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The Highland Weekly News
Hillsborough, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio
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Report details U.S. Army troop increases in Kansas from 1855-1857, reaching 2,510 by late 1857, costing nearly $4 million, allegedly to enforce pro-slavery constitution on majority via minority voters.
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The following statement, furnished by the Secretary of War in reply to a resolution of the Senate, will serve to show how many soldiers it has taken, and the rate of increase to make the people of Kansas "perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way:"
"Statement showing the number of troops stationed in Kansas for each quarter from the 1st of January, 1855, down to the 31st of December, 1857.
Quarter Aggregate.
1st quarter of 1855 321
2d do 912
3d do 473
4th do 980
1st quarter of 1856 1,086
2d do 900
3d do 1,016
4th do 1,303
1st quarter of 1857 1,352
2d do 1,574
3d do 1,073
4th do 2,510
Respectfully submitted,
S. COOPER, Adjt. General.
Adjutant General's office, Jan. 20, 1858."
Thus it appears that the armed force in Kansas is just equal to the number of Slave State voters in the Territory according to Mr. Stanton's statement and gives to each of Mr. Calhoun's followers a man with a musket to do his fighting. The cost of these men, at the average rate of expense of our army for the past year, is $1,500, or $3,773,000—nearly four millions of dollars.
This sum the whole government has to be taxed to assist a minority of twenty-five hundred people in Kansas to dragoon a majority of from twelve to fifteen thousand into accepting a Constitution conceived in fraud, elaborated by violence, and pregnant with civil war.—[N. Y. Post.
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Kansas
Event Date
January 20, 1858
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armed force equal to number of slave state voters; cost nearly four millions of dollars to support minority in imposing constitution on majority.
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Statement from Secretary of War shows troop numbers in Kansas increasing from 321 in 1st quarter 1855 to 2,510 in 4th quarter 1857. Commentary notes this force equals Slave State voters and is used to dragoon majority into accepting fraudulent constitution.