Concocted originally at Washington, with the single purpose of fastening Slavery upon the people of Kansas, it was by execrable contrivance so arranged as to prevent the people, when about to become a State, from voting on that question.
Sumner describes the fraudulent origins of the Lecompton Constitution aimed at enforcing slavery in Kansas.
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