Next sanctioned by a convention of usurpers, who in no respect represented the people of Kansas, then fraudulently submitted to the people for their votes, it was fraudulently adopted by stuffing ballot-boxes on a scale never before known.
Sumner details the fraudulent process by which the Lecompton Constitution was adopted, emphasizing its illegitimacy.
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