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Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Pro-slavery officers arranging voting places for the Kansas constitutional election excluded the large free-state town of Lawrence, placing all five polls in small pro-slavery settlements within Johnson County, prompting debate on whether the free-state party should participate.
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Lawrence, Kansas Territory
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voting restricted to five small pro-slavery settlements in johnson county, excluding lawrence.
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Pro-slavery officers arranged voting places for the constitutional election without opening a poll in Lawrence, the largest town with several thousand inhabitants, instead fixing polls at obscure pro-slavery settler locations where all county voting must occur.