C. drastically altered the national discourse. Civil war broke out in Kansas with the sacking of Lawrence and the subsequent Pottawatomie Massacre of May 1856; while in Congress, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner denounced the slave power and its "rape of Kansas" in his famous "Crime Against Kansas" speech. Throughout 1856 much congressional time and attention was given to the Kansas Question, especially as it pertained to the proposed free-state Topeka Constitution. Although the violence in Kansas subsided, sectional strife had risen to a new level. Immediately after the inauguration of President James Buchanan, the U.S. Supreme Court entered the fray. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney rendered the decision of the high court in Dred Scott v Sanford, which in effect held that slaves were not citizens of the U.S., residency in a "free" state did not alter their status, and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories. The decision made the Missouri Comprise unconstitutional. Drawing on the dissenting opinions of two Northern jurist.

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THE KANSAS QUESTION -- THE MINORITY REPORT of the Select Committee of Fifteen

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Buell & Blanchard, Printers, Washington

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1858

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Pamphlet

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First Edition.

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Very Good

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