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Domestic News April 21, 1857

Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia

What is this article about?

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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The Kansas Election.—The town of Lawrence is acknowledged by all parties to be larger than any other in the territory of Kansas. It contains several thousand inhabitants, or about half the aggregate of Johnson county, in which it is located. In arranging the voting places for the constitutional election, the pro-slavery officers have not allowed a single poll to be opened in Lawrence, but have fixed upon five other places, obscure little knots of two or three pro-slavery settlers, where all the voting of the county must be done. Yet it is urged that the free State party should vote at an election of which this is a fair sample.

What sub-type of article is it?

Politics

What keywords are associated?

Kansas Election Lawrence Pro Slavery Officers Free State Party Voting Places Johnson County

Where did it happen?

Lawrence, Kansas Territory

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Lawrence, Kansas Territory

Outcome

voting restricted to five small pro-slavery settlements in johnson county, excluding lawrence.

Event Details

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.

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