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The address surveys the series of mid-19th-century Kansas constitutional conventions, summarizing each assembly's composition, ballot results, and treatment of slavery, and recounting how repeated proposals were accepted, rejected, or revised. It analyzes the political makeup and notable absences of party leaders, contrasts factional tactics and voter responses, and argues that the final convention's less partisan, pragmatic membership produced a more sober and effective constitution. The speaker combines vote totals and procedural history with reflections on temperament and decision-making to explain how the prevailing document emerged from contested earlier drafts.

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Title: The Wyandotte Convention: an address

Author: John Alexander Martin

Release date: April 12, 2016 [eBook #51742]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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THE WYANDOTTE CONVENTION
AN ADDRESS,

Delivered By
JOHN A. MARTIN,
——at the——
Re-Union of the Members and Officers
——of the——
WYANDOTTE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
HELD AT
WYANDOTTE, KANSAS, JULY 29, 1882.
ATCHISON, KAS:
HASKELL & SON, PRINTERS.
—1882.—